Ikembeku:


Stop telling me what happened to your father jare

The 2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices says the last general election in Nigeria reflected the will of the populace despite widespread irregularities.

The report published by the bureau of democracy, human rights, and labour, US Department of State, highlights human rights practices and violations in different countries, including Nigeria.

The report stated that supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) suppressed votes in Igbo-dominated areas during the March 2023 governorship election in Lagos.

“National elections were widely reported to have reflected the will of voters, despite technical and logistical difficulties, and some irregularities,” the report reads.

“Many independent observers assessed the results of the presidential, legislative, and state-level elections during the year reflected the will of voters, despite reports of voter suppression and vote buying, campaigning at polling stations, lack of ballot secrecy, violence, and intimidation.

“During the March 18 state election in Lagos, All Progressives Congress (APC) supporters reportedly intimidated and suppressed voters in Igbo-dominated areas, which Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi won in the February 25 national election.

“Viral videos on social media showed APC supporters in Ojo (a LGA in Lagos) threatening to attack ethnic Igbo voters presumed to be pro-Obi.

“In Eti-Osa, APC supporters also attacked journalists and, in some cases, shut down voting and prevented non-Yoruba voters from accessing polls. They similarly destroyed property and physically blocked voters in Amuwo-Odofin.

“According to videos posted on social media, police officers were present but failed to respond to attacks.”

The report said there was no evidence that individuals who perpetrated violence in Lagos during the election were arrested or prosecuted.


‘CORRUPTION IN GOVERNMENT‘

The report stated that the Nigerian government has not “consistently” implemented anti-corruption laws.

It said there was “widespread” corruption across the country, including in the judiciary.

“In August, President Tinubu appointed former Governor Abubakar Bagudu, the Minister of Budget, despite Bagudu’s widely reported history of helping then-President Sani Abacha steal hundreds of millions of dollars from the government in the 1990s,” the report said.

“Police arrested former Central Bank Governor Godwin Emefiele on June 10 and charged him and a co-defendant with defrauding the government of 6.5 billion naira ($10.4 million), later reduced to 1.6 billion naira ($2.5 million).”

Breatheon:
All the blame was put on dollar rise. Now that the same dollar is crashing, why prices of goods not also crashing?

I bought a bottle of coca-cola (coke) for N550 today, as against last week that was N500.

What is going in this country?

Jostoman:
The judiciary really bleeped for the nonsense judgement they gave in plateau state and Ogun State.

Rahym001:
Just got this info...

Universities feb salary GTB no increment


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The Chicago State University (CSU) yesterday released the academic records of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in compliance with the order of the District Court of Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division.

The court had, on Saturday, ordered the CSU to release the academic records of Tinubu to the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, Tinubu’s main challenger in the 2023 general elections.

The development came after a U.S Judge, Nancy Maldonado, in a memorandum of opinion and order, adopted all the ruling of Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Gilbert of the U.S. District Court.

Tinubu, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), had objected to the Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Gilbert ruling ordering the immediate release of the academic records by the CSU.

The president had said releasing the documents with deposition would cause him severe harm because they were private to him and would not be admissible in the ongoing petition against him in Nigeria.

But Atiku had filed another appeal, leading to the judge ordering that the documents be released within 48 hours.

“The Court overrules President Tinubu’s objections to Magistrate Judge Gilbert’s recommended ruling, and therefore adopts the ruling in full. Mr Abubakar’s application is therefore granted,” the judge had ruled.

CSU, in a certificate of service signed by its counsel, Michael D. Hayes, stated that: “I hereby certify that on this 2nd day of October, 2023 the forgoing response to the Applicant’s Revised Subpoena to Produce Documents was served on all counsel of record by electronic mail.”

Details of the released documents sought by Atiku showed that CSU complied with his request for a true correct copy of diploma for Bachelor of Science degree issued in 1979 and Bates labelled as CSU 0001 through 0007 with an obscured student’s name which the university said was for privacy reasons.

The university, however, said it could not locate a true and correct copy relating to the diploma it issued in 1979 to Tinubu.

The university said, “CSU does not in the ordinary course keep copies of student diplomas, and after diligent search cannot locate a copy of the original diploma it prepared for Mr Tinubu in 1979, hence has no documents responsive to this request.

On Atiku’s request for any of the university’s diploma other than that issued to President Tinubu that “contains the same font, seal, signatures, and wording which purports to be a CSU diploma issued to the president on or about June 22, 1979, the university said after diligent search it located and Bates labelled them CSU 0008 through CSU 0010 and obscured the student’s identity for privacy reasons.

“The students’ names on these diplomas have been redacted for privacy reasons. CSU is also producing Bates labeled as CSU 0011 and CSU 0012 diplomas prepared for other CSU students (with their names redacted for privacy) which match the format of the Tinubu replacement diploma dated June 27, 1997,” the university said.

The university also released documents demanded by Atiku on the correct copies of the documents earlier certified by Jamar Orr in Exhibit D to Uwais Declaration and Bates labelled same CSU 0013 through 0032. But the institution said the communication to CSU between August 1, 2022 and August 1, 2023, was not produced because the objection to them was sustained by the court.


The releases followed an order on Saturday by Judge Nancy Maldonado, in overruling Tinubu’s objection to Judge Gilbert’s earlier approval to Atiku’s application.

She ruled that Atiku’a requests met the threshold and requirements under 28 U.S.C S 1782 as Tinubu’s submission of his CSU diploma to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and its relevancy outweighs his privacy interests.

She further noted that Atiku made the request for the documents as a candidate in the February 25 presidential election to enable him tender them in his appeal at the Supreme Court in Nigeria in support of his claim that Tinubu was as of the time of the election not qualified to contest.

When contacted on the telephone last night for a reaction to the release of Tinubu’s academic records, a spokesperson to Atiku, Phrank Shaibu, said he would get back to Daily Trust, but as of the time of filing the report around midnight, he did not do so. Neither did he reply a text message sent to him.

Controversy had trailed the details of credentials submitted by Tinubu to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

fastseo:


this man is not an economist, he studied business administration.
you cannot meet a veterinarian doctor for a tooth extraction in human.

we need an economist... not a banker or marketer or even someone that studies administration.

an economist fully understand variables and Economics indicators. someone with micro and macro economic idea. someone who understands Econometric Modelling
and also understand basic tools of econometrics and knowledge in probability and distribution theory, statistical hypotheses testing, and estimation and inference in classical linear regression models.

they are trained to make policy. in fact they are the mechanics of an economy.

a business administration or bank dont know what econometrics modelling is all about and this tells you where the economy is and where it is going in 10 years from now and step to address basic issues

The supremacy battle between presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, and former governor of Rivers State, Nyensom Wike, over minority leadership of the 10th House of Representatives climaxed yesterday.

Wike’s anointed aspirant emerged minority leader of the House, displacing Atiku’s choice.

LEADERSHIP Friday gathered that Wike’s favourite emerged through a consensus during a meeting of the PDP minority caucus at a prestigious hotel in Abuja yesterday.

LEADERSHIP learnt that Atiku’s choice, Hon. Oluwole Oke, was compelled by the prevailing circumstances at the meeting to pull out of the race.

Wike had favoured Chinda, who represents Obio/Akpor Federal Constituency of Rivers State against Oke, representing Obokun/Oriade federal constituency of Osun State, who was projected by the former vice president.

NoahHadNoArk:
I’m catholic and proud

But I will still come out to say this practice is beyond weird and Bizarre.

Why dig up that body in the first place ?!
What story or passage in the scripture are you trying to Justify?

If it’s not kneeling down to sculptures and Images of Gold, it’s digging up body to check their levels of decomposition like say you be skull miner. Isokay

My peace I leave you

Antimandatethie:


As e dey sweet us e dey pain them

How you know am wailing still shocks me kid... Pray i don't catch ur sorry self in real life, i will make sure ur tiny ass get so red than a tomatoe...

N3TRAL:


As a legal practitioner, I interpreted the provision of the EA 2022 like the learned Lordship.

There would be double nomination if Shettima went into the elections against Atiku and Obi as a prospective vice President and at the same time stood elections to represent his senatorial district at the red chamber.

Shettima did not contest for two constituencies in the February 25th election and neither did he contest the primaries that produced Tinubu as the flag bearer of the APC. When he was selected as Tinubu's running mate, in good faith, he relinquished the senatorial ticket he had already clinched.

The claim of double nomination is frivolous, malicious and libelous as it never existed ab initio.

Outstandingmam:

“Multiple nominations with the electoral act does not occur simply because he accepted a second nomination, the fact that the acceptance was immediately relinquished so as to pave way for another person to replace him as senatorial candidate cannot be overlooked or disregarded.

“We have to be very careful the way we read provisions of facts particularly when they are public interest issues and for presidential requirements where it is broad knowledge where it is very clear that the purpose of the statutory provision is to avoid a situation where the person holds two nominations to have an election as a candidate either in two constituencies or political parties.

“The purpose of that provision is to avoid the situation but where a person has clearly said ‘no I don’t want’, and relinquishes one, I do not think it will be acting in good faith to jump on him and infer something else.

Case closed. I've been wondering why nobody thought along this lines since this argument started. The guy didn't go into the election standing in 2 constituencies. He relinquished one and INEC only published his name in the VP slot so why all the cacophony of conspiracies?

I'm not surprised the judges choose this common sense path.

The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared Ibrahim Lamido of the All Progressives Congress as the winner of the Sokoto East Senate seat at the National Assembly.

INEC Returning Officer, Prof. Muhammad Bayawa, declared the result in Sokoto on Sunday.

Bayawa said that Lamido scored 112,764 votes to defeat Gwanda Shuaibu of the Peoples Democratic Party who polled 107,834 votes.

He said that Abdullahi Dahiru of the New Nigeria Peoples Party polled 410 votes to place as distant third.

Meanwhile, the APC has also won eight out of the 10 House of Representatives seats covered by supplementary election.

In Gudu/ Tangaza Federal Constituency Prof Muazu Shamaki, the returning officer declared Alhaji Sani Yakubu of the APC as the winner with 23,473 votes.

In Dange-Shuni/Tureta/Bodinga Federal Constituency Prof. Chika Muhammad, the INEC Returning Officer, declared Shehu Nasiru of the APC as the winner with 40,994 votes.

Wurno/Rabah Federal Constituency the incumbent Ibrahim Al-Mustapha of APC won with 23,497 votes, while Bello Ambarura of the APC won the Gwadabawa/Illela Federal Constituency seat with 31,374 votes.

In Kware/Wamakko Constituency the incumbent Abdullahi Kalambaina of APC won with 43,344 votes.

Others were Bala Abubakar, Sokoto North/Sokoto South Constituency, Sa’adu Nabunkari, Binji/ Silame Constituency, and Jelani Danbuga, Isa/Sabon Birni federal Constituency.

However, Abdussamad Dasuki of the PDP won the Tambuwal/Kebbe federal constituency seat, while Bashir Gorau of PDP also won the Gada/Goronyo federal constituency seat.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Aliyu Wamakko of the APC was earlier declared as the winner of the Sokoto North Senate seat, while Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of PDP won the Sokoto South Senate seat.

NAN also reports that with the results, the APC currently has two Senate and eight House of Representatives seats, while the PDP has one Senate and three House of Representatives seats in the state. (NAN)

Former Imo State Governor, Emeka Ihedioha has withdrawn from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s governorship primary in the South-East state.

The former governor was screened and cleared a few days ago by the PDP to contest the party’s primary ahead of the November 11 governorship election in Imo State.

However, in a letter dated March 27, 2023, Ihedioha informed the PDP leadership of his “personal sacrifice” for a “consensus candidate” by the party.

In January 2020, the Supreme Court sacked Ihedioha as the governor of Imo State after barely seven months in office.

The seven-man panel led by Chief Justice Tanko Muhammad unanimously declared Hope Uzodimma of the All Progressive Congress (APC) as the winner of the March 19, 2019 governorship election in the state.

The appellant, Uzodimma had contended that he scored the highest number of votes in the election but the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) returned Ihedioha as the governor of the state.

Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun who delivered the judgment declared that the votes due to Uzodimma were unlawfully excluded from the 318 polling units and should be added to his votes.

The apex court considered the submissions of a principal witness who was on a subpoena to present results and held that the lower court was wrong in its ruling.

Justice Kekere-Ekun subsequently declared Uzodimma as the validly elected governor and the certificate of return issued to Ihedioha was withdrawn by INEC and given to Uzodimma.

Hyacinth Alia, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has won the Benue state governorship election.

Ali, a reverend father, garnered 473,933 votes to defeat Titus Uba, the candidate of the Peoples Democracy Party (PDP), who polled 223,913 votes, to be declared the winner on Monday.

Herman Hembe of the Labour Party (LP) scored 41,881 votes.