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‘Imo Has Been Rescued from the Stranglehold of the Wicked’

March 20, 2019 9:14 pm

Amby Uneze dialogues with Chief Obinna Duruaku, founder of Imo Grassroots Voters Movement on the just concluded governorship election in Imo state

As an Imolite and a smember of PDP, what is your reaction to the just concluded Imo Guber /House of Assembly elections? 

The elections have come and gone and like many other well-meaning Imolites, I am delighted that the results of the polls have in the main reflected the wishes of the majority of Imo people. Today, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, is governor-elect and my party the PDP will soon take over as the ruling party in the
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Tribunal set to deliver judgment on Okorocha, Izunaso case

Okorocha sues INEC over Certificate of Return

March 20, 2019 9:00 pm

Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha, has applied at the Federal High Court Abuja, for an order compelling the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to issue him with a Certificate of Return as the Senator- elect for Imo West Senatorial District.

Though the returning officer for the Imo West Senatorial District election had declared Okorocha who contested on the platform of the All Progressives Congress winner of the poll, he was however not presented with a Certificate of return by the electoral body as his name was
not listed among the senators-elect who were presented with their certificates of return by …

Atiku in secret meeting with Southern, Middle Belt Leaders

March 20, 2019 12:22 pm

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last general election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on Wednesday met with leaders of the Southern/Middle Belt Forum in Abuja.

The close-door meeting, which lasted for about an hour, took place at the Asokoro, Abuja residence of elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clarke.

Those who attended the meeting with Atiku include Middle Belt Leader, Air Commodore Dan Suleiman (rtd); Afenifere leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo; Ohanaeze President, Chief John Nwodo; and Major-Gen. Zamani Lekwot (rtd).

The Forum had during the build up to the last general election openly declared support for Atiku’s candidature …

Court declines to stop announcement of Rivers poll results

March 20, 2019 12:15 pm

Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court Abuja on Wednesday refused to stop the collation of results of Rivers State Governorship and House of Assembly election conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on March 9, 2019.

INEC had last week following the report of its fact finding committee on Rivers election fixed Wednesday, March 20, for the resumption of collation, conclusion and announcement of the remaining results in the election.

The electoral body had suspended the electoral process after some military personnel and armed men invaded it’s collation center in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

In announcing the

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Atiku’s silence on the Jubril deception and the consequence

I’ll reclaim my mandate, Atiku vows

March 20, 2019 12:07 pm

The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar has vowed to reclaim his stolen mandate.

Atiku had approached the Electoral Tribunal, claiming he won the Presidential Election.

The PDP Presidential candidate, who spoke in Abuja during a visit to the leaders of the Southern and Middle Belt regions, said the struggle to reclaim the mandate would be achievable with support of the elders.

He was optimistic that justice will be done eventually.

He thanked the various leaders for their support before, during and after the election.

Meanwhile, the South-Sourh leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has assured Atiku …

Yinka Odumakin exposes Bola Tinubu’s dirty dealings

March 20, 2019 11:48 am

The backpage of your The Nation of Tuesday 12 March where one of your Rottweilers under the FORGED name “Segun Ibirogba” wrote “Odumakin’s anxiety over vanishing feeding-bottles” has un-paused the button on this serial.

I have always wondered why these intellectual almajiris around you always attack me under fake names. It is either they are afraid of me or they don’t believe in you to risk their names doing the dirty job for you. Well, we know many of them hold worst views about you than us but for the free money they have been accustomed to from a Robbin …

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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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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