Pope Francis, on Thursday, entrusted the Catholic Bishops in Nigeria to keep on lecturing harmony so as to keep the nation joined together and dynamic.

NAN reports that the pontiff gave the assignment in Port Harcourt in a message amid the episcopal sanctification of Most Rev. Patrick Eluke as the primary indigenous Auxiliary Bishop of Port Harcourt Diocese.

He was spoken to by Most Rev. Antonio Fillipazzi, the Apostolic Nuncio (Pope’s delegate) to Nigeria at the occasion held at Corpus Christi Cathedral, Port Harcourt.

The Head of the Catholic Church, who depicted Bishop Eluke as a blessing to the bishopric, encouraged the reliable to appeal to God for the new cleric and the achievement of the congregation.

Gov. Wike of Rivers, spoken to by his Deputy, Dr Ipalibo Harry, said that the state was appreciative to God for the endowment of the minister.

As indicated by the representative, the sanctification of the assistant religious administrator came at the perfect time, as he (Wike) has been a messenger of harmony in the state.

The senator said the diocesan’s sanctification would likewise develop the connection between the State Government and the Catholic Church.

He said that the state government would join forces with the new diocesan just as the devoted to check young people fretfulness and “keep them in the methods for the Lord.”

The new diocesan guaranteed to work with different ministers with his entire heart for the development of the Church.

He additionally encouraged the unwavering to keep on petitioning God for the ministries just as and Nigeria.

Eluke, conceived on March 25, 1967 in Eligbo, Ahoada East Local Government Area of Rivers, was appointed cleric on Sept. 23, 1995.

He was designated the main indigenous helper cleric of the ward and Titular Bishop of Fotice on Feb. 12 by Pope Francis.

The new minister had been the Parish Priest of St. Francis of Assisi, Rumuokwuta, since 2015 and later turned into the Diocesan Director of Vocations in 2016.


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Kepa Arizzabalaga saved two penalties, as Chelsea defeated Frankfurt 3-2 on penalties, to qualify for the Europa League final, where they face Premier League rivals Arsenal.

The game had ended 1-1 after 120 minutes of action at Stamford Bridge and 2-2 on aggregate.

The Gunners qualified for the final of the Europa League, following a thrilling 4-2 win over Valencia at the Mestalla on Thursday.

Kevin Gameiro struck first to give the LaLiga side the lead, before Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang levelled six minutes later.

Gameiro cancelled out Alexandre Lacazette’s instinctive strike in the second half, before Aubameyang’s brace settled the tie. The final will be played in Baku on May 29.

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President Muhammadu Buhari is as of now meeting with the Service Chiefs and different heads of security organizations at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The gathering began at 11:30 am at President Buhari’s meeting room in the State House.

The gathering, the second this week, is coming after the rising instances of banditry and abducting, among other security challenges, confronting the nation.

Buhari had on Tuesday gotten a preparation from the security boss at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Those in participation are the Chief of Defense Staff, General Gabriel Olonisakin, Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai; Chief of Naval Staff, Rear Admiral Ibok Ekwe Labs and Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Abubakar Sadique.

Others are, acting Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, the National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno; Minister of Defense, Mansur Dan-Ali, Minister of Interior, General Abdulrahman Dambazau ,Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ahmed Abubakar, and the Director General of Department for State Service (DSS), Yusuf Magaji Bichi.

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, Minister of Interior, Lt. Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazzau and the Minister of Defense, Brigadier Gen. Mansur Dan-Ali are additionally part of the gathering.

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The Speaker, Jigawa House of Assembly, Alhaji Isa Idris (APC-Gwaram), has been indicted.He was supplanted by a previous speaker of the gathering, Alhaji Idris Garba (APC-Gumel) on Thursday in Dutse.

The whole that expelled Idris was directed by Speaker Pre-Tempo, Mr. Hamza Bala (APC-Kazure), following his designation by the Clerk of the House, Malam Hamisu Attahir.

Other vital officers expelled alongside the speaker were the Chief Whip and the Majority Leader of the get-together, Messrs Aminu Sale and Sani Isyaku, individually.

They were supplanted with Messrs Kayes Abdallah (APC-Malammadori) as Chief Whip and Bala Hamza (APC-Kazaure) as Majority Leader.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reviews that the re-chose speaker (Idris Garba) was impugned in January 2017 by 25 out of the 30 individuals from the House.

The officials had indicted Garba because of supposed overbearing and maltreatment of intensity.

In his acknowledgment discourse, the new speaker guaranteed to convey every one of his partners along in the release of his obligation.

He, in this manner, looked for help and participation of the considerable number of individuals.

Responding to an inquiry on the reprimand, the new speaker answered “popular government followed all the way through”.

My dear partners, I simply need to be brief.

“This is so magnificent and this is likewise a wonderful day which I will always remember in my life.

“This is the second time I am being confirmed as the Speaker of this Honorable House.

“In 2015, I saw a few signs that I would be chosen as the Speaker, yet today I never anticipated that that should occur.

“Along these lines, I need to utilize this chance to expand my thankfulness for the certainty you rested in me.

“I need to guarantee that I will never disappoint you. You know my capacities and I feel that is the reason you brought me back.

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The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal has announced that it is reasonable for all gatherings in the pending petitions.

Leader of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa gave the affirmation amid the debut sitting of the council, on Wednesday in Abuja.

Bulkachuwa additionally looked for the collaboration of all gatherings included, especially the senior legal counselors in the cases.

The judge likewise cautioned that it would punish any infractions.

She stated: “We guarantee all partners that every defendant will be given an equal chance to show his case in a develop way before us.

As we accumulate in this noteworthy court today, I wish to utilize this chance to console Nigerians and companions of Nigeria, that the Court of Appeal will work in understanding and inside the manages of the Constitution, the law and worldwide accepted procedures, to administer judges to all, without dread or support, warmth or malevolence.”

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The universities are: University of Science and Technology, Omuna Isiako, University of Creative Technology, Umuna and the University of Medical Sciences, Ogboko.

News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that with the additional three universities, Imo now has five universities, the only state with the highest number of universities in the country.

Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, Executive Secretary of the commission, while receiving the master plan, Academic brief and Environmental impact analysis from Gov. Rochas Okorocha of Imo on Tuesday in Abuja, said the universities would meet the needs of the country.
Rasheed noted that the commission would move into action on how to develop the curriculum for the universities to be allowed to commence operations in the University of creativity.

“On behalf of the NUC, I congratulate the Imo governor on his efforts in supporting university education in the country.

“By the provision of the law establishing NUC and by the power converged on me and having Imo House of Assembly to pass the law for the establishment of the universities, I hereby recognize the three universities.

“What will be left is due diligence of the NUC for the take-off programmes of the newly established universities.

“We will have to quickly work on how to develop the curriculum for the universities to be allowed to commence,” he said.
Earlier, Okorocha explained that the need to satisfy more candidates seeking for admission informed the establishment of the universities.

Okorocha noted that there was a need for more manpower to handle the medicals, sciences and the creative sector of the country.

“The challenges of no admission for our children will be reduced with the establishment of the new universities.

“The support from NUC is encouraging public-private participation in university education.

“As a state, we have made adequate plans in sustaining the university through enough funding to run the universities,” he said.

The governor, however, added that the state had made education a pivot point with which other sectors could thrive, hence the need for adequate funding of education.

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A previous Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, has said he will rise as the Senate President of the Ninth National Assembly. The congressperson said this in a meeting with writers in Lagos on Monday.

He said he was sure because he had the help of his associates in the Senate and the pioneers of the All Progressives Congress. Ndume said he was not in the race to can hope for a good position, saying he had gotten his work done.

He expressed that no gathering chief had approached him to pull back for anybody, including that the National Chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole, hosted clarified that the get-together just prescribed Senator Ahmad Lawan as the favored decision and had not forced him on the representatives.

He stated, “We have 109 congresspersons, and every one of them has one vote. If you are challenging to be the Senate President, you need to connect. Be that as it may, toward the starting, I was careful because I am a gathering man. Thus, when the gathering said ‘don’t go there,’ I didn’t.

“Be that as it may, the gathering turned out again and stated, ‘You can connect with them now,’ so I contacted them.

“Up until now, the reaction I am getting from my associates from the APC and different gatherings is empowering. I am in this race to win; I am conversing with everyone. I have the phone quantities of all the 109 representatives choose, and I call them.

“I host composed the get-together, demonstrating my goal to challenge. Indeed, even my national director, Adams Oshiomhole, freely said they just suggested Lawan and not that they are halting anyone.

“As I talk with you, no one has counseled me to state ‘don’t keep running for Senate President.’ Everyone has the sacred appropriate.”

Ndume, who speaks to Borno South in the Senate, guaranteed to enhance the execution of the Eighth Senate.

He guaranteed to make the Office of the Senate President less appealing by lessening the extra benefits connected to the workplace.

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The police on Tuesday arraigned Senator Ademola Adeleke, before a Magistrate Court in Mpape, Abuja on charges of forgery.

Adeleke, the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate in the last governorship candidate in Osun State, was accused in the fresh five counts of forging a letter of attestation and result from Muslim Grammar School, Ede Osun State.

The police alleged that the senator submitted the said forged documents to the Independent National Electoral Commission as PDP’s candidate in the said governorship election.

He pleaded not guilty when the charges were read to him before the magistrate, Muhammed Suberu, who granted him bail in the sum of N2m with one surety.

The magistrate ruled that the surety must reside within the jurisdiction of the court.

Already, the police are prosecuting him on amended seven counts of examination malpractices before the Federal High Court in Abuja.

The Federal High Court had granted him permission to travel to the United States of America on Tuesday (today). The magistrate on Tuesday granted permission to the defendant as earlier done by the Federal High Court.

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The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has pronounced that there is “no war” going on among him and the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike.

Amaechi, who was a previous legislative leader of Rivers State, made this elucidation amid a meeting on Channels Television breakfast program, Sunrise Daily, on Tuesday.

He clarified that his issues with Wike were because of the spate of frailty in the state in recent years.

As indicated by the ex-senator: “There is no war going on among Wike and I. It resembles my companion Akpabio, when we met a few days ago, I said it, we are not quarreling.

“What is happening among Wike and me is the way that he needs to run a second term. The truth of the matter is that he ran the leading time in which individuals were murdered.

“Today, he is charging the military and not the police since they wouldn’t accept hush money from him.”

The Minister additionally expressed that amid his organization as Rivers State representative, he explored and guaranteed the capture of culprits of savagery.

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The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court has allowed leave to Senator Ademola Adeleke of Osun West senatorial locale to make a trip to the United States of America for treatment.

The court additionally dismissed hearing on the examination misbehavior charge against the official till June 10.

The court additionally requested the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the competitor in the last Governorship decision in Osun State, guarantee that he reacted to a welcome that was reached out to him by the Police, before voyaging abroad.

Equity Iyang Ekwo, the preliminary judge, likewise decided that Police ought not to prevent Adeleke from setting out on the excursion between May 7 and June 9.

The selected request of the court expressed, “An application of this decent court is therefore made coordinating the Deputy Chief Registrar of competent court to discharge to the first litigant/candidate his global visa to empower him travel to the United States of America on the seventh day of May of 2019 and profit for the ninth day of June 2019 to enable him to experience critical restorative registration.

“The first litigant (Adeleke) is requested to react to the welcome of the respondent on sixth May 2019.

“From there on, the first respondent is conceded leave of court to make a trip out of Nigeria to the United States of America between seventh May 2019 and ninth June 2019 for medicinal consideration.

“The first litigant/candidate is like this requested to restore the worldwide international ID to the Registry of this court inside three days of his arrival on ninth June 2019.

“The respondent will not keep the first litigant from going for medicinal consideration after going to the welcome of the respondent on sixth May 2019.”

Police had in a seven-tally charge it entered under the steady gaze of the court, claiming that Adeleke who was the competitor of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the last Governorship race in Osun State, falsely enlisted and sat for the June/July 2017 Senior School Certificate Examination that held in February 2017.

He was charged close by his sibling, Sikiru Adeleke, the Principal of Ojo-Aro Community Grammar School, Ojo-Aro Osun State, Alhaji Aregbesola Mufutau, the School Registrar, Gbadamosi Thomas Ojo, and an educator in the school, Dare Samuel Olutope.

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The personal emergency shaking the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State may have accepted another measurement as the two existing groups in the gathering have recharged their fights.

The group faithful to Governor Rotimi Akeredolu asserted that Akeredolu remains the pioneer of the gathering in the state, while the other group driven by Senator Ajayi Boroffice guaranteed that Akeredolu could never again lead the meeting having been purportedly suspended by the National Working Committee (NWC) for a supposed enemy of gathering exercises.

This is even as some factional pioneers of the gathering have kept on exchanging words over the suspension of Akeredolu from the forum.

A factional pioneer of APC and previous Commissioner for Regional Integration in Osun State, Mr. Bola Ilori had blamed Governor Akeredolu for being the wheel behind the emergency in the gathering.

Ilori said the suspension of Akeredolu was occasioned by his pride, including that he was the planner of his setback, having purportedly added to the horrifying execution of the gathering in the last presidential and National Assembly races in the state.

Our journalist accumulated that the Akeredolu group of the gathering driven by Mr. Ade Adetimehin meets at the state secretariat of the conference along Oyemekun street, while the Boroffice group meets at the living arrangement of a previous Deputy Governor of the state, Alhaji Alli Olanusi.

It was accumulated that the two groups meet routinely at their different gathering focuses on getting ready for the 2020 governorship race.

In any case, the gathering’s Director of Media and Strategy, Mr. Steve Otaloro said the Adetimehin-drove group of the meeting was the leading perceived group, saying the Supreme Court had at last managed on the issue.

Likewise, the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Special Duties and Strategy, Dr. Doyin Odebowale, said the emergency in the gathering was occasioned by the aspiration of specific individuals to succeed Akeredolu.

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The Katsina State Police Command has rescued 26 people from being burnt alive in Dandume Local Govt Area. While addressing journalists in the state capital, the spokesperson for the Police Command, Mr. Gambo Isah, said the would-be victims were saved from outlawed vigilantes known as Yansakai, in Rugar Kindi village.

According to him, the members of the group had stormed the village on motorcycles last Friday, burning houses.

The police spokesman described those targeted by the group as young males aged between 14 and 18 years, whom the Yansakai had claimed were bandits and had intended to burn alive.

“The police in synergy with other security agencies like the military and our friends, the local vigilante group in the area responded and rescued these young men who are between the ages of 14 years to 18 years.

“About 26 of them were rescued. At the same time, the outlawed Yansakai went to the police station and threatened to set the police station ablaze.

“They engaged the police officers and the military that was there into a gun duel. They were using this locally made Dane guns that are using plugs,” he stated.

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The Nigerian Army has restricted the utilization of bikes inside the hinterland, and backwoods of Kano, Katsina, Zamfara, Sokoto, Kaduna, Kebbi and Niger states, saying it watched the usage of cruisers by desperados, hijackers, criminal components and their teammates to execute wrongdoings.

The military saw that while the boycott would make a few burdens occupants, it was needful to handle banditry and killings in the North-West locale, including that anybody discovered utilizing bikes inside the named zones would be taken for a brigand.

The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col Sagir Musa, stated, “The military has after some time watched the utilization of bikes by outlaws, ruffians, criminal components and their associates as empowering agents to execute their wrongdoings, particularly in the states inside the North-West district.

“This educated the order to boycott the utilization of bikes inside the hinterland, especially around the backwoods where the outlaws, lawbreakers, and hijackers rest and all around where troops are leading tasks nearby other security offices.

“While this may make a few burdens some decent residents in the zone, the need to utilize all methods conceivable to stop the obnoxious exercises of these outlaws over the North-West piece of Nigeria need no accentuation.

He included, “The overall population, especially in the North-West and a few pieces of North-Central in Nigeria where Exercise Harbin Kunama is continuous, are charged to shoulder with the military as purposeful endeavors are being made to battle the uncertainty hazard progressing inside the zone.”

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The Peoples Democratic Party on Sunday raised the alert over a supposed crisp plot by the All Progressives Congress to utilize some policemen to detain its Osun State governorship hopeful in the 2018 decision, Ademola Adeleke.

It asserted that the plot was gone for constraining Adeleke to surrender his command. The gathering’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, owned the claim in an expression made accessible to writers in Abuja.

He stated, “The PDP as of now has new data of how the APC, having seen that it is highly unlikely it can stop Adeleke at the courts, presently looks to strongly dog him into a police headquarters where he will be imprisoned and put unavailable for general use before the assurance of the issues in court.

“Aside from executing this content of the APC, these components in the police have no other explanation for constantly harassing Senator Adeleke, as he is as of now in court for all the silly claims favored against him.

“On the off chance that they genuinely need Senator Adeleke for any new issue associated with the charges for which he is as of now in court, they should present such under the watchful eye of the court as opposed to falling back on tormenting.

“Nigerians will review that the PDP had before cautioned of dangers to Senator Adeleke’s life. These dangers have proceeded with unabated as well as have increased with this recharged bothering by these components in the police, who are being utilized by the APC.”

Ologbondiyan cautioned that Nigerians would not acknowledge any reason, ought to Adeleke become a casualty of an unintentional release or unexpected vanishing.
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The Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, on Saturday said he vanquished and resigned four political guardians in Kaduna State, saying the accomplishment could be imitated anyplace, including Lagos State.

El-Rufai, who contended that back up parents existed just on paper or in the brains of the general population, said the way to overcoming them was in going straightforwardly to the general population.

He, nonetheless, conceded that crushing guardians required time and diligent work.

The Kaduna State Governor talked in Ikoyi, Lagos, at an occasion sorted out by the Bridge Club labeled, “A night with His Excellency Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, Governor of Kaduna State.”

In his fundamental discourse, El-Rufai had energized the club individuals, who are agents, not too timid far from governmental issues, saying it could easily compare to profiting as awful legislative issues could wreck their organizations.

El-Rufai said Nigeria had for all time remained a nation of potential since great and skillful individuals had separated themselves from governmental issues.

In any case, amid the inquiry and answer session, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and three-time magistrate in Lagos State, Dr. Muiz Banire, noticed that godfathers were one of the disadvantages for experts and businesspeople who should need to go into governmental issues Banire then asked El-Rufai how godfathership could be managed.

Reacting, El-Rufai stated, “Godfatherism. This is Lagos. Give me a chance to disclose to you something sir; you know, Kaduna State used to be that way.

There were three or four government officials in Kaduna that you couldn’t wind up anything except if you had them on your side. Those were the backup parents of Kaduna governmental issues, and you needed to convey them along, and you know, the three words, ‘convey them along’ mean paying them consistently.

“In any case, we picked an alternate way, and the bottom line presently is that after this decision in 2019, we have resigned every one of them; we needed to.”

El-Rufai included that the way that just a single million out of the six million enrolled voters in Lagos cast a ballot in the last broad races was a chance to end godfathers in the state.

He stated, “Here in Lagos, you have more than six million enlisted voters, just around a million cast a ballot (in 2019 general races); five million did not cast a ballot. On the off chance that I need to keep running for legislative head of Lagos, I will begin now.

I will commission an examination to know why those five million enlisted voters did not cast a ballot; where do they go on decision day? At that point, I will begin visiting them for the following four years. I will attempt and get only two million of them to come and vote in favor of me; I will crush any back up, parent. The key is to go to the general population.

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