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The Bayelsa State Electoral Commissioner, Mr. Baritor Kpagih, has said that he did not cancel the results of the controversial Southern Ijaw Local Government Area election unilaterally.
Kpagih, who spoke in a telephone interview, said the cancellation of the SILGA poll results was not his sole decision and that it (cancellation) was not premeditated.
He said, “I can’t just wake up and cancel an election. I was with three National Electoral Commissioners that day and we even wanted to brief all the political parties. But it was getting too dark.
‘’The statement I read that day was a prepared statement. It wasn’t an offhand thing. I even said it thrice that I was reading the statement on behalf of the commission.”
Kpagih had, while cancelling the poll in Southern Ijaw, cited widespread violence, ballot snatching and hostage taking of INEC officials and corps members as reasons.
He used the opportunity to dismiss claims in some quarters that he went underground due to the cancellation. Kpagih, who expressed shock and anger over reports that he disappeared and was under pressure by some politicians, lamented that Nigerians, especially politicians, were always fond of attacking personalities instead of issues, whenever things did not go their way.
He also condemned some reports that sensationalised his story without proper investigation.
Kpagih added that after the election, he took time off with the permission of his boss, the INEC chairman, to take a deserved rest and see his family.
He stated, “Only for me to hear different sort of stories being bandied around that I have disappeared; that I was on the run; that I was this and I was that.
“I don’t know what they want from me. In Nigeria, when things are not going the way of some people, they start attacking individuals instead of the issues involved.
“I was baffled when I heard that I have run away and all sorts of things. I am fine and alive, but my major worry is that we are still doing things the way we have always done up till today. Instead of cross-checking facts, people just write things as they like.”
On the rescheduled poll in SILGA, he said, “Our national office will make a pronouncement in no distant time on the next action to take on the issue of the election, because right now, it is out of my hands.’’

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next yr shld com quickly so dat we will knw wia we ar going weda dis man is only gud at speaking or e his ready to take actions

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday said his administration would introduce more policies to further ease the process of doing business in Nigeria.
He said the new policies would focus on increasing efficiency and transparency in government operations and the blocking of leakages from revenue generating agencies.
According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, the President spoke after a presentation made to him on, ‘Enhancing Nigeria’s Trade and Economic Competitiveness,’ at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The statement read in part, “The President said that the new policies will be focused on increasing efficiency and transparency in government operations and the blocking of leakages from revenue generating agencies.
“President Buhari said that his administration was fully committed to closing all the loopholes in the revenue generating agencies, increasing their efficiency in trade facilitation and ensuring transparency in all government businesses so as to attract greater foreign direct investments into the country.
“The President added that the Nigeria Customs Service, Ministry of Trade and Investment, Ministry of Finance and other relevant agencies will be encouraged to adopt some of the positive ideas contained in the presentation for implementation next year.”
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if one mans own no spoil anoda mans own no go beta i wish u suxess anyway Kogi ppl rilly need sum1 to take dem to d next level

hmmm dias ntn way we no go see for Bayelsa voting at 9t, some ppl dey vote for broadday lyt dem still dey vote rubbish talkless of person way vote for 9t wat do u expect?
yeye INEC
yeye voters

The Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, says there is need for Lagosians to embrace attitudinal change.
The governor added that shunning all forms of unethical activities would be in the interest of the state’s socio-economic wellbeing.
Ambode, who was represented by the Special Adviser on Civic Engagement, Mr. Olaide Joseph, spoke at the Iyalode of Lagos forum/health screening with the theme, ‘Improving the Ethical Standard of the Citizenry in Lagos State’.
He expressed delight at the return of peace among youths and various trade groups in the state, especially on the Lagos Island.
The governor said, “I believe that the attitudinal change recorded on the Island will be replicated in every nook and cranny of Lagos State. I hope the development will be sustained in the long run for the socio-economic benefits of the state.
“As a demonstration of this administration’s resolve towards sustenance of peace and ethical rebirth in the state, the Office of Civic Engagement was created to engage the people on attitudinal change and public civility.
“We plan to reawaken good public conduct and moral rebirth. I urge you to spread the message and encourage public civility and good moral conduct within the family, communities and the entire state.”
The governor also commended the Iyalode of Lagos, Chief Bintu-Fatima Tinubu for the free health care exercise for residents.
Tinubu said her motivation was the desire to see a better Nigeria, urging businessmen in the state to give back to the society.

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imagine his own ppl nw turning dia back on im

Traditional rulers and chiefs from former President Goodluck Jonathan’s Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State on Saturday referred to Chief Timipre Sylva as the “governor-elect and the incoming governor.”
Sylva, a former governor and the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the Saturday’s election, had taken his campaign train to Jonathan’s LGA to canvass support for his governorship ambition ahead of the poll in the state.
His campaign train moved from Otuokpoti, Anyama, Otuogiri and finally stopped at Ogbia town, where the governorship candidate and his entourage, including the Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, met with the traditional rulers and chiefs.
Sylva and his entourage were received by the monarchs of the four clans – Anyama, Abureni, Emeyal and Oloibiri – and chiefs that make up Ogbia at the Ogbia Brotherhood house, the first time to receive any candidate there.
His Royal Majesty, King George Lawson, led other traditional rulers such as King Madock Ogbogi, King Omie Theophilus, King Ebi Daniel and the chiefs, who defied the downpour and trooped out to give Sylva a rousing reception at Ogbia Brotherhood.
The traditional rulers blessed and endorsed the candidacy of Sylva, referring to him as the “governor-elect and incoming governor of Bayelsa.”
In their speech read by King George Lawson, the traditional rulers assured the governorship candidate of the APC their total support to actualise his dream.
They said, “We, the entire people of Ogbia, are solidly behind you. We want to assure you that the four clans in Ogbia are with you.
“The Ogbia people are united in ensuring that we give you 100 per cent support. We want to assure you that your victory is foreclosed.
“Ogbia people have resolved that you were doing enough for the people before you were denied your second chance to be governor. We will give you full support to actualise your mandate by mobilising our people to vote en masss for you on December 5, 2015.”
The monarchs, who described Sylva as their son, recalled that four Ogbia sons were commissioners aside from other key appointments while Sylva as the governor.

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Estharfabian:
Vision 2020....

Prostitution will and Must be legal in Nigeria...

They should leave these folks Alone jhoor! They Obviously ain't Hurting anyone..

like u really mean it?

kekakuz:
and 40k a month is his life worth

dat means u support or agreed dat dey shld b collecting money from ppl in an illegal way?

Osirimononaye:
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End Time Reader

kekakuz:
[size=20pt] I seriously don't see any problems with giving police officers money.
It's the least we could do for protecting us considering their salary is not worth their life
My opinion [/size]

i disagree with u on dat dey are paying dem gud salaries atleast a police constable wich is d lowest rank will b getting upto 40k per month i stand to b corrected

Jolllyjoy:
i dnt read at all

no wonder

Osirimononaye:
God Delivers
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Jolllyjoy:
That was then,the world has changed,...

dat shows dat u no read up to 5 lines

In the early 1960s up till the late 1990s, the area used to be very popular among revelers from within and outside Lagos. Day and night, it was the place to be. Ask anybody around Yaba, Ojuelegba and even other parts of mainland Lagos and you won’t miss your way. Empire – a cluster of streets in the heart of Mushin, one of the city’s most densely populated areas, housing several chalets and offering plenty of cheap sex, drugs and alcohol was the name on many people’s lips. The arrival of Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, around 1962, increased traffic to the area. In those days, the area known as Empire which derived its name from Empire Hotel situated on Oguntokun Street, could be likened to a modern day ‘Sodom’ – immorality thrived at every corner.
Though, still playing host to a number of hotels, drinking joints and spots where drugs of all kinds are experimented, Empire has lost some of its spark over the years, with only few people turning to it today for entertainment. But even with such reduced traffic, commercial sex workers operating in the community remain one of the most patronised in Lagos. Charging as low as N500 for a round of sex in some cases, clients from far and near ensure the industry is well and alive.
However, some of the ladies in the illicit profession told our correspondent who visited the area earlier in the week that much of what they earn these days go to policemen who come in weekly to collect compulsory ‘settlements’. According to a handful that interacted with our correspondent after they were assured their identities won’t be revealed, each lady pays between N7000 and N8000 every week to the leader of the hotel where they ‘hustle’. The fee, they revealed, covers rent for the week and ‘tax’ for the police among other such bills. The pressure of meeting up with such weekly obligation is taking its toll on many of the prostitutes who prospect for clients in Empire.
“Whether you work in a week or not, you must pay the regular dues to the head of the hotel,” said one of the ladies whom our correspondent chatted up at ‘White House’, one of several chalets dotting the community’s landscape. “Each of us who ‘hustle’ here pays N8000 every week to our boss who then ‘settles’ the police from it after removing money for rent and other levies. We are over 15 ‘hustling’ here and if you calculate what the police is making from each of us every week, then you’ll see that they are the ones benefiting from our ‘hard work’. If we fail to ‘settle’ them, they’ll come in to harass and intimidate us.
“For the eight months that I have worked here, I have seen a lot of things. It is just as if we have become ATMs for the police; we are like a source of income or a money pot for them. Just to meet up with their demand and avoid harassment, most of us now have to work more than we should. It has not been easy in recent times,” she said.
At ‘Cool Corner’, another hotel in the community where ladies of different ages and sizes flaunt their ‘assets’ in wait for prospective customers, one commercial sex worker who told our correspondent that she was 24 years old and had been servicing ‘clients’ who visit the place since 2012, revealed that the constant demand by police officers has become a big source of worry for many of them. According to her, at least each lady ‘hustling’ at the hotel pays around N5000 as ‘settlement’ to law enforcement officers every week aside from what they churn out for rent. She told Saturday PUNCH that the situation makes them feel like cash cows to the police.
“It is not as if those of us doing this job are proud of it, no. Many of us are doing it because we don’t have other means of survival. But to now imagine that most of what we manage to make these days go into ‘settling’ the police, is really annoying. They don’t come to us directly, they deal with our boss but then we are the ones suffering the whole thing. The money these people make from us every week is just too much,” she said.
At the other hotels in the area our correspondent visited, the feeling was the same. Many of the prostitutes at three other active spots, ‘Number Six’, ‘Lido Hotel’ and ‘Seventeen Bar’, told Saturday PUNCH that the situation has piled pressure on a lot of them and eaten deep into the little funds they usually make at the end of each week. Managers of two of the hotels who our correspondent came across in the course of the findings refused to speak on the issue as a result of fear. They also refused to disclose which station the policemen they pay the weekly ‘royalty’ to come from even though a bar man in one of the hotels pointed that the officers came from all nearby police stations. Empire is in between Mushin and Jibowu in Yaba.
But apart from the dilemma now faced by commercial sex workers in this Lagos neighbourhood, the spate of crime in the area in recent times has reduced life to a living nightmare for many of its residents, especially parents with young boys and girls. Some, for fear of the morals of their children, put them in boarding schools and also give them out to live with relatives and friends in other parts of the state and country.
“I don’t have money to move out of this area yet but I cannot afford to have my children grow up here and have their lives destroyed,” Mrs. Fatima Ahmed, a petty trader, told
Saturday PUNCH. She has lived in Empire for 10 years, witnessing a lot of crimes and moral decadence in the period. “If you see what some of the youths in the area do with drugs, alcohol and dangerous weapons, then you won’t want your children to grow up in such environment if you are a good parent. My children are in the boarding house and when they vacate they go to my cousin’s place at Ifako to stay. They only come here to visit me and their father once in a while,” she said.
A commercial motorcyclist, Stephen Okoli, who lives with his three daughters and wife on Oguntokun Street, told Saturday PUNCH that his girls only return to the area at weekends from his sister’s place in Ojota where they live and go to school at weekdays. He revealed that this was the best way he could protect them from being infected with the immoralities in Empire at the moment.
“My wife and I decided to let them live with my sister at Ojota just to protect them,” Okoli said. “They are little girls still growing up and we don’t want them to be corrupted by what people are doing here. Our fear is that there is no way they would grow up here and won’t be influenced one way or the other by the lifestyle here. Many of the ladies are prostitutes while the young men are into drugs and other crimes. I don’t want such for my children. We want them to have a better life than ours,” he stated.
A community leader, Mr. Olalekan Ajenifuja, told Saturday PUNCH that the influx of criminal elements into the area has made police raids almost a constant feature in Empire. According to him, bands of jobless young men attracted by the cheap sex and drugs the area offers, now call the neighbourhood home, putting the lives of residents and passersby at grave risk.
“Security of lives and property is a big issue as far as this place is concerned. Young men from different areas come in here to smoke and harass people going about their normal activities. But instead of law enforcement officers to help us tackle the situation, they are more interested in making money out of our predicament.
“Though, policemen come in here to raid some of these notorious guys causing problem for us, they do so for their pocket. They release them even that same day after being ‘settled’. This is part of the problem we are facing and we want government to help us out immediately. We do not have peace of mind in this community anymore,” Ajenifuja said.
Spokesperson for the Lagos State Police Command, Joe Offor, debunked allegations of extortion and summary raids in Empire as claimed by many of the commercial sex workers. Offor told Saturday PUNCH that the allegation was a ploy to blackmail officers who were carrying out their lawful duties in the area.
“How much is a sex worker there making that police will go and demand royalty from them every week? In the first place, is police entitled to royalty? Some stories are too fantastic to believe and sometimes you don’t even need to guess too far before dismissing such.
“Allegations like this, as funny as they sound, are not new to the police. The brothels are seen in most cases as criminal hideouts and if there is any suspicion of harbouring any criminal in such places; the police have a right to raid such places regardless of whether prostitutes operate there or not. In the process of such raids, the prostitutes themselves could be arrested if they have been found to be working with the wanted criminals.
“Most times when they make this type of allegation, it’s to blackmail the police to stop doing their good work. There is no issue of extortion; it is just a case of blackmail especially since the Command embarked on a massive onslaught on criminals in Lagos. Criminal hideouts and black spots are being raided daily to sanitise the state. Our officers are committed to protecting the safety of lives and property and shall continue to give their best in the discharge of their duties,” he said.

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President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday pledged the sum of $1m to the African Water Facility for the development of water infrastructure in Africa.
Buhari, who made the pledge in Abuja at the AWF’s 10 anniversary celebration, said the financing requirement for water infrastructure in Africa was estimated at $20bn annually from year 2000 to 2025.
The President, represented by the Minister of Water Resources, Mr. Suleiman Adamu, stated that the AWF’s mandate was to mobilise water investments for Africa, but stressed that the greatest challenge confronting that body was the need to secure adequate funds.
He said, “In fact, the funding gap is almost at a critical point. The AWF urgently needs to receive indication of pledges at this meeting today. I also use this opportunity to note that most of the pledges made by African countries in 2012 have not been paid up, with the sole exception of Burkina Faso. May I remind all of you of the importance of making good on these pledges.
“It is noteworthy and especially to our development partners that African countries greatly value the work of the AWF. As is our custom to take the lead in worthy causes, I am pleased to announce that the Nigerian government hereby pledges to contribute the sum of $1m.”
On the $20bn required annually for water development in Africa, Buhari stated that out of this sum, $10bn would be needed yearly from development partners, adding that the rest would be provided by local and private sector sources.
He said, “Current estimates suggest that actual flows are around 20 per cent of the estimated financing requirement. This is grossly inadequate and requires a major scaling up to safeguard Africa’s future.”
The President urged stakeholders to play their roles efficiently and enjoined African governments to accord increased priority to water sector in their budgetary allocations.

www.punchng.com/buhari-pledges-1m-for-africas-water-infrastructure/

wen will d application close pls?

abnsugbe:
nonsense.....i dont believe in any good tin coming out from Nigeria...Revolution is the key

try to b optimistic for 1c

Henceforth, the Federal Government will not tolerate the poor supply of electricity, unnecessary system collapse and incessant electrocution of Nigerians caused by the usage of substandard materials, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has said.
Fashola informed operators in the Nigerian electricity supply industry on Thursday that one of the primary targets of the present government was to fix the sector.
The minister, in his speech at a stakeholders’ forum organised by the Nigerian Electricity Management Services Agency in Abuja, explained that the functions of NEMSA, as directed by the Federal Government, were to ensure stable systems that would deliver reliable, efficient and regular power supply, and at the same time, guarantee the safety of lives and property in the industry.
Fashola said, “We will, therefore, continue to strive at all times to ensure that provision of electricity services in the country meet the best international practice. This administration is mindful of the sanctity of lives of Nigerians and other electricity consumers and will, therefore, not condone frequent incidences of electrocution and other forms of accidents in the industry due to use of substandard materials and equipment, and poor state of electricity supply networks as well as frequent system collapse.
“Let me avail the opportunity of this forum to appeal to the owners of the privatised generation and distribution companies to redouble their efforts at providing sustainable and reliable electricity to their customers.
“While we appreciate the improvement in electricity supply since the inception of this present administration, I have to reiterate the fact that providing sustainable and efficient power supply in a robust electricity industry is one of the cardinal focus of the Buhari administration.”

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The President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr. Augustine Alegeh (SAN), on Wednesday apologised to the Supreme Court on behalf of some lawyers who criticised the apex court for halting the trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki on charges of false assets declaration before the Code of Conduct Tribunal.
Alegeh tendered the apology during his address at the valedictory court session held at the Supreme Court complex in Abuja in honour of retiring Justice John Fabiyi, who attained the mandatory retirement age of 70 on Wednesday.
“We apologise on behalf of our colleagues who have been criticising this court in the media. We have written letters to the lawyers concerned to say it is unacceptable,” Alegeh said while ending his address at the occasion.
Some prominent Senior Advocates of Nigeria, including Prof. Itse Sagay, Chief Adegboyega Awomolo and Mr. Femi Falana, as well as another Lagos-based lawyer, Mr. Jiti Ogunye, had led the debate on the ruling of the Supreme Court granting an order of stay of proceedings of Saraki’s trial before the CCT, describing the apex court’s ruling as illegal.
They faulted the ruling of the Supreme Court panel, which was led by retiring Justice Fabiyi, on the grounds that it contravened the provisions of sections 306 and 396 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act 2015, which abolished granting an order of stay of proceedings in criminal matters.
In their reaction to the apology tendered on their behalf by the NBA president, Sagay, Falana and Ogunye, said the apology was not for them as they had done nothing wrong to the Supreme Court.
Sagay said, “I have not got any letter from him. I don’t know what he himself has done. Definitely, I have not done anything for which to apologise. Again, I don’t want to be unfair to him, since you are reporting it.
“If he actually said he apologised on my behalf, I’m saying that may be he is making a mistake, he is apologising on behalf of himself. I have done nothing for him to apologise on my behalf.”
Also, Falana expressed surprise at the apology tendered on behalf of the lawyers by Alegeh, saying it was baseless.
He said, “I am flabbergasted to learn that the President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr. Austin Alegeh, SAN, has apologised on behalf of those of us who have had cause to criticise the ruling of the Supreme Court on stay of proceedings. There was no basis whatsoever for the apology. I never offended the Supreme Court or any of its individual members for whom I have my profound respect.
“Instead of bellyaching over this matter, Mr. Aleghe ought to have tendered the apology on behalf of his friends who recently walked out of the Code of Conduct Tribunal after they had openly accused its members of engaging in “judicial rascality” for rightly dismissing the illegal application for the indefinite suspension of the trial of the defendant in the case of FRN v Dr. Bukola Saraki. Even though he is not a member of the Disciplinary Committee of the legal profession, Mr. Aleghe gave them a clean bill of health.
“Mr. Alegeh has never written any letter to me, either as the President of the NBA or in his personal capacity. If he eventually does I shall let him realise that in criticising the revered members of the Supreme Court I drew inspiration from the epochal words of Fabiyi J.C.A. (as he then was) in the case of Ekwenugo v. Federal Republic of Nigeria (2001) 6 NWLR (PT 708) 171 where his lordship observed inter alia:
“Nigerian judges do not operate in utopia. We operate in Nigeria. And no Nigerian judge can rightly claim he has not heard that Transparency International rates our nation-state as the most corrupt in the whole universe in the year 2000. This is ear-aching.”
Also, Ogunye described Alegeh’s apology as rather unfortunate.
He said, “The apology credited to the NBA president on this matter is rather unfortunate in so far as I am one of the lawyers that commented on the ruling of the Supreme Court in the case of Saraki and the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“I want to believe that he didn’t have me in mind. Maybe he was talking about other lawyers and if he did have me in mind, the apology is for him and not me. And if I knew the other persons too well, I will also say that that the apology will not apply to them.”
Meanwhile, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Alhaji Abdullahi Ibrahim, who spoke on behalf of the Body of SANs at the valedictory court session, charged judges to report lawyers who tried to unduly influence them to appropriate authorities, saying such erring lawyers would be kicked out of the legal profession.
He said the body rejected any plan for the establishment of special courts to try corruption cases, saying that it would not solve the problems unless “judges who know the law and are conscious of their public functions” were in place.
Abdullahi said, “There are stories of counsel going around trying to influence the bench. I think the time has come for the judiciary and its members to stand up and be counted in the fight against corruption.
“I do not see any reason why judges should not report to the appropriate body any lawyer who goes beyond his professional calling and engages in acts calculated at perverting the course of justice.
“I am sure that the bar and the entire legal profession will not hesitate to show the counsel, irrespective of status, the way out.”
“I do not believe that we need any special court for corruption cases. The existing courts can effectively handle corruption trials if there is compliance with the practice direction made by the Chief Justice of Nigeria in 2013 and the new Administration of Justice Act.”
“One is tempted to ask, if we create a special court for the purpose of trial of corruption cases, are we going to create special judges, special investigators, special prosecutors and special defence lawyers? Will those sets of investigators, prosecutors, judges, and defence lawyers be from the moon? Does delay in criminal case only?” he asked

www.punchng.com/saraki-sagay-falana-reject-nbas-apology-to-scourt/

OrlandoOwoh:
Is this the party that wants to stage a come back in 2019?

i doubt dat because dey av even failed as an opposition party self

PDD always looking for d negative side
am optimistic dat dis man will perform wonder. Buhari knws his capability dats y e bombarded im with dose 3 ministries

The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party says the immediate past Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, who is now the Minister of Works, Power and Housing, is not an achiever.
The party, therefore, stated that Fashola might fail as a minister.
The Publicity Secretary of Lagos PDP, Mr. Taofik Gani, said this during a telephone interview with our correspondent on Tuesday.
The PDP spokesman said it is a known fact that there was an increase in the number of homeless Lagosians during Fashola’s eight-year rule.
Gani recalled that Fashola had said in 2013 that there was no such thing as low-cost housing because there was no low-cost cement or low-cost labour.
He said many slums were demolished while expensive estates were built by the Fashola administration.
Gani wondered if Fashola would continue with his ‘elitist style of leadership’ even in poor areas of the country.
He said, “Can Fashola point to any low-cost housing scheme he did in his eight years as governor? The houses he built under the Lagos Home Owners Scheme cost about N15m on average. Can the Eko Atlantic – which cost hundreds of millions of naira to buy – be classified as affordable housing? Can Fashola be compared with former Governor Lateef Jakande who built over 20,000 housing units in four years?
“There is nothing super about Fashola. He was only compensated by President Muhammadu Buhari because Lagos contributed greatly to Buhari’s campaign.”
The PDP said Fashola’s performance in the area of works when he was governor was abysmal. Gani said most of the projects that Fashola took credit for were done by concessionaires and private companies.
He noted that on the Victoria Island, some banks implemented various projects through their Corporate Social Responsibility programmes.
Gani said now that Fashola is in charge of all Federal Government infrastructures across the country, his deficiencies would be exposed.
He added, “Fashola was a governor that relied heavily on propaganda. Most of the projects he did were through Public-Private Partnerships while some came about through the CSR programmes of some companies.
“Projects were done by private investors and concessionaires. So, as far as we are concerned, he never merited the praises showered on him. He ran a government of mediocrity.”
The PDP spokesman recalled that Fashola had said, while criticising former President Goodluck Jonathan in March, that he could fix the electricity problem within a year. Gani, therefore, urged Fashola to live up to his words.
Gani, while evaluating the performance of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, said he did not need to criticise Ambode since Lagosians were doing that every day.
He, however, urged Lagosians not to be deceived by the inauguration of 200 BRT buses by Ambode.
He said, “Ambode has not performed well. Ambode inaugurated some BRT buses but what has the state benefitted from the ones on the ground? And now the Senate has approved $200m for Ambode’s government. It is unfortunate.”
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Aminat508:
That was a wrong pics from his burial.

Here is the real pics below:

we cant say dat d cloth is totally wrong wen a male dies and after dey shroud im with white clothes den dey cover im with brown clothes and for female after d white dey cover dem with black clothes dey do dese because d white cloth is sort of transparent and so dat d transparency of d cloth will nt cause any discomfort to d ppl seeing it 2ruout d process of praying to d corps and carrying it so wen dey finally want to lay d person down to d grave dey will remove d brown or black cloth remaining only d white one b4 d person is finally lowered to his or her grave
Allah knws best

A former Acting Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Nestor Binabo, has cried out that his life is being threatened by Governor Seriake Dickson.
Binabo, who spoke in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital, on Monday, said Dickson, while addressing Non-Governmental Organisations inside the Banquet Hall, in the city, publicly declared that he (Binabo) was his greatest enemy in the Sagbama Local Government Area.
Both Binabo, a leader of the All Progressives Congress, and Dickson are from the same Sagbama Local Government Area of the state.
Binabo was the person who handed over to Dickson in 2012.
The Peoples Democratic Party has however denied Binabo’s allegation, describing it as wicked.
In a statement on Monday by its Director of Publicity, Restoration Campaign Organisation, Mr. Jonathan Obuebite, the PDP stated that there was no time Dickson addressed any gathering where he threatened that “Nestor Binabo was his greatest enemy as alleged.”
Obuebite said any attempt to link the governor to such allegation was not only wicked but callous political orchestration, which should be condemned.
Obuebite said Dickson was not the conventional politician, known for lies and needles propaganda and blackmail to score cheap political points.
But Binabo said he decided to cry out following attacks on APC leaders in the state by suspected thugs of the PDP, which had already claimed the life of an APC chieftain and left many others injured.
The APC leader said, “Dickson said that an Okunbiri man who has joined the APC is his greatest enemy in Sagbama. Everybody knows that I am from Okunbiri, close to Dickson’s community in Sagbama. I am an APC stalwart and since l joined APC, Dickson has been after me.
“This is the second time he is declaring me his arch enemy. I don’t know what he meant by declaring me his arch enemy. First of all, I handed power over to him. I conducted a peaceful election and spent the resources to make him a governor. So, I don’t see why Governor Seriake Dickson sees me as his arch enemy.
“It is not a surprise to me at all, as a former Deputy Speaker, a Speaker, and an acting governor of this state, having moved to APC and more so from his own local government, he knows he has failed. And I think that is the primary reason he has continuously declared me his arch enemy.”
In a related development, a former Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State and chieftain of the APC, Werinipre Seibarugu, has lost no fewer than 2,000 of his kinsmen to the PDP.
Seibarugu’s kinsmen were said to have defected to the PDP at a campaign rally held in Gbarain and Ekpetiama clans of the Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state.
Dickson and his campaign team were in the communities to meet with the people in continuation of his grassroots tour of the state.
The people of the clans said PDP was the only party that had been fair to the communities in terms of political appointments and provision of infrastructure.
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op wias d recruitment?

AMZYMAYO:
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olumide81:
Just hoping he wont be distracted by their 'noise making'....... Sai baba

no worry baba will nt b distracted

i see big competition among d ministers n dis will make all of dem to perform

President Muhammadu Buhari has set target for his ministers, Saturday PUNCH has learnt.
Buhari had, on Wednesday, administered oaths of office on 36 ministers whose appointments had earlier been confirmed by the Senate.
After assigning portfolios to them, the President presided over his first Federal Executive Council meeting where he told the ministers to see their appointments as a call to duty.
A top government official told our correspondent on Friday that the President expects the ministers to be on the same page with him in his bid to deliver on the promises he made to Nigerians.
He said the President would be assessing the ministers’ performance personally and through the Office of the Chief of Staff.
Saturday PUNCH however gathered that part of the criteria to be used would include adherence to the party manifesto on deliverables; adherence to financial regulations/ prudence in the management of human and material resources, as well as level of budget implementation.
The source said, “The ministers cannot afford to go on honeymoon. The President is monitoring and assessing them. They will be fooling themselves if they claim ignorance of this.
“The truth is that the expectation is high and the ministers must key into this administration’s mission quickly.”
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, confirmed that Buhari would evaluate ministers’ performance.
Adesina said if one did not monitor, one could not evaluate.
He said, “The President will definitely assess the ministers’ performance. When you don’t monitor, you cannot evaluate.
“It makes sense to expect the President to evaluate them because there are deliverables.”
Asked what Buhari would be laying emphasis on while evaluating the ministers, the presidential spokesman said, “The President had told the ministers at the presidential retreat organised for them that this administration would be judged by the number of Nigerians pulled out of poverty. This is one of the focuses of the government.
“The ministers will be assessed based on the set goals of this administration.”
Buhari had at the opening of the two-day retreat organised by the Office of the Secretary to the Government while describing the work of restoration and renewal as urgent and immense, said Nigerians’ expectations were high.
He added that government officials’ determination to succeed and change the fortunes of the country must be equal to the challenge.
“Our economic focus will be policies that will ensure inclusive growth and we will count our achievements based on the number of Nigerians we move out of poverty,” the President had said.The President is also said to be keeping faith with the APC manifesto in dealing with the myriad of problems facing the nation.
On agriculture and food security, the 29 paged party manifesto says the All Progressives Congress-led administration will embark on a massive and comprehensive re-organisation and revolutionalisation of the agricultural industry.
The objective, it adds, is to sustain agriculture as the strategic engine and prime-mover of national economic development to feed the nation; to supply the raw material for industrial processing and manufacturing; and to earn stable remunerative prices in the local and international market.
Incidentally, the Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh, played a key role in drafting the document.
In the area of power supply, the APC promised to vigorously pursue the expansion of electricity generation and distribution of up to 40,000 megawatts in four to eight years.
It also says the party will work assiduously at making available power from renewable energy sources such as coal solar, wind and biomass for domestic and industrial use, whenever these prove viable.
To deal with the challenges in the transportation sector, the party promised to revamp the railways, waterways and road transportation noting that these are key to economic growth and development.
In the area of mineral and steel development, the party said, it will invest heavily in the abundant solid mineral resources in all parts of Nigeria in a bid to create jobs, alleviate poverty and provide critical infrastructure.
For education sector to develop, the manifesto says the APC in government will, after carrying out a thorough review of the education sector and having established the main causes of the sector’s terrible decline, fully implement and enforce the provisions of the Universal Basic Education Act with emphasis on gender equity in primary and secondary school enrolment whilst improving the quality and substance of our schools.
It also promised to reinstate the now abandoned Teacher Teaching Colleges to train teachers, target up to 10 per cent of our annual budget for the sector whilst making substantial investments in training programmes at all levels of the educational system, re-introduce Technical and vocational education nationwide.
The party also promised to provide adequate material support to such institutions, energise the inspectorate divisions of education ministries nationwide, and offer free and qualitative primary and secondary education to all but to tertiary level for women among others. To tackle challenges in the health sector, it hopes to rationalise health care delivery through conscious efforts to enhance primary health care facilities across Nigeria and reduce costs and unnecessary pressure on secondary/tertiary health care facilities and increases the quality of all Federal Government owned hospitals to world class standard within five years.
The document also declares the APC’s readiness to provide free ante-natal care for pregnant women, free health care for babies and children up to school age and for the aged and free treatment for those afflicted with infectious disease such as tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS and to boost the local manufacture of 70 per cent of pharmaceuticals and make drugs for HIV/AIDS available.
According to the document, the APC-led administration will also vigorously pursue, promote and accelerate sector’s economic and social development through industrialisation to create jobs, wealth and reduce poverty.
The APC manifesto equally highlights the party’s programmes under the following sub-headings: Guiding Economic Policy; Jobs and the Economy; Oil and Gas Industry; Environment; Housing; Human Rights; Women and Gender Issues; Mass Media and Labour; Local Government System; The Niger Delta; Political Violence; Persons Living with Disability; Prisons Service and Corrections; Foreign Policy and International Relations; National Security and Defence; Politics and Governance; Conflict Resolution, National Unity and Social Harmony; Senior Citizens, Youths, Sports And Culture as well as Code of Conduct and Policy Conferences.
It will be recalled that former President Goodluck Jonathan had on August 22, 2012 made his ministers to sign what he called performance contracts.
The contracts were prepared by the National Planning Commission and they contained benchmark performance indicators by which each minister was monitored, assessed and evaluated in respect of the implementation of the former President’s Transformational Agenda.
Heads of departments and agencies under each ministry also signed portions of the performance contract with their ministers.

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make dem carry out d employment process asap