Friday 17 June, 2021
Headlines
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Punch:We’ll deal with those
profiting from Nigeria’s insecurity –Buhari
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Punch:Act on kidnapped
Abuja-Kaduna train passengers now, Reps urge Buhari
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The cable:Reps demand
‘comprehensive’ rehabilitation of police stations across Nigeria
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The cable:Escalate to global
concern now’ — Gani Adams writes UN over insecurity in Nigeria
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Punch:Rivers PDP gov aspirant
Dagogo still in detention, aide cries out
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Leadership:Atiku Donates N10m
To Victims Of Ondo Church Attack
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Punch:Why I picked Okowa as my
running mate -Atiku
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Daily Trust: Running Mate:
Wike Understands It Has To Be One Person At A Time – Okowa
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Punch:Tinubu takes over
Buhari’s Abuja campaign office
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The Cable: Amosun: Why I
withdrew from presidential race for Tinubu
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DailyPost: I’ll leave, fight
APC if ‘dangerous Muslim VP’ emerges.
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Leadership:Presidential
Primary: My Wife Didn’t Ask Me To Bribe Delegates – Kachikwu
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Daily Post: National Assembly
pays me over N697,000 monthly – Lawmaker, Abejide declares
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Vanguard: 2023: PFN declares
Operation show your PVC
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Tribune: Army Finds Another
Abducted Chibok Girl During Clearance Operation.
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DAILY POST: Ekiti decides: IGP
sends strong warning to vote buyers, troublemakers
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The cable: Emefiele asks NPA,
customs to create dedicated route for non-oil exports
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Vanguard: Ekiti Gov Poll: No
judgement disqualified APC candidate – Court
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The NATION:Ekiti 2022: INEC
Begin Distribution Of Sensitive Materials To Area Councils.
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The nation:Akeredolu, Malami
clash over restructuring
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THE PUNCH: We’ll prevent a
repeat of the Owo attack – Amotekun.
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Punch: Delta honours, gifts
tanker driver N2m for averting disaster
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The cable: It’s not easy
banning Okada when seeking re-election, says Sanwo-Olu
NOW THE STORIES
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The President Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on
Thursday in Kano, said his government would deal with those profiting from the
climate of fear and rampant insecurity nationwide.
The President urged new and existing officers
of the Nigeria Police Force to rise to the occasion of defending the country
against elements who are determined to keep citizens in perpetual fear.
Speaking at the Passing Out Parade of the
Regular Course 4/2016 Cadets of the Nigeria Police Academy, Wudil, Kano,
President Buhari said his government is working within its available resources
to place the Nigerian Police Force “amongst the most efficient security
organisations in the world.
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The House of Representatives has called on the
President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to ensure timely release of
the passengers of the Abuja-Kaduna train abducted by terrorists.
The chamber specifically urged him to
“expedite action to secure the release of the remaining 51 Nigerians kidnapped
in the Abuja-Kaduna train attack and all other Nigerians held hostage by
bandits and terrorists across the country.”
In addition, the parliament urged the Federal
Government to set up a high-powered inter-agency panel to coordinate efforts
and ensure the release of abductees across the country, as well as assist their
families.
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Femi Gbajabiamila, speaker of the house of
representatives, has asked the committee on police affairs to work towards the
rehabilitation of police stations across the country.
Gbajabiamila mandated the committee to include
funds for the renovation of police stations in the 2023 budget.
The speaker gave the directive on Thursday
while speaking on a motion sponsored by Manu Soro, a lawmaker from Bauchi.
While moving his motion, Soro had called for
the rehabilitation of police and Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps’
stations in Darazo/Ganjuwa federal constituency of Bauchi state.
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Gani Adams, the Aare Ona Kakanfo of
Yorubaland, has asked the United Nations (UN) to intervene in Nigeria’s
security challenges.
In a letter titled, ‘Avoiding a Replica of the
Bosnian War in Nigeria’, and addressed to Antonio Guterres, UN secretary-general,
Adams said insecurity in Nigeria could have a significant impact on Africa if
nothing urgent is done to address it.
The letter was also addressed to the African
Union (AU), United States (US), the International Association for Religious
Freedom, United Kingdom, Council on Foreign Relations and other international
organisations.
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Mr. Ibrahim Lawal, the Special Adviser on
Media and Publicity to the detained member of the House of Representatives,
Farah Dagogo, has cried out over the continued incarceration of his principal.
Lawal, in a statement issued in Port Harcourt
on Thursday, said Dagogo, who was a governorship aspirant of the Peoples
Democratic Party, was illegally kept in prison after he was “unlawfully
declared wanted by Governor Nyesom Wike.”
The statement, which carried hashtags, was
titled, ‘##50Days Still In Incarceration; Farah Dagogo Is Innocent; #God Over
Everything.’
The statement read in full, “His name is
Honourable Farah Dagogo, Member of the House of Representatives and the PDP
governorship aspirant in Rivers State
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The presidential candidate of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar, has donated N10million for the treatment
of the victims of the June 5, 2022 terror attack on St Francis Catholic,
Owa-luwa Street, Owo, Ondo State.
Atiku, who paid a condolence visit to Owo
Kingdom, condemned the killing of the armless worshipers.
Atiku was represented by the State PDP
candidate in the last governorship election, Eyitayo Jegede (SAN) and members
of the State Working Committee of the party.
Speaking at the Olowo’s palace, the Jegede
told Oba Ajibade Gbadegesin Ogunoye, that the present security situation we
find ourselves was a call to duty for everyone to be more vigilant and security
conscious
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The presidential candidate of the Peoples
Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has given reasons for picking Delta State
Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, as his running mate for the 2023 presidential
election.
He gave the reasons in his remarks at the
unveiling of Okowa as his running mate at the PDP National Headquarters, Wadata
Plaza, Wuse Abuja, on Thursday.
Okowa and his Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom
Wike, were the two governors speculated to be considered for the slot.
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The Vice-Presidential candidate of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, has said his Rivers
counterpart, Governor Nyesom Wike, will not be disappointed that he was
nominated as Atiku Abubakar’s running mate.
Addressing journalists after his screening at
the PDP headquarters in Abuja, Okowa, who is also the Delta state Governor,
said he believes Wike has love for the party and the country.
++++dailypost:2023 elections: Defence Chief,
Irabor issues warning to politicians, others.
The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Lucky
Irabor, has warned politicians and their supporters who are planning to cause
trouble during the 2023 general elections to desist.
Irabor gave the warning while addressing
newsmen during the Defence Headquarters bi-weekly news briefing on Thursday in
Abuja.
He said considering the fact that some
individuals don’t usually desire peaceful elections, the armed forces would
give the necessary support to the civil authority to ensure peaceful elections.
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The Abuja campaign office of the President,
Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), which was opened for his campaign in
2019, has been donated to the presidential candidate of the All Progressives
Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
The office was donated to the APC flag bearer
several days after Tinubu defeated Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi;
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and 12 other aspirants at the party convention in
Eagle Square.
The development was revealed by a member of
the House of Representatives and leader of the Tinubu Support Group, James
Faleke.
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Femi Fani-Kayode has replied those attacking
him for supporting the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate,
Bola Tinubu.
The former Aviation Minister also threatened
to dump the ruling party if a “dangerous” Muslim is picked as Tinubu’s running
mate.
In a statement on Thursday, he said no matter
what transpired before, the former Lagos Governor is now the
democratically-elected candidate of the party he belongs.
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Ibikunle Amosun, former governor of Ogun, says
he decided to withdraw from contesting the presidency in the interest of
promoting the interest of the south-west.
Amosun spoke on Thursday at a rally organised
in Abeokuta, the Ogun capital.
The rally, which featured supporters of the
All Progressives Congress (APC), was to “welcome Amosun home” after his
participation in the presidential primary, and to mobilise support for Bola
Tinubu, the party’s candidate.
The former Ogun governor had stepped down from
contesting the presidency and asked his supporters to back the former Lagos
governor.
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The presidential candidate of the African
Democratic Congress (ADC) and CEO of Roots TV, Dumebi Kachikwu, has described
the news making the rounds that his wife pleaded with him to bribe delegates in
the just-concluded presidential primary of the party to avoid disgrace, as fake
and malicious.
He described the news published in a national
daily (not LEADERSHIP) as the height of mischief.
In a statement made available to LEADERSHIP on
Thursday in Abuja, Kachikwu said during the party’s convention, his wife did
not at any time beg him to bribe delegates in order to win.
According to him, “My attention has been drawn
to a misleading and mischievous headline claiming that I said that my wife
begged me to bribe delegates. This is not true at all. That twelve media houses
were represented in the parley where I said that my wife pleaded with me not to
be disgraced seeing that some aspirants were sharing money during the ADC
convention.
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Leke Abejide, the lawmaker representing Yagba
East/West/Mopamuro constituency at the House of Representatives, has said he
earns about N697,000 monthly.
The lawmaker who displayed the screenshot of
his monthly salary on Television program did not provide evidence for
allowances and constituency projects.
Nigerian Senators and House of Assembly
members are believed to be one of the highest paid lawmakers in the world
despite widespread poverty among the general population.
Abejide said being a lawmaker was not
lucrative as his constituents expect him to provide for their special needs.
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The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN,
has declared Operation Show your Permanent Voter’s Card PVCs,among Nigeria
Christians even as it urged them to go to church with the card on Sunday, June
26, 2022.
Addressing journalists on Thursday, at Bishops’
Court, PFN National Secretariat, Isolo Lagos, the National President, Bishop
Francis Wale Oke, said this is one of its strategies to change bad governance
in Nigeria.
According to him, Christians will no longer
fold their arms in terms of the affairs that concern them, “we have set aside
Sunday, June 26, to encourage Christians regardless of their denominations to
show their PVCs or ensure they get one because we are prepared to change the
narrative,”
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The Nigerian Army on Thursday announced that its
troops had found another Chibok girl abducted by the Boko Haram insurgent on
April 14, 2014.
The Army said its troops found the girl, whose
name was given as Hauwa Joseph, along with her baby during clearance operations
conducted by the troops.
According to the Nigerian Army on its Twitter
handle on Thursday, the girl and the baby have been taken to a military medical
facility for medical attention.
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Godwin Emefiele, governor of the Central Bank
of Nigeria (CBN), has asked the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) and the Nigeria
Customs Service (NCS) to collaborate on the creation of a dedicated route for
non-oil exports.
He said this on Thursday at the apex bank’s RT
200 non-oil export summit held in Lagos.
The theme of the event was ‘Setting the roadmap
toward achieving RT200 and non-oil export for development’.
Emefiele said due to unnecessary delays at
Nigerian ports, some of the country’s exporters have opted to take their goods
to neighboring countries such as Accra and Benin Republic.
*******STATE STORIES
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The Inspector General of Police, Mr. Usman
Alkali Baba has warned troublemakers, vote buyers and others to steer clear of
Ekiti State gubernatorial election scheduled for this Saturday.
The IG stated this during a stakeholders’
meeting with the governorship candidates, political parties in Ekiti State
ahead of Saturday’s poll.
He further charged the police officers and the
personnel of other security agencies participating in the poll to be
professional and apolitical during the discharge of their duties.
The police boss further reiterated that the
force is working in collaboration with the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) in creating a conducive and enabling environment that will
guarantee the peaceful conduct of elections in the country.
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The Federal High Court, on Thursday, debunked
report that it issued an order that disqualified the candidate of the All
Progressives Congress, APC, in the impending governorship election in Ekiti
State, Mr. Biodun Oyebanji.
The court, in a statement that was signed by
its Assistant Director, Information, Mrs. Catherine Oby Christopher, described
the report circulating online, which claimed that Oyebanji was disqualified
barely 48 hours to the gubernatorial contest, as “unfounded and very
mischievous”.
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The Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) has commenced the distribution of sensitive materials across Ekiti State
area councils ahead of the Saturday gubernatorial polls in the state.
electoral officers for the 16 local government
areas of the state were escorted by security agents on Thursday for safe
delivery of the sensitive materials as electorates anticipate the commencement
of the polls to elect another leader.
The materials were distributed at the INEC
state office in Ado-Ekiti in the presence of journalists and party
representatives.
++++Ondo State Governor Rotimi Akeredolu and
Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) on Thursday disagreed over restructuring
of Nigeria.
While the governor insisted on devolution of
power in favour of states and councils, Malami criticised governors for
controlling councils and turning around to ask for more powers.
Both of them, who are Senior Advocates of
Nigeria (SANs) spoke in Lagos at the ongoing Attorneys-General meeting.
Akeredolu, who delivered the keynote address,
said the Federal Government’s inability to secure life and property would force
citizens to arm themselves in self-defence.
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The commanders of the South-West Security
Network, also known as Amotekun Corps, have declared their commitment to
ensuring adequate protection of the lives and properties of the people within
the region.
The commanders say they will synergise towards
ensuring that a repeat of the attack on St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo,
where several worshippers were killed, does not happen again.
They made the declaration in Akure, the Ondo
State capital, while on a condolence visit to the state on Thursday.
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The Secretary to the State Government, Chief
Patrick Ukah (R) presenting a plaque to Ejiro Otarigho (L)
The Delta State Government has presented a
cheque of N2 million, a plaque and a letter of commendation to, a tanker
driver, Ejiro Otarigho, for his display of heroism and humanity.
Otarigho had driven a burning tanker away to a
safe place where it exploded into an inferno last Saturday in the state.
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, represented by the
Secretary to the State Government, Chief Patrick Ukah, made the presentation to
Otarigho in Asaba on Thursday.
He said, “We commended him for the rare
display of patriotism, humanity, bravery and heroism, the incident would have
resulted in the death of many persons and destruction of property at Agbarho in
Ughelli North Local Government Area where the fire started.
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Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos, says
the decision to ban commercial motorcycles locally known as ‘Okada’ in the
state was not easy while seeking re-election.
The governor said this on Thursday at the
maiden summit on non-oil exports organised by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)
in collaboration with the Bankers’ committee in Lagos.
Sanwo-Olu said it was not an easy decision to
have the policy of banning okadas during a period when he is seeking to be
re-elected.
While explaining the purpose of the ban, he
said such a critical decision was only made for the best of the people and not
a political action.
*******CRIME& TRAGEDY
++++dailytrust:Yobe Deputy Gov Loses Daughter
Days After Son’s Death
Idi Barde Gubana, Deputy Governor of Yobe
State, is bereaved again as his 16-year-old daughter, Khadija Idi Barde
(Siyama), who sustained injuries in an accident that killed her brother, has
died in the hospital.
A vehicle that the deputy governor’s children
were travelling in was involved an accident along Maiduguri-Kano highway on
Saturday.
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Daily Trust reports that Siyama, who sustained
injuries in the accident, was rushed to a Kano hospital, where she was
receiving treatment.
However, she died on Thursday morning
+-+++dailypost:Police arrest man for allegedly
killing 3-year-old boy in Anambra.
The Anambra State Police Operatives have
arrested a 34-year-old man, Mr Onwele Anayo, for allegedly killing a
three-year-old child.
Anambra State Police command’s spokesperson,
DSP Toochukwu Ikenga, who disclosed this to DAILY POST, said the incident
happened at Hillview Estate, Nkwelle -Ezunaka, near Onitsha.
Ikenga said: “Today 16/6/2022 police
operatives arrested one Mr Onwele Anayo ‘M’ aged 34 years on the murder of
Divine Eze ‘M’ aged 3 years.
“The suspect (Mr Anayo) took the child
(Divine) as he was sleeping and killed him, by hitting him on the floor several
times. Mr Anayo carried a knife from the room, pursued the father around the
house, threatening to kill him.
++++Premiumtimes:How pastor defrauded me N36.5
million – Octogenarian
An 88-year-old woman, Tawakalitu Ilumooka,
Thursday, told an Ikeja Special Offences Court how a pastor, Ayodeji
Olorunfemi, allegedly defrauded her of N36.5 million.
Mrs Ilumooka testified that the pastor took
her to a river goddess (Olookun) for fake hard currency.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that
Mr Olorunfemi is standing trial on a three-count charge bordering on obtaining
money under false pretences and stealing.
He is being prosecuted by the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
On Thursday, Mrs Ilumooka, led in evidence by
EFCC counsel, Ahmed Yerima, said the pastor took her to Olookun on the pretext
that the river goddess had blessed her with a box containing dollars and pounds
sterling.
++++Blueprint:Police arrest mastermind of
Taraba blast that claimed over 50 lives
The Taraba state police command, Thursday,
paraded the mastermind of the bomb blast that claimed over fifty lives recently
in Iwari, Gassol LGA of the state.
Parading the suspect, Taraba state Commissioner of Police, CP
Abimbola A. Soyoya, said on 9/06/2022, one Bala Usman of Tella town in Gossol
LGA who armed himself with a pistol scorpion loaded with seven rounds of live
ammunition, went to the house of one
Usman Yaki of Gunduma village via Mutum Biyu town and attempted to kill him.
He noted that the suspect fired one round of
ammunition, and the police were alerted in collaboration with the vigilante and
he was subdued and arrested.
++++dailypost:EFCC issues yellow card to
hoteliers accommodating Yahoo boys in Kwara.
Hotel owners in Kwara State have been warned
to avoid being accomplice to Yahoo-boys who check into their facilities for
internet fraud and money laundering or risk being prosecuted and jailed.
The Ilorin Zonal Commander of the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Michael Nzekwe, issued the warning to hotel
owners at a stakeholders meeting of Designated Non-Financial Institutions, at
the Commission’s office along Catchment Road, GRA, Ilorin, the state capital.
“The commission has observed a worrying
pattern of cold complicity by hospitality entrepreneurs who appear to be
hands-in-gloves with suspected fraudsters by housing them over long spells and
making internet facilities available to them,” he disclosed.
++++dailypost:Police arrest 80yr old man for
alleged dealing, sales of cartridges to hoodlums in Delta
The Raider’s Unit of the Delta State Police
Command has arrested an eighty-year-old man, Omoraka James for allegedly
dealing in cartridges and selling to hoodlums.
The hoodlums who patronise the Octogenarian
are known to carry out various nefarious crimes within Kokori Community in
Ethiope-East Local Government Area.
The Police recovered one hundred and fourteen
(114) rounds of live cartridges from the suspect, DAILY POST can report.
The Delta State Police Public Relations
Officer, DSP Bright Edafe confirmed the report in a statement signed and made
available to our correspondent.
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Compiled and Edited by: Adejoke Adebisi
