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AN aggrieved loser of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primaries in Lagos State, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, has failed to secure an interim injunction from the Federal High Court, Abuja Division, to aid his cause.

Obanikoro, who was the former Minister of State for Defence, had requested the court to stop the party from submitting the name of the declared winner of the primary election, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as its standard bearer for the state in 2015.

The decision followed an exparte application moved on Obanikoro’s behalf by his counsel, Chris Uche (SAN), praying the court to restrain PDP and INEC from dealing with Agbaje as the former’s flagbearer in the 2015 governorship race.

However, in his ruling, Justice Ahmed Ramat Mohammed ordered Obanikoro to put the defendants on notice for them to appear in court to show cause why the order should not be granted.

In the substantive suit, Obanikoro ‎accused a chieftain of PDP in Lagos State, Olabode George, and Agbaje of recruiting armed thugs to the disadvantage of other candidates at the governorship primaries held on December 8.

“I also saw the police recover five guns and rounds of ammunition and life cartridges from the thugs brought by Olabode George and Mr. Jimi Agbaje, a co-aspirant,”‎ the former minister claimed.

His averment is contained in an affidavit in support of his suit seeking to nullify Agbaje’s victory at the said primaries. Obanikoro, with 343 votes, came second behind Agbaje, who polled 432 votes to clinch the party’s ticket. Three other candidates participated in the poll.

However, in a suit filed on December 15, he urged the court to nullify the primaries and order a fresh one on the grounds of alleged electoral irregularities that marred the December 8 exercise.

He alleged in his suit of December 18 that the election was marred by electoral irregularities such as over-voting, intimidation of his delegates by thugs loyal to George and Agbaje, as well as improper accreditation of delegates.

According to him, there were 806 delegates accredited for the primaries but, “surprisingly from the 806 accredited delegates, the electoral officers returned a total number of 866 votes.”

He added that the accreditation of delegates, which ought to last between 8a.m and 12noon, as stipulated by the PDP Electoral Guidelines, did not start until as late as 6.30p.m.

In an affidavit he personally deposed to, Obanikoro stated that the thugs “at this point began to disrupt the venue by throwing bottles, stones and firing gunshots in the direction of the delegates loyal to me and preventing other delegates loyal to me from entering the venue.

“That the gunshots attracted another detachment of policemen, who engaged the thugs in a gun and teargas battle during which many of the delegates loyal to me ran for their dear lives to avoid being caught in the crossfire between the police and the armed thugs.”

A total of $7.92billion in illicit capital flowed of out Nigeria in 2012, according to the latest report released by the US-based non-profit research and advisory organisation, Global Financial Integrity (GFI).

For the year 2012, only Nigeria and South Africa are the two African countries ranked in the top 20 countries for illicit financial outflows. Nigeria was ranked 17th behind South Africa, which ranks 9th with cumulative illicit financial outflows of $29.13 in 2012.

According to the report, “Illicit Financial Flows from Developing Countries: 2003-2012,” emerging economies lost a whopping $991.2billion in facilitating crime, corruption and tax evasion.

However, in the 10-year period between 2003 and 2012, Nigeria was ranked 10th with a cumulative of $157.46billion, surpassing South Africa which was ranked 12th with a cumulative $122.14billion. Also, Nigeria and South Africa are the only two African countries that were ranked for illicit financial outflows in the 10-year period between 2003 and 2012.

“The fraudulent mis-invoicing of trade transactions was revealed to be the largest component of illicit financial flows from developing countries, accounting for 77.8 percent of all illicit flows, highlighting that any effort to significantly curtail illicit financial flows must address trade mis-invoicing,” said the report.

Frontline political activist, Chris Nwokobia, said that the report vindicates the position of former CBN governor, Sansui Lamido, that $20billion was missing from the coffers of the federal government.

According to Nwokobia, when Sanusi said that $20billion was not missing, many dismissed him as playing politics and he was harassed out of office.

“This report is only saying that what Sanusi said was correct. Nigeria has always been corrupt but this is the first time that corruption is driving the wheel of state,” Nwokobia said.

The report, authored by GFI’s chief economist Dev Kar, and GFI’s junior economist Joseph Spanjers, reveals that “illicit financial flows hit a historic high of $991.2 billion in 2012 – marking a dramatic increase from 2003, when illicit outflows totalled a mere $297.4 billion.”

It also notes that illicit outflows are “growing at an inflation-adjusted 9.4 percent per year, amounting to double global GDP growth over the same period.”

“As this report demonstrates, illicit financial flows are the most damaging economic problem plaguing the world’s developing and emerging economies,” said GFI president Raymond Baker, a longtime authority on financial crime. “These outflows – already greater than the combined sum of all FDI and ODA flowing into these countries – are sapping roughly a $1trillion per year from the world’s poor and middle-income economies.”

The Federal Government and Messrs Signature Value Homes Ltd., on Tuesday signed over 80 million dollars Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop 1,672 houses in the FCT.

The Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Mrs Akon Eyakenyi, signed on behalf of the Federal Government, while Mr Anand Ramani, Managing Partner, signed for Messrs Signature Value Homes Ltd.

Eyakenyi said that the event was significant to this administration to meet its promise in the housing sector.

She said that the Federal Government had a great mandate to ensure that Nigerians had shelter over their heads and to ensure that the vision of affordable and quality housing was met.

She said the development of the houses on a 20 hectares of land situated at Gwagwalada was a mixed development that would comprise of one, two and three bedroom flats.

The minister said that the ministry had the mandate to handle the process of providing houses and to achieve this; advert was placed and competent developers were invited to partner with the ministry.

“Several people applied, due process was taken and the selection was made and today we are about starting the implementation process with the developers carefully selected by the ministry.

“The Messrs Signature Value Homes Ltd., developers did a very beautiful presentation and gave all the proofs that they have financial backing to undertake the project.

“The ministry, having carefully handled the technical part, is today signing the MoU to enable the developer mobilise to site,’’ she said.

Eyakenyi said the role of the ministry in the project, among others, was to stress the need for quality and affordable houses.

She said that the ministry on its part gave an unencumbered land to the developer free of charge so as to take part of the construction cost off.

Also, the Minister of State for FCT, Mrs Olajumoke Akinjide, commended the Minister of Lands for putting to good use the land allocated to the ministry.

Akinjide said that the provision of the 1,672 house will go a long way to reduce the housing deficit in the country while urging the developers to do a good job.

“This is your first project in Nigeria, so the implementation of what you do will open the gateway for you to do more jobs. This is because after today, the 36 states of Nigeria will also be a part of this project.’’

In his remarks, Ramani said that the entire development would be done in phases with the overall cost of 80 million dollars and up to six types of houses.

Ramani said that 300 to 400 houses would be constructed in the first phase of the development which would be completed between six to nine months.

He said that each house would cost between 30 to 32 dollars, and assured Nigerians of a good job.

“This is our first project in Nigeria so our future in Nigeria depends on the delivery of this particular project so we will not disappoint you.

“We thank the government for this privilege and we promise to do our best; we will use the modern planning technology to develop this project. (NAN)

The Senate yesterday urged the Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC) to employ all administrative means possible to ensure all internally displaced persons(IDPs) vote in the 2015 elections.

In the same vein, Senator Ali Ndume ( Borno South) lamented that disenfranchment of IDPs call into doubt the legitimacy of the forthcoming elections adding that Afghanistan, Syria, Cuba,Iraq have all incorporated IDPs into the electoral system.

This resolution was sequel to a motion sponsored by Senator Ali Ndume titled, “Electoral Act 2010 amendment bill.”

LEADERSHIP recalls that there are fears that the insecurity in the north east which has led to many internally displaced persons in the region may disenfranchise some voters.

The motion originally a bill was converted to a motion on the grounds that passing the bill into law before the general elections next year may not be feasible adding that the INEC can make this happen administratively.

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The Federal Government of Nigeria on Monday announced plans to spend N1.3 trillion to develop and rehabilitate infrastructures in public universities.

Minister of Education, Malam Ibrahim Sekarau said in Abuja at the Public Presentation of Strategies on Consolidating the Transformation in the Education Sector that government will ensure that the 190,000 out of school children affected by the Boko Haram insurgency in the North Eastern part of the country continue their education.

He said while the government ensures the safety of all schools in the area, they have also started the placement of children in volatile areas to unity schools across the nation.

Reviewing the National policy on education as a guide to the sector development and implementation of policies, he said in order to support better learning, the government is set to establish guidance and counselling centers in schools in the country.

His words: "The government is committed to the safety of our children in schools as a result of security challenges we are facing in some parts of the country. This will also involve providing facilities for our children to continue their education where their institutions may have been affected.

“The Needs Assessment of public tertiary institutions enabled us to identify challenges the institutions are facing in relation to the ability to serve the interests of the society. As a result, we have committed N1.3 trillion to the development and rehabilitation of infrastructure in our public universities.

"We are working with the States government of the affected states and I think they are co-operating, we are gradually identifying them, most of them are scattered out of their stations, so we are gradually doing a lot of census and we are reaching out to them and sensitizing them.

"Most of them are so scared of going back to school again, so some of them need a lot of rehabilitation, counseling and we know the number is quite enormous. So far the numbers that have been identified have been placed in various institutions, especially in federal government colleges".

"The Federal Government would establish Guidance and Counseling centers in educational institutions, to support better learning outcome.

"At the basic education level, over 600,000 teachers from across Nigeria have participated in diverse training programmes.

"At the tertiary level, over 9,000 lecturers from public tertiary institutions have benefited from scholarship programmes from Master's to doctoral levels. This is part of the drive to increase the number of academic staff in doctoral degrees in our tertiary institutions."

He confirmed that allocation to the education sector had increased from N234.8 billion in 2010 to N495.2 billion, saying, “Intervention funds specific to Basic and post-Basic education have also been consistently on the rise. Intervention funds to support Universal Basic Education, UBE, has totaled over N240 billion.

"At the tertiary level, TETfund interventions to tertiary institutions have been on the rise in the allocation to each public university rising from N303million in 2010 to N912million in 2014, from N180million for Polytechnics, to N661million and from N157million to N581million for colleges of Education. High impact interventions have also seen selected universities receiving N3billion each and polytechnic and colleges of Education receiving N1billion to support their development as centers of excellence."

Shekarau therefore appealed to Nigerians to continue to support the government and the education sector as the administration work to transform the sector.

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