March 19, 2019

Declare me winner, Atiku tells election petition tribunal

March 19, 2019 9:01 pm

Exactly 19 days after President Muhammadu Buhari(Jubril Al-Sudani) was declared winner of the February 23 presidential election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has filed a petition challenging the victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, President Muhammadu Buhari, (Jubril Al-Sudani) at the poll.

Atiku and the PDP in the petition filed yesterday asked to be declared the winner of the election. In the alternative, he asked the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to nullify the election and order a fresh one that would be counted in line
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₦900b probe: Senators, Reps to return fake projects funds

Which way Nigeria?

March 19, 2019 8:45 pm

By Odumodu Gbulagu

The most populous black Nation and the pride of the black man.
The 7th most populous nation in the world.
A member of OPEC as oil producing country.

A land blessed with abundant natural resources.
A land flowing with milk and honey.
A land blessed with abundant Human Resources, as it has the 3rd largest youth population in the world, just behind China and India.

A country of over 200 million people, 250 ethnic groups, and over 250 languages.
A home of beautiful people, with diverse culture and tradition.

A regional power in Africa, a middle power …

UNN sets record of electricity generation with waste

March 19, 2019 11:29 am

The University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) has in Nigeria, set the record of electricity generation by using organic waste to install 100KVA Refuse Drived Fuel (RDF) gasification plant for its Nsukka Campus.

Prof Benjamin Ozumba, UNN Vice-Chancellor, commended the project during its inauguration and said the university would no longer be a customer to the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC).

According to him, the project is first of its kind in Nigeria and another feather added to the cap of the institution.

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Police arraign two for allegedly stealing bags of biscuits

Court to INEC: show cause for continuation of Bauchi polls

March 19, 2019 7:39 am
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC ) to appear before it and show cause why it should not stop the planned conclusion of the suspended results for Tafawa Balewa Local Government in respect of the last governorship election in Bauchi State.

Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo, in a ruling on Tuesday, restated his earlier order made on Monday in an ex-parte motion by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the incumbent Governor, Muhammed Abubakar.

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BREAKING: Court stops INEC from collating Bauchi results

March 19, 2019 7:06 am

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to discontinue collation and announcement of Bauchi governorship results.

Justice Inyang Ekwo gave the order following an ex parte application filed by the All Progressive Congress (APC) and the governor of Bauchi State, Mohammed Abubakar.

Details coming…

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Koffi Olomide gets two years in prison for rape

March 19, 2019 7:02 am

International music star, Antoine Christophe Agbepa Mumba a.k.a. Koffi Olomide was given a two years suspended jail sentence in absentia by a court in France for raping a 15 year-old girl.

This sentence means that the 62 year-old music composer, producer and singer faces an arrest if he commits further offenses, according to BBC. The graduate of Business Economic and pioneer of the soukous genre was order by the court to pay a fine of 5,000 Euros ($5,700; £4,300) in damages to the former dancer.

He was also ordered to pay the same amount to the court for illegally bringing …

Nigeria’s construction sector has been brutal -Andrea Geday

March 19, 2019 6:50 am

The construction sector in Nigeria has been brutal in these past couple of years, the Group Managing Director of Elalan Construction, Andrea Geday has said.

He stated this at the launch of Blue Water Sapphire Penthouses in Lagos, recently.

Geday stated that the market had been very rough and things slow in the standard market, but that they survived as they had sold 50% already.

Blue Water Sapphire Penthouses has been described as the definition of luxury, top of the world living. It has duplex penthouse apartments on the 17th and 18th floors, and there are just four of these …

FG to sieze property of Yar’adua, others worth ₦4.8bn -ICPC

March 19, 2019 6:41 am

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has made arrangements to seize plots of land and buildings valued at N4.8 billion from the  Shehu Yar’adua Foundation and 29 other firms.

ICPC Spokesperson, Mrs Rasheedat Okoduwa disclosed this in a Press Statement in Abuja.

She said that the properties included 22.9 hectares of undeveloped land, one plaza, and a block of six two-bedroom flats located in Wuse, Zone 1, Abuja.

“These belong to Shehu Musa Yar’adua Foundation, Vibrant Issuance Brokers, Millard Fuller Foundation, Maibuhu Farm and Construction Limited, Gabcon Enterprises Limited and a host of others.

“In the

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