"I declared my assets and the Vice President also did. Those who feel otherwise about our assets declaration should come up with our hidden assets.

If they knew that we have more than what we declared then or now, I challenge them to expose it locally and to the international community...."

"I can't be championing ANTI CORRUPTION war and still be lobbying them(NASS) to pass the budget I presented to them about six months ago. Lobbying them with what? I can't be championing ANTI CORRUPTION war and still be lobbying them(Judiciary) to respect the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, lobbying them with what?

"We must put pressure on the right quarters. Although, we must allow every arm to exercise its due diligence....."
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The Police Public Relations Officer, Force Headquarters, ACP Jimoh Moshood, has said the killing of seven officers in Abuja has shown the need for the Special Anti-robbery Squad (SARS).

The officers were killed in Galadimawa area of the Federal Capital Territory on Monday night.

Speaking with reporters in Abuja on Tuesday, Moshood said efforts were in place to arrest those who killed the officers in the line of duty.

He added that the force would not leave any stone unturned in bringing the perpetrators to book.

"The killing of the policemen goes a long way to prove that the call for the disbandment of the SARS is not justified,” he said.

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Former Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva has said the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will score only 10 votes in the South-east during the 2019 general elections.

He noted that if the region could deny the PDP about six million votes in 2015, the party should expect greater disappointment.

Speaking at the South-East mega rally for President Muhammadu Buhari’s second term bid, Sylva said: “I know for a fact that the South-East did some magics in 2015.

The zone delivered eight million votes to PDP in 2011, and in 2015 the votes were reduced to two million and in 2019, 8 million votes will be delivered to APC in the South-East and further reduce the votes of PDP to ten votes.

“The present administration has done well for the nation. Those complaining are those who enjoyed the profligacy of the past. The majority of Nigerians are with APC and President Muhammadu Buhari”.

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Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Femi Adesina has said that people owe lands only when they are alive.

Adesina said this in connection to the challenge being faced by the government in acquiring land to build ranches for Fulani herdsmen.

Responding to a question on ancestral attachments to land on AIT programme, Adesina said, “Ancestral attachment? You can only have ancestral attachment when you are alive. If you are talking about ancestral attachment, if you are dead, how does the attachment matter?”

Adesina further stated that it was wrong to describe the attacks on farmers as one directed against Christians.

He added, “Hundreds have been killed in Zamfara, are they Christians? People have been killed in Birnin Gwari, are they Christians?

“What is happening is criminality, pure and simple, and it must be brought to an end. Government has a big role to play in this but the people themselves have a role to play.”

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Popular Fuji star, Wasiu Ayinde, popularly called K1 de Ultimate, has said he is supporting President Muhammadu Buhari’s reelection bid because he is fighting a group of Nigerians he described as ‘cabal’.

K1, who sparked reactions on social media sometime last week after he visited the President in Abuja, insisted that Buhari gained his support because of his courage to fight ‘Cabals’ hindering the progress of the nation.

He told Punch, “I support President Buhari and want to carry it on my head because this is the first time we see a person coming twice to fight the cabal that refuses to let this country move forward. The cabal that refuses to let the people of this nation making good of the nation for themselves and for other generations to come.

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No fewer than 500 members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos on Tuesday defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).


The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reports that they defected at an elaborate ceremony held at the APC secretariat in Ikeja.

The defectors, from the 57 councils in the state, were led by a former PDP chieftain, Mr Elijah Awodeyi.

They were received into their new party by the APC Chairman in the state, Mr Tunde Balogun.

Balogun said that the APC was delighted to receive the new members and groups joining the party.

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Sunday Omosule, a landlord, has been arrested for allegedly killing a four-year-old son of his tenant, Mr. Joseph Akpan.

The ugly incident according to a statement by the Ogun State Command Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, happened at No 23, Adeoye Street, Oko Baale Onipanu area of the State.

According to the PPRO, the suspect was arrested following a distress call made to the Onipanu Divisional Police Headquarters that the accused had gone wild by using the pestle to chase his tenants.

Oyeyemi in the statement said the mother of the victim was equally hit with the pestle before the landlord used the same object to hit the boy to death.

When interrogated, the landlord claimed that the reason for his action was nothing but a spiritual attack.

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A chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Akwa Ibom State, Senator Anietie Okon has opined that elections may not hold in 2019 due to the persistent killings across the country.

Okon said this while lamenting the bias handling of the crisis between farmers and herdsmen in Plateau and Benue States, a situation which has led to the spread of the killings in the country.

Addressing journalists in Uyo, the state capital, Okon also called for the resignation of President Muhammadu Buhari over his alleged failure to ensure the security of lives and property in the country.

He said, “The President should resign because he has failed in his primary responsibility which is ensuring security of the citizens. It is not possible for him to continue to give all manner of excuses. Now he has asked us to resort to prayers.

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Former Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi has said that some projects being commissioned by his successor, Nyesom Wike were projects already completed during his administration.

Amaechi stated this during a reception organized in his honor by the Chiefs and people of Ishimbam General Assembly at Elele in Ikwerre Local Government Area of the State.

He said Governor Wike was taking credits for his administration’s achievements because he (Amaechi) did not place priority in commissioning projects.

Amaechi, who is now the Minister of Transportation, also criticised Governor Wike over his weak stewardship on infrastructure and human capital development in Ikwerre land since he became Governor in 2015.

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The Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Lokoja, Prof. Angela Freeman Miri, on Monday defended the expulsion of 13 students over examination leakage.

Making the clarifications over allegations of unjust expulsion by one of the affected students, Lydia Lawal, a 400 -level student of the Department of Economics, Miri said Lawal and other students were expelled over leakage of examination papers in 2017.

Many of the expelled students were final year students of the Department of Economics.

She said the institution’s disciplinary panel would decide the fate of employees that were allegedly involved in the scandal.

The VC in a statement made available to newsmen said: “I can say in the affirmative that these students were expelled from the school before the second convocation in 2017 over alleged exam leakage.

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The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has cautioned the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose against using the money allegedly given to his state by the Rivers State counterpart, Chief Nyesom Wike, for payment of salaries.

The party gave the warning while describing as “dubious and unacceptable” the alleged siphoning of funds of Rivers State by Wike to assist Fayose in paying off his state civil servants’ six months salaries.

In a statement issued by Chairman of the party in the state, Hon. Ojukaye Flag-Amachree, APC accused Fayose of sharing the funds to his “lackeys, court jesters and political jobbers.”

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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Sunday, accused the National chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Adam Oshiomhole of deploying false assertions, propaganda and instigating confusion to manipulate and muzzle the electoral process in Taraba and Delta states come 2019 general elections.

It, therefore, asked Oshiomhole to steer clear of the states as the plot will be stiffly resisted by Nigerians across the country.

PDP spokesman, Kola Ologbodiyan made the revelation in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja.

In his words, “We want to assure him that such cannot work in Delta and Taraba states, no matter the machination, as the people are solidly behind the PDP in our quest with majority of Nigerians to rescue our nation from the clutches of the APC.

“Instead of wasting his time fixating on PDP states, we advice Oshiomhole to direct his energy on how to save his crumbling party from the misfortune of being stuck with an unpopular candidate in President Buhari, who has become the fixed omen of inescapable electoral humiliation of the APC in 2019.

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President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday sympathised with victims of the gas explosion that occurred in Kaduna on Saturday.

The gas explosion on Saturday evening burnt down 14 shops and a pharmacy, with one person injured.

The incident occurred on Ibrahim Taiwo Road by Abeokuta Street in Kaduna.

In a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President said that his heart was with the victims at their hour of distress.

Buhari said he was touched by the losses of life and economic ruin suffered by these “hard working Nigerians striving to make a living through honest labour.”

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Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, on Sunday, lambasted his predecessor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, for saying he will easily defeat President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 if fielded by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Ganduje, who dismissed Kwankwaso’s claim, said the former governor was a political lightweight who cannot win an election in his ward and does not have what it takes to defeat Buhari in the next election.

In a statement issued by the Commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Garba, the governor said Kwankwaso had since lost political relevance in Kano politics.

He said Kwankwaso had since become “a political fugitive who does not have the platform, the intellectual capability and mental ability to manage the affairs of Nigeria.”

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The candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, in the July 14 gubernatorial election in Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi has rubbished the White Paper raised by Ayo Fayose-led government in the state to ban him from seeking political office.

He said that the Supreme Court had ruled against such White Papers in the past on the ground that a citizen’s right to seek elective positions in government cannot be breached based on the report of an administrative panel of inquiry.

VITAL NEWS recalls that the controversial White Paper issued in January 2018 had barred Fayemi from contesting elective office in Ekiti for 10 years.

However, speaking on the controversial matter, ahead of the governorship election, which is barely fortnight away, Fayemi told Vanguard in an interview: “The White Paper cannot stop me or anybody for that matter. Yes, it used to be the case in this country that you can use an administrative panel report or a judicial commission report to orchestrate the ban of a political office holder, but that period has since gone because it became very clear that this was a witch-hunting tool.

“And this is a settled matter by the Supreme Court courtesy of the case between Atiku Abubakar and the Federal Government that you cannot use the report of a commission of inquiry or an administrative panel to ban anyone from public office.

“To the best of my knowledge, I have not even been asked to show up in any court over any allegation. Rabiu Kwankwaso also went through the same experience. He was governor in Kano, went to become a minister and, when he was about coming back as governor, then-governor brought a commission of inquiry report.

"Of course, it was rubbished and the man became governor. I am not the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) but there is judicial precedence.

“Therefore I am sure that the so-called White Paper is of no effect. If anyone has any concrete/verifiable case against me, he/she should prove it in court.”

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