The Convention Planning Committee of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has released the full list of the winners of the elections of the student body held over the weekend.

The Nation reports controversy had initially trailed the electoral process but the committee in a communique signed by its chairman, ​Bappare Muhammad; Secretary, Pedro Obi; Clerk, Adeyemi Azeez and chairman of communique drafting committee, Usman Ayuba announced Barambu, a student of the Federal University, Dutse as the new president of the association.

The committee asked security operatives to arrest impostors parading themselves as new leaders of the association.

According to the committee, Barambu polled 292 votes to defeat his rival, Lawal, who polled just eight votes.

Other presidential contestants listed in the Monday communique of the committee, obtained by our correspondent, were Jibrin Idris (with four votes) and Nanven Haruna (two votes).

It also named former NANS JCC Ondo chairman, Akinteye Babatunde Afeez as its Vice President, External Affairs.

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Full list of the newly elected officers;

1. Usman Umar Barambu – President Elect
2. Attah Nnalue Felix – Senate President Elect
3. Usman Baba Kankia – Secretary General Elect
4. Victor W C Ezenagu – VP National Elect
5. Akinteye Babatunde – VP External Elect
6. Suleiman Muhammad Sarki – VP Special Duties Elect
7. Giwa Yisa Topnotch – National PRO Elect
8. Chinyelu Chinelo Okolie – National Treasurer Elect
9. Vanessa Egbeahie – Vice President Campus Affairs Elect
10. Mohammed Shehu – Ex-Officio 2 Elect
11. Ossai Chika – Assistant Secretary General Elect
12. Godwin Asuquo – Financial Secretary Elect
13. Salawudeen Kamorudeen – Director of Travel and Exchange Elect
14. Umar Afkhawa – Sports Director Elect
15. Ekundina Segun Elvis – Deputy Senate President Elect
16. Olatunji Baki – Clerk Elect

Scarcity of the Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) petrol is imminent in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Kaduna, Nasarawa, Kogi, Niger and other States as the Suleja Depot branch of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN ) announced a three-day warning strike.

Its chairman, Alhaji Yahaya Alhassan, who announced the stoppage of supply of the product from the depot, took reporters on a tour of the parked trucks in the depot at Maje, Suleja in Niger State.

Virtually all the trucks were loaded with petrol but the marketers insisted they were withdrawing their services until the Federal Government pays their outstanding bridging claims of N50.5billion.

Asked why the branch was going on strike, he said: “The Petroleum Equalization Fund (PEF) has not paid our money. We have N50.5 billion because of that we are withdrawing our services.”

The strike, which commenced on Monday would continue till Wednesday.

Should the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) fails to remit the money, the stoppage of supply would continue indefinitely, Alhassan said.

He said: “This strike is for three days. It started (today) to next tomorrow (Wednesday). After that, if the government does not meet our demand, it will continue till further notice.”

The chairman noted that all the appeals that the association made to the authority to pay the debt were ignored.

“We have sat down with him (Chief Executive Officer of NMDPRA, Farouk Ahmed) several times and he didn’t respond. We even reached out to him and after that, he didn’t call us,” he said.

The association’s Secretary, Shuaibu Muhammad, noted the warning strike was a signal from the nine depots in Northern depots out of the 21 depots nationwide.

He stated that in solidarity with the Suleja Depot, other depots in the region were withdrawing their services.

Muhammad insisted that if Ahmed said he paid over N74 billion in seven months, “the government is paying something but it is not paying something reasonable.”

He challenged the authorities to tender the evidence that he has paid the marketers for their bridging.

The NMDPRA recently claimed that it paid about N74 billion to the marketers for bridging the PMS, stressing that those that were complaining had no basis.

According to him, the aggrieved marketers were those that refused to come for the verification of their fake claims.

Emergency workers on Monday afternoon recovered four more bodies from the rubble of the collapsed seven-storey building in Lagos.

These recoveries, which occurred between 10:25 am and 2:30 pm brought the death toll to six.

The Nation reports that the building located at Oba Oniru by Ave Maria Hospital, Lekki, which was under construction collapsed around 3:30 am on Sunday trapping at least six artisans.

While two of the trapped persons, including a worker who raised the alarm to save other occupants, were confirmed dead on Sunday, rescuers remained resolute in the search of others despite not seeing them at the time the excavation exercise got to ground zero.

These bodies were eventually found when rescuers began the evacuation of the debris, said Lagos Office Coordinator, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Ibrahim Farinloye.

About 30 persons were said to have jumped to safety before the building which started collapsing from the penthouse, completely caved in.

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According to Farinloye, the first body to be recovered on Monday was an elderly man, adding that all the others were also men.
Permanent Secretary (PS) Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr. Femi Oke-Osanyintolu also confirmed that six bodies have been recovered in all.

He said: “The agency and other first responders have been working for over 24 hours at the above seven-storey building which collapsed yesterday.

“Four more bodies have been extricated from the rubble bringing the fatalities to six. The painstaking process is ongoing.
Further updates to follow.”