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Pandemonium enveloped the premises of the Ade
Maternity Home, Sagamu, Ogun State on Saturday as
scores of grieving students of the Olabisi Onabanjo
University forcefully removed the corpses of their
colleagues who were killed in a crash the previous
day from the hospital’s morgue.

Our correspondent gathered that the management of
the hospital had wanted to collect N20,000 per
corpse before the corpses could be released to their
families.

This was said to have angered the students who
stormed the private hospital’s morgue and evacuated
their dead colleagues forcefully without paying a
dime, and moved them to the morgue of the Olabisi
Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu.

The police had a hectic time trying to keep the
students under control.

Head of the teaching hospital’s Morbid Anatomy and
Histopathology Department, Dr Deji Agboola, said
the corpses were traced to Ade Maternity Home
their colleagues had combed private morgues in
Sagamu.

He confirmed that the angry students did not yield to
the demand for payment by the hospital before the
corpses of their colleagues were released to them.
A source at the hospital also confirmed that the
corpses had been taken away.

The Ogun State police command on Saturday said
eight students of the Olabisi Onabanjo University,
Ago Iwoye, were among the 12 victims of the accident
which occurred on Friday at Ilishan Junction, along
Sagamu/Benin Expressway.

In the accident, a DAF truck with number plate BDG
779 XE laden with container had a head-on collision
with a Mazda commercial bus with number plate XV
311 MUS, killing 12 occupants in the bus instantly.

The victims were five females and seven males.
The state police spokesman, Muyiwa Adejobi, told
our correspondent on the telephone on Saturday that
eight students of OOU were among the victims.

Giving further details, he said three of them were
pre-degree students, while the only survivor is a 300-
level Chemistry student of the institution.


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Source: http://www.punchng.com/news/ogun-crash-oou-students-storm-mortuary-snatch-corpses/

The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has denied
reports that he is nursing the ambition for presidency in 2019, saying he actually quit his presidential bid in the 2015 election for President Muhammadu Buhari.

Saraki stated that he contributed immensely to the
emergence of Buhari as President and contributed
greatly to his victory in the presidential election held
on March 28, 2015.

The Senate President, who spoke to select journalists
in an exclusive interview in Abuja on Saturday, also
denied having plans to dump the All Progressives
Congress due to the ongoing crisis in the party over
his leadership of the Senate.

Rather, he said what remained paramount in his
mind at the moment was how to support the Buhari-
led administration to tackle the various social and
economic problems confronting the country.

Saraki said, “I was the first person that stepped down
his political ambition, once General Buhari
announced that he was going to contest the
presidential election. And since then, prior to the
period of election, I worked tirelessly to support his
emergence.

“Even some of my friends who are not supporting me
now are doing so because I did not support them in
their presidential ambition and that I supported
President Buhari. That is why I find it funny that the
same people are now claiming to love Buhari more
than me. It is a very funny world.

“These are people that I was begging to leave the
stage for Buhari to run since all of us are young. They
are now the one going round to say that Saraki did
not like Buhari but time will tell.”

The Presidency, however, faulted Saraki’s claim of
stepping down for Buhari ahead of the presidential
election.

Saraki had on October 13, 2014, announced the
suspension of his presidential bid in the interest of
the country and his party. He, however, did not state
which of the other aspirants he was going to back.

Saraki’s statement then partly read, “I decided to step
down my ambition because Nigeria’s political outlook
for 2015 is very complicated and this is the time for
every patriotic politician to situate his personal
ambition in the context of the country’s overall
interest.

“I don’t think our party can afford too much internal
rancour going into next year’s election. I, therefore,
think some of us need to make the sacrifice and be
part of the solution rather than part of the problem
of the party.”

This will be Saraki’s first personal response to the
ongoing crisis that is trailing his controversial
emergence as the President of the Senate on June 9.
Saraki had led a faction of APC senators, under the
auspices of the Like Minds Senators, to defy the
party’s choice of Ahmad Lawan as the Senate
President.

In what many have described as a ‘coup’, the pro-
Saraki group had allied with the opposition
lawmakers in the Peoples Democratic Party to make
Saraki leader of the upper chamber of the legislature
in the absence over 50 APC senators.

A similar scenario had also played out in the House
of Representatives where Yakubu Dogara opposed
Femi Gbajabiamila, the choice candidate of his party,
to emerge Speaker of the House.

Explaining what happened on the National Assembly
leadership election day, Saraki said he smuggled
himself into the chamber on the day the 8th
Assembly was inaugurated when he became aware of
an alleged plan to abduct and prevent him from
standing for the Senate presidential election
The Senate President also defended his absence from
the International Conference Centre venue of a
proposed meeting between President Buhari and
APC lawmakers on the day of the election.

He insisted that he did not receive any invitation for
the meeting.

Saraki said, “As regards the meeting, on the morning
of the inauguration, I didn’t finish meeting until 4am
of that day and I had got information that efforts
would likely be made to make sure that I didn’t get
access into the chambers.

He said the plan before was that senators-elect
should go to the Transcorp Hilton Hotel around
8:00am and 9:00am to proceed to the National
Assembly.

The Senate President said he was, however, advised
against going to the chamber at the scheduled time
as there were plans to stop him from being part of
the day’s proceedings.

Saraki said he got into the National Assembly
Complex as early as 6:00am and stayed in a car in the
car park from then till quarter to 10:00am. He noted
that all through the period, there was no
communication to him.

“So, anybody who said they spoke to me to go the ICC
was not true because I didn’t even know what was
going on. All I was monitoring was how people were
arriving at the complex. It was at quarter to 10:00am
that I got information that the Clerk to the National
Assembly had entered the chamber.”

The APC, however, described Saraki’s non-invitation
claim as a lie, saying all senators-elect were invited to
the said meeting.

Saraki, a two-term ex-Governor of Kwara State and
former Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum,
said it was at that point that he got down from the
“small car” in which he was hiding and entered the
chamber.

“Even when I was in the chambers, I didn’t know what
had transpired earlier on. The only thing I observed
was that it appeared that some of our senators were
not in the chamber. But for the fact that my
colleagues arrived in batches, I had the opinion that
they were on their way. And by 10:00am, the
programme started.

“Before I knew it, my election had come and gone.
Even, my people were worried. It was only when I got
into the chambers that they were relieved,” Saraki
added.

The Senate President also dismissed his alleged pact
with the PDP to elect Ike Ekweremadu as Deputy
Senate President.

Ekweremadu of the PDP, who occupied same
position in the last Senate, had been re-elected as
Saraki’s deputy in the Senate that has the APC as
majority.

The Senate President, however, insisted that it
was the absence of the APC Senators from the
chamber that caused the emergence of Ekweremadu
as his deputy.

He said, “Never in our wildest imagination did we
envisage that some senators would not be present on
the day of the inauguration. In my view, and in the
view of some of those who worked closely with me, I
worked hard for my election. I had direct contact with
every single senator; one on one. Weeks to the
election, I did not rely on anybody. I worked hard,
both in our party, the APC, and out of it.

“I approached every senator, I talked to them. We
built confidence, not only in the APC, but, also, in the
PDP. I talked to them. That was why I laugh when
people said that I had a deal with Ekweremadu or I
had a hand in the emergence of Ekweremadu.”

Saraki stated that he did not need any deal to win the
election, saying he had “penetrated everywhere.”

Speaking further on the penetration, he said, “One of
the meetings was held at Transcorp Hilton and
Senator Godswill Akpabio and Senator Ibrahim Gobir
co-chaired it. Both the APC and the PDP members
were present.

“At that meeting, if you heard most of them there, the
position they took was that ‘this is the Senate
President they want. Across party lines, they said that
they believe in me and that this is the Senate
President that can lead us. There was no deal.”

Saraki, who described Ekweremadu’s deputy Senate
presidency as painful and unfortunate, maintained
that it was caused by the absence of his APC
colleagues. He recalled that the PDP senators had
announced to the public that they were supporting
him.

He further said, “With regard to the deputy, when
they told us that they had a candidate, we, too, told
them we had a candidate for Deputy Senate President
in the person of Senator Ali Ndume.

“We never, in our imagination, thought they (other
APC senators) would not turn up. By the time we got
there, we were only 24 while the PDP was more than
40.

“It is unfortunate that we have a PDP man as deputy
Senate President. It is painful. It is painful for any
APC member because when we went through the
struggle. That was not what we signed for.”

Saraki said it was unfair to put the blame on “one
side” because it was a combination of errors and
miscalculations that led having some senators at
another place instead of being on the floor of the
Senate on that day.

“So, to suggest that it was out of a desperate act to
emerge (as Senate President) is what I reject
completely and those who followed the events would
know that I didn’t have that deal to emerge,” he
stated.

Saraki also disagreed with insinuations that he went
against the position of the party which had allegedly
zoned the position of the Senate president to a
particular region.

“At no time was any decision taken by the party to
zone the position to any particular zone,” he stated.
Saraki also said he had had personal discussions
with the Lawan and they had allegedly deliberated
extensively on how to collectively move the Senate
forward in the interest of the senators, the APC and
members of the public.

He said, “I also have an opportunity to sit down and
discuss with Senator Ahmad Lawan as part of our
reconciliation efforts. I am confident that this matter
will soon fizzle out because we are making serious
efforts.”

Saraki further said serious arrangements were
already ongoing to unite the various sides to the
crisis, even as he hinted that he had reached out to
the leaders of the party, President Buhari and
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on how to collectively move the
country forward.

“Regards to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; as you all know, he
is one of the leaders of the party. I have great respect
for him. We have worked closely together before.
Unfortunately my group did not agree with him on
this issue.

“However, we are both responsible and committed to
the project of the party and Nigeria that we will
overcome this and move forward. It is part of our
plans, as part of the healing process, to meet with
him and it will happen soon,” Saraki added.

Saraki did not step down for Buhari – Presidency

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and
Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, on Saturday, said there
was no truth in the claim by Saraki that he stepped
down for President Buhari in the APC presidential
race.

Adesina, in an interview with one of our
correspondents, said the issue of stepping down did
not arise because the party conducted a free and fair
presidential primary which Buhari won.

The presidential spokesman said all Nigerians know
those who took part in the party primary.

Adesina said, “There was no issue of stepping down
during the presidential race in the APC. There was a
presidential primary that was plain, transparent, free
and fair.

“We all know those who were involved in the primary;
all Nigerians know those who participated in the APC
presidential primary and President Buhari emerged
the winner of that process.”

When asked if Saraki had reached out to the
President as he claimed, Adesina said, “The President
has always maintained that the party is supreme. The
party started a process which was truncated.

“The President has always maintained that those who
truncated or aborted the process were the ones who
precipitated crisis.

“The President had said in earlier statements that he
would work with anybody who emerged the Senate
President, but then, that did not include those who
will subvert (the process).”

‘Saraki snubbed Buhari to emerge Senate
president’

A leader of the APC, who spoke to SUNDAY PUNCH
on the condition of anonymity, said Saraki was only
trying to be clever by half.

The leader of the party, who spoke in a telephone
interview with one of our correspondents on
Saturday, said Saraki had boxed himself into a
corner.

“Saraki is simply trying to be clever by half. He is in a
fix and he is trying to justify his illegal actions,” the
source said.

He added, “Saraki is bound by the nation’s
constitution to read the party’s list without any
amendment. If the PDP had sent him their own list of
principal officers, will he tamper with it or won’t the
PDP send their own list?”

Insisting that the Senate President lied about not
being invited to the ICC meeting, the reliable party
source said Saraki was invited.

The source said, “He is lying if he said he was not
invited to the ICC meeting. All National Assembly
members-elect were invited via an SMS.

“He deliberately snubbed the President because he
had already struck a deal with the PDP to actualise
his inordinate ambition in defiance of his party’s
position.


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Source: http://www.punchng.com/news/i-dropped-my-presidential-ambition-for-buhari-saraki/

The National Coordinator of the Odua Peoples
Congress, OPC, Gani Adams, has revealed that
his arrest by the Nigerian Police brought him
fame.

Mr Adams explained that his arrest and treatment
by the Nigerian police during the Olusegun
Obasanjo presidency brought him to the national
limelight.

“I thank the then Lagos State Commissioner of
Police, Mike Okiro, for declaring me wanted and
subsequent arrest, because it turned out to be a
blessing for me,” the group leader told reporters.

He said this at his Lagos home and explained that he
was hiding from the police for long and had to turn
himself in.

The 45 year old OPC leader said that he felt the only
reason he was arrested was for fighting for the
interest of Yorubas which made the administration
uncomfortable.

He then compared his imprisonment with that of
Obafemi Awolowo, Wole Soyinka, and Nelson
Mandela.

Goodluck Jonathan’s administration in the South
West however said he has forgiven everyone who
contributed to his persecution, as well as those who
abandoned him when the road was rough.

“I faced persecution for no just cause. I was
detained in number of police stations, and prisons
across the country, just because I believe in the
rights of the people, and need to fight for the rights.

“But I must say this, I don’t have anything against all
those who contributed to the persecution. Your
worst enemy may become your best friends. How
many people am I going to fight. I have to give
thanks to God and Okiro who God used to turn my
story for better.”

Gani Adams was talking about his arrest in 2001,
after the police had declared him wanted for over a
year and half.

He was wanted for the alleged murder of Afolabi
Amao, a Divisional Police Officer of the Bariga police
station in Lagos and also accused of
orchestrating series of violent ethnic clashes in the
south-west.


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http://www.naij.com/473195-my-arrest-brought-me-fame-gani-adams.html

Civil Society Organisations (CSOS) on the platform of the Transition Monitoring Group (TMG) have lamented the high costs of election management in Nigeria, while calling on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to make public
its expenditure of over N120bn during the 2015 general elections.

The CSOs have also called on INEC to make public its expenditure on cost of voter education and mobilization during the
elections, while speaking with Journalists in Abuja Yesterday at the Public Presentation of TMGs Final report on Mobilizing,
Organising and Educating Citizens for Participation and Observation of the Pre- election and March 28th Election Day
Process in Abia and Imo States.

The CSOs demanded that Nigerians begin to build volunteerism as a means to reducing costs of elections as done in other parts of
the world towards saving cost and also ensuring credible leaders who will ensure continuity of the process already began by
the INEC in forthcoming elections.

Speaking with Journalists,Head of Research and Policy, Youth Initiative for Advocacy Growth and Advancement (YIAGA) Samson
Itodo who made the call in his Goodwill message revealed that” information available has revealed that the INEC has spent a little close to 120-125 billion naira for the elections”

He said “Though election is a very expensive activity especially for a country like Nigeria which has a huge electoral demography and a vast population, However there is need to cut down on the cost of elections by exploring volunteerism as well as print Permanent Voters cards during the Continuous Voters exercises which would save cost rather than printing TVCs during the Continuous Voters Registration exercises”

The Youth Advocate called for “the appointment of a leadership of proven integrity with the capacity to ensure continuity and sustainability in the reforms already began by the INEC which had led to the success of the 2015 elections”

“We cannot repeatedly year in year out continue to procure machines for the conduct of our elections, the data capture
machines released in 2011, if you look at when it came to the 2015 elections, we needed to buy batteries for the machines,
now we have purchased card reader machines and the fate of the card readers is very important, does INEC have sufficient
storage to keep these machines that they are safe and sound to be used for the Kogi, Edo and Bayelsa elections respectively? He
queried

He said “INEC spends a lot for the recruitment of ADHOC staff, which is quite understandable, however as Citizen we should be ready to make sacrifices and as we advance in our democracy we need to explore volunteers that can help INEC in the
conduct of their elections which could lead to a cut down on costs of recruiting officials, this can be driven by creativity and
innovation , because we cannot in a blanket way say this is the cost which cannot be sustainable”

Similarly Deputy Director MacArthur Foundation, Dayo Olaide stressed the need to improve the INEC on areas of technology
which he said was the major challenge of the electoral body during the 2015 elections.


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Source: http://leadership.ng/news/443101/csos-demand-breakdown-of-n120bn-inec-election-expenditure

I don't regard floyd mayweather as the king of boxer until he boxes with our house of reps members

Kul

APC is a party that have gotten so use to be an opposition party, they never planned on being a ruling party. That why they are opposing themselves

Arrant nonsense, are u sure u typed this?

She was actually interested yesterday

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Kul

Ok ooo

There is problem oo0

Dr Oby Ezekwesili, a former Education Minister
and Co-coordinator of the Bring Back Our Girls
(BBOG) campaign Movement is set to meet with
President Muhammadu Buhari over the missing
Chibok girls.

The Coordinator of the BBOG told the News Agency
of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Lagos that the
group sought audience with President Buhari
regarding the fate of the girls and ways to rescue
them successfully.

Ezekwesili said that the group was not relenting on
the girls.
She said: ”We have written to request for a meeting
with the President as we did on several occasions
with the previous government.

”The meeting shall enable us to express our deep
anxieties at the failure of the Federal Government to
rescue our 219 Chibok girls.

”We shall also use the meeting to understand and
contribute to the strategy for countering terrorism,
ensuring post-insurgency recovery and other
related issues.

”We have formally written on behalf of the
BringBackOurGirls movement in Abuja, nationwide,
and all over the world to the President and sought to
meet with him.

”We now await official confirmation and schedule
for the meeting from the President; 276 Chibok
schoolgirls abducted, 57 escaped, 219 still missing,
zero rescued and we are not giving up on them.”

The female students were kidnapped from the
Government Secondary School in Chibok, Borno
State on the night of April 15, 2014. The Boko Haram
sect claimed responsibility for the kidnap of the
girls.

In a recent development, six female student from
Chibok community, that escaped from the deadly
terrorist group, Boko Haram, during a raid on
government girls secondary school last year, have
been hosted to a reception at the United States
congress.


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Source: http://www.naij.com/471481-ezekwesili-buhari-meet-over-chibok-girls.html

Ok

Hmm

President Muhammadu Buhari, has finally
approved the appointment of a new Accountant
General of the Federation, Premium Times
reports.

The announcement was contained in a
statement signed by Haruna Imrana, the director
communications, office of the head of civil service of
the federation on Thursday, June 25.

Ahmed Idris, a former director of finance was
named the new AGF.

The statement reads: “The Head of the Civil Service
of the Federation Barrister Danladi Kifasi who
announced the appointment said that the
appointment is with effect from 25th of June 2015.”

The statement also revealed that Idris, who hails
from Kano state, was born on November 25, 1960,
and was until his appointment, the Director of
Finance and Accounts, Federal Ministry of Mines
and Steel Development.

Former AGF, Jonah Otunla, resigned on June 12 and
the office of the head of service later conducted
examinations for prospective candidates for the
position.

It was gathered that all directors of finance and
accounts as well as some from the audit department
of all the ministries in the county numbering over
60, attended the first round of the examination.

A source at the HOS said about 20 eligible
candidates were dropped after the first sitting.

President Buhari is, however, yet to name the
ministers in his cabinet. It is believed that the
president is still deliberating on whether to reduce
the number of ministries in the country to 19 in
accordance with the recommendation of the
transition committee.


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Source: http://www.naij.com/471754-just-in-buhari-appoints-account-general-of-the-federation.html

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