edunwablog: Senators, on Wednesday, were divided over the reordered sequence of the 2019 General Elections.
Recall that the reordered sequence puts the presidential election last.
The Independent National Electoral Commission had, before now, put the presidential election among the first elections to be conducted in February 2019.
On Wednesday, the report on the election sequence was submitted for consideration of the Senate by the Chairman of the Senate Committee on INEC, Suleiman Nazif.
After the presentation of the report, Senate President Abubakar Bukola Saraki did not allow senators to make contributions to the amendment, a development that led to series of Points of Orders on the floor of the Red Chamber.
Senators such as Kabiru Gaya, Abdulahi Adamu and Adamu Ailero, had raised points of orders on the passage of the bill.
But the Senate President ruled the lawmakers out of order and when some lawmakers observed the position of their leadership on the matter, they left the chamber,
Fifty-nine of them were to later address the Senate Press Corps, insisting on their opposition to the reordering of the elections.
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Anyway, I and a few others had the opportunity to visit their headquarters in China, an interesting experience. And I have a video to prove it!
Drinokrane: Twitter user @raychellered took to her handle to call out women who let their men make all the money decisions even though they both worked for it.
She is of the opinion that such women allow the men to walk all over them thus reducing themselves to doormats.
Stakeholders in Ekiti State on Tuesday made inputs in a bill seeking to establish the Ekiti State Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and called for its speedy passage.
The bill which is titled, Ekiti State Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(Establishment) Bill 2018, seeks to provide for the creation of a commission that will serve as a watch dog to financial administration in the state, investigate and prosecute corrupt financial crimes.
The bill is obviously inspired by a judgment of the Federal High Court in Ado-Ekiti, which declared that the EFCC lacked the powers to investigate the finances of states except a query first emanated from the Houses of Assembly of the states regarding such infractions.
The court also held that banks holding the financial records of states have no powers to make such records available to the EFCC or the police for the same reason.
At the public hearing, the Speaker of the House, Kola Oluwawole, said the essence of the public hearing was to ensure that every sector made inputs in the bill so that it could rightly be a law emanating from the people.
“The essence is to see the bill as one that touches every aspect of our lives as private or public entities, groups or individuals,” he said.
“Why Ekiti State Economic and Financial Crimes Commission? Overseeing of the financial status and how it is managed is the job of the House of Assembly, not only in Ekiti State, but also in all the 36 states of the federation.
“The federal EFCC has been harassing the states. That is why Ekiti went to court and thank God, we won. We want to set the pace in probity and accountability.”
The Chairman of the House Committee on Public Accounts, Ayodele Fajemilehin, in his remarks, said the law when enacted, would see the commission investigate all economic and financial crimes, including advance fee fraud, diversion of contract fees, abandonment of projects, among others.
Speakers at the hearing include the state chairman of council of traditional rulers, Oloye of Oyè Ekiti, Olú Ademolaju; the state Head of Service, Olugbenga Faseluka; the state Auditor General, Kayode Daniel; Auditor General For Local Government, Bayo Adeojo; Chief Registrar of the state Judiciary, Obafemi Fasanmi; private legal practitioners, representatives of security agencies and NGOs.
Temtee11223344: These are surely great times for the family of Vice-President of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo as one of his daughter is set to walk down the aisle soon.
An excited Osinbajo took to his official Twitter page to make the announcement. He wrote,
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*.He was sentenced last month to 175 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually abusing seven girls
*.First he must serve 60 years in federal prison his child pornography conviction.
Pedo doctor Larry Nassar is pictured shackled and shivering on snowy Michigan tarmac as he flies to hellhole prison to begin 235 year sentence for abusing gymnasts
Disgraced ex-Team USA doctor Larry Nassar got a private jet from Michigan to Arizona where he will begin his federal prison stint.
The 54-year-old doctor was seen being transported without a jacket and shackled on the snowy tarmac at Detroit Metro Wayne County Airport on Friday, as he was transported to the US Penitentiary Tucson.
The flight lasted four hours and 36 minutes, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons would not comment on if it is typical for a high-profile prisoner to fly private citing 'security reasons' that they don't comment on methods of transport.
By Saturday, Nassar was listed as an inmate at US Penitentiary Tucson.
A high-security facility that houses 1,387 inmates along with a 149-inmate minimum-security satellite camp in Pima County.
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Papiikush: Nigeria’s telecommunications company, Globacom, has announced a new promo, which allows subscribers to buy LTE smartphones at rock-bottom prices in February and have access to unlimited browsing in the spirit of Valentine.
The special Valentine offer—from February 5 to19— will be available on the Huawei Y311 smartphone now reduced to N25,000 from N37,000 and the Huawei Y511 reduced to N36,000 from N45,000.
According to the terms of the offer, subscribers who buy the Y311 phone will have access to 3.13GB of free data monthly for four months, while those who purchase the Huawei Y511 will enjoy 4.5GB data for four months.
Globacom said the promo will avail Nigerians the opportunity to buy gifts with enduring benefits for their loved ones.
“The fact that the freebies last for four months means that subscribers can enjoy the non-stop browsing before and long after Valentine’s Day,” the company said in a statement.
Globacom had, in the past, given out prizes to subscribers in its Valentine promos, including an all-expense-paid trip to the exotic Obudu Cattle Ranch resort in Cross River State.
The current special Valentine promo coincides with the new data regime recently announced by the company.
Globacom disclosed in a statement that the new bundles, christened Unmatched Data, will give subscribers 25 percent bonus across all data plans.
It said: “This means that for new subscribers and those who renew before expiration of their plans, a N100 subscription, for instance, will fetch a total of 100MB; a N200 will get 262MB; N500, 1GB and N 1,000, 2GB.
“Also N2,000 will attract a 4.5GB data bundle; N2500, 7.2GB data bundle; all figures include the 25 percent bonus.”
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