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The House of Representatives has resolved to review the controversial 2016 budget.
This is contrary to the position of the Senate on Tuesday that foreclosed a revisit of the document.
The decision was announced by the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara after a two hour executive session where various opinions were said to have been raised.
Dogara said the decision of the House was necessitated by the prevailing economic situation facing the country.
“In view of the prevailing economic situation and in the interest of our people, we have resolved to reexamine the budget with a view of ironing out any differences with the executive.
“This is for the overall interest of the country in order to have a workable budget that is implementable.”

The Transition Monitoring Group (TMG) has said that yesterday’s FCT elections is rife with vote buying across the six area councils with residents selling their votes for a low as N200.
A preliminary statement of the elections signed by the group’s spokesman Armsfree Ajanaku also said that the city centre witnessed voter apathy leading to low turnout compared to the rural areas that recorded high volume of voters, especially elderly women.
Ajanaku said observers reported that officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) largely arrived on time with sensitive and non-sensitive materials for the commencement of the simultaneous processes of accreditation and voting at 8am and that in most Polling Units (PUs) in the city centre and in the outskirts the processes of accreditation were underway in most places at 9am.
The report said the card readers read most of the Permanent Voter’s Cards (PVCs) in the observed PU but that in many instances, finger print authentication failed.
It said voters were, however, not disenfranchised as they used the incident forms.
On security the TMG statement observed a healthy presence of security in most of the PUs but noted an unusually heavy presence of a combined security team made of Nigerian Army officers and regular policemen at PU 003 at Dangara Kwali Ward 01.
“In PUs in areas around the city-centre, TMG observers reported low turnout of voters. Early voter turnout was also low in some PUs in AMAC when compared to Bwari, Karu and Kuje where voters turned out was massive and early. Turnout was sizeable and a lot more enthusiastic in areas Area Councils like Kwali, Gwagwalada, Abaji, Bwari and Kuje,” the report said.
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Reports reaching us suggest that Fulani herdsmen and locals have been locked in a bloody clash since the wee hours of Friday, in Okada, Edo state.

Okada is home to Igbinedion University and due to the fracas, students have been advised to stay indoors while lectures have been canceled for the day.

YNaija understands that Okada youths set up a roadblock restricting movement around the village as commercial motorcycles, vehicles continue to get torched.

“We heard gunshots earlier this morning. Classes have been canceled and students are advised to stay indoors. No word on the crux of the matter though”, says a YNaija student reporter.

The clash is believed to have stemmed from the death of a 65-year-old farmer killed by the Fulanis on his farmland and a reprisal attack that saw the Fulani settlement in the village razed down.

Mallam Muhammad Musa Bello, the FCTA Minister, has said the Federal Government of Nigeria would soon put in place a law that would force downward, cost of accommodation in the Federal Capital Territory.
Bello who hosted estate surveyors and valuers said, “As a body, you must take deliberate steps to bring down the cost of accommodation through reduction of your charges and commissions.
The Minister wondered why Nigerian citizens would pay rent on a yearly basis whereas in developed countries such as United Kingdom and United states, tenants pay rents on a monthly basis.
He queried, “Why should we pay rent annually in Nigeria; why should we pay two, three years in advance.
“All the people you see here including the Minister get their rent allowance on a monthly basis, only very few organisations in Nigeria pay rent allowance annually in bulk.
“Why can’t we start asking our tenants to pay rent monthly even if they are in Asokoro, Maitama or wherever?”
http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/exclusive/fg-enforce-rent-nigeria-pay-monthly-says-fct-minister/
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THE national chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief Victor Oye has called for understanding of Nigerians in the face of the current hardship, saying that Nigeria is not as hopeless as some people think.
Addressing reporters in Awka yesterday, Oye observed that with the measures being taken by government, things would soon get better.
He said: “Every problem has an expiry date. I believe that before the end of this year, things will begin to normalize. What the government is trying to do is to cut wastes and Nigerians are beginning to see the result going by the savings already made.
“Nigerians can see that the federal government has the courage to do semblance of what is right and what is happening in the country shows that there is no hiding place for any corrupt politician.
“We should also appreciate the fact that God chose President Muhammadu Buhari for Nigeria and he has a purpose for doing that.”
According to him, many Nigerians do not know Buhari well, adding that from what he knew about the president, he has a good vision for the country.
Oye also spoke on his party, APGA, saying that his vision as the national chairman is to make the party a global brand. He added that with measures being put in place by the national leadership of the party, APGA would be a party to beat during the 2019 general elections.
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http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/04/nigeria-not-as-hopeless-as-some-people-think-says-apga-national-chairman/

Striking medical doctors in the employment of Osun state government Sunday suspended its seven months old industrial action .
It would be recalled that doctors working with Osun state Hospital Management Board and those attached to Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, embarked on industrial action to reject payment of modulated salaries among other grievances.
All efforts to broker peace between the two parties on the matter had met brick wall, as the doctors rejected all entreaties and treat to bring them back to work.
However, in a letter addressed to the state Head of Service signed by the state chairman of OSAMDO, Dr. I. Adekunle, copies of which were obtained by the newsmen yesterday, the doctors said the decision to suspend the strike was arrived at after considering the rising cases of avoidable deaths among the indigenes of Osun State.
The association also noted the efforts of the Speaker, Osun state House of Assembly, Mr. Najeem Salaam and some eminent medical practitioners in resolving the industrial crises.
Speaking to our correspondent on the development, the state chairman of the Nigeria Medical Association, Dr Suraj Ogunyemi explained that members of OSAMDO have decided to restrategise, adding that part of the new strategies is the suspension of the strike with immediate effect.
Ogunyemi said: “The OSAMDO members held their meeting last Wednesday and part of the decisions taken was the suspension of the ongoing industrial action. This development is coming despite the fact that government had not paid them their outstanding dues and their failure to accede to their demands.
“But in the interest of the good people of Osun, we cannot continue to ignore the intervention of the Speaker and other critical stakeholders. We just have to give them that honour”.
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http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/04/osun-doctors-suspend-7-month-old-strike/

The suspension of former Governor Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa State by the
All Progressives Congress, APC, has taken a new twist as investigations
reveal that he has fallen apart with the Minister of State for
Agriculture, Heineken Lokpobiri over N600 million ministerial appointment
deal.
A political movement in the Bayelsa State Chapter of the All Progressives
Congress (APC), under the aegis of APC Bayelsa Good Governance Group, on
Sunday said it had it on good authority that Sylva was annoyed that
Lokpobiri had refused to pay the remaining N200 million because he only
got the position of a junior minister.
The group alleged that Sylva was busy selling federal appointments to his
cronies including the appointment of Lokpobiri at the cost of N600
million.
“During the bargain, Lokpobiri dropped an advance payment of N400 million
for Sylva but declined payment of the balance of N200 million because he
was given a junior minister. But replied Lokpobiri to account for the N1
billion he got from campaign during the last Bayelsa State governorship
election. This is the cause of their fighting, we are therefore calling on
President Muhammadu Buhari to direct anti-graft agencies to investigate
this matter and get Sylva arrested”, the coordinator of the group, Douye
Alex Panebi, said in a statement in Yenagoa.
This, he said explained why the organisation supported the decision to
suspend Sylva as a corrective measure to bring back sanity into the party.
Sylva and four other members of the APC were on Saturday handed indefinite
suspension by the party’s leadership citing alleged anti party activities
and other forms of misbehaviour deemed to be inimical to the progress of
APC in Bayelsa state.
The organisation which reflected on the loss of the APC in the last
election and recent crisis within the party in the state said that but for
the inordinate ambition of the Sylva during the last governorship
election, APC could have posted a better result.
The group said “Sylva’s greed, deceit and terrible track record as a
former governor caused APC’s defeat at the polls and his subsequent
conduct had only worsened the situation in the party in Bayelsa state.”
Panebi also alleged that Sylva was already busy in Abuja selling federal
appointments to cronies and thus causing disaffection within the party.
He said, “We must be honest and accept the fact that Sylva’s emergence as
candidate was the reason for our misfortune at the last election. We were
roundly beaten at the polls because Sylva was a bad product. That is why
even the ongoing case at the tribunal is a clear waste of time and
resources, another conduit for Sylva to further scam people of their money
as he goes about assuring people that the presidency has directed the
judiciary to return him as governor.
“That was how he went about deceiving everybody that he was not going to
contest the governorship election and then collecting money from all the
aspirants promising each of them the ticket, he turned around to
eventually contest. He didn’t stop there, he we went ahead to hoodwink
everyone of us into believing that he has the backing of the president,
boasting that he had federal might and that INEC had been instructed to
return him as governor.
“For that reason, many of us sold properties to contribute to his campaign
with the promise of a juicy appointment in return as reward. Little did we
realize that it was all a scam. Sylva deceived so many people who worked
hard and spent hard earned money on his election. Rather than reward those
people who worked hard for his campaign, he is busy in Abuja selling
appointments to his cronies to raise money to bribe the judiciary to grant
him victory at the tribunal while using the office of the secretary to the
federation and the presidency to intimidate the judiciary”.
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http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/exclusive/ministerial-appointment-sylva-lokpobiri-fight-n200-million-balance-n1-billion-campaign-fund/

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Happy Sunday.

Some power brokers in the Peoples Democratic Party are plotting to counter an alleged plan by the current Chairman of the PDP, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff to transmute into the party’s presidential candidate in 2019.

There is a belief within the party that Sheriff and Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, are planning to jointly run for the presidency in 2019.

A reliable source within the party told our correspondents that Fayose backed Sheriff for the chairmanship position because he (Fayose) had plans to be Sheriff’s running mate in the 2019 presidential election.

Two weeks ago, Sheriff, a former Governor of Borno State, had said that God “used Fayose to make me chairman.”

Already, the PDP, which is in control of only two northern states (Gombe and Taraba), has zoned the presidency to the North in 2019.

A member of the Board of Trustees of the party from the North-East who spoke on condition of anonymity, said there was no way both men would be allowed to fly the party’s ticket.

The source, a party man of several years standing, said, “This is a joke of the century. These two are controversial. Sheriff has not even been allowed into the party fully.

“Now, they are saying he wants to be President. It isn’t possible. That will signify the death of the party as millions would either defect or go and form another party.”

A reliable source within the party said some party chiefs were bothered by Sheriff and Fayose’s close relationship. In recent times, both men have attended several social events together including the wedding of Fayose’s niece in Lagos on Saturday.

He said, “Sheriff is rich but he is not the richest northern politician in the PDP. He does not have the backing of the northern elements in the PDP given the fact that he is still quite new in the party. Sheriff’s tenure is meant to end by May but there is a plot to elongate his tenure till 2018 and in the process, gain control of the party structure.

“He will then resign and run for the presidency but we will not allow him.”

The source said, “Already, supporters of Governor Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe State and former FCT Minister, Bala Mohammed, are spoiling for a fight as both governors also have presidential ambitions. In the current dispensation, the governors are two of the most influential PDP politicians from the North.
“Fayose has obviously miscalculated. He is going in October 2018 and his immunity will end seven months before Buhari’s tenure ends. With the way he has been attacking President Muhammadu Buhari, I don’t know how he will survive without his immunity within that period. He thinks his support for Sheriff will endear him to northern politicians but they are not happy with him with the way he has been attacking Buhari.”

Two weeks ago, the South-West chapter of the party had declared its support for the North to retain the PDP’s national chairmanship position and endorsed Senator Buruji Kashamu as its zonal leader.
Another source, a senior party man, told our correspondent that the endorsement of Sheriff was a ploy to ensure that he remained as the chairman till 2018.

The source who is a member of the PDP Ministers’ Forum, told our correspondent that Fayose, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and Kashamu were “taking members of the party for granted”.

“Sheriff’s plan is to metamorphose from the chairman to the presidential candidate and that was why Fayose brought him in. Fayose, Wike and Buruji are the ones supporting Sheriff for President. The North will get the presidency but their plan will not work because Sheriff is not our candidate,” he said.

When 26-year-old Abigail Olori met Alhaja Latifat and her husband three years ago, she felt she had met an angel in human form who would turn the odds of her life for good. Considering the fact that she had lost her parents and was saddled with the responsibility of catering for her siblings, she jumped at the offer to travel to Italy to work as an auxiliary nurse for the couple. Unknown to her, however, she was making the biggest mistake of her life.

A look into the eyes of the frail looking Abigail revealed misery, pains and betrayal that she has been subjected to in the last three years.

Coughing intermittently and straining herself to be audible, she narrated her ordeal in the hands of her traffickers. “I met Alhaja Latifat and her husband in 2013 when they came to Nigeria; then I was 23-years-old. I knew them via a relative of mine, Rofel, when I was residing in Bayelsa with my siblings. Rofel invited me to Lagos; it was during the visit to Lagos that I was introduced to Alhaja Latifat who promised to take me to Italy”, she stated.

“Before the journey, they said they wanted me to become an auxiliary nurse for them in Italy but unfortunately I found myself in Libya. They took me via the desert. We were about 30 that were taken to Libya from Nigeria.

Abigail
“Since I didn’t have parents, I was only able to raise N10, 000 which the alhaja claimed was for the passport she procured for me. The agreement was that I will work and pay her N2.4 million once I get to Italy which included the amount she spent to take me abroad and the return on her investment.

“Before we left Nigeria, they took us to a native doctor called Ewe in Abeokuta, Ogun State where we were made to swear an oath. It was after the oath that we were taken to Libya instead of Italy.

“Initially when I got to Libya and found out that my responsibility was to abort pregnancies for young girls, I refused but Alhaja Latifat and her husband locked me up in a room and beat me severely with a mop stick I had no option but to bulge. Each time I refused to perform abortion for any of the girls, they will lock me up and beat me.

“That was how I started assisting them to terminate unwanted pregnancies for the young girls who were working as call girls for Alhaja Latifat.

“We had girls within the ages of 10-15 working as call girls, sleeping with all sorts of men unprotected. Most of the girls were forced to sleep with elderly men as old as 60 years-old. Some of these girls confessed to me that they were hairdressing apprentices and fashion designers before they were deceived to come to Libya to work as prostitutes. “Any of the girls who refused to work, they will beat her up. Some of the girls who attempted to escape got into more trouble as they were resold to other traffickers in Libya.
“My main responsibility was to carry out abortion for the girls forced into prostitution. By my calculation, I would have aborted 320 pregnancies in the process. They built instrument which I used to perform the abortion on the girls. If a pregnancy was about a month, and the girl in question notified Alhaja Latifat about the development, the Alhaja Alhaja will not allow me to abort the baby till the pregnancy was about four or five months old.

“Apart from carrying out abortions, I also performed the job of a physician to the girls.

“They had about three houses which were used as brothels to house the girls who worked as call girls. I resided in one of the brothels called New York. The second was called White House. I can’t remember the name of the third one.

“I worked for the alhaja for about three years and I was able to raise the amount from the abortion I was performing on the girls and the money I got from my male friends who were into armed robbery in Libya. Like the call girls, I was not allowed to operate a bank account. Since I didn’t operate any bank account, the money I earned was kept with Alhaja Latifat. Within two years I was able to pay the N2.4m agreed amount on the contract and also give her N1.5M which I kept with her as my personal savings.

In what appears to be a twist to the lingering controversy over the propriety or otherwise of the investigation into the $2.1 billion arms scandal linked to the campaign activities of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2015 general elections, the Chairman of the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai, has released the details of how his group expended the N53m disbursed to it in tranches for the elections.
The NEF Chairman confirmed that a former Chairman of the PDP Board of Trustees (BoT), Chief Tony Anenih, spent his money on the assignment on the instruction of then President Goodluck Jonathan . The former presidential adviser told Sunday Vanguard, in an exclusive chat, that he was making the details available to the world to correct the information in the public domain that the funds made available to his group were part of the $2.1 billion arms money.
Indeed, many PDP leaders are questioning the propriety of the conclusions of the investigation into the activities in the Office of the National Security Adviser, ONSA, which claimed that some individuals received funds without contracts or that contracts were awarded without documentation or that some of the contracts awarded were bogus. Names of those who allegedly collected funds from the ONSA have already been published.
It is against this backdrop – just as Anenih had made it clear that he was not in a position to ask President Jonathan where funds for the repayment of campaign costs he had incurred would come from – that Yakassai gave an activity-by-activity breakdown of the expenditure.
In fact, the breakdown of the expenditure profile by the Yakassai group indicated that there is an outstanding balance of N16 million to be claimed.
Yakassai, who made the document of the breakdown available toSunday Vanguard, revealed thus:
“Please find below full statement of the expenses incurred during our tour of 17 northern states and the FCT, sponsored by Chief Tony Anenih, on the directive of former President Goodluck Jonathan from January 14 to February 14, 2015”.
According to Yakassai, “States visited were Sokoto, Kebbi, Kaduna, Kano, Jigawa, Zamfara, Katsina, Nasarawa, Kogi, Niger, Ilorin, BenueBenue, Plateau, Adamawa, Taraba, Bauchi and Gombe”.
He identified members of his team as Alhaji Sule Iyaji; Senator Abubakar D. Sodangi; Ambassador M.Z. Anka; Chief John Mankilik; Alhaji Sulaiman Lawal; Dr. Luka Bahago; and Barrister Bitrus Gwadah, Personal Assistant, with himself as team leader.
The elder statesman said members’ allowance @ N250,000 for eight members for 21 days came to N42,000,000.
He disclosed that return tickets for Abuja-Sokoto, Abuja-Kano, Abuja-Ilorin, Abuja-Yola/Jallingo Abuja-Bauchi/Gombe plane trips were at a cost of N50,000 and the total came to N2,250,000.
Yakassai put hotel accommodation of N30,000 per night for nine persons for five nights.
The elder statesman further said payments to personal assistants was N20,000 per person, while the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, delegation from Plateau State, which visited Anenih, got N2,000,000.
By the standards of those involved, Yakassai suggested that the expenditure pattern was modest.
However, like the former PDP BoT Chairman said of the outstanding funds yet to be paid to him, the NEF Chairman put the outstanding claims for his assisgnment at N16,850,000.
The breakdown for this, according to Yakassai, is as follows: Car hire for seven persons for 25 days at N50,000 totals N8,750,000, accommodation at other places N6,000,000 and Plateau Special Delegation got N2,100,000.
He said the idea behind the release of the details of the expenses of his committee was “just for the record”.
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Health Minister Prof Isaac Adewole, Friday directed tertiary hospitals across the country to save patients’ lives first during emergency cases before demanding for money.
Adewole, spoke during a facility tour of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), said people’s lives were more important than the money being demanded before treatment.
According to him, accidents, among other emergency cases can occur at anytime, so patients should not be refrained from accessing treatment.
Adewole advised hospitals not to allow patients stay beyond a day at the Accident and Emergency (A and E) ward to enable them have room for other new patients on emergency.
He urged LUTH management to ensure that the poor receive treatment, stressing that the hospital should operate a social system to enable it know those that are genuinely poor.
“We cannot continue to turn poor patients away from the hospitals. The poverty indicator shows that 60 to 70 percent of Nigerians is poor. This means about 100 million people are poor in Nigeria. So, we will provide basic care through the primary health care (PHC) system for Nigerians,” he said.
He lamented poor funding of the health care, saying there was chronic underfunding of the sector.
Moreover, Nigerians and the media should take the fight to increase health budget to the front burner because health is wealth. “The sick cannot make the country strong,” the minister said.
He charged patients with minor ailments to visit primary health care (PHC) centres rather than going to teaching hospitals.
Prof Adewole said Nigeria needs 140 radiotherapy machines, adding that the seven machines now available were inadequate.
“Only two or three presently work at a time. Poor power supply has marred our effort to keep the machines running regularly. If power improves, the equipment will last longer,” he said.
He charged people to improve their lifestyle, exercise and eat healthily.
Besides, they should have regular checkups.
“Many late cancer cases cannot be cured

Boko Haram released a new video Friday denying any suggestions it would surrender, just over a week after their shadowy leader Abubakar Shekau appeared in a rare message looking dejected and frail.
Shekau, who was not seen on camera for more than a year, released an unverified video late last month and said his time in charge of the Nigerian jihadist group may be coming to an end.
If the video indeed depicts Shekau, he appears thin and listless, delivering his message without his trademark fiery rhetoric.
It prompted speculation from the army that the Islamist group was on the verge of collapse in the face of a sustained military counter-insurgency.
However, in Friday’s message, Boko Haram maintained it was a potent fighting force, with fighters posing with AK-47s in front of Toyota Hilux pick-up trucks and a lorry mounted with a military cannon.
“You should know that there is no truce, there is no negotiations, there is no surrender,” an unidentified masked man wearing camouflage said in a prepared script in Hausa, in the video posted on YouTube.
“This war between us will not stop.”
The video, which was of markedly better quality than Shekau’s and included Arabic subtitles, featured nine masked Boko Haram fighters standing on sandy ground in an undisclosed desert location.
It is unclear if the masked people in the video include the Boko Haram leader.
Shekau was still the head of the “West African wing”, said the masked man in the video, likening Boko Haram to the Islamist insurgencies in Iraq, Libya and Syria.
In March 2015, Boko Haram pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, another of the world’s most deadly terror organisations.
But there were few signs Boko Haram — now styled as Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) — has so far benefited from the partnership.
Nigeria’s army has since then won back swathes of territory from the militants, liberating thousands living under Boko Haram control.
An estimated 20,000 people have been killed since Boko Haram began its campaign of violence in 2009 to carve out a hardline Islamic state in northeast Nigeria.
More than 2.6 million people have fled their homes since then but some of the internally displaced have begun returning.

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