Poligov Nigeria: September 2015

Many Dead, 50 Houses Razed As Boko Haram Invades Adamawa Communities

Suspected members of dreaded Boko Haram terrorists invaded three communities of Sabon Gari, Kafin Hausa and Bakin Dutse of Madagali Local Government Area of Adamawa State,

The people of Uwessan, a community that comprises of eight villages, are not happy. What pained them is that they see communities around them enjoy basic amenities such as good road network, electricity and water but they are still yearning for government to come to their aid.

Senators elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are intensifying their plot to take over the senate should Senate President Bukola Saraki fail to survive his ongoing legal battles, which they view as power play among contending forces within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Strong indications emerged, yesterday, that the Senate will receive the ministerial list from President Muhammadu Buhari tomorrow or Wednesday.

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the stoppage of special allowance for security personnel in the Presidential Villa, investigations by The Punch have revealed.

Contrary to claims by the Nigerian presidency that a meeting at the 70th United Nations General Assembly to discuss the humanitarian crisis posed by the activities of the Boko Haram terrorist group was unofficial,

THERE appears to be no end to the public disgrace the immediate past governor of Abia State, Chief Theodore Ahamefule Orji would receive from the people he superintended their affairs for the past eight years as he was, last Friday, for the umpteenth time, booed.

The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ayuba Wabba last night denied a story credited to the labour congress that the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, should resign from office because of his trial by the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT).

There are indications that Senators that are opposed to Dr. Bukola Saraki’s leadership of the Senate are poised to ask for his resignation when the upper federal legislative chamber re-opens on Tuesday (tomorrow).

First Republic Commissioner for Education and Commissioner for Health in the defunct Western Region, Sir Olaniwun Ajayi, 90, tells KAYODE FALADE and LEKE BAIYEWU about the defunct Action Group, Chief Obafemi and Mrs. HID Awolowo, and the crisis in Afenifere

The President of the National Association of Nigerian Students, Tijani Usman, tells TOBI AWORINDE that the ongoing assets declaration trial of Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, is orchestrated by a political cabal

The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has finally tied the knot with his rumoured heartthrob, Sa’adatu Barkindo-Musdafa, the daughter of the Lamido of Adamawa, Muhammadu Barkindo-Musdafa.

The clock is gradually ticking against the embattled president of the Senate, Bukola Saraki as some of his loyalists cutting across the ruling All Progressives Congress and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)

As speculations mount over the future of embattled Senate President Bukola Saraki, plots by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to supplant the majority All Progressives Congress (APC) and take over leadership of the senate are intensifying.

Congrats to Senator Dino Melaye as he bags a chieftancy title. The senator who is currently having his mandate challenged in court is unperturbed as he stepped out to be coronated as the Balogun of Odo Ape Bunu. Below are pictures of the coronation.

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Teenager pours hot water on mistress

The police have re-arraigned a 17-year-old girl before an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court in Lagos for allegedly bathing her employer with hot water.

Nigerian workers, under the umbrellas of the Nigerian Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress, have asked the President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki, to vacate his office pending the determination of his case at the Code of Conduct Tribunal.

Scotch whisky brand, Johnny Walker, recently launched a global marketing campaign, Joy Will Take You Further, naming top music producer, Don Jazzy, as its ambassador for the Nigerian end.

The Timipre Sylva Campaign for the Bayelsa State 2015 gubernatorial election has described as misleading and completely untrue reports that the All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship Primary held on Tuesday, in Yenagoa has been cancelled or rescheduled.

AFTER four days in the kidnappers den, the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Chief Oluyemisi Falae who was yesterday escorted back home by security operatives said he slept on the floor for four days and trekked several kilometers to get to the hideout of his abductors.

A human rights group, World Alliance Against Terrorism, Violence And Inhuman Treatment, WAATVAIT, has disagreed with those they identified as disgruntled elements who wrote a petition to President Muhammadu Buhari, against Femi Falana (SAN) in a bid to undermine and discredit him, and frustrate his appointment as a minister.

RIVERS State chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, has explained that the N300 billion libel suit instituted by former Governor Rotimi Amaechi against the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state, Felix Obuah, is to set the records straight in view of allegations against Amaechi.

A former Political Adviser to Akwa Ibom State Government, Udo Ekpenyong, has said the election of Chief Godswill Akpabio, as the senator representing Akwa Ibom North West, was a reward for his performance while he served as the governor of the state.

Dickson decries workers’ resort to strike over salaries

GOVERNOR Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has decried workers’ resort to strike or threats of strike whenever there is a delay in the payment of their salaries.

THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has told Rivers State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal that the election of Governor, Nyesom Wike, was peaceful, credible and conducted in line with the Electoral Act.

BAYELSA State Governor, Seriake Dickson, was yesterday elected as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate for the December 5 polls.

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State and chairman of the PDP national electoral panel, Bayelsa State yesterday described Dr. Goodluck Jonathan former president’s participation in the primary election in the state as a “home coming” .

A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Olu Falae, says he slept on bare floor for the four days that he was held in kidnappers’ den.

ANGRY mob on Thursday hurled water sachets and stones at a tent under which the Senate President, Bukola Saraki and some other dignitaries sat, at the Eid-el-Kabir prayer ground in Ilorin, Kwara State capital.

A former Chairman of Punch Nigeria Limited, Chief Ajibola Ogunshola, and his wife, Iyabo, were among the first callers to the Ikenne country home of the Awolowos on Thursday to condole with the family on the death of their matriarch, Hannah Idowu Dideolu.

Banker, dispatch rider arrested for bank robbery

The Operations Manager and a dispatch rider of a commercial bank located in Effurun, Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State have been arrested and are currently detained after foiled bank robbery attempt.

There was pandemonium in Osogbo, Osun State, on Wednesday, as two kids of the same mother were burnt to death when Bovas Filling Station in front of Osogbo Grammar School, went up in flames.

A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Olu Falae, says he slept on bare floor for the four days that he was held in kidnappers’ den.

Banker, dispatch rider arrested for bank robbery

There was pandemonium in Osogbo, Osun State, on Wednesday, as two kids of the same mother were burnt to death when Bovas Filling Station in front of Osogbo Grammar School, went up in flames.

Former President Goodluck Jonathan was among the dignitaries who visited the Ikenne country home of the Awolowos to pay tributes to their matriarch, Hannah Idowu Dideolu, who passed on last Saturday.

The Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, has directed the Ondo State Commissioner of Police to accelerate efforts and mobilise all resources to rescue elder statesman, Chief Olu Falae, who was kidnapped on his farm on Monday.

The war against terror received a major boost on Wednesday when Nigerian troops captured a member of the highest hierarchy of the Boko Haram group, Bulama Modu, along with 43 other members in Borno State.

A self-styled doctor, Olawale Omolaja, has been arrested by operatives of the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly selling a week-old baby without the mother’s consent.

General Gilbert Diendere, who last week staged a coup in Burkina Faso, on Wednesday confirmed the crisis had ended, describing the putsch he led as “the biggest mistake”.

National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has said that the party will conduct a fresh governorship primary election in Bayelsa State, explaining that the exercise held on Tuesday was marred by security flaws.

THE Samson Siasia stadium in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State will for the second time within three days host a major political gathering as members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, file out today for primary election to select their candidate for the December 5, 2015 governorship election.

Flood: Delta fishermen bemoan loss of N250m worth of fish

FISHMERMEN at the Camp 74 Fish Farms in Asaba, Delta State capital, whose farms were destroyed last week by flood, yesterday told the state governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, that they lost over N250 million worth of fish to the flood, adding that they had about 1,000 fish ponds producing over 80 tonnes of fish per month.

THE office of the National Security Adviser, NSA, has issued a security alert on the likelihood of Boko Haram attack on Lagos seaports.

Former Bayelsa State Governor, Chief Timipre Sylva has described as a deliberate “act of mischief” and “lies” the claims by the Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole that he truncated the electoral process during the disputed governorship primaries of the All Progressive Congress APC in the state.

Army authorities disclosed, yesterday, that special forces prosecuting the war on terror have arrested a Boko Haram Commander, one Bulama Modu, who had been on the wanted list of security agencies, even as another 241 hostages, particularly women and children, were rescued.

The police in Lagos have arrested a trado-medical doctor ─ Olawale Onalaja ─ for allegedly selling a week-old baby to a couple for N300,000 in the Iyana Ipaja area of Lagos.

The Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, on Wednesday, narrated how he escaped from the Samson Siasia Stadium, Yenagoa, venue of the 2015 governorship primary of the All Progressives Congress, after he was held hostage for hours during the exercise which was marred by violence.

Sources within the Nigerian government, law enforcement and civil society disputed GAVI’s claims that part of the vaccination funds was misused. The groups also questioned the propriety of Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala’s authorization of a

THESE are not the best of times for Bukola Saraki, Senate President and chairman of the so-called 8th National Assembly that has done virtually nothing about its law-making responsibilities,

The Code of Conduct Tribunal sitting in Abuja on Tuesday adjourned the false declaration of assets case involving the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, to October 21.

There was a mild drama on Tuesday morning between the convoy of Senate President, Bukola Saraki and stern-looking security operatives who were drafted to guard the Presidential villa gate as early as 6 am.

The President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, has arrived the courtroom of the Code of Conduct Tribunal in Abuja to face trial over a 13-count charge of corruption levelled against him by the Code of Conduct Bureau.