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The Chairman of the Labour Party in Edo State, Kelly Ogbaloi has said that embattled Deputy Governor, Comrade Philip Shaibu is welcome if he decides to join the party.

The chairman who spoke on Friday after a meeting with governorship aspirants under the party, said everyone is also welcome in the party.

He said, “If Philip Shaibu is coming to our party he will not be coming as Deputy Governor but as an individual like any other person. The party is open to everyone in Nigeria. The doors are open to anybody who want to come in to contest the election”.

Ogbaloi said the party decided to meet with the aspirants having observed that the numbers of the aspirants are increasing daily.


He added that there is a need for the party to bring the aspirant together, interact with them and tell them how best they can go about their sensitization towards their primary election. He said there is a need to also appreciate them for the manner they have conducted themselves so far.


On whether the labour party will take advantage of the crisis between Governor Godwin Obaseki and Deputy Governor, Rt. Comrade Philip Shaibu, Ogbaloi said his party needs a healthy opposition, adding that when you fight with a healthy man winning is more interesting and better.

He further said that the party’s expectation is for all the aspirants to compete, noting that the number of aspirants would reduce during the period of picking the nomination forms, adding that at the end of the exercise, one candidate will emerge.

He added, “We want the Labour Party to win the governorship election come 2024. And to win the election we must have a candidate that will be generally acceptable to the people of Edo State,’ he added.

On the forthcoming Local Government election, he said the party is prepared for the election, adding that no party will go into an election without preparation.

The Senior Pastor of Daystar Christian Center, Sam Adeyemi has decried the huge gap between the leaders and the masses, saying it is a peculiar problem in Africa.

He said African countries are dealing with a deeply rooted leadership culture that makes the leader very powerful and the led practically a slave, across almost all sectors.

Speaking against the backdrop of the military coup in Niger Republic in a series of tweets on Thursday, the clergyman said neither military, democratic nor monarchical systems have fostered rapid development in most African countries.

While stating that it was time to address the real problem, Adeyemi said the only way out is to intentionally replace old beliefs and behaviours with new ones, adding that democracy has thrived best in countries that value life and equality.


He wrote, “The military coup in Niger draws attention to Africa’s leadership issues. The leaders of the coup have cited security concerns due to threats by jihadist groups and poor economic growth as reasons for the coup. Similar reasons were given for the military coups in Burkina Faso and Mali.


“The regional body, ECOWAS, insists the coup must end and the former president must be returned to power. They say democracy remains the best form of government. But a large number of Nigeriens are taking sides with the leaders of the coup.

“It is sad that neither military, democratic nor monarchical systems have fostered rapid development in most African countries. It’s time we address the real problem.

“We are dealing with a deeply rooted leadership culture that makes the leader very powerful and the led practically a slave, across almost all sectors. The issue with culture, like habits, is that though people desire change, they will default to their old ways, consciously or unconsciously, when they have to make choices, and they will ultimately produce the same results.

“The only way out is to intentionally replace old beliefs and behaviours with new ones. Only those with the sophistication to shift beliefs, values and culture on a mass scale can lay the foundation for meaningful change, especially for a country. The platforms would be high quality education, the example of leaders, economic empowerment, infrastructure, and so on.

“Truth be told: democracy has thrived best in countries that value life and equality. The power gap has been collapsed and being a leader does not make you superior to the people you lead. In fact, being a leader is understood to be a call to serve the led and leaders don’t consume most of the resources meant for the commonwealth.”

The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors has listed the release of the circular for one-for-one replacement of clinical staff, and the payment of the 2023 Medical Residency Training Fund as minimum conditions to call off its indefinite strike which commenced on July 26.

The National President of NARD, Dr Emeka Orji, disclosed this in an interview with our correspondent on Wednesday.

Orji said though the planned nationwide protest was suspended, the association was giving the Federal Government 72 hours to meet some of its urgent demands to call off its strike.

According to him, the association will decide to continue or call off the strike by Friday, August 12.


The striking doctors had earlier planned to commence a daily peaceful protest, starting from Wednesday, August 9, 2023, if the government fails to meet their demands.

Orji said, “We had a fruitful meeting yesterday (Tuesday) at the Villa and with the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, so it will not be good to have that level of meeting and the next day we hit the streets to protest, it will look as if there is an ulterior motive behind our demands.

“Our demands are germane because there is a shortage of doctors in our hospitals, so the few of us remaining are being overworked. How long are we going to continue like that? They have told us what they will do today (Wednesday), and tomorrow (Thursday), and we are hopeful they will do the needful. If they are able to do those things, then I am sure the National Executive Committee will give us the mandate to suspend the strike because we are very understanding.

“The circular for one-for-one replacement is the first and the 2023 MRTF fund is the second one. If they are able to address them, we will appeal to our members to suspend the strike while we continue to negotiate for all the salary arrears, skipping arrears, and other things.”

Orji said it should not be difficult for the government to implement the one-for-one replacement without extra expenses.

“The government has the list of those who have left and it is a matter of replacing them immediately and the new ones that are recruited are paid the salary you have budgeted to replace those who have left. So, it is not difficult to do. This is a thing that has been agreed to be done since February but nothing has been done about it, but we are hoping the government will do as agreed,” he added.

Jennyclay:
Another broke Nigerian monkey at it again

Biko I can’t laugh

The Economic Community Of West Africa States has imposed fresh sanctions over the coup in Niger Republic.

The regional bloc had earlier given Niger junta seven days to reinstate President Mohamed Bazoum or risk sanctions, including possible military action.

But the coupists called the bluff of ECOWAS and vowed to resist any foreign intervention on its soil.

It also severed ties with Nigeria, Togo, France and the US, and shut down Nigerien airspace indefinitely.

At the end of the ultimatum, the bloc scheduled a meeting for Thursday to review the situation in the West African nation.

Addressing State House correspondents on Tuesday, Presidential spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, said more sanctions had been imposed on the individuals and entities relating with the military junta in the Niger Republic.

Although he did not go into details, he said this was carried out through the Central Bank of Nigeria.

Penguin2:
I see that subtle dig at Tinubu by Jakande’s don.

Tinubu as governor, allocated all allocatables to himself, his son, his wife and even his daughter.

But here you have the son of the former governor of Lagos and a former Minister of Works say that their father didn’t allocate even a portion of sand to them.

A man of upright morals that I suggest all Yorubas should strive to emulate and be like, not supporting and hoping to be like Tinubu.

I see a lot of similarities between Pa Jakande and Peter Obi - selflessness.

May God continue to rest his soul.

And for the records, it was Pa Jakande that is credited to have said in his inaugural address as governor in 1979 that Lagos ”is a no man’s land”.

That statement was not originated by Igbos.

The Senate spokesperson, Yemi Adaramodu, has opened up on reasons the Senate President, GodsWill Akpabio, on Monday, left for the Villa to see President Bola Tinubu during the screening of now-confirmed Festus Keyamo.

Adaramodu who spoke on Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily on Tuesday morning stated that Akpabio had gone to the Villa to discuss issues on security as it relates to Niger Coup.

The PUNCH reported that the Senate President had rushed to the Villa after a heated plenary session over the motion to suspend the screening of Keyamo.

The motion to suspend the screening was initiated by Senator Darlington Nwokocha, (LP, Abuja Central).


Nwokocha had accused Keyamo of disrespecting the ninth National Assembly and leveling allegations of corruption against the previous administration.

The deliberations resulted in a rowdy session after which Akpabio called for an executive session.


However, a few minutes later, the Senate President was spotted at the Villa.

Giving the reason for Akpabio’s presence at the Villa, Adaramodu explained, “The (Senate) President stood up yesterday to go to the villa, not because of Festus Keyamo or any screening, there had been a prior invitation of the Senate President and the leadership of the Senate to the Villa based on the security situation, especially the coup d’etat in Niger Republic.

“There had been a meeting scheduled for 2:30 pm yesterday (Monday), but during the screening, we had already eaten into the time that the Senate President should have gone there. It was a security meeting. By the time he left around 3 pm to 3:30 pm, he could not come back until around 4 pm, but some people mistook it that he was summoned to the villa because of Festus Keyamo.

“Keyamo was just one out of 48 nominees that were screened, so one person cannot generate such a concern for the villa to be inviting the Senate (leadership) to the villa.”

Asked if the three nominees would still be confirmed, he said, “The questions raised about them is an ongoing issue, so once the Senate is satisfied, if we need to invite them to the chamber for reconfirmation and screening, we will do that.”

When asked if the Senate would be satisfied to clear the nominees even if security (agencies) were not satisfied, Adaramodu said, “If the security agencies are not satisfied, Senate cannot be satisfied. So, it depends on what security and the person that nominated them says.”

A 23-year-old man, Abdulwahab Yusuf, was on Tuesday arraigned in a Sharia Court sitting in Kano for allegedly stealing cow skin, (ponmo) worth N8,500.

Yusuf, who lives in the Tukuntawa Quarters area of the state, was charged with theft.

The Judge, Umar Lawal-Abubakar, ordered that the defendant, who pleaded guilty be remanded in a correctional centre.

Lawal-Abubakar adjourned the matter until August 22 for summary trial.


Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Inspector Abdullahi Wada, told the court that the complainant, Fatihu Auwal, also resides in Tukuntawa Quarters, reported the matter at the Fagge Police Station, Kano, on August 5.

Wada reported that the defendant entered into the complainant’s stand and stole the cow skin.
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Obinoscopy:
Just type www.fast.com and take a screenshot and upload. If possible, also tell us the name of your phone, your network provider and which country. I want to check something.

I'll do mine in the next comment.

Nazgul:
Baba don finally join cele church.

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, says his mobile phones were not stolen at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja on Tuesday.

Obi, who spoke through his media aide, Tai Obasi, told our correspondent that the phones, believed to have gone missing, were in the custody of his aide.

The media had been awash with videos and memes of the perplexed former governor of Anambra State searching for his phones at the tribunal, with many people concluding that they were probably stolen in the court while exchanging pleasantries with party supporters.

Obi, who was dressed in his usual black attire sat close to his running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, National Chairman of LP, Julius Abure and renowned writer, Chimamanda Adichie, throughout the court’s proceedings.

Reacting to the drama, Obasi dismissed the report, saying the phones were never stolen.

According to him, it is normal for one to look for an item, especially when one has the notion that it is misplaced.

“To start with, he never lost his phone. What happened is that one of his aides, who usually goes around with him, was with me in the court. Usually, he keeps his phone on the table in front of him. So when his aide noticed that a lot of people were coming to greet him and his mind was off the phone, he took it for safekeeping.

“Unfortunately, the aide wasn’t with him when he started looking for the phone. So he didn’t really know it was the aide that kept it.

“The whole drama didn’t take up to two minutes before the aide, who went to urinate, came back with the phone. But before, Obi’s anxiety over the missing phone became noticeable. I believe that was when whoever took the video came into the picture. The videographer, journalist, or whoever took the viral clip only captured the part where he was looking for the phone and started trending with it. They were circulating the report long before we left the court,” he said.

On how the video trended in a negative manner it did, Obasi disclosed that they were not surprised.

sajiwere:
No surprises right?

001Lagos:
Dem for allow alake to disgrace himself and family on national Tv 😂😂😂

TemplarLandry:

Mark my words, all the nominees…, I repeat, all the nominees shall be confirmed as ministers by the National Assembly. That screening is just ceremonial.

Protesting members of the Nigeria Labour Congress, in Oyo State, disrupted activities at the State Secretariat, Agodi as their ongoing protest continued on Tuesday.

Some civil servants who ignored the directives of the labour union to join the protest were however not spared as some of them were beaten and chased out of their offices.

A civil servant was reportedly injured in the process after he was attacked by the protesters.

The victim who was bruised in his legs claimed to have entered the office to pick up some of his belongings when he was confronted by the protesters.

The aggrieved labour activists barricaded the entrance to the secretariat complex as they wielded sticks to enforce the strike action. This also affected the flow of vehicular traffic along the area.

The protest started on Monday with the workers demanding payment of leave bonus, payment of gratuities to retirees that had been delayed since 2021 and release of promotion letters for 2021 and 2022.

The protesting workers also alleged that Governor Seyi Makinde had refused to yield to their demands.

“Mr. President, I have a petition written against the nominee over the issue of insecurity in Southern Kaduna when he was governor.

“If I am permitted, I will like to read the petition.”


El-Rufai faced the lawmakers immediately after Olawale Edun.

Earlier, el-Rufai reeled out to the Senate his achievements as governor and former FCT minister before questions were entertained by the lawmakers.


The first to ask him the question was the lawmaker representing Zamfara West, Senator Abdulaziz Yari.

Following Yari’s question, the Senator representing Kaduna North, Suleiman Kwari, appealed to his colleagues to allow the former governor to take a bow.

El-Rufai, however, answered the questions by Yari after which Akpabio told him to leave.

The Senate President, GodsWill Akpabio, who refused to take the petition, said a number of petitions were submitted against a number of the ministerial nominees.

He said, “This is not the place to consider petitions, we will sit with the petitions later and refer them to relevant authorities.

“Please, take a bow, my brother.”