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A few occupants of Eti-Osa in Lagos State on Saturday encouraged Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu to address enduring instances of flood in the zone, to empower them to lay down with their eyes shut in the blustery season. The occupants talked with newscasters in private meetings at a gathering sorted out by Mr. Gbolahan Yishawu, part speaking to Eti-Osa Constituency II at the Lagos State House of Assembly.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the occasion, held at Giwa Military Barracks, was composed by Yishawu to thank his constituents for giving him triumph in the 2019 general decision. The gathering went ahead of the impact points of the introduction of the ninth Lagos State House of Assembly. Mr. Wasiu Buhari, one of the inhabitants, said that the state government had been attempting its best, yet more ought to be done to end flooding. As per him, the issue of flood has been influencing a ton of occupants and business exercises in the region.

The inhabitant, who praised Yishawu for excellent portrayal and strengthening, encouraged Sanwo-Olu to likewise concentrate on the street foundation. Mr. Olusegun Adeyemi, another occupant, portrayed flooding as an enduring issue in the region, supporting the administration to increase endeavors at guaranteeing free progression of channels. "Lagos is beneath ocean level, yet Gov. Sanwo-Olu can give palliative measures to control the flooding.

Whenever it rains, our hearts are up," he said. As indicated by him, a large number of the inhabitants additionally add to the repetitive flooding, and like this, there is the need to reorientate the general population about exercises prompting blockage of channels.Mr. Ibrahim Abdullahi, another occupant, said:" Our test here is flooding, and indiscriminate dumping of denying has irritated it. "We need the administration to enable us to end flooding in Eti-Osa region. It is influencing us." Abdullahi, who likewise denounced the absence of consumable water, lauded Yishawu for his intercessions.

Mrs. Felicia Jayeoba, who won a more relaxed in the administrator's strengthening program, said that the state government must undertake to discover an enduring answer for the issue of flooding. "Our concern is flooding. Help us tell our representative, Sanwo-Olu, to address this. They should advise the general population to quit dumping decline in channels," Jaiyeoba said. Addressing reporters, Yishawu said it was occupant on him to have and thank the general population for re-choosing him for a moment term.

On different endowments circulated to exactly 250 inhabitants, the legislator said it was an approach to state thank you and cheer with them. On the grumblings about flooding by occupants, Yishawu noted the legislature had been attempting its best to address the issue and would proceed. He, in any case, noticed that the state is underneath ocean level. "Flooding is a lasting issue.

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The pioneering director of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nigeria's enemy of join office, Nuhu Ribadu, says Nigeria can handle defilement successfully if the billions of naira being spent as security cast a ballot in the nation are checked, and the equity division changed. GISTOK reports that Ribadu commented on a conference address at the Federal University Dustin-Ma, Katsina state, northern Nigeria on Friday, June 14.

As indicated by him, "there would just be constrained or no accomplishment in the counter debasement crusade if the equity framework isn't appropriately disinfected to bear that significant obligation.

Each person inside the chain of the equity division should be above board, the individuals who can't maintain the fundamental precepts of honesty required for such employment ought to be pushed aside.

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A heavy downpour on Wednesday night in Aba, the commercial hub of Abia, has left many homes, shops and markets submerged by flood. News Agency of Nigeria learnt that goods estimated at over N15 million were also destroyed by the flood. At Ahia Ohuru (New Market), over 25 shops on Lines 10, 16, 20, 43, 44 and 47 were all submerged.

Mr Obinna Ogugua, a trader in the market, was said to have lost 32 bales of clothes, worth about N2.9 million. The unfortunate development also rendered scores of residents of the area homeless. A resident, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told NAN that he lost all his household items to the flood.

He said that it took the intervention of neighbours to save some children, especially those whose parents were away during the downpour, from being swept away by flood. Mr Okechukwu Egechi, a landlord in the area, said in an interview with NAN that Wednesday’s  experience was not new to them. Egechi, however, said that the extent of flood and resultant damage of property was significantly higher than similar incidents in the recent past.

He said that he was away when the rain started, but regretted that it was difficult for him to access his house when he returned at end of the rain due to the heavy flood. He said: “We have been complaining about the poor drainage in this area for many years, but nobody listened to us. “It is so bad that we have people representing us at the state and federal levels but they do not know anout the perennial flooding facing us.

” Egechi, who claimed that he lost all his property to the flood, also said that he nearly lost his 13-year-old daughter to the flood. “As I was told, she was the last to leave the house and suddenly fell into the flood but was rescued by neighbours,” he said. Mr Oriaku Chisom, a Senior Pastor at the Garden of Life Ministries, situated at No. 6 Ahuronye Street, said that flooding had become a perennial problem in the area. Chisom said: “The situation is not new. It has become an annual incident and usually takes residents unawares.

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Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, former Minister of Science and Technology, has appealed to Government of Japan to strengthen collaboration with Federal Government on Science, Technology and Innovation (STI). Onu made the call on Thursday in Abuja at his home when he received a delegation, led by the special envoy of the Prime Minister of Japan, Mr Shunsuke Takei.

The delegation was officially sent from Japan to witness the June 12 Democracy Day celebrations in Nigeria. The former minister said Japan had advanced in many innovative activities which Nigeria could benefit a lot from. He said “I commend your great nation. Japan is a strong, determined and hard-working nation in terms of innovations.

Japan was one-time the second largest economy in the world. “`We in Nigeria are working toward moving from resource-based economy to innovation-driven economy. This, I think will make us to have more things to do together.” Takei commended the former minister for his efforts toward promoting STI in Nigeria.

He promised that Japan would further uphold its collaboration with Nigeria for mutual benefits. He added that “this is my second visit to Nigeria. My first was on trade mission, while this second visit is to witness the first June 12 Democracy Day celebration. “Yesterday, I had a brief with Nigerian businessmen on international maters,” the Japanese envoy said.

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Abuja, June 13 2019 Permanent Secretary, State House, Jalal Arabi, has urged members of the public to ignore notices of recruitment at State House Clinic currently making the rounds on the internet. Arabi stated this in a statement by Mr Attah Esa, Deputy Director, Information, State House media unit, in Abuja on Thursday.

The Permanent Secretary advised the public to be more circumspect and wary of such notices that were designed by mischief makers to deceive and extort unsuspecting job seekers. Arabi assured that the sponsors of the publication would be investigated and prosecuted.

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Adebayo Salami, Kanran, Ijaduade mourn late veteran actor, `Dagunro’   Adebayo Salami, popularly known as `Oga Bello’ and other Nollywood actors, on Thursday mourned the late veteran actor, Fasasi Olabanke, a.ka.  `Dagunro’in Yoruba movies.   The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Dagunro died in the early hours of Thursday, June 13, after battling an undisclosed ailment in the last few years.   

The Osogbo-born actor was known for his outstanding roles in several epic Yoruba movies.   Salami also known as `Oga Bello’ said that Dagunro’s death came as a rude shock to him, describing him as a humble, accommodating and a kind man.   He said that the movie industry would not forget Dagunro in a hurry, bearing in mind his remarkable contributions to the development of the Yoruba movie industry.  

“Dagunro’s demise is a rude shock to me; he was such a kind, hard-working, accommodating and a humble man.   “He has left lasting legacies which I know we; in the industry and his fans, will not forget in a hurry.   “He has lots of `children’ whom he trained in the industry, I know they will continue with his good works,” he said.   Also, Segun Akiremi, popular known as `Kanran’ said that the late Dagunro would be greatly missed, having contributed to the growth of Yoruba epic movie productions which was his favourite.  

He described the late actor as an easy-going individual, greatly committed to his profession and hated cheating.   According to him, Dagunro loved to portray the undiluted Yoruba culture in virtually all his plays as he was well grounded in it.   “This is a sad news for me, he is such a hard-working man and a professional; we will all miss him.  

“He embraced the epic Yoruba movie production with the originators: Duro Ladipo and Ayanfemi Philips; he loved to portray our culture without adulteration.   “I pray that God consoles the family he left behind and rests his soul in peace,” he said.   Waheed Ijaduade told NAN that Dagunro was a good scriptwriter and great actor who could not be compared with other actors.  

He added that he had a vast knowledge of the Yoruba culture which was glaring in all his plays and he took pleasure in flaunting his culture.   “His death is a great loss to us in the movie industry, May his soul rest in peace.   “We will miss him acting as a herbalist, warrior, kinsman, elder and all because he was used to interpreting his roles properly.

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Barr Olatubosun Oladele and other members of the Economic Community of West Africa States, ECOWAS, parliamentare currently attending the African Union Summit on the popularization of the protocol on free movement of trade and persons within Africa at Nairobi, Kenya.

Bosun Oladele and other ECOWAS Parliament representatives at the summit opening session Oladele, a former commissioner for information in Oyo State, became a member of the ECOWAS parliament in 2015 when he was elected to represent Irepo/Olorunsogo/Oorelope federal constituency in the House of Representatives. The Eastern African parliamentary reps, AU officials and ECOWAS parliament representatives in group picture at the opening

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A previous Minister of Education, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, on Wednesday, said there was a requirement for developing of the nation's majority rules system, to fill in as an impetus for advancement. NAN reports that Ezekwesili accentuated on the need while talking at an address on June 12 at home recently MKO Abiola in Ikeja, Lagos State.

The previous priest said majority rule government ought to be about the general population just as their welfare. She, in any case, communicated laments that the nation's big government had not fared well to serve interests of the majority in the last 20years.

The previous World Bank official said for the nation to move in the way of advancement, there was a convincing need to start to do the correct things to develop a majority rule government. "Majority rules system, they state, ought to be an administration of the general population by the general population for the general population.

"In any case, have we had that in the previous 20 years? No. Majority rule government has worked for a couple and not the Nigerian individuals. "The rate of neediness has kept on expanding, and as of late, the nation was named the destitution capital of the world.

"On the off chance that vote based system must work for the general population in this nation, there is a convincing requirement for us to have an authority that mirrors the decision of the general population and that will react to their needs," she said. The previous pastor said exercises flourish for the nation's big government through the June 12, 1993, decisions.

She said the decision was a watershed in the nation's just history, as it was multi-day Nigerians talked with one voice to choose MKO Abiola as president. She depicted late Abiola as a man of the general population, saying the nation would advance with pioneers who thought about the majority.

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Boss Moshood Kashimawo Olawale (MKO) Abiola, first child and present leader of the all-encompassing Abiola family, Kola Abiola, has said his dad was a casualty of complex intrigue in his battle to win the June 12, 1993, presidential decision and recover his command after the outcomes were dropped.

Abiola in a meeting with The Sun uncovered jobs played by various people of impact previously, during and after the canceled 1993 decision. He stated, as opposed to broadly held convictions, Abiola never selected anyone into the routine of the late General Sani Abacha and clarified that a portion of his dad's previous partners who served the new tyrant had officially chosen to be a piece of his routine, and his dad couldn't stop them.

Talking on jobs Asiwaju Tinubu played during Abacha routine, Abiola said "At the earliest reference point, Tinunu was a piece of the Yar'Adua PF bunch from Jos. He was a representative at that point, and to the extent the gathering went, we related. The emergency began post-decision. At the point when Abacha came, something he needed to do was to be the chairman for Lagos.

"Tinubu was near my father. I am sure you have seen pictures of him and my father. He was trusting that there would be regular citizen directors like we had under IBB. However, Abacha said no, that he would have military overseers. So he (Tinubu) said OK, all things considered, would I be able to be an appointee director? In any case, Abacha told that there wouldn't be appointees. At that point, he needed the post of a chief.

"At that point, it was a decision among him and somebody exceptionally near Jakande, who has passed on now. I can't recollect his name, but since Babagana was at that point in the legislature, that person was picked as official. However, Senator Tinubu had missed out as of now.

"Tinubu was near MKO, he and Adeniyi Adele, a remarkable person, were near my dad. Adeniyi was nearer to my dad and more devoted to the procedure than anybody of them. At the point when my narrative turns out, you will see Tinubu's interpretation of issues. So once he missed out, naturally, he turned into a NADECO part, and Adeniyi was detained.

He further included that he managed Arthur Nzeribe and Late Oluwole Saraki in those days as they were a piece of governors bunch who went to court to stop intermission of decision. "Nzeribe wasn't a Governor however he and the late Olusola Saraki were a piece of the center of the governors' gathering.

"When they went to court and got that suspension to stop the race, I figured out how to get the data crosswise over through the framework that we would lose the race, and that was the way I truncated their turn to stop the race." On job Diya player, Abiola included, "I additionally talked with Diya for the narrative to allow him to express his very own side.

"At the point when Abacha passed on, and he was discharged from jail, I proceeded to invite him, and I revealed to him that it was great he experienced that procedure, in such a case that he had remained with Abacha till he kicked the bucket, he might not have been alive today.

Or on the other hand, he will most likely be unable to return toward the South West without being lynched. What's more, he took a gander at me and said he figured he could come in unobtrusively to Lagos yet that he was stunned at the gathering he got. "It was the detainment procedure that scrubbed Diya; however, God has a method for demonstrating his capacity. I said what I said from what I know."

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A human rights extremist, Femi Falana SAN, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari-drove central government to perceive different Nigerians who had an impact in the battle for the abrogated June 12, 1993, race.

Falana, who showed up as a visitor on a Channels TV program, on Wednesday, said the central government ought to go past giving national distinctions on Abiola and late dissident, Gani Fawehinmi, and "distinguish different legends of that battle from everywhere throughout the nation.

"This was not a NADECO and Afenifere undertaking (alone)," he included The legal advisor clarified how the June 12 race birthed the battle by common society associations in the nation. He said after the 1993 decision, Bashir Tofa, the applicant of the National Republican Convention (NRC), complimented MKO Abiola and would not yield to the weight of going to the court.

"The point has been made inexhaustibly clear, after that race, Bashir Tofa, the other applicant praised his rival, and that is what is done in any edified society; he was experiencing strain to go to the court, yet he said no. "From that minute, the bourgeois society came in; the dynamic worker's organizations came in and made the nation ungovernable for the tyrant.

"The excellence of the individuals who are originating from the cooperative society who have gotten themselves either in the office or the assembly is to guarantee that those standards are actualized and actualized in government.

"That is the reason June 12 is so critical." GISTOK reports that the central government authoritatively put aside June 12 as Democracy Day as a characteristic of respect to MKO Abiola, the acclaimed champ of June 12, 1993, presidential race.

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Governor Seyi Makinde has constituted that team of Oyo Advisory Council as part of its efforts aimed at enhancing effective governance in the state. GISTOK had report on Monday, the appointment of Senator Hosea Ayoola Agboola as Chairman of the Committee. In a statement confirming the appointment released by Chief Press Secretary to Governor Seyi Makinde, Taiwo Adisa, said the measure was also aimed at ensuring that the government tap from the wealth of experience of elders and opinion moulders in the state.

Other members of the committee include former Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Mulika Akande Adeola; Chief Jacob Adetoro and Barr. Sarafadeen Abiodun Alli. Also on the list are Chief Bolaji Ayorinde (SAN); Mr. Joseph Olaitan, Mni; Hon. Kamil Akinlabi; Senator Monsura Sunmonu; Chief Gboyega Laoye and Prof. Kolapo Hamzat.

According to the statement, the main objective of the council is to advise the government from time to time on policy implementation. The statement read: “The Council is to advise the Executive Governor and his cabinet from time to time on the implementation of developmental programmes and policies of the present administration.” The setting up of the Council is a veritable tool by the administration of Governor Seyi Makinde to have an all-inclusive government for a greater Oyo State.

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Concerned about the deteriorating security streak on the campus of Kogi State University, Anyigba, the state governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, has fired the institution's Chief Security Coordinator, Major M. M Adama (Rtd).

GISTOK reports that the school, in recent weeks, has been plagued by cases of cult clashes and other criminal activities. It was said that the governor was quite upset with the blatant way in which cult groups are now attacked, committing robberies and other crimes, and endangering innocent students and other members of the university and host communities.

In a statement issued by his press officer, Onogwu Muhammed, Governor Bello, who is also a visitor to the university, has approved that. Major M. M Adama (Rtd), who has served for more than a decade as Chief Security Coordinator of the institution, will be replaced immediately by Mr. Aurelius Yusuf Adejo.

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According to the statement, in the coming days, other security measures will be implemented to stop the situation and have the perpetrators make the reservations. GISTOK, however, realized that Mr. Adejoh is a retired Deputy Commissioner of Police, who is very familiar with the safety profile of the university city and its surroundings.

It is expected to build on the legacies of its predecessor while providing new ideas and approaches to defeat the danger that cultists and other criminals represent the school within the university community. The governor, according to the statement, was determined to make sure that at Kogi State University, Anyigba enjoys all the benefits of his reforms at the institution, especially a predictable academic calendar and better human and instructional resources.

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There was pandemonium on Sunday night until early Monday morning at Plateau State University, Bokkos, when the alleged pastors stormed the school premises and raped a 300-grade student, leaving her unconscious. GISTOK gathered that security agents, who came for ransom, also shot and killed a 100-level student, and his colleagues said he was fired while running in the subsequent melee.

The incident mentioned above provoked a violent protest on Monday morning when students blocked the main entrances to the institution and prohibited staff from entering the school. GISTOK met reliably with a student, who declined to be named, "I'm not staying on campus, but I live very close to the school." It was around 10 pm or 11 pm when the incident occurred, and I received a call that unknown people came, raped a student in the shelter and left her unconscious.

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"The members of the security of the school went to rescue the girl, and when they arrived, they asked the people to lie down, but the guy they killed did not go to bed, they fired him while he ran and they took him to the hospital where he was confirmed." dead. "The girl who was raped is a student of 300 levels of the Department of Economics, the one who was murdered was at level 100, Geography.

The student also explained that "this situation is unfortunate, we have been talking about the safety of students at school, but no effort has been made. "These people keep wandering around the school grounds with cows; it distracts us and dirties the environment, "he lamented. "Who is safe now?" He asked.

Meanwhile, the State Police Command, through its Public Relations Officer, the DSP Mathias Terna Tyopev, who confirmed the incident, said: "Around 11 p.m., unknown thugs now generally attacked the University State of Plateau, Bokkos. According to him, "As a result of the attack, a Sheni Kimati, a 25-year-old student from the Geography Department, was shot and it was later confirmed that a doctor killed him on duty at a rural hospital in Bokkos.

"There was also a protest organized by the students this morning that was on 06/10/2019 to take home their discontent over the incident. However, he said: "The area is now quiet after the interface of the Plateau Police Command with the students and the Administration of the University. The PPRO also said that efforts were being made to ensure that suspects were arrested.

Meanwhile, the institution's public relations officer, John Agam, said in a statement: "The rector of Plateau State University, professor of Bokkos, Yohana Izam, confirmed the unfortunate news of an attack on one of his hostels by alleged gang members on Sunday night. "The incident he said also left a 100-year-old Geography Student in the dead institution after suffering bullet wounds. "The vice chancellor regrets the disappearance of the young promising, particularly after a successful enrollment at the University last week on Friday.

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Professor Izam, on behalf of the university community and in particular the administration of the institution, is deeply moved by this act of man's inhumanity towards man and sincerely extends the deepest sympathy of the administration to the deceased parents and all the university community for this exciting development.

"Meanwhile, Professor Izam has called for calm and cooperation, especially among students, since the Security Committee of the University Campus in collaboration with the Special Working Group since then took action to review the situation in order to identify the perpetrators of the crime so that this Ugly can be cut permanently in the yolk, "he stressed.

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An Abuja-based music maker, Mr. Nasiru Ali, prominently known as "Kozzographa," on Sunday took steps to sue the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for wrongly considering him a fraudster (Yahoo kid).

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ali was among ten speculated web fraudsters strutted on May 17 by EFCC agents. The EFCC staff assaulted the speculate's home at Favor Land Estate, Life Camp, Abuja. As per the EFCC, they were captured following a tip-off by a mysterious source. The organization said that the suspects would be charged to court when examinations were finished up.

Be that as it may, Ali, in a request to the EFCC Acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, on May 31, requested a pay of N100 million and an open expression of remorse for capturing him wrongly and giving a critical data to people in general about him. The performer, through his legal counselor, Mr. Pelumi Olajengbensi, said that he would drag the EFCC to court for declining to withdraw the negative productions about him following a final seven-day proposal.

"He lost an agreement of five million nairas with United Global Resolve for Peace (UNGREP), which he had been met for and up to this point offered unequivocally because the temporary workers wound up bothered and worried by the distribution accordingly dicey of his notoriety. "He has been alienated by his partners and partners just as senior partners who more often than not allude to him for occupations before, subsequently losing their trust and reference.

"He has been besieged with a blast of calls from loved ones calling his notoriety to address while communicating their mistake and showing their expectation to cut all association with him immediately. "His association with his planned life accomplice has been unsalvageably stressed by the negative attention produced by the unlawful capture, especially the production on your media stage on the same issue.

"The production has prompted close customers taking their occupations off him and taking them to different people subsequently adding up to the incredible dimension of misfortune and at times fluctuating dimension of obligation," Ali's legal counselor expressed in the appeal to EFCC.

Ali additionally guaranteed in the request that his wellbeing and brain research had been influenced following the Gestapo way he was captured and struck by the commission agents. He said that the men that attacked his house were wearing dark without any methods for distinguishing them as officers of the EFCC.

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Central leader of Omega Fire Ministries, Apostle Johnson Suleman has depicted President Muhammadu Buhari's administration as the most noticeably awful government ever.

Witness Suleiman said this on Sunday in a post on his official Twitter page while bringing up alert over the hijack of seven of his congregation individuals by herders. The candid pastor, while mourning the spate of kidnappings, further assaulted Buhari for declining to restrict executioner herders.

As indicated by Apostle Suleman, "This year alone I have had seven close church individuals seized by herders. "As I talk now, three have quite recently been seized, and with their captors yet Buhari has would not restrict them, imagine a scenario where they were his kids. "God isn't sleeping, most exceedingly terrible govt ever."

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The Benue State section of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has documented a barrier in regard of its triumph in the finished up 2019 governorship decision in the state at the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Makurdi.

As indicated by the state attention secretary of the gathering, Bemgba Artyom, the resistance is the continuation of the request recorded by Mr. Emmanuel Jime and the All Progressives Congress (APC) testing the triumph of the Governor-choose, Samuel Ortom.

Jim, together with his gathering, the APC had documented an appeal at the court claiming anomalies in the surveys.

It was accumulated that Jim and APC had appealed to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Governor Samuel Ortom and PDP as the first, second and third respondents individually.

Recording the PDP safeguard yesterday at the council, guidance to the gathering, C.T. Mue, communicated positive thinking that the court will maintain his customer’s triumph at the race.

As indicated by the exposure secretary of the PDP, the senator choose’s legitimate safeguard group is going by Chris Uche, SAN, and incorporates Oba Maduabuchi, SAN, Emeka Okoro, Agbo Johnson Madaki, P.S. Abaagu, T.T. Hyundai, C.T. Mue, Nathans Gwebe, T.D. Sorkaa, and Raphael Gabriel Okplogidi.

Others in the group likewise incorporate John Tyokegh, T.T. Igba, M.L. Ianna, Chris Alechenu, M.T. Nyiutsa, Donald Ierkwagh, Mercy Tule, Owulo Omenka Owulo, I.S. Kajo, J.K. Ishember, J.I. Ioryina, C.A. Behe, Terwase Gbasha and S.A. Udaga, among a few others.

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday said its test of Senate President, Bukola Saraki will cover his exercises from 2003.

The office additionally denied that the examination began after Saraki was designated Ambassador-everywhere of the International Human Rights Commission (IHRC).

Tony Orilade, the EFCC representative, asked the general population to neglect the “false association” which the report looked to build up between Saraki’s ambassadorial arrangement and the test into his income when he was a state senator.

An announcement he marked read: “The consideration of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has been attracted to distribution and wishes to address the purposeful lie and deception it served the overall population.”

“For the evasion of uncertainty, an examination concerning the Senate President’s exercises while he held influence as the legislative head of Kwara State began well before his selection and rose as IHRC diplomat.

“Truth be told, the Commission’s letter to the Kwara State Government House which looked for an examination into Saraki’s profit as the state senator, from 2003 to 2011 was dated Friday, April 26, 2019, originating before his declaration as IHRC envoy everywhere which went ahead Sunday, April 28, 2019, with two crisp mornings.

“We, in this manner, ask individuals from the general population to ignore the false associate the author tried to build up between Saraki’s IHRC ambassadorial arrangement and our investigation into his profit as a state senator.

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The Nigeria Police has affirmed the capture of Senator Ademola Adeleke. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship applicant in Osun was captured Monday evening.

Power representative, Mr. Straightforward Mba, clarified that Adeleke was grabbed for a criminal offense.

He stated: “Congressperson Adeleke is as of now in police guardianship. He was arrested at night of today sixth May 2019 regarding progressing criminal examinations addressing his individual.

“In the interim, in the best convention of average equity and reasonable hearing, he has just been presented with the pertinent charge sheet containing his supposed offenses within sight of his Attorneys.

“He will be charged in an able courtroom tomorrow, seventh May 2019.”

Then, the PDP has required the prompt and illegal arrival of its chieftain.

National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, decided at a question and answered session on Monday in Abuja.

He portrayed the capture as all-out negligence for the surviving request of the Osun State High Court, Ikirun, issued on Monday, controlling the police or its operators from capturing and confining him.

He said that the court controlled the police from capturing Adeleke under a proclamation of result and tribute appropriately issued by Ede Muslim Grammar School, Ede, pending the assurance of the starting calls pending in the court.

He said that the police, in any case, captured Adeleke, speaking to Osun West Senatorial District, on the pretense of a welcome notwithstanding the direct requests of the state court.

“The capture and confinement of Senator Adeleke is a live demonstration of brutality against our laws, the foundation of the legal executive and the 1999 Constitution (as corrected).

“This is a piece of the terrific plot by the APC to force Adeleke to give up the order that was unreservedly given to him by the general population of Osun state, which was additionally settled by the decision appeal court.

“The plot is to drag Adeleke before a traded off justice court, over similar issues of supposed produced school tribute that is as of now under the watchful eye of the Federal High Court.

“This is with the end goal of utilizing such passage to verify a rushed preliminary and rushed conviction, and put him unavailable for general use, over trump-up charges.”

Ologbondiyan said that any arraignment of Adeleke in a judge court, for an issue previously being heard by the Federal High Court, was a determined plot to cause an emergency in the legal framework, trap the issue in pointless contention as a pathway to truncate the course of equity in his argument.

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The Presidency has said that security organizations were not giving particular treatment to any town in their journey to manage criminals.

Talking on AIT’s Kakaki, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, noticed that the kidnapping of Alhaji Musa Uba, spouse to President Muhammadu Buhari’s niece, Hajiya Biiki, was a reasonable sign that security organizations were not giving any town particular treatment.

Uba is likewise the District Head of Daura, Buhari principal residence and the dad-in-law to the President’s Aide-de-camp, Col. Mohammed Abubakar.

Shehu who was reacting to an inquiry on the expanding instances of banditry and the seize in Buhari’s primary residence, stated, “Well, that has occurred yet I feel that brings the message home that it is a national issue and that on the grounds that the President originates from Daura, this isn’t to imply that there can’t be wrongdoing in Daura or Daura will be extraordinarily treated.

“The military said two days prior that there are clear pointers that these issues are past culpability.

“On the off chance that you get some information about the greatest security (challenge) we met on the ground, it is Boko Haram fear-mongering, and I will score this organization 98 percent coming this far because Boko Haram is currently limited to the edges of Lake Chad. In actuality, they hop in and out and for the most part possess networks that have not been re-involved by their proprietor.”

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Samuel was reportedly accused of kidnapping a girl, who happened to be his daughter. He was mobbed by the members of the community who couldn’t wait to confirm the real identity of the young girl, who reportedly couldn’t is not old enough to identify herself.

According to a statement by the Secretary of Mpumalanga Province branch of the Nigerian Union in South Africa (NUSA), Victor Ayanfe-Oyebanjo, Nkennaya and his friend Nwudo were attacked following accusations that both men kidnapped the 6-year-old girl identified as Chinonye.

Ayanfe-Oyebanjo said trouble started when Nwudo took his six-year-old daughter, Chinonye, to visit Nkennaya at White River town in the evening of April 27. Later, Nwudo and Nkennaya proceeded to buy food for Nwudo’s daughter, Chinonye, at KFC restaurant in the area. Shortly after buying the food, some bystanders raised false alarm alleging that both men kidnapped the six-year-old girl.

The community members immediately descended on them, beating them with different kinds of weapons. Nwudo began to shout that the girl was his daughter and pleaded that they speak to his South African wife to confirm his claim – which actually saved his life.

The statement added that the police later intervened and called for backup to rescue the victims. Nkennaya died at the hospital on Sunday April 28th while Nwudo is in critical health condition.

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Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has depicted as sacred wrongdoing and an unmitigated underhandedness commensurate to an impeachable offense the choice of President Muhammadu Buhari organization to go into the discourse in Zamfara State with furnished Fulani local army and brigands.

HURIWA grimaced at a supposed wanted to pacify “these mass killers” with the challenging whole of N100 billion from the citizens under the pretense of setting up dairy cattle farms for their independent organizations of herders.

Plus, the gathering likewise covered the Acting Inspector General of Police, Alhaji Adamu Mohammed, for merrily reporting the ‘détente’ came to in Zamfara between the Federal Government’s designation made up to a great extent of Hausa/Fulani Muslims ruled interior security group of the present organization and the Miyetti Allah dairy cattle proprietors Association-a gathering that underpins the exercises of equipped Fulani Herdsmen in the course of recent years.

HURIWA communicated frustration that an alleged boss law requirement officer of the Country can plunge so low as to ask people suspected to have been completing tenacious outfitted banditry and assaults crosswise over Zamfara, Kaduna, Niger, Katsina, to quit assaulting Nigerians when it is the sacred commitment of the Nigeria police power to implement lawfulness and convey every criminal suspect to confront the legitimate results of their wrongdoings against humankind and the Nigerian State.

In an announcement issued to GISTOK throughout the end of the week against the scenery of the indicated gathering between the Federal Government and the authority of Miyetti Allah cows proprietors affiliation, the meeting said the main conceivable reason the present organization could go into exchange with outfitted desperados is on the grounds that the guilty parties share the equivalent Ethno-religious affiliations with the holders of the top security portfolios who make up the selective Hausa/Fulani ruled Internal Security design.

The announcement included, “The individuals from the present national security group made up of for the most part one Ethnicity and people of one Religious affiliation same with the outfitted Fulani herders and brigands have continuously settled on choices that mirror their biases and tendency to spoil and ensure these equipped outlaws who should be managed a substantial blow in accordance with the sacred arrangements.

“The other time the priest of Defense who is from Zamfara state was the individual who instead of denounce and request the capture and indictment of outfitted Fulani herders releasing commotion and brutality in Benue state was the person who endeavored to give some sort of avocation to these adrenaline junkie blood snuggling assaults on Benue people group by accusing the legitimately passed state enactment forbidding open nibbling of steers which has been at the center of a significant part of the carnage.

“The pastor of inside who is Fulani Moslem has on numerous events deprecated the gravity of the outfitted Fulani rough assaults and rejected it not as a dread battle but rather as a negligible peace issue which the police can deal with.

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The Federal Government has said that the Second Niger Bridge is imperative to the Nigerian economy and the task will be conveyed on a timetable.

This was made known by the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo who was cited in an announcement by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity Laolu Akande on Friday, in the wake of examining the advancement work at the Asaba end of the scaffold.

As indicated by the Vice President, the extension and other infrastructural extends the nation over are fundamental to the financial motivation of the President Buhari organization.

“The Second Niger Bridge is so significant for the economy of the South East and the Nigerian economy, and obviously, it’s not merely the extension, there are the frontage roads, which are likewise significant.

“It is evident so much advancement has been made here. It is an essential task that the President is focused on finishing. In the previous year and a half or something like that, a great deal of work has been done, and I came to see with my own eyes.

“As should be obvious, the establishment goes right down, and this is only the Asaba end of the extension. There is additionally the Anambra end of the scaffold, so it is a ton of work. There are countless who are additionally profiting in different ways.”


The Vice President likewise noticed that the dedication of the Buhari organization to finish the vital foundation extends that will improve the country’s economy required the formation of the Presidential Infrastructure Development Fund (PIDF).

“There are some basic foundations that we consider vital to our financial arrangement and which, through this store, we plan to finish. One reason why ventures were scarcely ever finished was that there was insufficient cash going into the undertakings. That is the reason the President has concluded that we should have a store for these undertakings, which is the PIDF, and we additionally have a smooth cruising process.”

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President Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with the government and people of South Africa over the loss of lives resulting from torrential downpours and mudslides.

In a statement made available to GISTOK on Saturday by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, President Buhari said he was “profoundly touched by the unfortunate incident.’’

“I am saddened by the loss of lives and destruction caused by the natural disaster,” he added.

“Such disasters destroy within hours everything the people have labored for, forcing many to start from the scratch.

“This is particularly difficult for developing countries battling with poverty,’’ he said.

The President extends sincere sympathy to families affected by the natural disaster, praying that God will comfort and strengthen them in their hour of need.

“Our prayers and sympathies are with the people of South Africa as they struggle to overcome the devastating impact of these floods,’’ the President said.

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The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a security guard, Monday Odey, for allegedly killing his colleague at Magodo area of the state.

The Spokesman of Lagos police command, Bala Elkana, in a statement on Saturday, said Odey was apprehended at Iwo, Osun State on May 2nd after he fled from the scene of the incident.

Narrating how the incident happened, PPRO Elkana in the statement said “Bola Ikupoluyi, the employer of the guards, who reported the matter to the police station, said the deceased and the suspect argued.

“Yinusa had accused Odey of stealing the clothing items of their boss. During the argument, Odey hit his colleague, Abdullahi Yinusa, with a shovel on the head and face.

“The suspect picked offense and threatened to kill the said Abdullahi Yinusa for challenging him.

“The complainant, being their employer responded by sacking the suspect and ordered him to vacate the premises immediately.

“Odey under the guise of moving his personal belongings, returned to the house the same day at about 7 pm and murdered the said Abdullahi Yinusa.

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The Action Democratic Party (ADP) has expelled its former National Secretary, James Okoroma, and 16 other executive members.

They were expelled for alleged anti-party activities. The party announced to journalists after its National Executive Committee meeting in Abuja on Saturday.

According to the National Secretary of the party, Steve Uwajie, the affected officers and members were found guilty of causing division in the party.

Uwajie said: “In compliance with article 52.1 of the ADP constitution, the following officers have been expelled from the party as a result of anti-party activities, insubordination and causing disaffection and division among members.

“The officers expelled are as follows; Dr. James Okoroma, Engineer Esther Oche, Chief Iboro Indaba, Temitope Salami, and others.

“The party also dissolved all executives at the state, local government, ward, and polling units across the country. Subject to the provision of the party constitution, ethics, and values, the council shall jointly with NEC dissolve all state executive committee, all local government executive committee, all ward executive committee, all polling unit executive committee, and appoint all caretaker committees to run the party until another executive committee is elected.

read more: https://www.channelstv.com/2019/05/04/adp-expels-ex-secretary-16-others-for-alleged-anti-party-activities/

Leader of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has communicated anguish over the demise of the mother of Senator Dino Melaye, Deaconess Comfort Melaye, who he portrayed as a commendable female authority that gave her age with genuine and kind youngsters.

Saraki, in articulation by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, said the late Madam Melaye would be associated with her generosity, amicableness an embodiment of the center Christian qualities.

He asked Senator Melaye and all individuals from his family to take comfort in the way that their mom carried on with a decent life and left a heritage of genuine and others conscious qualities in the entirety of her youngsters. Saraki stated: “in the interest of my family and the whole eighth Senate, my heart goes out to Senator Dino Melaye and his family at this time of pain.

“I implore that the Almighty allows our left mother unceasing rest, and her family and friends and family, the quality and guts to endure this huge misfortune.”

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Emmanuel Adeyemi, Lokoja Kogi State laborers have been tossed into grieving over the demise of Fatimah Noah, a staff of Magistrate Court 11. She was said to have drooped and passed on over non-installment of compensations.

Kogi State government as of now owes the legal executive laborers who suspended five months old strike; nine months pay unfulfilled obligations. It was accumulated that Mrs. Noah, a widow, famously known as Mama Danlandi drooped and passed on around 8 pm. on Thursday in her living arrangement in Lokoja, from the yet-to-be uncovered disease.

A record said she continued work on Monday with her partners, as JUSUN canceled the five-month-old strike, after National Judicial Council (NJC) settled the exchange question between the legal executive and Kogi State government, and has been coming to office with no grievance of any medicinal intricacy.

As per her associate, the late legal executive laborer was seen on obligation on Thursday without deceiving any indication of infection or any inconvenience until she shut and left for home.

A family source said since her better half kicked the bucket years prior, the weight of family upkeep has been put on her, however, that the circumstance wound up exacerbated when her compensation was not paid for very nearly a year.

“Mom Danladi who had not taken pay rates for as far back as one year, and a widow with kids in tertiary foundations, was said to have explored for N20, 000 three days before address squeezing need of one of her children in the school yet without progress”, the source pushed.

While addressing writers, the majority of her partners at her work environment praised her ethics of funniness, noticing that they have lost a rare pearl whose commitment to work charmed her to the high and the low at her work environment.

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The South-East Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has captured 37 presumed web fraudsters in Owerri, the Imo State capital.

37 Yahoo boys got arrested by EFCC and seize there 25 exotic cars
The South-East Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has captured 37 presumed web fraudsters in Owerri, the Imo State capital.

The capture pursued a strike on some focused on habitations in Okwu Urata, Aladinma and Egbu zones. The Commission’s activity pursued knowledge report which pointed that the suspects were living extravagant ways of life with no known methods for occupation, claiming further that they represent considerable authority in swindling clueless exploited people, through the web.

Things which included smartphones, five outlandish autos, which incorporate a few brands of Mercedez-Benz, Lexus, Toyota, and costly cell phones, were recouped.

Talking on the advancement on Thursday, the Zonal Head, Usman Imam, who said the activity was under the Commission’s command, criticized the high rate of cybercrime in the zone which he accused on the disintegration and breakdown of nation’s qualities.

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The Senior Pastor of the Awaiting The Second Coming Of Jesus Christ Gospel Church, Pastor Adewale Giwa on Friday lashed out at some Pastors who buy private jets.

Giwa said such Pastors are not working for God but themselves. In a statement he signed and sent to GISTOK, Giwa urged the affected Pastors to “carefully read Matthew chapter 19:16-27,” adding that such clergymen won’t make heaven.

“The truth is that they know they are buying jets to compete with one another. Our God is not a God of convenience, but a God of commitment. “Jesus Christ did not teach us to be using jets to preach the gospel. “Any pastor or religious leader who fails to do according to the teachings of Jesus Christ cannot make heaven, and I am sure they know this.

“Also, I do not want to agree to the statement that we should not judge people. Leviticus 19:15 says, ‘ You shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor nor defer to the great, but you are to judge your neighbor fairly,” he said.

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The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last election, former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, has reacted to the appointment of Mr. Kaycee Madu, a Nigerian who was first elected as a Member of Parliament in Alberta, Canada, as Minister for Municipal Affairs for the North American country.

In a statement Atiku posted on his Facebook page, the Ex-VP disclosed that seeing Nigerians prosper in Nigeria, and around the world, has always been the cornerstone of his vision, ‘the Atiku Plan.’ He added that that upward mobility and local and international successes, of the type displayed by Mr. Madu, go a long way in changing the global narrative of Nigeria, which, in recent years, has suffered some challenges.

“Even more importantly, we must highlight the role education played in preparing Mr. Madu for the spotlight. As I have said previously, education is the single investment that yields the most significant dividend. I should know, I have put my money where my mouth is.

“The more Nigeria invests in education, the more our people will become beacons of light, both locally and internationally. “Today I celebrate Mr. Madu’s achievements. I am proud of you and will do all within my power to ensure that many Ahmadis, , and Emekas, follow in your footsteps,” Atiku said.

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The absence of Justice Yusuf Haliru of an FCT High Court on Monday stalled the arraignment of the governor-elect of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed.

According to NAN, Mohammed who was elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was scheduled to be arraigned on a fresh six counts, bordering on false declaration of assets and giving false information to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

However, at the court, Mohammed and his counsel and the EFCC counsel were present but the court did not sit because the judge was on election petition duty in Abeokuta, Ogun State.

Counsel for the EFCC, Mr Wahab Shittu, while speaking with newsmen, said: ”the EFCC is an anti-corruption agency, it does not play politics.

“It exists to serve the public.”On the arraignment, he said, “It is a matter that was ongoing before another judge who has now been elevated to the Court of Appeal.

The expectation he said was that the matter would soon be reassigned to another judge.

“Just a week ago, the registry of this court sent us a notice that today has been fixed for the re-arraignment of the defendant.

“It was not at the instance of the court.“ You know when a case is transferred to another court, it starts de novo (afresh).”

He added that no one should see what was happening as an attempt by the EFCC to intimidate anyone.

“Let us focus on the matter before the court. EFCC exists to serve everybody,” he said

Source: https://gistok.ng/bauchi-governor-elects-arraignment-stalls-over-absence-of-judge/

The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has met with former Senate Minority Leader and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Godswill Akpabio

The meeting which took place at the private residence of a chieftain of the party, Nasiru Danu in Abuja, on Sunday, was aimed at strengthening APC and settling differences that existed between the Minister and Akpabio, both former governors of Rivers and Akwa Ibom states respectively.

A statement by the spokesperson of APC 2019 presidential campaign council, Festus Keyamo, stated that the parley also centred around the performance of the party in the South-South zone during the just-concluded general elections.

According to Keyamo, both chiefs of the party promised to close ranks and work in unison for the overall interest of the party in the country.
The statement forwarded to GISTOK reads: “Sunday, April 14, 2019, marked a new chapter of cooperation within the APC family as two frontline leaders of APC from the South-South region, the Rt. Hon. Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi and the former Governor of Akwa Ibom State and former minority leader of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio met each other to iron out their perceived political differences.



“The meeting, which was at the instance of Senator Godwill Akpabio, was brokered by two chieftains of the Party, Alhaji Nasiru Danu, (the Dan Amarna of Dutse) and Mr. Festus Keyamo, SAN. Alhaj

Source: https://gistok.ng/how-amaechi-akpabio-settled-their-differences/