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The Presidential Election Tribunal on Tuesday dismissed an application filed by the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) asking the panel to enter judgment in its favour.

The petitioner has alleged that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) failed to allow it access to the biometrics materials as ordered by the court.

Delivering the ruling, Justice Mohammed Garba said that the petitioner interpreted the order of the court wrongly.

Some more experts on Monday picked holes in the new tenancy bill signed into law by Governor Babatunde Fashola on Aug. 24.

 They told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that although the law would help residents to secure accommodation, real estate businesses might move from Lagos to other states. Prof. Pat Utomi, Director in Lagos Business School (LBS), said he agreed in principle with the law but the law would really work on demand and supply structure.

Utomi said the law should apply in two ways to give landlords the right to throw out a tenant once he could not pay his rent within three months.

According to him, the civil society must rise up to the challenges as “everywhere in the world you declare fair business practice”.

Ahead of  the 2012 governorship election in Adamawa,  many supporters of  former Vice President Abubakar Atiku  are staging a return to the  ruling PDP.

The News Agency of  Nigeria (NAN) reports that many aggrieved loyalists of  Atiku  had left the party in protest over the conduct of  the PDP presidential primaries that ushered in President Goodluck Jonathan as the party’s flag bearer in the April polls.

NAN also gathered that the influx into the PDP  in the state may not be unconnected with reports in the local media indicating that Atiku had directed his supporters to  work for the party’s success in the forthcoming council and governorship elections.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has hinged the defeat suffered by the party in the South -West Zone during the April  general elections on indiscipline among PDP members.

Obasanjo, who is the Chairman, Board of  Trustees of  the PDP, spoke on Saturday at the South-West Zonal Meeting of the party held in Abeokuta, Ogun.

“Absolute indiscipline and gross violation of  the party’s constitution was the bane of our party  during the last general elections,’’ he said.

He also attributed the poor performance of the party during the elections to strong internal strife as well as  lack of  commitment and loyalty to the party.

The former president, however,  encouraged PDP members in the zone to learn from the past and forge ahead.

 “ We stumbled, but did not fall down. This is a bitter lesson for us to go back to the drawing board and make necessary adjustments.

“This is not the time to lament about the past, but to learn from it and look forward for  better party cohesion,’’ he added.

He urged leaders  and members of the party in the zone to work as a team in order to restore the lost glory of the party in the South-West.

Some banks’ customers in Lagos are complaining of fraudulent charges by commercial banks in the use of Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) and over the counter withdrawals.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that customers are being forced to use ATMs for transactions below N100, 000.

NAN reports that First Bank of Nigeria recently announced that any withdrawal below N50, 000 over the counter would attract transaction fee of N100.

The bank is also charging N100 on any cheque issued by customers for amount below N100, 000.

Oceanic Bank International has been charging N100 for any transaction less than N49, 000.

The United Bank for Africa (UBA) charges N150 penalty charge for over counter withdrawals lower than N100, 000.

Some banks still charge customers for over the counter transactions even when their ATMs failed to function and called for the intervention of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on the issue.

They complained that the unwholesome practices would force many of them to shun banks.

Mr Chris Njoku, a legal practitioner and customer of UBA, said that many customers had been complaining over the huge charges.

Njoku alleged that the banks were making profits from these fraudulent charges on customers.

President Goodluck Jonathan says government has strong clue about those terrorising Nigeria and that security agents had been directed to fish them out.

 Jonathan stated this on Friday in Abuja while inaugurating the new drivers’ licence and vehicle number plates introduced by the FRSC.

He warned that those who hid under the freedom guaranteed by democracy to perpetrate evil would have no hiding place as government was determined and capable of dealing with all threats and agents of instability.

He said: ``we now have strong links as to those involved in this terror war on Nigeria and Nigerians. We have directed security operatives to go after them no matter where they may be hiding.

Muammar Gaddafi called Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to negotiate a passage into his country but the latter refused to take his call, a local newspaper reported on Thursday.

Algeria announced on Monday that Gaddafi’s wife, two of his sons and his daughter had crossed into its territory, prompting Libya’s ruling interim council to demand that they be handed back to face trial.

Quoting a source close to the Algerian presidency, Algeria’s El Watan newspaper said Gaddafi was believed to be on the Libyan-Algerian border town of Ghadamis.

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The flood disasters in some part of the country would have been worse in Osun had it not been the precautionary action
taken by Gov. Rauf Aregbesola, according to an ACN official.

The Chairman, Chief Adelowo Adebiyi, made the observation while speaking with journalists in Osogbo.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that flooding has been a perennial problem in Osun before Aregbesola assumed office on Nov. 26, 2010.

Adebiyi said as soon as Aregbesola came into office, he knew that flood might ravage the state and he put measures in place to checkmate it.

“Had it not been that the governor was visionary enough, the state would have had a flood disaster on its hand. Look at what is happening in many other states.

based on the assumption that the incumbent wants a fair election?

President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday assured the Government of Zimbabwe that Nigeria would support all efforts to ensure the conduct of peaceful, transparent and credible elections in the country.
 
Jonathan gave the assurance at a meeting with Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, who was in Abuja to solicit  Nigeria’s support for the country’s general elections in 2012.

Dr Stephen Yohanna, the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of Bingham University Teaching Hospital in Jos, has called for special security arrangement for the hospital following resumed hostilities in the capital city.

“Soldiers fired shots into the hospital during the violence on Monday; in fact, some soldiers actually entered the hospital seeking for injured people to kill,’’ Yohanna said at a post-violence stakeholders’ meeting in Jos on Wednesday.

The meeting was convened by the North-Central zone of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to review the situation and map out ways to assist victims.

Yohanna described the development as “very shocking’’ since the hospital, which is located in the centre of the city, had always attended to victims of violence from all groups.

He noted, for instance, that the hospital received 86 casualties from the Monday violence, which it handled until some were taken to Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) after Bingham’s facilities were over-stretched.

The CMD said that majority of the casualties were victims of gun shots, adding that the 12 that died were all victims of gun shots.

 According to him, “about three’’ of the victims had machete cuts.

The State Security Service (SSS) has declared one Mamman Nur, suspected to have masterminded the UN house bombing on Aug. 16, wanted.

A statement signed by Marilyn Ogar, the agency’s Assistant Director, Public Relations, on Wednesday described the suspect as “a notorious Boko Haram element with Al-Qaeda links’’.

“Any person with useful information which could lead to the arrest of the suspect and other accomplices should report to the nearest police station, military formations or any other security agency,’’ it stated

The statement said Nur, who returned recently from a trip to Somalia, collaborated with other suspects and masterminded the attack on the UN house in Abuja.

The statement further said that the two other suspects whose names it gave as “Babagana Ismail Kwaljima, alias Abu Summary and Babagana Mali, a.k.a Bulama,’’ had been arrested by the service.

“The suspects (Kwaljima and Bulama) have made valuable statements and are being held at a military facility,’’ the statement added.

“We implore all Nigerians to be more security-conscious and vigilant,” it said.

There is palpable fear among residents of Lagos especially those in areas affected by the last flooding that claimed many lives. This is due largely to the prediction by the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET) that another heavy rain is imminent in the state. The recent flooding in Ibadan, Oyo state has not helped matters.

The Edo Police Command on Monday said four persons, including two police men, were killed  in a suspected kidnap operation in Benin.

The Edo police spokesman, Peter Ogboi, confirmed the killings  in a text message to the News Agency of  Nigeria ( NAN) in Benin.

NAN  reports that some gunmen on Sunday abducted the chairman of  Tomline Conglomerate, Tes Sorae.

Ogboi named the other two victims as Sorae’s wife and his personal driver.

The police spokesman, however, said no arrest had been made as  investigation into the case was still on.

An Onitsha Chief  Magistrates’  Court on Monday discharged and acquitted 28 members of  the Movement for the Actualisation of  the Sovereign State of  Biafra (MASSOB).

The News Agency of  Nigeria (NAN) reports that the MASSOB members were arraigned on a one-count charge of waging war against the state on Friday.

Two people were confirmed dead while 35 were said to be in critical condition at the Bingham University Teaching Hospital (BUTH)  following fresh violence in Jos on Monday.

“As at now, two people have died while 35 are being treated for gun shot wounds.

Kaka justified the sect’s attacks in the month of Ramadan, saying that Islam did not forbid lawful attacks on enemies
during the month.

The don called on the Federal Government to exercise restrain in its public statements on international issues.

He said the bombing of the UN House might not be unconnected with a statement issued by the Federal Government on its support for the Transitional National Government in Libya.

“Nigerian government must exercise restrain in its public statements on international issues because we are not benefiting anything from such statements.

“NATO operations in Libya is on account of the UN and government would have also realised that Nigerian Muslims in the North are sympathetic to Gadaffi as an individual,” he added.

Dr Abubakar Sulaiman of the Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Abuja on Friday advocated the overhauling of security agencies in the country to address the problem of incessant bomb blasts.

Sulaiman who made the call  in Gwagwalada, Abuja  in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) called for the sacking of heads of security agencies in the country found wanting on their jobs.

He said that sacking the heads of the security agencies and appointing new ones without considerations for ethnic and political sentiments would address security challenges in the country.

``The present set of security chiefs; the Inspector General of Police, The Director of State Security Service as well as the Service Chiefs have failed the country.``To address the increasing level of insecurity in the country, the present government must be ready to use good, reliable and qualified hands to head security agencies,” he said.

A Brazilian company has offered to buy the Federal Government’s stake in 17 Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) successor companies for 100 billion dollars (N15 trillion), Prof. Barth Nnaji, the Minister of Power, said.

Nnaji made the fact known in Lagos on Thursday at the 2011 Annual Conference of the National Association of Energy Correspondents (NAEC).

“A Brazilian company, for instance, has offered to buy the Federal Government’s stake in the 17 PHCN successor companies for 100 billion dollars  (N15 trillion),” he said.