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  • Nwosu: tribunal yet to release judgment copy

    Governorship candidate of the Action Alliance (AA) in Imo State Uche Nwosu has accused the election petition tribunal of refusing to release copies of its judgment 10 days after the verdict.

    Panel Chairman Justice Umar Dogondaji dismissed the petitions filed by AA, All Progressives Congress (APC) and All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), which challenged the victory of Governor Emeka Ihedioha, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

    Nwosu, who addressed reporters in Abuja on Monday, said the panel’s refusal to release the judgment was a ploy to frustrate his chances to appeal the judgment.

    According to him, efforts to get the judgment were frustrated by officials of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

    Read Also: Court nullifies Nwosu’s participation in election

    He said: “We suspect foul play. It has been 10 days since the judgment was given, but efforts to obtain the Certified True Copy (CTC) have been unsuccessful. It’s one excuse or the other.

    “However, I believe these people are out to sabotage my efforts. They know I have 14 days to file an appeal and I need the judgment’s CTC. This is why I have called you to tell the world what these people are doing to justice.”

    But tribunal secretary Balarabe Garuba said copies of the judgment would be taken to Owerri today.

    Garuba said he spoke to the tribunal’s Assistant Secretary, Muazu Lawan, who said he had copies of the judgment and would take them to those who should have them the next day.

    He said: “He called me that the judgment was given to him, so he will take the next available flight to Owerri to give prospective appellants. He should be travelling tomorrow (today).”

  • Akeredolu greets Adefulire at 60

    Ondo State Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, has felicitated with the former deputy governor of Lagos State, Mrs. Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, who clocked 60 on Monday.

    Governor Akeredolu, who described Adefulire as a rare gift to society, commended her dedication to assigned responsibilities and expressed optimism that at 60, her services were more required not just by the people of Lagos State, but the nation at large.

    Read Also: Akeredolu: we’ll include OPC in Ondo security outfit

    The governor said this in a statement by the state’s Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Donald Ojogo.

    According to the governor, it is particularly gratifying that the former deputy governor, whose youthfulness defies her age, has enjoyed the rare benevolence of sound health, the most sought after of all Godly gifts to mankind.

  • Ibadan to get trailer park

    The Governor of Oyo State, Mr. Seyi Makinde, has approved a 250-truck capacity parking space in Ibadan to ensure free flow of human and vehicular movements within the state.

    The park, which is sited at Sanyo in Ibadan, would reduce the level of road carnage caused by indiscriminate parking of haulage trucks by the highways in Ibadan metropolis.

    The Executive Chairman, Oyo State Traffic Management Agency (OYRTMA), Dr. Akin Fagbemi, said this at the weekend, when men and officers of the Agency visited the popular Ibadan toll gate usually characterised by haphazard parking of heavy duty trailers.

    The governor’s approval, Fagbemi said, was in a bid to enthrone sanity and discourage disorderly and dangerous parking habit rampant among motorists at the toll gate and other road corridors across the state.

    Read Also: ‘It’s unfair to assess Makinde now’

    Addressing the Chairman and members of NUPENG and other heavy duty vehicle operators at the Toll Gate, Fagbemi expressed the will of the Seyi Makinde-led administration to have safe highways across the state.

    He said: “Vigilance by everyone is safety for all; negligence by anyone is danger for all. It is the quest of the governor to ensure an extremely safe highway for the good people of Oyo State and its environs and this is why the governor recently approved a 250-capacity heavy and light duty vehicle park as our main Operations Center at Sanyo, Ibadan.

    “This facility, which has been abandoned for over eight years by past administrations, can conveniently accommodate about 250 trailers and other small-sized vehicles. If used to optimum capacity, it would significantly reduce the huge traffic jam caused by trailers on our highway, ease traffic congestion and provide safety for the vehicles.

    “The ripple effect of this is that it would enhance economic activities, encourage foreign and local investors as well as boost the overall economy of the state.”

    Fagbemi further expressed immense appreciation to Governor Makinde for granting the approval for the facility, which he said would function as the main operation center of the agency.

  • Lagos to get 149-bed hospital for mothers, children

    The First Lady, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, and the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, will on Thursday unveil a 149-bed Maternal and Child Centre (MCC) located inside the Alimosho General Hospital, state Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has said.

    Abayomi, who disclosed this yesterday during an inspection tour of the facility, explained that the specialist centre was built and donated by the Federal Government through the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to the Lagos State Government.

    According to him, the three floor facility has two operating theatres, recovery rooms, sterilisation room, delivery room, consultation rooms, private and general wards, scanning room, side laboratory rooms, reception area, lounge, nurses’ room and station, doctor call rooms, scrub room and a board room.

    Read Also: ‘Sanwo-Olu poised to develop Lagos’

    The commissioner said: “Inside the centre are ultra-modern equipment that will aid the prompt delivery of maternal and child care services; this include: patient monitors with EC02, Suction machine double jar, ultra-scan machines, oxygen generating machine, vacuum extractor delivery set, anaesthetic machine and diathermy machine.

    “Others are emergency cart with defibrillator, baby incubators, photo therapy lamps, paediatric ventilators, multi-parameter monitors for mothers and babies, crash cart, theatre monitor, defibrillators and fetal Doppler.”

    Abayomi, who lauded the gesture of the Federal Government for donating the facility, said that the MCC would have an impact on the efforts of the Lagos State Government geared towards promoting the health of the mothers and children, reducing maternal and child mortality and improving the state’s health indices.

    He said: “We are very grateful to the Federal Government to have produced this extra capacity facility for us in our endeavour to look after mothers and children. We already have one mother and child centre at Alimosho, but we have exceeded the capacity,

    “And so, this donation from the Federal government for us to spill over is a great gift to Lagos State and the people of Alimosho. We will maximise its use and it will certainly have an impact in our attempt to improve the welfare and reduce mortality of mothers and children.”

    Speaking in the same vein, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Dr. Titilayo Goncalves, said the state government has engaged the services of clinical facility managers through the office of the Lagos State Infrastructure Asset Management Agency to maintain the facility.

  • Ondo 2020: Southwest PDP chair declares ambition

    National Vice Chairman, (Southwest) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Eddy Olafeso, on Monday declared his intention to contest for the governorship of Ondo State in the forthcoming election in the state.

    Olafeso, who is a former commissioner for information in Ondo, made the declaration at the party’s State Secretariat, Alagbaka, Akure.

    He said he made the declaration to run for the state’s governorship to alert and put the leadership and members of the party on notice that he would be taking a shot at the number political office on the platform of the PDP.

    The PDP national vice chairman (South West) said he decided to inform the party ahead of its primaries.

    Olafeso, however, accused the current administration in the state of dismantling all the legacy projects in the state, particularly free education.

    Read Also: Ondo 2020: Who gets PDP ticket?

    He also alleged that the present administration had made education unaffordable for the ordinary citizens in the state.

    Besides, the PDP chieftain said that the debt profile of the state had reached N150 Billion.

    According to him, “You pay fees from primary to secondary and university. The tertiary institutions are far beyond the ordinary man. I am a product of the Obafemi Awolowo era and I wouldn’t have been educated if there were no social welfare programmes for the ordinary man in the street.

    “They have abdicated their responsibility. They have stepped on the head of history. There’s no way we will allow them to continue. They have destroyed everything we ever stood for.

    “When Agagu left office, we had over N38billion in our kitty as savings. When Dr. Mimiko left office, he left a very vibrant maternal care health programme for the state.

    The state Chairman of the PDP, Clement Faboyede, said the party had not zoned the governorship ticket of the party to any zone.

    He disclosed that for now, there were17 members of the party that had shown interest in its gubernatorial ticket.

    Faboyede boasted that PDP would produce the next governor of the state in the 2020 gubernatorial election.

    The former commissioner for community development and cooperative services said the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) government had disappointed the citizenry.

  • Osun Assembly grills 9 exco nominees

    The Osun State House of Assembly on Monday screened the first batch of nine out of 35 commissioners and special adviser nominees to work with Governor Gboyega Oyetola.

    Those screened by the state Assembly included Oladoyin Olayinka Folorunso, Ibitoye Felix Adeniran, Adebisi Obawale Simeon, Oladepo Solagbade Atanda, Ajisefini Abiodun, Egbemode Funke Adenike, Ogunfolaju Christiana Olusola, Agunbiade Nathaniel and Omowaye Oluremi.

    They were grilled by the lawmakers after they had summarised their Curriculum Vitae before the Assembly.

    Due to the public holiday declared by the Federal Government for Tuesday (today), the screening exercise will continue on Wednesday with Adewole Adedayo, Akande Oluwafemi, Adeleke Adebayo, Olamiju Olasiji, Yinusa Olalekan, Isamotu Rafiu,  Olasunkanmi Tadese Raheem, Adeosun Rasaq and Oladimeji Olanubi Segun on the list.

    Read Also: Jigawa gov swears in 11 commissioners, others

    Those scheduled for screening on Thursday are Bakare Akande, Jamiu Olawumi Olaniyan Hussein, Badmus Rahmon Lekan, Bola Oyebamiji, Olumide Babatunde Olawale, Lawal Yemi Azeez, Akeju Taiwo and Giwa Lateefat.

    On Friday, which will be the last day for the, nominees to be screened are Kareem Akande, Oyegbile Rufus, Olaboopo Olubukola, Kolajo Aderemi, Babalola Idiat  Lawal Tajudeen, Muminu Adekunle and Olaonipekun Henry.

    Before the commencement of the screening exercise, the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Timothy Owoeye, assured indigenes and residents of the state that the Assembly would do a thorough and strict job on the screening of the commissioner/special adviser nominees.

    The Speaker stated that the Assembly had resolved that the screening exercise was not going to be a “tea party,” adding that members were in high spirit and ready to give their all for the betterment of the State of Osun.

    During the plenary, Owoeye said that the House was not unaware that the nominees would have gone through different levels of security checks, saying aside from such checks, the House would not shy away from its constitutional responsibility.

    He also stated that the state is blessed with Governor Oyetola, who was committed to the principle of separation of powers, as the governor had at different for a, stated that he would stopped at nothing to make Osun a state of positive reference amongst all the states in Nigeria.

    According to him: “It is on record that Governor Oyetola has sent a list of 35 persons to be screened as commissioners/special advisers. My colleagues and I at the Assembly have resolved not to betray the confidence reposed in us by the public.

    “We are not unmindful of other screenings that might have taken place before now, but the State House of Assembly is constitutionally saddled with the final screening.

    “We assure our people of Osun that we will do our job without favour, nothing but the interest of our state.”

  • Jigawa gov swears in 11 commissioners, others

    Jigawa State Governor Muhammad Badaru Abubakar on Monday swore in 81 aides.

    The governor last week released the list of 53 special assistants, two senior special assistants, 15 special advisers and 11 commissioners.

    Speaking after the swearing- in, Abubakar advised the appointees to support his administration in providing good governance.

    He said the re-election of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state was a testimony that the people had confidence in his administration.

    Read Also: Oyetola tips Akande’s, Adewole’s sons, Omisore’s deputy as commissioners

    The newly-appointed commissioners include: Abba Zakari (Ministry of Health), Musa Adamu Aliyu (Ministry of Justice) and Ibrahim Baba Chaichai (Ministry of Women Affairs).

    Others are Muhammad Alhassan (Ministry of Information, Youth, Sport and Culture), Kabiru Hassan Sugungun (Ministry of Local Government), Babangida Umar Gantsa (Ministry of Finance),

    Lawan Yunusa Danzomo (Ministry of Education), Yelwa Da’u Tijjani (Ministry of Women Affairs), Salisu Zakari (Ministry of Commerce and Industries), Ibrahim Garba Hannun Giwa (Ministry of Water Resources) and Aminu Usman (Ministry of Works and Housing).

  • Tribunal fixes judgment for tomorrow in Ganduje, Abba case

    The Kano State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal has fixed tomorrow for judgment in the case between the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate Abba Kabir-Yusuf, against Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

    The petitioners are challenging the declaration of Governor Ganduje as winner of the March 9 governorship election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

    Read Also: INEC, Ganduje, Abba adopt final defence at tribunal

    Ganduje prayed the tribunal to dismiss the PDP’s petition, claiming he won the governorship poll.

    The date for the judgment was communicated to the parties through the tribunal secretary.

    The tribunal, on September 18, reserved judgment in the petition filed by the PDP and Kabir-Yusuf.

    The tribunal on Monday communicated to the parties the date for judgment.

  • Buhari greets ex-minister Yerima at 80

    President Muhammadu Buhari has described the former Minister of Education, Science and Technology, Amb. Ibrahim Yerima Abdullahi, as “one of our greatest, selfless, dedicated and patriotic public officials I have known.”

    The President stated this in a tribute he wrote on the elder statesman, who is celebrating his 80th birthday.

    According to him, Amb.  Yerima, who is also the Sarkin Bai of Gombe, “is an outstanding gentleman who is fired by the passion to serve his country selflessly.”

    Read Also: Buhari greets Segun Awolowo at 56

    President Buhari, in a statement by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, noted that “in a society battling greed, selfless and dedicated public officials like Yerima are rare because they put good name before personal advantages.”

    He praised the Sarkin Bai as “a man of shining virtues who belongs to the golden age of our public service”, saying: “I am proud of his unblemished record in public life.”

    “As an All Progressives Congress (APC) elder who contributed immensely to the successes of the party in elections, Yerima is a quality party leader whose achievements as well as his integrity we will continue to cherish”, the President said.

    He prayed God to bless him with good health and longer life to serve Nigeria and his people even more.

  • Opera Mini introduces offline file sharing

    To give users a better experience, Opera Mini has introduced an offline file sharing to its features.
    The Head of Browsers, Opera, Krystian Kolondra, described  Opera Mini as the mobile browser of choice for millions of people. He said, “With the new offline file sharing feature, Opera Mini users can now choose to share files at high speeds with people in their proximity, without worrying about low speeds or expensive mobile data.”
    Explaining how the new feature works, he stated that the offline file sharing and its accelerated file transfer speed were made possible through a direct Wi-Fi connection, which Opera Mini establishes seamlessly with nearby devices.
    He said, “This means that Opera Mini creates a temporary private network, which provides a fast and secure transfer of files between devices. To start sending or receiving files, go to File Sharing in the menu and choose to Send or Recieve. Opera Mini will display a QR code for the nearby device to scan, connecting the devices. Once a file is successfully transferred, the sender will be notified and the receiver will be able to access the file in the received tab shown in Opera Mini. This new offline file sharing feature provides Opera Mini users with a unique combination of faster browsing, faster downloads and faster sharing.”
    According to Kolondra, Opera Mini is specially crafted for markets with limited network conditions and has industry-leading data-saving capabilities. He noted, “We are proud that it is the first browser to use offline file sharing, expanding the way people interact with the Opera Mini browser. The latest data compression test presented by Opera, in the State of Mobile Web 2019, revealed that the extreme mode of the data compression technology in Opera Mini is capable of saving up to 90% of mobile data. These results mean that people are able to browse up to nine times longer on the same data package with Opera Mini compared to other browsers with no data compression.  The new file-sharing feature in Opera Mini is a great complement to the already popular data compression mode in the browser. This means they spend even less of their data package and are able to save more money.
    “With the new offline file sharing feature, Opera is continuing to improve your experience on the web by adding new creative features to its mobile browsers. Through new features, Opera Mini provides people with faster and safer navigation on the web, major data savings, and access to both online and offline content. The addition of offline file sharing to Opera Mini is part of Opera’s strategy to create tailored mobile products that adapt to the real needs of people across different markets.”