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Majority leader, Femi Gbajabiamila  The majority leader of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila and has vowed to sue those behind allegations of his conviction in the United States for defamation of character against him. The Director-general of the Gbajabiamila Campaign Organisation, Abdulmumin Jibrin, said the claims were in attempts to diminish the character of Gbajabiamila, the leading speakership candidate for the 9th National Assembly. "New Telegraph reports that Jibrin also disclosed that the lawmaker has instructed his lawyers to take every necessary legal step to seek redress and sue for defamation with immediate effect." He said: “We remain focused and undeterred and prepared for whatever antics they may further unfold. Whatever they choose to do and however, Femi Gbajabiamila and Ahmed Idris Wase will be on the floor on the 11th live and direct to be elected speaker and deputy speaker respectively to take over from Speaker Yakubu Dogar...

Bauchi State Governor Bala Muhammed The Economic Advisory Committee earlier set up by the newly sworn-in Bauchi State Governor, Sen. Bala Muhammed, on Thursday presented the governor with a blue-print of how to boost the state’s internally generated revenue. The Chairman of the Committee, Prof. Usman Bugaje, while presenting the document in Bauchi, said the material also contained suggestions that enable the creation of job opportunities in the state. “What we have here is the economic blueprint that will guide your policies in the next four years. “We urge you to implement the recommendations in this report with the best hands you can get around. Agriculture is an area where Bauchi has a comparative advantage to grow faster than others, so we implore you as governor to focus more in this area. “In the next two years, we are looking at a Bauchi State that will export products to different parts of the world, and that will serve as reference point to other states,’’ said Bugaje. While r...

The Court of Appeal, sitting in Abuja, on Thursday nullified the election of Ned Nwoko as the Senator representing Delta North Senatorial District. The court, in its ruling, said the case instituted at the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, which culminated in the recognition of Nwoko as the winner of the election by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, was wrongly filed. The appeal court said that the matter ought to have be brought at the lower court before the expiration of 14 days from the time of the incident that occasioned the suit. Besides, it ruled that the failure of the applicant at the lower court to file the case before the expiration of 14 days showed that the case had become statute barred and the lower court lacked jurisdiction to handle the case in the first place. In its words, “As at the time the matter was instituted at the Federal High Court, the case was statute barred. We set aside the decision of the Federal High Court and strike ...

PDP's vice president Candidate Peter Obi The vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Peter Obi has call on President Muhammadu Buhari and the 29 state governors sworn-in on Wednesday to increase tempo of development in Nigeria. Obi gave this charge in a press release signed by his Media Officer, Mr Val Obienyem while commemorating 20 years of uninterrupted democracy in Nigeria. Obi, in the statement  urged the newly sworn-in chief executives to hit the ground running immediately to accelerate activities that would position the nation on a path of all sector growth. “Do not allow the ecstasies of your elevation to becloud your sense of purpose,”  he said. Obi described their swearing in as `historic’, adding that it coincided with 20 years the nation had practiced uninterrupted democracy. He reminded them that they were saddled with the task of repairing the chequered democracy, which according to him was now going through a tough time.  In hi...

Former president Obasanjo  Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo and 393 others aboard an Ethiopian Airlines plane, escaped crash on Wednesday at Murtala Mohammed International Airport. Obasanjo who was reported to have been absent from the inauguration ceremony of President Muhammadu Buhari for a second term, escaped crashing in the plane. Other prominent Nigerians in the Ethiopian airline passenger aircraft, Boeing 777-300, included the Director General of Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) Amb. Ayoola Olukanni. Also in the plane was Prof Samson Tunde Adebayo, the Director of Ports Inspection, National Agency For Food And Drug Administration And Control (NAFDAC) as well as scores of Nigerians and other nationals. The passenger aircraft, ET-901, had departed the Bole International Airport, Addis Ababa, at about 9:10 a.m., Ethiopian time; 7 a.m Nigerian time. A NAN correspondent, who was among the passengers, reported that the almo...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday in Abuja signed the 2019 Appropriation bill of N8.92 trillion into law. The president had submitted the 2019 budget of N8.83trillion to the Senate but was increased by about N10billion by the Upper House, bringing the amount to N8.92trillion. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the dignitaries who witnessed the signing of the budget, which took place at the mini-conference hall of the president, included the Senate President Bukola Saraki and the Speaker of the House of Representatives,Yakubu Dogara. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha and the Chief of Staff to the President, Malam Abba Kyari also witnessed the signing of the budget. Others at the event were the Ministers of Finance (Zainab Ahmed), Budget and National Planning (Sen. Udoma Udu Udoma), Information and Culture (Lai Mohammed) and the Chairman  of the Senate  Committee  on  Appropriations , Sen.  Danjuma Goje , The Senio...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Zamfara, Bello Matawalle winner of the state’s governorship election. INEC Chairman Professor Mahmood Yakubu who announced this during a press conference in Abuja on Saturday, said the opposition party won in all elective positions in the state. Yakubu said the announcement followed the Supreme Court decision that sacked all candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the general election. It would be recalled that the Supreme Court had ruled the party did not hold a valid primary election and subsequently voided its votes. The PDP Governorship candidate Matawalle polled 189,452 to emerge second in the governorship election. Source

As indicated by various reports, a speculated hooligan met his end today because of furious young people in Akwa Ibom state.  As indicated by reports, a few hooligans claimed to work for the All Progressives Congress (APC), attempted to capture discretionary materials in the wake of attacking Ikono Ward 10 Unit 9 in the neighborhood government region of the state.  The hooligans purportedly shot four individuals over the span of the intrusion.  It was accumulated that upon their endeavor to carry off the materials, one of the hooligans was caught and set on fire by the furious adolescents. See picture below:

DELTA State Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa has communicated certainty that he will rise successful in the governorship surveys hung on Saturday . Senator Okowa enhancing white long sleeve shirt, white pant, white fez top and dark shoes was went with to the casting a ballot focus by his significant other, Dame Edith and his youngsters who casted a ballot in various surveying units Ward 2, Omi Primary School, Owa-Alero, Ika North-East nearby government territory of Delta State. Delta State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa (righ), at his surveying unit, Ward 2, Unit 3 amid the Governorship race at Owa-Oyibu in Ika North East LGA The senator in a visit with news men not long after throwing his votes at Unit 3 at precisely 8.40 am, expressed, "by the beauty of God, I will rise successful; I have banded together with Deltans, I have worked with them, and by God's elegance, a ton of them will vote in favor of me." "The main thing we are doing is to guarantee that the individuals...

There was palpable panic among residents in some key states of the country on Friday as the Nigerian Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance jets began air patrols over perceived flashpoints in the North-East, Kwara, Adamawa and Rivers states. The patrol was going on just as soldiers and policemen deployed for the elections took over the streets and some strategic locations in Rivers, Delta, Adamawa, Bayelsa, and Akwa Ibom states ahead of the governorship and Houses of Assembly elections holding on Saturday (today). Residents and indigenes of Adamawa, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa and Kwara complained of intimidation by security forces patrolling parts of their states. In Adamawa, our correspondents noticed the movement of security vans from Yola to other parts of the state on Friday morning. Some of the indigenes who spoke to one of our correspondents said the stakes were high in the state because the wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha, is from the state. Aisha had...

Scarcely couple of hours to governorship and state Assembly decisions, weapon shots from a burglary assault on Friday, March 8, in Manchok, Kaura nearby government territory of Kaduna state, sent inhabitants and appointive authorities running toward all path for security. A journalist of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) who was at the scene reports that the outfitted burglars raged the booth of a cash exchange operator around 9:30pm, shooting sporadically noticeable all around. As the sound of the discharges shook the air, disorder set in with inhabitants running every which way for security. Appointive authorities alloted to Manchok enlistment region, who were arranging constituent materials for different surveying units near the scene for Saturday's decision, additionally kept running for wellbeing deserting the discretionary materials. The authorities, nonetheless, returned after the burglars had completed their task alongside security faculty and gathering specialists and kept ...

Amidst pressure to buck the tide of a bandwagon, voters across the country go to the polls today to elect 29 governors and 991 members of the State Houses of Assembly in all 36 states of the country. Coming two weeks after the presidential election won by the All Progressives Congress, APC, the momentum on the part of the ruling party is nevertheless being vigorously challenged by the main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in its strongholds. The political contest is especially fierce in the South-South, Southeast and Middle-Belt strongholds of the PDP. Ahead of today’s election, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has promised stronger application of the rules with the proclamation that votes generated outside the use of the card reader would be rejected. Speaking yesterday ahead of today’s poll, Mr. Auwal Musa Rafsanjani, head of Transparency International in Nigeria expressed hope that INEC, the election management body would rise to the challenge and e...

THE ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP in Kwara State has quickly gone back to the drawing board to re-strategize and cover up for what it lost during the National Assembly and presidential elections penultimate Saturday. Tapout media reliably gathered that the political leaders known to be very close to the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki were said to have been openly castigated by the “good boys” when they came to visit the “leader” to discuss the way forward after the election. The political leaders were rebuked for causing the Senate President’s political misfortune by allegedly diverting to private use various resources, logistics and political appointments meant for the masses, which made many of the party faithful fall prey to O to ge merchants in the APC. Tapoutnews  investigations also revealed that instead of the usual fanfare campaigns they previously embarked upon, the party has now resorted to door to door aggressive campaign to woo more members ahead of this Sa...

President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Dr Samson ‘Supo Ayokunle, has called on all stakeholders to ensure free, fair and credible elections on Saturday. Ayokunle, in a statement on Friday by his spokesman, Pastor Bayo Oladeji, reminded them of the need to avoid violence, bloodshed and all forms of electoral offences. He advised all eligible voters with their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) to come out enmasse to exercise their inalienable rights without any fear of being intimidated and vote according to their conscience. He said: “Not to vote is to allow the wrong candidates to occupy the position of leadership they did not deserve. “We call on all stakeholders; politicians, security agencies, and the officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ensure a peaceful atmosphere before, during and after the election. “Our politicians should avoid rigging, violence, vote buying, ballot box snatching and other electoral offences; our security operatives,...

The soldiers invaded the commissioner's house CCTV videos have emerged showing the moment soldiers invaded the residence of the Rivers State Commissioner of Education, Hon. Dr. Tamunosisi Gogo-Jaja. The commissioner and his family members were reportedly arrested by the Nigerian Army 6 Division, Port-Harcourt.  According to reports, they were whisked away by a fleet of fierce looking soldiers who stormed his GRA Phase 3 residence by about 2 pm Wednesday, March 6, 2019. The moment the soldiers stormed the residence to arrest the commissioner was caught on camera. Meanwhile, the Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has called for the immediate release of Hon. Dr. Tamunosisi Gogo-Jaja, his family members and the State Co-coordinator of Arise Nigeria, Hon. Benjamin Diri who were also arrested. See videos: Source: https://www.tori.ng/news/117874/cctv-videos-show-the-terrifying-moment-soldiers-in.html

  There are indications that Saturday’s gubernatorial and state house of assembly elections in Lagos state might be bloody as factional members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state engaged themselves in a free-for-all fight on Thursday evening. At least two persons were feared killed while over 35 vehicles destroyed and shops looted in a clash between the two warring APC factions at Oto-Awori in Ijanikin area of Lagos. The clash was between supporters of a candidate of APC from Ojo contesting in Saturday’s Lagos state House of Assembly election and a perceived aggrieved member who felt that he was robbed of victory during the party’s primary elections held last year. It was learnt that the clash erupted when the APC candidate simply identified as Jafo paid a courtsey call on the palace of the Oloto of Awori. It was learnt that some youths loyal to a member of the party, one Bibire, attempted to prevent the APC candidate from entering the palace on the g...

President Muhammadu Buhari has assured leaders of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) that his government will meet their N30, 000 minimum wage demand. The President gave the assurance when the NLC leadership visited him at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Buhari questioned what the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) did with the oil money when they were in power, reminding the NLC that he had intervened when they made their demand for 30,000 Naira as minimum wage, at a time when the nation was barely struggling to survive. He also noted that the rail system was left undone and the power sector was left unfixed despite the 16billion naira earmarked for these projects. The President described that expenditure made by the previous government as unprecedented and irresponsible. He said the present administration was saddled with dealing with the ‘terrible mismanagement of the country’. He acknowledged the pressure the union had faced in calling for an increase in the minimum...

The Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) has said that it ‘will no longer tolerate the militarization of our elections.’ The party made this known in a series of tweet on its Twitter handle on Wednesday saying ‘We will no longer tolerate the militarization of our elections by the failed & discredited @OfficialAPCNg. We therefore call on all our members in Benue State to resist any form of intimidation and electoral irregularities.’ It also said that: ‘Benue Guber Election: We have been reliably informed that the @Mbuhari led FG has deployed a special squad from the DSS to disrupt election in some @OfficialPDPNig strongholds in Benue State in order to pave way for the @OfficialAPCNg to rig the election’ 1.  #NigeriaDecides2019  Benue Guber Election: We have been reliably informed that the  @Mbuhari  led FG has deployed a special squad from the DSS to disrupt election in some  @OfficialPDPNig  strongholds in Benue State in order to pave way for the  @Offi...

The Court of Appeal Court, Calabar yesterday maintained that its last week’s order for stay of execution or maintenance of status quo ante on the candidature of Owan Enoh as the All Progressives Congress (APC) standard-bearer for this weekend’s polls in Cross River State remains. The three judges excused themselves from presiding over the case following petitions against them by the Godwin Etim John faction of the party. The presiding judge, Prof. S. A. Owoade, had notified the court that the two petitions separately sent to the President of the Court of Appeal and the National Judicial Commission were on alleged loss of confidence on his panel on the basis of a claimed N250 million graft. The letters however did not mention the payee and receiver of the said gratification. Counsel to Owan Enoh, Awa Kalu SAN, and the APC, Mba Ukweni SAN, tried in futility to dismiss the petitions, citing non-dating and improper routing. Meanwhile, the Imo chapter of the APC has recommitted to the guber...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it won't cancel its choice on the utilization of biometrics in the lead of its Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). This was contained in the board's week by week announcement issued on Sunday in Lagos, NAN reports As indicated by the announcement, the significance of biometrics in the lead of the board's examination can't be overemphasized. It noticed that the Biometrics Verification Machine (BVM) was presented by the board trying to dispose of the various types of examination misbehavior. It said the BVM was a security system utilized for the validation of hopefuls' way of life as it gave access to the individual information, in light of physiological qualities. "The basic belief of a biometric check process lies in its capacity to give additional layers of security and assurance against forging and pantomime. "The expanding risk of character misrepresentation amid the board's UTM...