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  • Man commits suicide 24 hours after tipper killed brother

    A 35-year old man, Elochukwu Ogboo, has committed suicide in Amaezike village, Agulu in Anaocha local government area of Anambra state.

    The deceased reportedly committed suicide on Saturday night, a day after a tipper lorry crushed his younger brother to death close to their family house along Agulu – Ekwulobia road.

    The Nation gathered that neighbours woke up early morning of Sunday to behold his lifeless body in a 3-bedroom bungalow under construction.

    A resident of the area said the body was dangling from a rope tied to his neck and suspended on the lintel of the building located in their family compound.

    He said Elochukwu and his younger brother had single parent, adding their mother, who later got married, had also died.

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    “They were living with their 85-year-old step-father, Chief Ignatiue Ogboo. Their stepmother is late too,” he said.

    Worshippers of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, close to the scene of the incident were said to have surged to the scene from early morning mass to have a glimpse of the corpse.

    When contacted, Police Public Relations Officer of the state, Mr. Haruna Mohammed said he was unaware of the incident as he was out of the state.

    “I’ll get back to you after making inquiries from the Divisional Police Officer, Neni who is in charge of the area,” he said.

  • Breaking: Buhari signs bill for June 12 Democracy Day holiday

    President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday assented to the Public Holiday Amendment bill into law.

    The Senior Special Assistant on National Assembly matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang, briefed State House correspondents after signing ceremony.

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    The new law, according to him, allows public holiday to be declared on June 12 every year while May 29th will no longer be public holiday.

    May 29th will only be handing over date and working day.

     

    Details shortly…

  • Updated: NJC commends Buhari for accepting Onnoghen’s retirement

    The National Judicial Council (NJC)has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for accepting the voluntary retirement of the immediate past Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen.

    The NJC gave the commendation at its emergency meeting on Monday, during which members deliberated on the President’s decision in relation to Onnoghen’s exit from the Bench.

    President Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu had, in a statement on Sunday, said “President Buhari has accepted the voluntary retirement from service of Hon. Justice Walter Onnoghen as Chief Justice of Nigeria, effective from May 28, 2019.

    “The President thanked Justice Onnoghen for his service to the Federal Republic of Nigeria and wished him the best of retirement life.”

    NJC’s spokesman, Soji Oye said, in a statement on Monday that members of the judicial body noted that Buhari’s acceptance of Onnoghen’s retirement was in line with its recommendation to the President on 3rd April, 2019.

    The statement reads: “The National Judicial Council held an Emergency Meeting today to take formal note of the acceptance of the voluntary retirement of Hon. Mr. Justice W. S. N. Onnoghen, GCON, as Chief Justice of Nigeria by President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR.

    “The President’s acceptance of the retirement is in line with Council’s recommendation to the President on 3rd April, 2019.

    “Council at the end of its deliberations thanked the President for the acceptance which was in the best interest of Nigeria.”

    He claims by the NJC that Buhari’s acceptance of Onnoghen’s retirement was part of its recommendations creates doubt as to the actual position of the NJC on the issue.

    Read Also: Acting CJN justifies Onnoghen’s suspension

    The NJC had, after concluding its investigation of allegations of “financial impropriety and infidelity to the constitution” raised against Onnoghen in a petition by the economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), kept sealed lips on its findings, but announced that it has sent its recommendations to the President.

    In their recent response to a suit by the Incorporated Trustees of Malcolm Omirhobo Foundation, challenging Buhari’s appointment of Justice Ibrahim Muhammad as acting CJN, the President and the office of the Attorney General of the Federation disclosed that the NJC recommended Onnghen’s compulsory retirement.

    They stated that NJC’s recommendation that Onnoghen be compulsory retired preceded his retirement letter to the President on April 4, 2019.

  • AbdulRazaq decries mass failure of Kwara students in 2019 UTME

    Kwara state Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has decried the mass failure of students of the state extraction in the just recently released 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME).

    The governor attributed the unsavoury development to poor knowledge of information communication technology (ICT).

    Governor AbdulRazaq said this in Malate, Moro local government area of the state, at the seventh convocation ceremony of the Kwara state University (KWASU).

    The governor who was represented by his Deputy Kayode Alabi added that “today, Kwara has regressed in many areas. We recently read about how several students from the state struggled with computer-based UTME, apparently resulting in mass failure among our children.

    “This must be tackled immediately if Kwara must compete in the 21st century economy dominated by ICT. How do we get our children to understand the ‘liberating and exploitative’ powers of information in digital age when they don’t even have the most basic knowledge of computer?

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    “Our administration is disturbed by the systemic problem in our education system which manifested in the 2019 UTME. It is immaterial if there are other parts of Nigeria with similar crisis. We, in Kwara, have a duty to roll back this anomaly in the most practical way. We have a duty to ensure that the overwhelming majority of our children
    are given the opportunity to excel by having access to IT-enabled education.”

    He hailed KWASU for “helping to redraw the map of Nigeria by gradually and in the most ambitious ways, bringing our state to national and global reckoning. It is heart-warming to note that the institution is indeed punching above its weight in the way it has quickly established itself as a centre of academic innovation and excellence within 10 years of its founding.

    “Government is not unaware of the peculiar challenges facing this institution, especially deficiency in municipal facilities. I am informed about inadequate accommodation for students and the deplorable condition of private hostels. I have also been briefed on the problems of water supply and electricity to the malete campus. Let
    me assure you that all these will be addressed in due course.”

  • 34-year-old emerges Plateau Assembly Speaker

    Member representing Jos East Constituency in Plateau State house of assembly Hon Abok Nuhu Ayuba(APC) has emerged speaker of the Plateau State House of Assembly.

    The position of speaker was zoned to Plateau North senatorial zone comprising of 8 state lawmakers.

    Abok emerged after a month of political horse-trading among the 8 contenders. It was a hot race between old-timers and first-timers.

    Read Also: Maigari emerges Katsina Speaker

    Abok, the 34 years old lawmaker is a first-time lawmaker representing Jos East Constituency.

    He is a graduate of both the University of Jos (graduated in 2011) and the Plateau State Polytechnic (finished in 2007) and is married to Janet N Abok (with two children).

  • Encourage One Another And Pray For Pst Adeboye, Kumuyi, Ohanebo, Oyedepo, Olukoya, And Others, Pst Muoka Urges….

    The Sunday live message (9/6/2019) of The Lord’s Chosen Charismatic Revival Movement held at the church’s corporate headquarters at Ijesha, delivered by the General Overseer of the ministry Pastor Lazarus Muoka, can best be described as heavenly.

    This is in view of the fact that the message has reactivated the faith of believers in Christ with regard to honouring the Lord’s commandment to love one another and eschew hatred.

    In the sermon, Pastor Lazarus Muoka urged believers in Christ to pray for servants of God all over the world, whom he dubbed, “Generals in the Lord’s army.”

    This tag of God’s generals is obviously in recognition of their contributions towards the growth of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ at different times all over the world. He noted that these men of God have labored all through their entire lives to ensure the growth of the gospel and as such deserve our prayers.

    He specifically requested believers to pray for servants of God like Enoch Adeboye, W. F. Kumuyi, Ohanebo, David Oyedepo, D. K. Olukoya among many others.

    He drew his message from the book of 2 Timothy 3:1-6 as he preached on the topic, “The Time is fulfilled,” through which he drew attention to the heavenly time table. Through the message, he admonished believers in Christ to engage in massive evangelism to herald the second coming of Christ instead of engaging in trivialities such as in-fighting in the house of God and use of words capable of destroying one another.

    He cited such instances as general overseers fighting among themselves and workers and leaders doing the same thing. He advised believers to shun greed, avarice and vain glory, pride, boasting, arrogance, love of money and so on. He admonished them to obey the Master’s injunction bearing in mind that the time is already fulfilled.

    In the message, Pastor Lazarus Muoka emphasized on the need to preach the truth since that is the only chance of every converted and professed believer to make heaven at the end of this life.

    He assured that believers who call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved as long as they are genuinely repented. (Romans 10:13) In his exact words, he said, “As believers in Christ, we must preach the word of God not minding the season at hand.” (Romans 5:17)

    Pastor Lazarus Muoka who is the founder and general overseer of The Lord’s Chosen whose unwavering message of righteousness has culminated into rapid growth for the ministry, urged all pastors to always preach Jesus Christ and pointing on the cross where the Messiah died for our sins and resurrected for the atonement of our sins.

    He divided his message into two sub-headings which he discussed as follows:
    1. Evidence and warning there is no more time
    2. Believers’ end-time responsibility and the dangers of neglect.

    Referring to available evidences, he cited the examples of nations rising against nations, churches against churches, preachers against preachers, workers against workers, and so on, according to Biblical prophecies. These unarguably, are happening right before our very eyes. Furthermore, the world is going through unprecedented economic recession coupled with the emergence of dangerous sicknesses and diseases such as Ebola, HIV/Aids, and Cancer in addition to pestilences and natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, cyclones, volcanoes, etc.

    Pastor Muoka proffered the reason that all these calamities are happening because the time is fulfilled and the signs are everywhere as prophesied in the word of God. Under these prevailing circumstances, he counseled on the need to love one another, pray for one another and generally encourage one another in line with the teachings of Christ. He said, “We should be encouragement to all the general overseers noting that no general overseer is better than those of other ministries. He therefore warned believers in Christ to refrain from speaking against pastors, brethren, workers, leaders and even members of the congregation.

    The crux of Pastor Muoka’s message is that now is a dangerous time for believers and whoever wants to make heaven at last apart from living holy and righteous, must, as a matter of fact, pray and encourage one another.

    Today, iniquities abound, unrighteousness abounds, compromisers of the gospel abound, and men have become lovers of themselves and of a particular church instead of lovers of God.

    He laid emphasis on the bible scripture which says that many shall be hated for God’s name, while terrible persecution shall befall many because of God and then shall the end come.

    He urged Christians to go to every nook and cranny preaching the gospel no matter the persecution because very shortly, the trumpet will sound since the rapture of the saints is at hand. (Mark 1:15) He cited that only those who are washed in the blood of the Lamb shall ascend into heaven with the Lord, while others will try to plead for mercy. But then, salvation and mercy will be far from them. (Matthew 24:7-8).
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  • JUST IN: Obaseki, Oshiomhole’s feud stalls proclamation of 7th Assembly

    The feud between Governor Godwin Obaseki and his predecessor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has stalled the proclamation of the 7th Edo State House Assembly.

    All the 24 lawmakers elected to the Edo Assembly are members of the All Progressives Congress.

    Some lawmakers-elect to the 7th Assembly have expressed reservations over the date fixed for their inauguration.

    The 6th Assembly ended last week with the former Speaker, Hon Kabiru Adjoto adjourning sitting sine die.

    Checks showed that only eight lawmakers were re-elected to the 7th Assembly while 16 new lawmakers are to be inaugurated.

    Sources said the battle within the ranks of the Edo APC has shifted to the Assembly as both sides plot to control majority of the lawmakers.

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    There was however heavy security presence at the gate of the Assembly complex.

    Many APC supporters who had gone to witness the inauguration were turned back

    State Secretary of the Edo APC, Mr. Lawrence Okah said they were waiting for a letter of proclamation from Governor Obaseki as instituted in the law.

    A top government official said there was no breach of the law, “Is there a law that says it must be on a particular day? They should go and read the constitution. Did it say every state must inaugurate its assembly the same day. That is not the position. It is when the governor writes and proclaim it that it is inaugurated and it is only the governor that can do it. Our own will either be Friday or Monday.”

    It was gathered that Oshiomhole is pushing for Victor Edoror to be made Speaker while Governor Obaseki preferred Frank Okiye.

    Both Okiye and Edoror hail from Edo Central where the position of Speaker is supposedly zoned to.

    One of the newly elected lawmaker said the unresolved issues between Oshiomhole and Obaseki was responsible for the delayed proclamation of a new Assembly.

  • Maigari emerges Katsina Speaker

    Mr Tasiu Maigari from Zango constituency has been re-elected as Speaker, Katsina House of Assembly.

    Maigari emergence followed his nomination by Mr Aliyu Sabiu, representing Mani constituency and seconded by Ibrahim Dikko from Matazu constituency.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that secret ballot system was adopted during the election conducted on Monday.

    NAN also report that all the 34 members took part in the election.

    Maigari scored 18 votes to defeat Mr Nasiru Yahaya from Daura constituency who polled 16 votes.

    Similarly, Mr Dalhatu Tafoki from Faskari constituency was elected as Deputy Speaker with 20 votes.

    Abubakar Muhammad from Maiadua nominated Tafoki and was seconded by Abduljalal Runka from Safana constituency.

    Tafoki defeated Abdulrazaq Tsiga from Bakori constituency who got 14 votes.

    Read Also; Ubosi returns as Speaker Enugu House of Assembly

    In his acceptance speech, the new Speaker, Mr Tasiu Maigari, urged all members to forget their differences and put heads together to work for the people of the state.

    He assured that he would carry all along and run an open door policy.

    He assured to work with the executive and judiciary arms of the government to move the state forward.

    Thirteen out of the 34 members are coming to the assembly for the first time, while the remaining 21 are returning members.

    They were all elected under the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC).

  • Fire razes 6 shops in Kano market

    Six temporary shops were burnt down at Kofar Ruwa Market (Kasuwar ‘Yan Rodi) in Kano on Sunday night as firefighters battled to curtail its spread.

    The Public Relations Officer of the State Fire Service, Malam Saidu Mohammed, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Kano on Monday that six shops were affected by the fire incident which source was yet to be identified.

    He said a distress call from one Usman Danladi was received at about 10:10 pm saying that there was fire outbreak at the market.

    ”On receiving the information, we quickly sent some of our personnel and fire fighting vehicles to the scene of the incident at about 10:15 pm to stop the fire from spreading to other shops,” he said.

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    He, however, said that there were no casualties, but that property yet to be estimated were lost to the fire outbreak.

    He advised traders to be more careful and desist from using instruments capable of triggering fire as a way of guarding against future occurrence.

    Mohammed also advised residents to keep fire buckets, blankets and extinguishers at home to enable them to curtail fire outbreak before calling on the fire service.

    He said the cause of the fire was still unknown but that investigation has begun.

  • 9th NASS: ‘It’ll be unfair to exclude S/East from all arms of govt’

    An advocacy group, South East Equity Alliance (SEA) says people from the geopolitocal zone deserve to be in leadership positions in the 9th National Assembly.

    Mr Amaechi Nwoha, SEA’s Director, Contact and Mobilization made the assertion in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Monday.

    He said it would be grossly unfair for the South-Eastern part of the country not to hold a prominent position in any of the three arms of government.

    “It will be unconscionable to exclude the South-East from the leadership of the executive, judiciary and legislative arms of government,” he said.

    Nwoha urged national assembly members-elect to be guided by their conscience and the spirit of national unity in selecting their leadership.

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    “As you choose your leadership tomorrow, the South-East demands either, the Senate President, Deputy Senate President, Speaker or the Deputy Speaker of the House of representatives,” he said.

    The SEA’s director said that the South-East ought to be included into the emerging leadership in the country in the spirit of equity.

    “Doing so will be a good reflection of President Buhari’s vision of an all-inclusive government,” he said.

    NAN reports that the National Assembly tagged the 9th Assembly would be inaugurated on June 11.