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The Independent National Electoral Commission has disclosed that fresh registration in the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration across the country has hit 6.6 million.

The commission disclosed this in Abuja in an update on Quarter three, week nine of the CVR. The update showed that as at 7am on Monday, March 7, the fresh batch of registration reached exactly 6,615,192 million.

From the disclosure, it was also learnt that 3,707,233 registrants completed their registration of which 1,539,618 were through online and 2,167,615 were physical.

INEC disclosed that out of the persons that completed their registration, 1,863,963 were male, 1,843,270 were female, and 31,517 were Persons With Disabilities.

The number of youths from age 18 to 34 who registered were 2,569,852, the report showed.

INEC received 11,346,365 applications for voter transfer, requests for replacement of Permanent Voters Cards, and update of voter information record.

According to the update, the applications were received from 6,051,318 male and 5,295,047 female. Out of them, 108,706 were People With Disabilities across all categories.

Mooh247:
I don't walk around memorising APC constitution

You should google the constitution yourself

Mooh247:
Mai Buni is not available in the country, the law stipulates that an Acting Chairman takes over automatically

Journalist and activist, Agba Jalingo, has narrated how suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, locked him up in a car trunk and drove him from Lagos State to Calabar, the Cross River State capital.

The activist, in a statement on Monday, also hit operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency over their failure to handcuff Kyari and other suspects in court on Monday.

Kyari and other co-defendants appeared before an Abuja court on Monday after the Federal Government, through the NDLEA, arraigned him and others on eight counts bordering on conspiracy, obstruction, and dealing in cocaine, and other related offences.

While two of Kyari’s accomplices pleaded guilty to the charges preferred against them, the embattled former head of the Intelligence Response Team said he was innocent.

He was thereafter denied bail by Justice Emeka Nwite who adjourned the matter till Monday and ordered that Kyari and the other defendants be remanded in NDLEA custody.

Commenting on the appearance of Kyari in court on Monday, Jalingo accused security agencies of giving preferential treatment to the cop.

Jalingo was in 2019 detained for 179 days at the Afokang Prison in Calabar following an allegation of treason by the Cross River State Governor, Benedict Ayade.

He was subsequently released on February 17, 2020, on bail.

The activist on Monday recalled his prison ordeal and revealed that Kyari and ACP Sunday Ubua (also in NDLEA’s net) drove him by road in a car trunk from Lagos to Calabar.

Jalingo said, “Abba Kyari and ACP Ubua were paid by the Cross River Government to arrest me from Lagos, drive me by road in the booth of a Toyota Highlander and hand over to Calabar. I will never forget and don’t ask me to.”

“I was charged. Every day I appeared in court, I arrived with my hands and handcuffs lifted in the air.

“Today, these men are in court, the same men who enjoyed parading their own suspects gleefully in the media, even against the law, they are now covering their faces. Covering their faces from what exactly! The same cameras they flaunted in the faces of those they kept and refused to even take to court?” he asked.

The ‘super’ cop was last year enmeshed in a fraud case involving Ramon Abbas aka Hushpuppi and an American court had ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation to arrest him.

After about a year of footdragging, the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, recently okayed the extradition of Kyari to the United States but many observers have pointed out that the extradition process has hit a brick wall with the NDLEA’s case.

immortalcrown:
It operates with tribal law.

FreeStuffsNG:
Thank God for saving our democracy once again. HE Buni went too far and we would have had a serious national crisis with security implications.

After several postponements of APC convention, he announced the latest one as March 26 and immediately jetted out on the pretense of ill health. He did not hand over and did not do as little as inagurate the essential committees to plan and execute the tasks leading to the convention.

Sincerely, many will agree with Prof Sagay that HE Buni behaved irresponsibly and deserved to be sent packing.

On the mandate of Asiwaju Tinubu I stand. Please support and vote for Asiwaju Tinubu.

Only patriotic Nigerians whose hearts are not filled with hatred, bitterness and bigotry are on board the BAT 2023 winning train.

Patriotic Nigerians on the BAT 2023 winning train are the Nigerians who have a stake in Nigeria and genuinely want to see Nigeria flourish, they are the Nigerians who will rather love than hate, who will rather build than burn/destroy and who will rather bless their nation than curse it.
They are not bigoted tribesmen and those who spread hate against their fellow human being.


Asiwaju Tinubu is a brilliant visionary leader who is a Patriot to the core. He will keep his promise to take Nigeria to greater heights.

By May 29, 2023 it will end in praise to the Glory of God for the handover to an Asiwaju Tinubu led-Presidency.

Please support and vote for the BAT 2023 Presidency project to make Nigeria greater.

Thank you.
May God bless you and may God bless Nigeria for ever.
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seunmsg:
I am currently presiding over the Caretaker/Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee of the APC at the National Secretariat of the Party.

https://twitter.com/abusbello/status/1500810468981620740?s=21

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backbencher:
No, we are not suffering

This is the logical conclusion of underpaying both the power and petroleum sector in the name of subsides for over 5 decades because , poverty

When you pay N162 for something thag really costs 300 naira and above per liter, and when you pay 71 naira for something that costs 83 naira and above per kwh, this is what you get. Bad service, sabotage, corruption, etc. All because you do not pay the money that these sectors need to operate fully.

We have GSM because in the days of bad service, we paid them what they demanded, and at the end they used the profit they made to fix up our working telecoms sector with no gofment money

Even the yam you buy , you can buy it because your farmer gets to sell the yam at the price he or she wants.

So why can't we pay the petroleum and power sector the prices they want to set? Not the prices government sets for them so that they.can pay subsidy that is insufficient?


We don't have light and petrol because we do not want to pay them their price. And thus they cannot make a profit that they would use to give us what we want

You cannot pay for power and petrol below their cost of production and expect good power supply and good qulaity petrol produced from good quality refineries. At the end, you end up with a mess.

This time, let's be realistic. Years of subsides are not helping us. Let's pay the market price for petrol and power. YES....I KNOW....PRICES WILL GO UP AND WE WILL ALL STARVE.....but things will work better , and we may even get more investment, more jobs, more revenue in form of export revenue and taxation revenue...SO THAT WE DO NOT STARVE FOLKS...and eventually lower prices.

Michelle70:
the truth is bitter.
Ur Otueke thief couldn't even build the mbiama bridge that leads to his state, I was on that bridge back in 2015 during heavy traffic along mbiama and the bridge was shaking like hell, I was scared it could collapse.
It was Buhari that had to rebuild a bridge leading to Bayelsa.
It will never be well with whoever supports GEJ

udele1:
I know Anambra will do well with Gas.

Enugu will do with coal.

You can add others.

Chimezirim121:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqUbnXZ_kbo
Below are the pictures of politicians Nollywood actress and actors who protested against Jonathan administration. One of the pictures is about the price of fuel in 2015, it was #140 Lauretta onochie nad her crew in their placard called it 419 what are they calling fuel price now? El-rufai, Dino melaye, Jide kosoko, Pastor Tunde Bakare all protested against the Jonathan administration but they're doing nothing now, what can be done to resolve the issue of fuel scarcity now? Now are calling on the crusaders of 2015 to rise up now to address the issue of fuel scarcity, high cost of living and ASUU STRIKE

Michelle70:
Fuel price doesn't affect me, I dont have a car and I have power so a 25litres fuel could last me for more than 2weeks

kirajustice:
https://politicsnigeria.com/breaking-agf-releases-statement-on-abba-kyaris-extradition-process/

Officialgarri:
At a particular gas station in Lagos, I got PMS at #175 per liter while Northwest in VGC, Ajah sells at normal rate (except I was debited twice and I didn't get a refund, 10k wasted)

In Abuja, I got fuel at #400 per litre but from the black market sellers

Yesterday in Lagos, I got a litre for #600 while others sell at #700.


Just for information sake, how much is fuel in your area?

Lalasticlala mynd44

bitcoinlord:
I want to ask professionals here, why is engineering so difficult to practice in Nigeria?

Michelle70:
dont u get it?
My entire networth in 2015 was 200k, as in everything I had was 200k

Now I make more than 200k monthly but less than 300k.

Some Senior Advocates of Nigeria on Monday rejected the proposed immunity clause for the Chief Justice of Nigeria, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Senate President just as voting on the amendment to the 1999 Constitution begins on Tuesday (today).

The Joint Senate and House of Representatives Special Ad Hoc Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution, had last Wednesday laid its report and recommended 68 amendments, which were based on private members and executive bills as well as memoranda received from the public during its zonal public hearings.

Currently, only the President, Vice-President, the 36 governors and 36 deputy governors enjoy immunity.

Some SANs who spoke in separate interviews with our correspondent on Monday described the attempt to confer immunity on more public officers as unnecessary.

Adegoke Rasheed (SAN), said this was not the first attempt by the National Assembly to confer immunity on presiding officers, adding that the privileged immunity they enjoy is enough.

He described the decision to extend the same to the CJN as nothing but a bribe.

Adegoke said, “The Legislative Privileges Act of 2017 actually tried to confer immunity on presiding officers of the National Assembly which we found unconstitutional. I filed a case which is still pending at the Federal High Court challenging the constitutionality of that, it was pursuant to that they wanted to amend the constitution so that they could insert that provision into the constitution to cure the defect in the Legislative Privileges Act.



“I believe that it is an unnecessary conferment of protection on the National Assembly. Extending it to the CJN is an attempt to bribe the judiciary.

“A judicial officer is protected under the constitution so far as a judge can’t be sued by an act done by himself in his official capacity. The same thing goes for every member of the National Assembly. That has been an ancient privilege. They can’t be sued for comments made on the floor of the house. That’s enough.”

Another senior advocate, Afam Osigwe, said Nigerians should not allow the National Assembly to carry on with the amendment.

Osigwe said immunity would be abused if it is granted to more public officers.

He said, “In every part of the world, immunity is granted only to the President and even the ones granted to the executives is limited, if you commit an offence while in office it may be a ground to take away the immunity. I don’t see why we should grant immunity to the CJN. It is not done.

“We just want to abuse the immunity, is it even not bad enough that we don’t investigate or trial when they leave office and we now want to confer immunity on them while in office? That’s sad. They should not be allowed to get away with this.”

For Mr Ifedayo Adedipe (SAN), the presiding officers of the National Assembly do not deserve immunity.

He queried the logic behind such a proposal, adding that those who had nothing to hide ought not to fear prosecution.

Adedipe added, “It is not right to extend immunity to this set of people. We should open the democratic space and access to the court. If you have a problem with the conducts of presiding officers in the National Assembly how are you going to bring them to justice if you confer immunity on them? I do not support it and I do not think it should be passed into law.

“Are you not aware that in some countries sitting prime ministers are being taken to court? It happened in Israel. Are they going to be committing legal infractions that would be taking them to court every now and then? They do not need immunity.”

Meanwhile, the Nigeria Labour Congress has asked members of the National Assembly to massively support labour-related matters today (Tuesday) during voting on the amendment to the 1999 Constitution.

Speaking during a protest at the National Assembly on Monday, the President, NLC, Ayuba Wabba, said the lawmakers should also vote for the autonomy of local governments and the judiciary.

Wabba stated, “We want an overwhelming vote. We don’t even want 99 per cent when members of the National Assembly are voting tomorrow (Tuesday) and Wednesday. We want 100 per cent of their votes to guarantee the independence of the judiciary and to guarantee full autonomy for local governments.”

Omooba77:
The Federal Government on Monday advised Nigerians to seek information on the treatment of some diseases locally before thinking of going abroad.

According to the government, the advice became necessary because many of its hospitals across the country were now treating some of the medical issues pushing some citizens outside the shores of the country.

Meanwhile, the Federal Medical Centre, Jabi in Abuja, has commenced open heart surgery with four patients already undergoing treatment in the facility.

The government insisted that lack of awareness had compelled some Nigerians to seek treatment on certain diseases abroad rather than locally.

The Minister of State for Health, Dr Olorunnimbe Mamora, gave the advice while inspecting some newly acquired facilities to improve the care of patients by the Federal Medical Centre, Jabi in Abuja.

He said government had put measures in place to address medical tourism.

Mamora said state-of-the-art equipment were being procured by the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to make treatment of surgeries less cumbersome.

The Minister stated that many public hospitals in the country were now treating some medical issues pushing Nigerians abroad.

He said, “There are other areas of medical tourism and we will be addressing them gradually. We are applying state-of-the-art equipment that would make the procedure less cumbersome.

“I can assure you that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration is doing so much in terms of upgrading facilities to make them suitable for the exigencies of the moment.

“The affordability and sustainability are components of the Universal Health Coverage.

“All the medical team that carried out this surgery are Nigerians living in Nigeria. This goes to confirm the long-held view that with the conducive environment and availability of necessary equipment, we have competent Nigerians that can really carry out this procedure excellently well.”

Earlier, the Chief Medical Director of the FMC, Abuja, Prof. Saad Ahmed, explained that the open surgery was the “first of its kind in this facility.”

He said, “We were able to do it successfully and all the patients are doing quite well. The open heart surgery is quite delicate and requires a lot of skills and commitment.

“On this, the Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Health was able to get some infrastructure and some equipment in this regard.

“We usually send some people for training in various accreditation because open heart surgery is teamwork.

“Many people at this moment are undergoing some forms of training. The essence for this is for us to domesticate this and make it a routine procedure in the Federal Medical Centre, Abuja.

“This is for the benefit of all Nigerians but we are looking at how this could benefit our neighbouring countries and some other parts of the world.

“We are starting something small but we are looking at how we can make it big in the nearest future.”

Ahmed explained that the surgeries carried out were possible through the support of Save A Heart Foundation UK, which, he said, provided “skills transfer and also donated some equipment.”

He said, “Because of that, we were able to subsidise the cost for the patients. But in the long run, we want to call on philanthropists, some corporate organisations and societies to actually come forward, to subsidise the cost of this surgery through donations to our Medical Indigent Fund.”

“The Board chairman has been making contacts here and there, to see how he can make these philanthropists come to the aid of some of these people.

“Meanwhile, locally, we have established the Medical Indigent Fund which is being managed by some members of this hospital’s community, all with the aim of generating some funds to assist the indigents.

“With the commencement of the open heart surgery here, it means that the managers of the Medical Indigent Fund need to be up and doing to reach people in far and near to see how they can come to the aid of those that are in need.”

https://punchng.com/medical-tourism-will-soon-be-a-thing-of-the-past-says-fg/