Applause Magazine distributor and big news shot, Dele Momodu, has hailed President Muhammadu Buhari's choice, to rename the Abuja National Stadium after the late MKO Abiola.

Abiola is the assumed champ of the June 12, 1993, presidential decision, which was canceled by the then military government driven by Ibrahim Babangida. The president uncovered this during his debut discourse, during the Democracy Day festivity at the Eagle Square in Abuja on Wednesday.

Talking on Channels Television, Momodu stated: "It's daily of bliss that President Muhammadu Buhari has gone past other individuals who came in front of him and he has perceived that watershed date, he has viewed the victor.

"We are pleased that Abiola did not pass on futile." The arena, which was opened in April 2002, sits more than 60,000 fans, yet has endured poor support as of late.

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Ruler Tony Momoh, a previous Minister of Information, on Wednesday blamed former President Goodluck Jonathan for decreasing the late MKO Abiola to an "ethnic victor." As indicated by him, Jonathan decreased MKO Abiola by renaming the University of Lagos (UNILAG), which is situated in the South-West after him.

Momoh said this while recognizing President Muhammadu Buhari for renaming the National Stadium, Abuja after Abiola. He included that previous President Olusegun Obasanjo was asked to name the arena after Abiola when it was worked in 2003 however he cannot.

He told Independent: "I salute Nigerians and we all who have dependably accepted that Abiola was qualified for be recollected and renaming the National Stadium Abuja after him as Moshood Abiola National Stadium is a befitting landmark to his memory. The arena was worked during the residency of Obasanjo in 2003

"There was request by Nigerians to Obasanjo to name the arena after MKO Abiola. However, he wouldn't do it for reasons best known to him "Jonathan, on his part, had a chance to name a landmark after Abiola and he did by changing the name of the University of Lagos (UNILAG).

"By doing this, he was restricting the status of Abiola and as it were, ethnicizing it. UNILAG is situated in the South-West which is populated by the Yoruba, which is Abiola's clan

"In this way, it was unavoidable that renaming UNILAG after Abiola will be deciphered as depicting Abiola as an ethnic hero, when actually; Abiola won a national or presidential race where all Nigerians cast a ballot. He even defeated Bashir Tofa, his adversary in his surveying stall."

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State has unveiled that Governor Seyi Makinde will before long set to a commission to test his antecedent; Abiola Ajimobi-drove All Progressives Congress (APC) government.

PDP's Publicity Secretary in Oyo State, Engineer Akeem Olatunji, owned the revelation in an expression on Wednesday. He said this in response to APC's charge that Makinde had gotten the N7.9billion bailout reserves.

The representative blamed the APC for trying to divert the new government in the state through ridiculous cases. As indicated by the PDP, remarks by the APC on the said bailout support demonstrate that the resistance was disheartened that its legislature did not get the chance to bungle the bailout subsidize.

The announcement further read: "We are for the most part observers to how the quick past APC government botched the fortunes of the state and neglected to satisfy its guarantees to the Judges, the Judiciary and the whole individuals of the country during its multi-year rule.

"We can't likewise overlook in a rush how the APC government put the eventual fate of thousands of our youngsters who are understudies in LAUTECH in danger through baseless strikes and absence of subsidizing.

"As opposed to traipsing about in the city proffering undesirable guidance to the legislature of Engineer Seyi Makinde, the APC ought to cover its head in disgrace for the unmitigated blunder its administration foisted on the general population of Oyo State over the most recent eight years.

"Give us a chance to rehash here that the legislature of Engineer Seyi Makinde has sold itself to fidelity and responsibility. It's anything but a choice constrained on us by anybody. What's more, in such manner, each kobo that gathers to the state will be reasonably utilized.

"We accept that a few individuals from the APC are now getting jumpy on the understanding that the PDP government is going to set up an enemy of debasement commission in the state. The trace of the approaching enemy of debasement office is making a few people in that gathering to submit unforced blunders."

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Masqueraders in large number converged on the Aliiwo, family house of the Otun Olubadan, Oba Lekan Balogun to entertain him and his guests.

Ahead of the commencement of the annual festival on Monday, Oba Adetunji had through his Personal Assistant/Director of Media and Publicity; Mr. Adeola Oloko said “only the Oyo State Governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde and the Olubadan of Ibadanland would be entertained by the masqueraders”.

The Nation reports that the masqueraders turned out in large numbers, coming into the large compound one after the other to entertain Oba Balogun, who was accompanied by his colleague-Obas, including Balogun of Ibadanland, Owolabi Olakulehin, Eddy Oyewole, Lateef Adebimpe, Hamidu Ajibade among others to shower gifts on the masqueraders as they danced happily and prayed for peace, stability, growth and development of Ibadanland.

The climax of the festival which was interspersed with acrobatic display by the local gymnasts was the traditional killing of a dog, a ritual statutorily reserved for one of the foremost masquerades in Ibadanland, ‘Atipako’.

Speaking with journalists after the ritual which was followed by a heavy downpour, Oba Balogun described the programme as ‘incredibly fantastic’ just as he wondered why the Olubadan should insist that he alone among the members of Olubadan-in-Council should receive the masqueraders in his palace.

Recalling that Oba Adetunji, ever before he qualified to host the masqueraders by virtue of his position then as ‘Ekerin Balogun’ had to plead for it from the late Oba Odugade Odulana and the late monarch graciously approved it with inputs from some of the then High Chiefs, stating that, “it is now inexplicable why Oba Adetunji should wish to deny those of us who genuinely qualify to host the masqueraders.

“Olubadan tried it last year and failed just as he has equally failed to stop the outing this year. What he stands to benefit from robbing our tradition which should be promoted by him remains unknown to us. But, thankfully, the custodians of the masquerades had taken it upon themselves to protect the tradition in defiance of his order which lacks logic.

“For the umpteenth time, we are saying we have no problem with him as the Ibadan foremost monarch and the reform being attacked by him has not in any way diminished his status. As Otun Olubadan, I’m behind him just like other High Chiefs promoted as Obas and we still retain our titles,” he added.

When Oba Balogun was reminded that ordinarily, the pronouncement of a monarch should automatically be binding on all his subjects and their defiance amounts to insubordination, he said, “the popular saying in Yoruba that ‘toba lase’ presupposes that Oba would always weigh his directive before making pronouncement.

“In this instance, Kabiyesi has not been fair, not only to us, but, to our tradition and our people in general. You can imagine the implication of not allowing the prayers to be offered, the economic gain the stakeholders would make as well as the interaction between us and our masquerades. Oba’s directive becomes binding when unnecessary sentiments are not put into consideration,” Oba Balogun stated further.

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The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal will resume sitting on the request documented by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its hopeful, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, testing the triumph of President Muhammadu Buhari in the February 23 decision.

The conference notification with this impact host been issued to all gatherings to the appeal, as indicated by The Sun papers. GSTOK revealed before that the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, pulled back her support in the becoming aware of the request and this prompted the postponement.

Bulkachuwa's withdrawal from the five-person board depended on the charge of inclination leveled against her by the PDP and Atiku. Bulkachuwa said she chose to remain down from the council for "individual reasons" even after the court had in a consistent decision rejected the application.

Atiku and PDP had a week ago, written to Bulkachuwa helping her to remember her guarantee to choose a substitution on the board to empower the becoming aware of their appeal to resume following the deferral. There are signs that Justice Bulkachuwa has now named another judge as her substitution on the five-person board to hear the case.

The appeal, which was marked by a legal counselor in their legitimate group, Silas Onu, expressed that as of May 31 when the letter was conveyed at Bulkachuwa's chambers, it was nine days since she recused herself from the court, yet nothing had been caught wind of her substitution.

The letter read to some extent: "Considering the severe necessity of keeping to the protected date-book for an appeal and the conspicuous reality that time is additionally running quick against the solicitors, we supplicate my Lord to act by naming a substitution so we will get a consultation notice and proceed with the request in light of a legitimate concern for equity."

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The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wiki has affirmed the arrangement of Dr. Tammy Danagogo as the new Secretary to the State Government. Simeon Nwakaudu, Special Assistant to the senator on Electronic Media, owned the declaration in an expression on Sunday. Danagogo was a previous Minister of Sports.

Wike additionally affirmed the arrangement of Engr Chukwuemeka Woke as the Chief of Staff, Government House, Port Harcourt. "The Rivers State Governor will confirm the two authorities at the Executive Council Chambers of Government House Port Harcourt by 2 pm", the announcement said.

In the interim, Wike has issued a 72-hour final offer to the boss and pioneers of Andoni Local Government Area, to guarantee the prompt arrival of three captured exiles of Raffoul Nigeria Limited.

The Governor said he would pull back the acknowledgment of all administration perceived boss in the region and drop the Andoni part of the Unity Road venture if the pioneers neglected to verify the arrival of the three exiles captured by Andoni young people at the lapse of the final proposal.

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The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) on Sunday cautioned Nigerians against permitting Senator Ahmed Lawan, to turn into the President of the ninth Senate. The AYCF connected the help Lawan is as of now getting from certain chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as identified with the mystery quest for individual aspirations in front of 2023 general decisions.

In an announcement to GISTOK on Sunday by Yerima Abbas Shettima, the President of AYCF, the discussion fingered Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the national chief of the APC, and Nasir El-Rufai, the legislative head of Kaduna state, as being behind Lawan's desire in a frantic advance of 2023 surveys.

The announcement included, "We instruct the Tinubus and Elrufais regarding this world to push aside any frantic proceed onward 2023 and permit a dimension playing field for every political office.

"Nobody should take cover behind any ideological group to transform Nigerians into a mere manipulable pawn. That will be an undemocratic burden and inadmissible," Shettima said. The gathering reviewed how it anticipated that Senator Danjuma Goje would venture down when he is forced into accommodation utilizing his pending case at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

"We additionally pronounced that he could, on the other hand, be compelled to venture down from the race in return for his opportunity from EFCC's hot pursue," it expressed. "We are glad to advise every single Nigerian dynamic that we have been vindicated in all the open assertions we made as of late on the hostile seat of the Senate administration.

"The distress to make the way to Senate administration smooth for Tinubu's assistant (Sen Lawan), Buhari's troopers, particularly Governor Nasir El-Rufai are thinking of another account to pull a visually impaired fleece over our eyes. "The Kaduna senator is endeavoring to pitch a sham to Nigerians that the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) has done the needful in regards to Goje's case with the EFCC.

"What's more, we ask: Which lawyer general, when all priests have since surrendered? "What is the significance of taking a case that was under scrutiny by an autonomous body, to a lawyer general who isn't the judge in the court dealing with the Senator Goje case?

"These are questions asking for answers, and we are enticed to expect that the EFCC is going to be prevented from proceeding with the case since Chief Tinubu, who has been pushing Buhari harder, has a personal stake in doing with his 2023 presidential desire," AYCF guaranteed.

read more: https://gistok.ng/9th-assembly-arewa-youths-warn-against-lawans-emergence-as-senate-president-finger-tinubu-el-rufai/

The Ondo State House of Assembly, on Thursday, said Chevron Nigeria Limited neglected to extinguish the flame episode seething at the Ojumole Oil Well in Ugbo village.

The Speaker of the House, Bamidele Oleyelogun, who extraordinarily accused Chevron requested that the organization come and address the house on the issue before May 14.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the flame occurrence happened on April 18, 2019, at the Ojumole Oil Well in Ugbo, llaje Local Government region of the state.

Oleyelogun said the mandate pursued the result of the board of trustees meeting with the partners at the gathering room of the State House of Assembly on Thursday.

He said since Chevron authorities at the gathering would not talk on the issue within the sight of columnists, it ought to send qualified agents that could talk before writers on the issue on Tuesday.

Oleyelogun likewise guided the organization to put off the furious discharge at the oil field before the following gathering.

The Speaker said the state legislators would be constrained to make an intense move against the organization, in the event that it neglects to show up before the house.

As per him, the organization ought to likewise guarantee that it put off the flame, which had dirtied the wellsprings of water and the conditions in Ilaje territories of the state.

“Carelessness of Chevron prompted the flame episode and llaje individuals are being bamboozled.

“l emphatically censured the administration of Chevron for not doing the needful to think about the lives and property influenced because of the flame occurrence at Ojumole Oil Well.

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The Senate, yesterday, called on state Houses of Assembly yet to consider and pass their concurrence to a bill geared towards granting full autonomy to local governments, to do so before the expiration of the current National Assembly.

This is coming barely 48 hours after the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) issued a new financial guideline on the operations of the local government accounts expected to take effect on June 1.

In a motion sponsored by Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, the Senate said it is alarmed at the continuous pillage of cash allocated to local councils across the states through the State Joint Local Government Accounts.

Senate backed the NFIU guidelines limiting cash transactions in the accounts of local governments to a daily maximum of N500,000.

It called on the 36 state governments and the FCT, to fully support the implementation of the new NFIU guidelines to promote good governance at the local government areas and restore governance at the grassroots levels.

However, the position of the Senate that financial institutions should support the implementation of the new guidelines, contravenes Section 162(6&7) of the 1999 Constitution, as amended, deputy president of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu told his colleagues.

Section 162(6&7) states that “Each State shall maintain a special account to be called “State Joint Local Government Account” into which shall be paid all allocations to the local government councils of the State from the Federation Account and from the Government of the State;

“Each State shall pay to local government councils in its area of jurisdiction such proportion of its total revenue on such terms and in such manner as may be prescribed by the National Assembly.”

Ekweremadu warned that if any section of the constitution is flouted, governors may challenge the move in court. He said the best option was to amend the various sections of the constitution to grant full autonomy to local governments.

He said: “Today, we have lying in all the states, the National Assembly Bill on the reform of the local government system, which was part of the last efforts by this National Assembly to amend the constitution. Now some states have been sitting on it.

“So, I want to use this opportunity to appeal to those states where the bill is still hanging to allow the state Assemblies look into those bills and take a decision one way or the other. If we are able to do that, it will be one of the best legacies this Assembly would give to Nigerians.

“The issue of the management of allocations of the states, federal, and local governments is all set out in Section 162 of the Constitution. As a responsible parliament, I want to suggest that it is better for our relevant Committees to liaise with the NFIU to ensure that whatever guidelines they are coming up with do not clash with the Constitution.

“I remember that many years ago, when the Federal Government started saving money through the Excess Crude Accounts, governors went to court to challenge it. So, I envisage a situation where the governors could go to challenge the NFIU guidelines and I suggest that our relevant committees sit down with the NFIU to ensure that whatever guidelines they come up with that we do not engage ourselves in unnecessary litigations.

“The other issue is the limiting of withdrawals by local governments to N500,000 a day. This might work in my local government and some other rural local governments. But in a place like Lagos and Abuja, it is going to be absolutely impossible because what they do everyday is enormous.

“So, that is another area the Committee might need to sit down with the NFIU to find out the appropriate amount that will be able to support the Local Government operations in a day, especially the urban local governments.”

Many former governors, cum senators, who supported the motion, said the reforms were overdue and would help free up funds for the development of local governments.

Senate President, Bukola Saraki urged the standing committees on Anti-Corruption and Financial Crimes; State and Local Governments, to follow up and ensure that positions reached by the Senate are adhered to.

He said the local governments, as currently constituted, cannot deliver dividends of democracy to the people as long as state governors were in charge of the funds.

Meanwhile, the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) has has hailed the NFIU guidelines on N500,000 daily cash withdrawal limit.

NULGE National President, Khaleel Ibrahim thanked the Federal Government and pledged to work for the success of the guidelines.

“We will train our members across the length and breath of the country to keep an eagle eye on the operations of the funds going to local government councils henceforth to ensure that the abuse which has been perpetuated in the past are stopped for good,” he stated.

He added that with the introduction of the guidelines, corruption at the grassroots level of government will be drastically reduced and development will be accelerated.

He called on political parties to put forward credible and capable Nigerians to run for political offices at local government levels, where they can deploy their talents to run effective administration.

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Since the N30,000 new minimum wage was recently signed into law, there have been debates on how beneficial it is to the workers and the Nigerian economy. While some argued that though it is a laudable step towards worker’s welfare, it is still not enough, others tried to see how it could cause inflation or not.

According to Picodi, minimum wage is not peculiar to Nigeria, it is practiced and updated in several countries across the world. Picodi, in a recent analysis tries to see how enough is the new Nigerian minimum wage in getting basic nutritional needs for workers using the prices of eight universal food groups.

After the analysis, the result showed that eating a nutritional food takes more than half of the new minimum wage, and that the country fared badly in the purchasing power of its minimum pay when compared to other countries. Also, it said that for a basket filled with basic items like bread, milk, rice, eggs, cheese, meat, and vegetable, one will have to pay around N31,536.

Read more: https://gistok.ng/nigerians-debates-on-30000-new-minimum-wage-and-its-beneficial/

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the July 14, 2018 governorship election in Ekiti State, Professor Kolapo Olusola, has served Governor Kayode Fayemi the Notice of Appeal, Records of Appeal and the Appellate brief of argument through substituted means at the state Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The service followed the Interim Order of service granted the appellant by the Supreme Court on Monday, May 6, a copy of which was obtained by GISTOK in Ado Ekiti.

The order granted by Justice Olabode Rhodes – Vivour was that the processes could be served on any APC State officials or pasted on the wall of the APC Secretariat situated at 156, Ajilosun Street, Ado Ekiti.

It would be recalled that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared the candidate of the APC Fayemi as the winner of the governorship election.

The Election Petition Tribunal in its judgment on the 28, January 2019 ruled in favour of the APC candidate, Dr Fayemi by dismissing the petition of PDP candidate as lacking in merit.

https://dailypost.ng/2019/05/07/ekiti-guber-pdp-candidate-kolapo-serves-fayemi-notice-appeal-supreme-court-substituted-means/amp/

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Ademola Adeleke, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2018 governorship election in Osun State has been detained by the Nigeria Police.

This was disclosed in a statement on Monday, by his campaign organisation.

Adeleke was arrested after he had honoured an invitation by the police.

The statement read: “We alert the public, diplomatic and democracy community worldwide that the Nigerian Police has arrested and detained Senator Ademola Adeleke on old trumped up charges of certificate and testimonial forgery.

“This is after the school principal and school authority have through affidavits denied any forgery and owned up to the school testimonial issued to Senator Adeleke.

Senator Adeleke had this morning honoured police invitation at the force headquarters, Abuja. He arrived at the force headquarters at 9am and was not attended to until later this afternoon when he was informed of fresh charges of testimonial forgery.

“The distinguished Senator was taken to Maitama Police station with plan to arraign him tomorrow at an undisclosed Magistrate court.”

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The absence of Justice Yusuf Halilu of an FCT High Court, Maitama, on Monday, stalled the trials of Senator Dino Melaye and an alleged husband killer, Maryam Sanda, on Monday.

The judge was absent due to his official engagement on election tribunal duty in Ogun State, NAN reports.

The senator representing Kogi West in the Senate was on Jan. 22 arraigned by the Inspector-General on Police before Halilu .

He was arraigned on eight-count charge bordering on alleged conspiracy, resistance to arrest, failure to honour police invitation and intentionally giving false information to the public.

The police had alleged that the senator conspired with one Silas Omenka on December 28, 2018 to commit an offence of illegal obstruction to lawful arrest, thereby committing an offence contrary to Section 97 of the Penal Code.

He was also alleged to have intentionally tweeted, with the intention of inciting the public against the police.

The Police alleged that Melaye tweeted that the Inspector-General of Police planned to arrest and inject him to death, which was false. This, the police said was an offence punishable under Section 416 of the Penal Code.

The senator had, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges preferred against him by the police.

In the other case, Halilu on April 4, ruling on a no-case submission filed by Sanda and her co-defendants: discharged Maryam’s mother, Maimuna Aliyu; brother, Aliyu Sanda and housemaid, Sadiya Aminu.

They were charged with concealment of evidence by cleaning the blood of the late Bilyaminu from the scene of the crime.

Read more: https://gistok.ng/what-happened-in-court-on-monday-dino-melaye/

Some shooters suspected to be hijackers have abducted Professor Olayinka Oladiran Adegbehingbe of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State.

Our journalist assembled that the Professor of Orthopedic Surgery in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology was seized on Sunday night while going from Lagos to Ile-Ife.

Security sources said the teacher was snatched in his vehicle in the organization with his better half among Ajesire and Ikire towns.

An observer additionally said that the criminals halted their vehicle, picked the teacher and set out toward an obscure goal.

OAU PRO, Biodun Olanrewaju, told our journalist: “It is valid, yet we haven’t heard anything from the criminals yet.
“Be that as it may, we have in contact with the police. We value their endeavors up until now.”

The PPRO, Osun State police order, Folasade Odoro, additionally affirmed the occurrence: “We are exploring. We will ensure that he returns safely.”

read more: https://gistok.ng/oau-traumatology-professor-was-kidnap-on-way-from-lagos/

The Abuja division of the Federal High Court has started moves to stop the arrangement of Justice Ibrahim Tanko Mohammed as the substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN).
As of now, Justice Inyang Ekwo has requested the National Judicial Council (NJC), Federal government, the Senate and four others to show up before him on May 13, 2019, to indicate cause why the request would not be allowed.

The request was a spin-off of a suit by the Board of Incorporated Trustees of Malcolm Omirhobo Foundation requesting that the court make a request controlling President Muhammadu Buhari from delegating Justice Ibrahim Muhammad as the CJN.

In an ex parte movement recorded on April 15, 2019, the offended party requested that the court stop Justice Muhammad’s arrangement as CJN, pending the meeting and assurance of the movement on notice documented by the establishment.

The offended party additionally requested a request of a break directive controlling the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (seventh respondent) from affirming the arrangement of Justice Muhammad as CJN pending the assurance of the substantive suit testing his mechanism.

In the wake of perusing the oath in help of the ex parte movement promised to by Chief Malcolm Emokiniovo Omirhobo, a legal advisor, Justice Ekwo then arranged that: “None of the petitions made on this movement ex parte can be allowed without the litigants.”

Equity Ekwo then arranged the National Judicial Council (NJC), Federal Judicial Service Commission, Justice Muhammad, Federal government, President Buhari, Attorney General of the Federation and the Senate, who are the seven litigants in the movement to be put on notice.


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Legitimate illuminator, Femi Falana, attorney, has derided the situation of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on the nationality of Atiku Abubakar, Nigeria’s former VP.

He talked at the end of the week amid a press opportunity gathering sorted out by the Premium Times Center for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ). Atiku and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are testing Buhari’s re-appointment at the council.

In April, the APC told the presidential Tribunal that Abubakar was a Cameroonian and not a Nigerian.
Against this setting, the decision party demanded that the Wazirin Adamawa was not met all requirements to challenge for the only final presidential race. The previous Vice President was conceived in Jada in 1946, in present-day Adamawa state.

Responding to the APC contention, Falana said it was a prosecution on them for demanding Abubakar is initially from Cameroon.

As indicated by him, the gathering had conceded that the individuals who cast a ballot in his ward, including for President Muhammadu Buhari, are Cameroonians too.

“On the off chance that Atiku is a now Cameroonian, doesn’t that recommend that the individuals who voted in favor of President Buhari in his ward for the applicant are Cameroonian natives as well?” he inquired.

The senior attorney likewise denounced the killings in different pieces of the nation, including that they are indications of rebellion.

He stated: “What the nation is presently seeing as far as expanding savagery, banditry and revolt is an indication of rebellion.

read more: https://gistok.ng/atikus-nationality-falana-fire-apc/

Wike ultimatum to reopen NDDC office for seven-day
Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has been issued a seven-day ultimatum by irate Niger Delta youths to reopen the Niger Delta Development Commission office along Aba Road, in Port Harcourt.

The youths drawn from the nine states of the oil-rich region demanded that Governor Wike should reopen the Commission’s office within the period of the ultimatum or face stiff and sustainable protests.

The angry youths spoke under the aegis of the Consolidated Youths of Niger Delta, CYN, led by its National Coordinator, Comrade Frank Naday. Naday addressed journalists after their emergency meeting in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom state capital on Thursday.

He said that the office was sealed about a week ago by the government of Rivers state over no remittances of revenues. “From our findings and the information made available to us, it is clear that the Commission has paid the backlogs of revenues it owes the Rivers State Government.

“We want to ask Rivers State Government to as a matter of urgency, unseal the Commission’s office complex to enable workers to gain access to their various offices. “Niger Delta Development Commission is bigger than Rivers State because it covers the Niger Delta region and not Rivers alone.

” We are aware that Rivers State Government is trying so hard to play Politics with the Commission because the system feels threatened that Prof Nelson Brambaifa-led administration at NDDC is doing tremendously well.

read more: https://gistok.ng/gov-wike-ultimatum-to-reopen-nddc-office-for-seven-day/

The Bauchi State Governor-choose, Sen. Bala Mohammed, has said his triumph at the only final governorship decision in the state was not because of the impact of guardians; yet the help and votes of individuals state.

He commented yesterday when he initiated his lawful group headed by Chris Uche (SAN), with more than 50 senior legal advisors that would guard him at the court. The senator chooses stated, “I didn’t have the government may, I didn’t have the cash, I didn’t have guardians however I have great individuals of Bauchi, and I won it. “To a few, it is a supernatural occurrence; however to me, I realize that God can do anything.

We are prepared to experience the procedure (cases). I realize that just God figures out who goes to the administration house; Bauchi individuals have spoken and I welcome the help they gave me,” he said. He asked the pioneer of the lawful group to utilize his abundance of experience as a Senior Advocate of Nigeria to safeguard the command given to him by the general population of Bauchi State.

Read more: https://gistok.ng/bala-mohammed-reveal-how-him-became-bauchi-governor-elect-without-godfathers-federal-might/

The Imo state senator, Rochas Okorocha, said that the independent national constituent commission could not pull back its arrival endorsement. Okorocha was the competitor of all progressives Congress in the February 23 Imo West senatorial decision. In his request to INEC on Tuesday.

Okorocha said he was disturbed that the office had chosen to pull back its arrival authentication after it was reported as the victor of the races. In any case, INEC expressed that the assertion was made under pressure. The appeal entitled “Staying away from maltreatment of office and the political defilement of my political rivals with the dynamic cooperation of the INEC initiative in clear infringement of the law” was routed to the executive of the commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu.

The senator said that following the laws overseeing the races in the nation, the INEC reserved no option to issue an arrival testament. He included that if there were issues with a race after the declaration of a champ, the Petitions Tribunal would comprehend them.

Okorocha stated, “Segment 285(1) of the 1999 Constitution expresses that ‘There will be set up for the Federation at least one race councils to be known as the National Assembly Elections Tribunal which will, to the avoidance of any court or court, have unique purview to hear and decide petitions with respect to whether (an) any individual has been truly chosen as an individual from the National Assembly.’

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President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday repeated that no piece of the nation, paying little respect to its land area or political inclining, would endure disregard amid his organization.

Buhari unveiled this at the introduction and giving over of Erosion/Flood Control and Road Improvement ventures at the Federal University Dutse, Jigawa.

The President, who was spoken to by the Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Danbazau, said that the task was one of the biological intercession programs affirmed for the first quarter of 2018. He included that it was endorsed by the Federal Executive Council on August 8, 2018, with a finish time of a half year. “It was finished in March 2019.

The venture is required to check flooding danger inside the college grounds,” he said. The President said that the finish of the venture has likewise underscored the Federal Government’s coordinated exertion and genuineness of direction in handling fundamental issues in the nation.

“The present venture initiation and giving over must be recognized as it will offer the network a chance to take responsibility for the task to guarantee its consideration, upkeep, and solidness. “I, in this manner, approach the profiting network to see the ventures as yours, desirously protect it and avert dumping of reject in the built seepage channels,” he said.

In her comments, the Vice-Chancellor of the college, Prof. Fatima Batul-Muktar, said that arrangement of foundation, for example, streets and seepage organize was fundamental to the advancement of tertiary establishments. “Government University Dutse has had the issue of street and wastes inside its perpetual site since foundation in 2011. “Development of people on foot and drivers inside the changeless site which establishes 90% land zone of the college was a bad dream, particularly amid blustery season.

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A Dutch court on Wednesday decided for four Nigerian ladies in the suit against Shell. Esther Kiobel, Victoria Bera, Blessing Eawo and Charity Levula sued Shell for its supposed job in the capture, confinement, and execution of their spouses by the military in 1995 amid the Sani Abacha routine.

Imprint Dummett, Amnesty International’s Head of Business and Human Rights, declared the triumph in an announcement on Wednesday. It read:

“The District Court of The Hague today issued a between time managing for the situation brought by Esther Kiobel and three other ladies as to Shell’s association in the unlawful capture, confinement, and execution of their spouses by the Nigerian military.

It decided for the offended parties that the court has locale of the case and this ought not to be time banned. “Shell reports falling benefit in oil value droop The court additionally decided that Shell should hand over some detailed interior reports to the offended parties’ legal counselors and that they would have the chance to analyze observers.

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The chair of the Senate Navy Committee, Senator Isah Hamma Misau, said that her colleague, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege of Delta Central, had abused the judicial process and the generosity of Senate leaders with some of her actions. seeking to demolish the institution to which he belongs.

Senator Misau, in a statement he personally signed and made available to DIAL POST on Tuesday, reacted to Omo-Agege’s injunction obtained yesterday from a high court in Bwari-Abuja, limiting the functions of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Representatives of the review report of an ad hoc committee established by both chambers to investigate the invasion of the Senate Chamber by thugs who took the club.

The club is the symbol of the authority of parliament. Misau noticed that the Omo-Agege suit was frivolous. The statement added: “The court can not prevent the legislator from fulfilling its constitutional obligations.” Thugs attacked the Senate Chamber on live television during the plenary session and inflicted injuries on April 18, 2018.

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Youth from the 21 local government areas of the state have donated N2million for the purchase of the Governor’s expression of interest. Governor Bello acknowledged that the gesture was the first of its kind in the political history of the state.

The local government areas of the state have donated the sum of two million naira for the purchase of the form of expression of interest of the governor. Reacting to the gesture, the governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, said that the best potential of the state can only be realized when they unite in unity independently of their ethnic and religious inclination.

He made the statement on Monday, April 29, in Lokoja when the leadership of the Forum of Coordinators of the National Council of Youth of Nigeria (NYCN) made the donation. Governor Bello was represented by his Chief of Staff, Hon Edward Onoja, who said that despite deliberate efforts to discourage the youth corps, the leadership went ahead with its plans and said it was a sign of its genuine commitment to reciprocate. the recognition that the government had granted them.

While thanking the young people for the enormous sacrifice made through the donation, the governor said that such sacrifice was attractive, since it showed his concern and love for the programs of the present administration.

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The Democratic People’s Party (PDP) said three recent incidents have shown that All Progressive Congress All, APC, will never change its style of government, which would have put Nigeria on its knees.

The party launched the appeal yesterday as part of President Muhammadu Buhari’s 10-day “private trip” to the United Kingdom without official communication to the National Assembly.

PDP’s deputy secretary of publicity, Diran Odeyemi, called in a statement to a coalition of political parties in Nigeria to “save” the country from the ruling PCA.

Mr. Odeyemi said that Buhari’s visit without officially informing the National Assembly had gone beyond the limits of the government’s legislative arm, calling it “a serious violation of the Constitution”.

He also said that President Buhari and the APC were “determined to impose on the National Assembly the power to annex this branch of government, to impose a docile directive on parliamentarians and to prosecute the illegality that characterized the current administration since its formation “.

He wondered why a party that did not justify his mandate would talk about the presidency in 2023. He urged Nigerians to join the PDP to stop APC and redirect the country’s ship to a safe port.


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The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Solomon Dalung, says sports is the best performing ministry in the country under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Dalung said this on Tuesday in his office in Abuja, while receiving athletes and officials of the Nigeria Wrestling Federation (NWF), and the Nigeria Rowing, Canoeing and Sailing Federation, who did the country proud at various international competitions.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the NWF participated in an African Championship in Tunisia, winning six gold, two silver and five bronze medals, while the canoeing athletes won one gold and three bronze medals at the Canoe Sprint Championship held in India.

Dalung said that the level of achievements and laurels won by the country’s athletes in the last three years were indications that funds allocated to sports were prudently utilised.

The minister noted that President Buhari had at different occasions personally expressed his satisfaction with the ministry. “Wrestling is proving to be one of Nigeria’s strongest sports both at the continental and global levels.

“Whether it is at the continental or global level, Nigerian wrestlers have distinguished themselves as a force to reckon with, thus giving the sport an enviable place of pride and elevating the country’s image as a top wrestling nation.

“At the continental level, the Nigeria wrestling team placed first in Africa on the overall medals table during the 2015 Africa Games held in Congo Brazzaville.

“Similarly, the Federation dominated other African countries, particularly in women wrestling, where they won the title as African Champion at the 2018 Africa Championships which Nigeria hosted for the first time.

“Furthermore, when our female wrestlers participated at the two-ranking series events, in Germany and Bulgaria in February and March 2019, their performances created avenue for our star athlete, Adekuoroye Odunayo to be ranked fourth in the World and first ‘in Africa.

“This success, apart from writing a chapter in the annals of Nigeria Wrestling Federation history, is more importantly an indicator of the possibility of an Olympic medal in Tokyo 2020,” Dalung said.

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The Electoral Tribunal in the state of Kano eliminated a new request from the governor of the Popular Democratic Party (PDP), Abba Kabiru Yusuf, to extend the inspection of the electoral materials.

Abba’s lawyer, Bashir Yusuf Mohammed, filed the petition in an affidavit of 13 paragraphs requesting an ex parte order extending the inspection of the electoral materials 20 days after the court ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to allow the opposing party access the documents. they.

Although the PDP had exhausted the privileges of a federal higher court, which granted 14 days for the expiration of an ex parte order and seven days, as applicable to the Kano State Superior Court, the lawyers of PDP Bashir stated that there was not enough time to obtain all the required information. .

He regretted, however, that PDP obtained the required documents from 13 of the 44 local governments, while accusing the first and second respondents of failing in the exercise.

The lawyer of Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje and the head of the legal research team of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Musa Abdullahi Lawan, opposed the PDP’s allegation.

He insisted that the opposition party had exhausted the deadlines to examine the electoral materials.

Lawan stated that APC was willing to defend all the demands of the courts in the interests of justice and to satisfy them.

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Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has restored normal bulk transmission of electricity to its Apo transmission substation after fire destroyed one of its 45MVA 132/33kV power transformers on Sunday.

The burnt 45MVA 132/33kv power transformer feeds electricity to Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) 33kV feeders.

Mrs Ndidi Mbah TCN’s General Manager Public Affairs in a statement on Monday said the fire was put off by the combined efforts of the Federal, FCT and NNPC fire service.

She, however, said it was still early for TCN to determine if the burnt transformer could be salvaged.

Mbah said that the fire resulted from a direct fault from one of AEDC’s 33kV feeders which had a history of incessant tripping, noting that the 33kV lacked protection.

She said TCN was equally investigating possibility of transformer protection failure on its 45MVA power transformer.

“The 33kV feeder H13 circuit breaker and current transformer exploded while the 33kV outgoing transformer snapped causing the fire.’’

She, however, said the Apo transmission substation has N-I redundancy and as such, power supply to all the areas that take supply from the substation through AEDC would not be affected by the incident.

“This is because the maximum load taken by AEDC from the burnt 45MVA transformer was 26MW, meanwhile maximum load AEDC takes from the old 100MVA in the substation is 56.5MW.

“But maximum load from the second 100MVA power transformer installed last year is 30.8MW,both however, can take at full capacity, a total of 160MW against the 86.5MW.’’

She said TCN was presently transmitting normal supply through the 2x100MVA 330/132kV and the second 45MVA 132/33kv power transformers in the substation.

According to her, the company had equally loaded the 26MW from the burnt transformer into the 100MVA MBH transformer at the substation and is adequately supplying AEDC without load reduction.

Mbah said TCN was working with AEDC to ensure that it now takes the load through the MBH 100MVA transformer instead of the burnt transformer.

She apologised for the inconveniences caused electricity consumers in the affected areas, and noted that issue of protection of equipment should be taken seriously.


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The Group Managing Director of the Corporation, Maikanti Baru, made the statement at a convocation lecture of the Federal University Of Petroleum Resources, Effurun In Delta State.

The evolving oil and gas industry remains critical to Nigeria’s economic growth but what the country may have failed to utilize effectively for success in the oil industry is its vast human resource.

Baru shares in this sentiment and believes that the petroleum university in Effurun is better positioned to bridge the gap for sustainable economic growth and development.

Since Nigeria is not planning to remain as a crude oil exporter, the country needs to key into global competitiveness to achieve this.

Nigeria’s education system must be tailored to technical needs in the oil industry with graduates who can apply the knowledge to solve many of Nigeria’s energy challenges.

Universities all over the world are known for contributing vital resources to development. At the moment, unemployment and underemployment are put at 43.3% in Nigeria and with graduate being churned out of the universities on a regular basis. The NNPC says it is ready to work with the federal petroleum resources university and other universities, which can develop relevant researches to boost efficiency in the oil and gas sector.

source: https://gistok.ng/nnpcs-baru-seeks-better-synergy-between-academia-and-oil-industry-to-drive-development/

The Lamido of Adamawa, Alhaji Muhammad Barkindo has given reasons God allowed President Muhammadu Buhari’s reelection.

Barkindo said that Buhari’s reelection was an act of God that would enable the President complete the anti-corruption war he started when he was the country’s military leader.

The monarch spoke on Sunday when he received members of Wadata Communication Nigeria Ltd, led by the company’s Project Manager, Alhaji Zubair Idris in his palace.

”President Muhammadu Buhari’s re- election is a will of Almighty God that will enable him complete the good works he started when he was a military ruler, especially the fight against corruption.

”I hope Nigerians will understand the good intention he has for the country, ” Lamido said.

The Royal Father narrated how he, who was then the Commissioner of Finance in Gov. Barde’s administration, was arrested after the 1983 military coup.

”After my arrest and investigation, they found out that I had not stolen any money and was not involved in any corrupt practices, as such, I was released.

“I want President Muhammadu Buhari to continue with the fight against corruption and may Almighty God guide and protect him,” he said.

According to the traditional ruler, any person that has never engaged in shoddy economic deals should have nothing to fear.'

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