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The Religious Preaching Regulation law, 1984 before the Kaduna State House of Assembly seeking substitution was on Friday passed into law
The passage of the bill came three years after the bill faced serious criticism from different religious bodies and individuals.

The bill, which purpose is to regulate religious preaching in Kaduna State with a view of promoting religious harmony and peaceful co-existence amongst the residents of the state was brought to the House since 2016.
Presiding over the plenary, the Speaker, Alhaji Aminu Abdullahi Shagali while reading the bill close by close said a state inter-faith Regulatory council has been established with a chairman to be appointed by the Governor on the recommendation of the Secretary to the state.
Also, two members representing the Christian and Muslim faith, respectively, to be appointed by the Governor, among others.
According to the Speaker, the bill further has it that the above mentioned council shall hear and determine appeals brought before it arising from the decision of the local government inter-faith Committee and also has power to issue regulations considered necessary to guide the state inter-faith council and local government inter-faith committee in the performance of their functions under the bill if signed into law.

He further mentioned that the bill when signed into law, stipulates that in each of the 23 local Government areas of the state, a committee to be known as the Local Government Inter-faith Committee has to be established
According to him, the local Government Inter-faith committee shall consider and recommend to state Inter-faith Regulation Council all applications for the grant of licence to religious preachers as well as screen and recommend preachers for the grant of license among other functions.
The supplementary provision explained that all cassettes, compact disks (CDs), flash drives or any other communication gadgets containing religious recordings from accredited preachers may be played inside a private dwelling unit or vehicle, entrance porch (zaure), Church, Mosque and any other designated place of worship.



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Former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, has described the judiciary in Nigeria as “the Daniel that has always come to judgement.”

Okorocha addressed journalists in reaction to the court order that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, issue him with a certificate of return.

Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court had on Friday ruled in the matter between Okorocha and INEC over the seizure of his Certificate of Return.

The ex-governor said that whatever happened concerning his Certificate of Return was in the plan of God “so that the nation’s democracy can further be strengthened and rights of the citizenry also protected considering the pronouncement of the Court over the seizure of his Certificate of Return.”

Okorocha said that he has forgiven the Returning Officer in the Imo West Senatorial election, Prof. Innocent Ibeabuchi, who claimed that he declared him winner under duress “and all those who had played one role or the other to cause the ordeal he went through, over his Certificate of Return


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The people of Polobubo (Tsekelewu) community in Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State Friday urged Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, to quench the fire in Ikpalakpalabou oil well and embark on assessment of the toxic effects on residents and the immediate environment as well as pay varying monetary sums as compensation for the disaster.

The people made the call at a peaceful protest following the recent fire outbreak four days ago which has been degrading the land and life of the people.
National President of the community, Ebilate Mac-Yoroki, in a presentation co-signed by Midwest Kukuru, Secretary of Polobubou, said, “As we speak, there is a thick cloud of smoke over Polobubo, constantly raining soot and oil on our people. In this current situation, the oil-well fire has caused Polobubou and its people so much pains, loss and is leaving so much damages behind.
“Chevron should immediately send qualified medical doctors to start attending to all the sick and weak in the community.

“We don’t need to die before they will believe that their activities are seriously affecting us adversely. We need clean potable water urgently because even the ones we currently drink have been polluted from their sources.

“We urgently need all sorts of food stuffs because we no longer have access to our main source of livelihood; fishing, which is also our main source of food. Hunger is worsening in the community.
“We need Chevron to, with immediate effect, embark on a process of cleaning the waters within and surrounding the community immediately.

“This is because they provide life for seafood, it is still the only means of recreation for our children, but as it is currently polluted by crude oil and gas, we can’t fish, just as our children cannot swim in it. It is almost a ‘concentration camp’ experience for us currently.

“We are a community of peaceful and hardworking people, but besides the fact that Chevron has refused to give our people jobs, the natural environment that ought to have been their source of livelihood has been taken away from them by the activities of the company. In the light of this, we demand that Chevron pays compensation to every member of Polobubou.”
Mac-Yoroki also said Chevron Nigeria Limited should provide them with potable water, food, medical aid among other things.

He said they are hungry and in dire need of medical attention, stressing that the fire has polluted their lands.

Mac-Yoroki said, “Our water and food sources”has been polluted by the fire.

He lamented the “unfair treatment” the people have suffered despite its peaceful disposition towards Chevron Nigeria Limited.

“All entreaties to Chevron to save our from the toxic effects of this fire have yielded no result. A much more grievous injustice by this company that has feigned friendship, against our ever-welcoming and peaceful people is the ongoing attempt to cede our land to Ondo state and thereby fan another needless ethnic crisis,” he said.

In his reaction, the Deputy Governor of Delta State, Barr. Kingsley Otuaro assured the people that the state government will not later than next Tuesday, send a delegation that may include CNL officials to assess the damage and proffer possible solutions to the issues raised.

He appreciated the community and its leadership for toeing the line of peace.



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A High Court in Lafia, on Friday ordered the Nasarawa State Government to pay the management of Breeze 99:9 FM Lafia, N67. 3 million for illegal demolition of the station.

Delivering judgment, Justice Rose Soji, held that the demolition of the station by the government on May 20, 2017, was illegal.

The judge also held that from the evidence before the court, the demolition was in violation of the relevant laws of the state which stipulated that the government was supposed to give 21-days notice, NAN reports.

She said the Nasarawa State Urban Development Board (NUDB) notified the management of the station that the Certificate of Occupancy was for residential on May 11, 2017.

“So, from the date the notice was served and when the station was demolished, is just nine days as against the relevant laws of the state.

“Because of not adhering to the stipulated laws, the demolition is hereby declared illegal and the government should pay N17. 3 as special damages and N50 million as general damages,” the judge added.


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The Immediate past Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Mudashiru Ajayi Obasa on Friday emerged the Speaker of the state’s ninth Assembly.
Obasa was nominated by Hon. Olanrewaju Oshun, representing Lagos Mainland 2 constituency.

The nomination was seconded by Hon. Oluyinka Ogundimu representing Agege 1 constituency.

He was returned unopposed on Friday by his colleagues as he remained the only nominated candidate at the close of nomination
Mudashiru Obasa, immediate past speaker of the Lagos house of assembly, has been re-elected as speaker of the 9th assembly.

Sanwo-Olu, who was represented at the inauguration by Obafemi Hamzat, his deputy, also assured that his administration would work closely with the new lawmakers to deliver their promises to Lagosians.
“As you commence the legislative duties it is important to remind ourselves that we are all accountable to the people of the state,” he said.

“The essence of democracy is checks and balances and seperattion of power. Lagos State has always been a pacesetter and it will continue to remain one.”

Obasa served as chairman of the committee on budget and appropriation in the seventh

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Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has again lashed out at the Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Peter Obi, for saying that he (Amaechi) is not politically relevant to discuss whether Igbos should have the Presidency in 2023 or not.

Amaechi, who spoke on the sidelines, at an Interactive forum of Maritime Stakeholders in Lagos, said the former Anambra State Governor does not have the credibility to speak on the matter because he could not win the presidential election.

Amaechi also said right from when he became Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly till date his name has been in the front burner of national politics far more than Peter Obi.

Amaechi said that for the Igbos to get the Presidency in 2023, they must be part of “National Politics”.

According to Amaechi, “Peter Obi said I’m not an Igbo man and that I don’t have the locus to discuss whether Igbo Presidency will be or not in 2023. That comment is a very sad and cheap one from him.

“But the truth is that Peter Obi too does not have the locus to speak about Igbo Presidency because he and his party couldn’t win the presidential election.

“Aside from that, it’s most unfortunate that Peter Obi, a man I defeated to become the Chairman of Nigeria Governors Forum(NGF), when we were both governors, can wake up today to say I am not relevant in the polity to talk about national issues when journalists ask me questions about it.

“I think what is important, which I have said to the Igbos severally is that they need to be part of national politics. If they are not part of National Politics they cannot be President.

“National Politics means that an Ikwerre man must have his interest covered by the Igbos If they want to be President. The Yoruba man must have the Igbos cover their interests, the Hausa, Fulani people must also be confident that their interests are covered by the Igbos.

“I support Igbo Presidency. I believe that it’s the Igbo turn to produce the next President of Nigeria because they have not been there before. The country will be unfair to the Igbos if they say it’s not their turn. But it can’t be your turn and you don’t want to fight for it. You want us to wake you up from sleep and say come and take, it is your turn? It doesn’t work like that and it will not work that way. So, Peter Obi should close his mouth. He lost an election which I won and that’s why President Buhari, not Atiku will be sworn-in tomorrow as President,” he explained.


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May 29: Buhari Submits Assets Declaration Forms
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All is now set for the inauguration of the #Omituntun administration tomorrow. We were at the Code of Conduct Bureau to declare our assets, practiced the parade for the inauguration ceremony at Liberty Stadium and visited the CJ of Oyo State, Hon Justice Munta Ladipo Abimbola.

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The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council, OYC, on Tuesday congratulated the South-East Governors on their re-election, urging them to prioritize economic integration of the zone.

This formed part of the press statement signed by the Secretary-General of the group, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike and the Deputy National President, Comrade Obinna Achuonye.

OYC said the re-election of the governors of Enugu, Abia and Ebonyi, Rt. Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu and Chief David Umahi, respectively, bore eloquent testimony to their sterling performances during their first term in office.

According to him, “a new dawn beckons in the South-East zone with the re-election of these governors, who have engraved their names in records of performance.

“We salute them for living to the promises made to the residents of their States, which had translated to their electoral victories.

“It is also important to take note and congratulate the Governor-elect of Imo State, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha for his victory.

“At this juncture, our message to the governors is that the period of electioneering is over. This is the time to work for the people.

“Before now, much has been said about economic integration of the South-East, so the time for action is now. We look forward to a robust and functional South-East Governors’ Forum.

“We urge the governor of Enugu State to use his second term towards hanessing the crude oil deposit at different areas of the state, like Oji River, Isi Uzo, Uzo Uwani etc. It will boost IGR, job creation and other benefits to oil communities.”

On the new National Minimum Wage, the OYC said, “we expect our governors to show the way. We know that Federal Allocation to our zone is always minimal but with the Igbo ‘can do spirit’, the sky will be your starting point. There is no doubt that workers deserve a better deal and every effort should be put in place to make it possible.”

They also called on those who lost out in the elections to close ranks and work with the Governors in other to move the zone forward.

“We take note of the effort in Enugu to see that the APC guber candidate withdraws his petition. Our stand is that same thing should happen in all the other States in the overall interest of the people,” they added.
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Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has declared his assets for the end of his first tenure and the beginning of his new tenure respectively.

The Code of Conduct Bureau in Kano State made this known in a statement by its Director, Umar Saulawa, on Tuesday.

Saulawa, however, reminded all outgoing elected and appointed political office holders to declare their assets in line with the provision of the law or face the wrath of the law, (NAN) reports.


According to him, the Bureau would not hesitate to take all the necessary actions against any Public Officer, who violated the order.

Saulawa said that the governor’s declaration of his assets was in accordance with the provision of the law as enshrined in the 1999 constitution as amended.

“This is to inform the general public that the Executive Governor of Kano state, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, ahead of his inauguration on May 29, 2019, declared his assets.

“The declaration is for the end of his first tenure in office and the beginning of his new tenure for the second term respectively,” he said


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The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has identified politicization of everything and pervasive injustice as the two major problems facing Nigeria.

The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has identified politicization of everything and pervasive injustice as the two major problems facing Nigeria.

Wike said this while stressing that insecurity continues to thrive in Nigeria because the authorities have refused to listen to the cries for justice.

Speaking in Port Harcourt, the state capital, yesterday, Wike warned that if attention was not paid to justice, Nigeria “may crash-land”.

According to him: “Although I lack the intellectual impetus to join issues with the learned Professor, but for me, Nigeria’s problems, which are largely self-inflicted, can be reduced to two: the politicization of everything and pervasive injustice.

”Over the years, we have allowed the entire governing system to be corrupted by banal politics and the courage to do what is right and fair to all parts of the country had since departed.

”As a result, we are increasingly become insensitive or rather impervious to the injustices and the horrific happenings in our country that have reduced our humanity.

“In our case, everyone is crying out for justice and because we’ve as a nation blocked our ears and hearts to the deafening cries for justice, peace has become a rare commodity in our country. a rare commodity.

”My take is that we are going nowhere as a country; we will continue to run round in circles and possibly crash-land in a very hard way unless we change our narratives about justice because peace or peaceful co-existence cannot be decreed in a multi-cultural society such as ours, or in any society at all. It is only a real sense of justice that can command and guarantee enduring peace, patriotism and solidarity in Nigeria.”
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On Sunday, it was battle royal for clubs in the Nigeria Professional Football League as 17 teams struggled to make it past the relegation zone.

With the final rounds of match day 22 of the elite league concluded Sunday evening, eight clubs have been kicked out of the NPFL.

The clubs, which have been relegated to the Nigeria National League, NNL, are Remo Stars, El-Kanemi Warriors, Bendel Insurance and Gombe United.

Others are: Niger Tornadoes, Kwara United, Go Round Fc and Yobe Desert Stars.

Meanwhile, following their outstanding performance this season, Rangers International, Lobi Stars and Enyimba International emerged in the group A abridged version of the 2018/2019 NPFL for the Super Six while Akwa United, Kano Pillars and FC Ifeanyi Ubah completed the remaining three from group B.

NPFL Match Day 22 Results:


Group A

FT Katsina United 2 – 1 Enyimba
FT Niger Tornadoes 0 – 1 Kwara United
FT Remo Stars 0 – 0 Lobi Stars
FT Rivers United FC 1 – 0 Bendel Insurance
FT Sunshine Stars 4 – 2 MFM FC
FT Wikki Tourist 1 – 0 Enugu Rangers

Group B

FT Abia Warriors 3 – 0 Kano Pillars
FT Delta Force FC 0 – 0 Plateau United
FT Go Round 0 – 1 Gombe United
FT Heartland Owerri 2 – 0 El Kanemi Warriors
FT Ifeanyi Ubah United 2 – 1 Akwa United
FT Yobe Desert Stars 1 – 2 Nasarawa United.
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Atalanta 3-1 Sassuolo: Atalanta are into UCL for the first time in club history
Atalanta will be playing in the Champions League next season after securing a top four finish on the final day of the season.


After a strong finish to the campaign, which included a recent draw away to leage champions Juventus, Atalanta came from behind to defeat Sassuolo and take a European spot at the expense of giants AC Milan.

Domenico Berardi scored early for the visitors, but Atalanta kept focused and were handed the advantage after Berardi went from hero to villain and got himself sent off.


Goals from Duvan Zapata, Alejandro Dario Gomez and Mario Pasalic helped turn the tie on its head, as Sassuolo faded late on.

Francesco Magnanelli was also given his marching orders, as the away team finished the match with nine men.

It was a dramatic final day flourish to Serie A, with both Milan sides uncertain of their European standing.


AC Milan managed to pull off a final day 3-2 victory over SPAL, but had to settle for a fifth-placed finish after rivals Inter also ended with a win.

A home victory at the San Siro saw Inter end the campaign by beating Empoli 2-1, and return to the Premier competition of European football.

They appear set to resume Champions League action with Antonio Conte at the helm, with the former Chelsea boss on the verge of agreeing to take over.
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Just a few days after an Obaseki family delegation paid a visit to the Secretary of the Edo APC, Lawrence Okah, whom the Governor is in an open feud with, at least five of other Godwin Obaseki's brothers were seen at a meeting convened at the behest of Barrister Henry Idahagbon.

Idahagbon who is spearheading efforts by the party to shop for a more credible Governorship candidate come 2020 as against Godwin Obaseki having another term hosted a meeting of Edo APC leaders yesterday where Obaseki was roundly rejected.

In a recent interview, Barrister Henry Idahagbon, the immediate past Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Edo state, described Godwin Obaseki as a clueless neophyte who has failed politically and administratively. He has championed efforts by the party to replace him at the ballot in 2020 with a better candidate who, he believes, has the capacity and temperament for leadership.

The attendance of the meeting with Barrister Henry by Godwin Obaseki's brothers is an affirmation of the Governor's rejection by his own family members who are both appalled at his poor governance style and personal conduct.

Those who made the list are Pastor Eki obaseki, Mr Osamede obaseki, Mr Victor Obaseki, Hon Benjamin Obaseki aka Ciger and Mr Ewere Obaseki. Apart from introducing them, Idahagbon called them out one after the other and asked them to have a handshake with Engr. Evbuomwan, who chaired the meeting.

As earlier reported, the widespread disaffection for the Governor by his own family members is connected to Godwin Obaseki's arrogance and immaturity which led him to tell his late uncle, Justice Otutu Obaseki, that he deliberately avoids his own family over an assumption that every contact with them would lead to incessant begging.

For a man who has such a low view of his own ancestry and familial ties, it is not a surprise he is finding it difficult to have any true support now that he has been discovered a failure - and staring rejection in the eyes.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) laments the escalated despondency, depression and misery in the country since the rigging of the 2019 Presidential election.

The party charges Nigerians to uphold and support one another in love, at this trying time, to check the rising social degeneration in our nation, particularly acts of suicide.

The PDP described as a national tragedy, the rising spate of suicides, slavery mission abroad, divorces, child abandonment and other social degeneration occasioned by the worsening economic hardship, poverty, hunger and rising insecurity under the incompetent, corrupt, divisive and manipulative All Progressives Congress (APC) administration.

The party laments that such social ills, which is a direct response to bad governance, occurs when citizens are overwhelmed by gloom, with no hope in sight, particularly after their majority vote for a new, purposeful and result-oriented President in the PDP candidate Atiku Abubakar, as expressed in the February 23 Presidential election, was subverted with brazen impunity.

In the last few months, the news media has been awash with horrible reports of teenage suicide in our country.

Banditry, insurgency, marauding, bloodletting and kidnapping with unmentionable ransoms, have almost become daily occurrences. Our citizenry is now battling with the worst kind of siege mentality.

Constitutional violations, human rights abuses, arbitrary arrests, extra-judicial killings, assault on perceived dissenting voices and attempt at annexation of our institutions of democracy, particularly the judiciary, signposts a nation in dire strait.

Misery has set in. This is evident in the shrinking of our nation’s Gross Domestic Produce (GDP) to 2.1percent in the first quarter of 2019.

It is saddening that at the time Nigerians ought to be celebrating, they are rather forlorn, committing suicide and exiting the country in droves.

Most Nigerians have become downhearted in the face of an administration that wrecked our once robust economy and divided our people; in the face of worsening joblessness, piling bills, hunger and diseases; in the face of incompetence, lies, and unfulfilled promises of free homes, monthly allowance to unemployed youth and the poor, bringing the naira to the same value as the US Dollar, creating of 5 million new jobs, ending of insurgency in three months and myriad of other false promises.

Instead, what our nation has witnessed is an official entrenchment and elevation of incompetence, deceit, propaganda, failure and cabal mentality on the corridors of power; a situation where the only achievement is the foisting of economic recession and mortgaging of the future of our nation with the accumulation of N24.39 trillion debt, with no tangible project to show.

It is instructive to state that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC administration has obstinately refused to allow any scrutiny of its books, knowing that they are catalogues of corruption, treasury looting, violations, impunity and acts that have brought our nation to its knees.

The PDP however calls on Nigerians not to despair but stand firm in their collective determination to retrieve the stolen Presidential mandate at the tribunal, so they can have an administration that truly cares for them and which has the competence to return our nation on her deserved path of peace, national cohesion and economic prosperity.
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Kola Ologbondiyan
National Publicity Secretary

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The best candidate for the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) organized by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Ezeunala Ekene Franklin has been rewarded for his excellent result.

The best candidate for the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) organized by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Ezeunala Ekene Franklin has been rewarded for his excellent result.

Ekene emerged the beat candidate out of over 1.8 million students who registered.

Ekene, 15, from Abia State scored 347 to emerge the best.

Hijab Rights Advocacy Initiative rewarded the teenage boy with cash gift. They posted on Twitter:

“We met Franklin the boy who scored highest in Jamb a student of Meiran Community High School. We gave him a cash gift to encourage him.”
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