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Ahead of its governorship primary election on July 20, the All Progressives Congress has begun the screening of aspirants jostling for the party's ticket.  Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State confirmed this on Wednesday on his Twitter page shortly after he was screened in Abuja.  He said, “I have just undergone screening by my party @OfficialAPCNg. Members of the committee were thorough, scrutinizing all documents amongst other questions. I believe the party made excellent choices for the committee members. Very professional and courteous."  I have just undergone screening by my party @OfficialAPCNg . Members of the committee were thorough, scrutinizing all documents amongst other questions. I believe the party made excellent choices of the committee members. Very professional and courteous. pic.twitter.com/EdQN3VfTCn — Arakunrin Akeredolu (@RotimiAkeredolu) July 8, 2020 It was gathered that five other aspirants of the party, who had shown interest to parti

Amadou Gon Coulibaly, Ivory Coast’s Prime Minister and the ruling party’s candidate for October's presidential election, has died. Coulibaly died on Wednesday after taking part in a cabinet meeting, Patrick Achi, Secretary-General in the presidency, said in a statement on national television. Achi said the 61-year-old late Prime Minister, who had heart surgery in 2012, became unwell during the weekly meeting and was evacuated to a hospital where he passed away.  He had returned to Ivory Coast last Thursday after two months in France to undergo a heart exam and rest. “Fellow compatriots, Ivory Coast is mourning. It is with deep pain that I announce to you that Prime Minister, Amadou Gon Coulibaly, has left us,” the statement read. His death is likely to set off a scramble within the ruling RHDP party to replace him as its candidate in an election that is considered a key test of stability for the world’s top cocoa producer.   International News OBITUARY AddThis : 

The management of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund has disputed allegations that it had been sacked and replaced by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige. In a letter dated July 1, 2020 and addressed to Adebayo Somefun, Managing Director of NSITF, Ngige said President Muhammadu Buhari had approved the suspension of the management Somefun heads over “misappropriation and other gross misconduct”.  The statement further said that the affected officials were to appear before an investigative panel to give information on what they knew about the purported financial infractions. But reacting in a statement, NSITF said the President had not given such a directive.  The statement reads, “The attention of NSITF management has been drawn to media reports that it had been suspended. We wish to state that President Muhammadu Buhari has not suspended the management of NSITF and has not made any such announcement, anywhere. “Curiously, the person mentioned in the med

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Lagos Zonal Office, has secured the conviction of one Abass Mohammed and a Bureau De Change operator, Ibrahim Saidu Jogal, who connived to hack into the Flexcube database of Union Bank and defrauded the bank of N2,550,000,000. The commission received a petition alleging that fraudsters had hacked into the bank’s database and diverted the sum of N2,550,000,000.  Investigation into the petition revealed that the said money was fraudulently credited into the accounts of mostly BDC operators including one Jaxmine BDC, Gona BDC and Great Well Communication. It was further revealed that Mohammed sourced for the account details of Jaxmine BDC from one of his friends, Lawal Ubah, who was a signatory to the account, and subsequently gave the details to one Salisu Liman (aka Zico), the ringleader of the syndicate.  The sum of N450m was then credited into the account. Subsequently, the sum of N79m was transferred from the account of Jaxmi

Lagos Assembly Speaker Mudashiru Obasa The doctoring of vital documents that has to do with approvals of funds for various purposes in the Lagos State House of Assembly has begun on the orders of Speaker of the parliament, Mudashiru Obasa. According to findings by SaharaReporters, the alteration of key documents was being done through the Clerk of the Assembly as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission begins its investigation into allegations of misappropriation of public funds by Obasa and other leaders of the parliament. SaharaReporters in a series of well detailed reports backed with relevant documents had exposed how Obasa through different guises signed off various sums of money for himself and close allies in the Lagos Assembly. In one of such reports, the online news medium exposed how Obasa operated over 64 bank accounts using different names to steal public funds. The BVN: 2296663231, reveals that Obasa operates accounts with multiple names in Polaris Bank,

Fear has seized Ondo State Executive Council members as they await results of their COVID-19 tests. Cabinet members were made to undergo a compulsory Coronavirus test after Governor Rotimi Akeredolu was confirmed to have contracted the virus earlier in the week. Apart from Akeredolu, his wife, Betty, some of their aides and several other government officials have all been confirmed to have the virus. On Thursday, Commissioner for Health in the state, Wahab Adegbenro, died of Coronavirus complications after being ill for a few days. As a result of this development, cabinet members are now living in fear especially as they all await the outcome of the test conducted on them. See Also Breaking News BREAKING: Ondo State Governor, Akeredolu, Tests Positive For COVID-19 0 Comments 3 Days Ago SaharaReporters gathered that apart from executive council members, lawmakers in the state also undertook the test and are also awaiting the outcome. A source in government told our

Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federal High Court, Ibadan, Oyo State, on Thursday, July 2, 2020, convicted and sentenced an Internet fraudster, Olawale Ayomide Fadoju to 12 months imprisonment. The convict, who hid under a pseudonym ‘April Rozell’ to dupe his victims online, was found guilty of criminal impersonation in a one count amended charge filed against him by the Ibadan Zonal Office of the EFCC. The offence runs contrary to Section 22 (2)(b) (i & ii) of the Cyber Crimes (Prohibition, Prevention e.t.c) Act, 2015. Fadoju pleaded guilty to the charge following which prosecution counsel, Simon Ibekwute, urged the court to convict and sentence him accordingly. Beside the jail term, the convict will also reimburse to his victim the sum of $750 and forfeit his iPhone 6 phone being proceeds of crime to the Federal Government of Nigeria. In a related development, the EFCC on Thursday arraigned 78-year-old Alhaji Sheik Rauf Temitope Mustapha for alleged N25m land fraud.

As a child I was told and believed  hell is a place God created for sinners to burn eternally. I was religiously blind and specifically Anglican foolish. Every religion came as a political conquest and business voyage, with lots of hybridized myths and fear of eternal punishment to scare people off being rebellious to colonial dogma. The things all the foreign religion have in common are rape, looting, burning of our medical and history books, kidnapping our inventors, mavericks, geniuses,slaughtering Africans like animals for being traditional and refusing colonial dogmas, blackmailing our heritage and tradition as demonic, slave masters' ancestors were called lords, prophets, healers and saviors while ours we labelled as satan, idol, magicians and demons. The blackmail is so deep that the foreign religion enforcers tell their subjective followers that the believers of other religions will go to hell because their prophets and savior are not approved by the supreme God and

The Joint Action Front on Thursday rejected the new pump price of petrol announced by the Nigerian Government from N123 to N143.80 per liter and demanded an immediate reversal. JAF in a statement by its Chairperson, Dr Oladipo Fashina, and Secretary, Comrade Abiodun Aremu, described the increment as a punishment to Nigerians given the prevailing economic hardship in the country due to the Coronavirus pandemic.  The statement reads, “The Joint Action Front rejects the latest hike in the prices of petroleum products from the N123 pump price at most filling stations to the latest price of N143. “This is coming against the background of serious hardship the working people and oppressed masses are going through, following the failure of the Nigerian state to provide adequate social support and access to mass testing in the face of threats to survival by the Coronavirus pandemic. “JAF has consistently maintained that the current unjust system of neoliberal order is incapable of a

Bola Tinubu Members of the Caretaker Committee of the All Progressives Congress are currently in a meeting with National Leader of the party, Bola Tinubu, at his Bourdillion residence in Ikoyi, Lagos State. A source told SaharaReporters that the APC Caretaker Chairman, Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State, led other members of the committee that included the Secretary, Senator Akpan Udoedehe; Osun State governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, and governor of Niger State, Sani Bello, to the meeting. The source said the meeting was meant to reassure Tinubu that the dissolution of the party’s National Working Committee was not targeted at him. The National Working Committee of the party headed by Adams Oshiomhole was dissolved last week by the party’s National Executive Committee at an emergency meeting attended by President Muhammadu Buhari. This was seen as a blow to Tinubu’s rumoured presidential ambition because of his closeness to Oshiomhole. Politics News AddThis :  Disable a

Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa Your Excellency, Please sir, I will like to seek your kind clarification on a burning issue on behalf of other Lagosians. Is Epe still part of Lagos State? If it is sir, why has the road leading to Epe from Lagos been abandoned? The toll gate at Admiralty Circle Plaza is meant to service the Eti-Osa/Epe Expressway sir. We have been paying toll on that road since 2011 but it is like hell to travel from Lagos to Epe presently. It used to be a 30-minute journey from Ajah sir but now it is totally a mess. Please take up this matter and help us with the reconstruction of that road sir, so as to decongest the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and give the people of Eti-Osa, Ibeju-Lekki and Epe, a sense of belonging. The bulk of the IGR of Lagos State comes from Eti-Osa but it is the local government that is starved of infrastructure in the state. God bless you for your anticipated prompt response and action sir. Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN Lekki, Lagos. 02/07/2020

Advocacy group, Act for Positive Transformation Initiative, has written a petition to the leadership of the National Assembly for expeditious action on the planned probe exercise of the Niger Delta Development Commission. The group alleged that verifiable available records at its disposal indicated that money squandered by the Interim Management Committee of the NDDC between January and May this year was N80bn. The petition signed by the group’s Head, Directorate of Research, Strategy and Programmes, Kolawole Johnson, urged the National Assembly to stop NDDC under its present leadership from further financial transactions aside from monthly salary payments to workers. The petition reads in part, "That the National Assembly directs the commission to stop all forms of procurements. "That the National Assembly directs the commission and relevant agencies to stop all forms of payments from the commission’s account. "That a proper account must be given for the ov

Siaka Oyibo, one of the aides to Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello is dead. This was disclosed in a statement by the Commissioner for Information and Communication in the state, Kingsley Fanwo. Oyibo died at the age of 69 on Thursday. The statement reads, “A retired army officer, the late Hon. Oyibo was hugely instrumental to the security strides of the Governor Yahaya Bello administration as the Chairman of the Security Trust Fund. “As he bowed after fighting bravely against diabetes at the age of 69, he will be remembered for his patriotism, hard work, and commitment to the security agenda of the present administration in the state.” Bello had on June 17 lost his Personal Assistant, Suleiman Abdullateef. Abdullateef died at a private hospital in Abuja at the age of 41. See Also PUBLIC HEALTH Kogi Chief Judge Dies At Coronavirus Isolation Centre 0 Comments 4 Days Ago PUBLIC HEALTH News AddThis :  Disable advertisements :  from All Content via

One of the major reasons why the Central Bank of Nigeria has prevented financial institutions in the country from paying United States dollars to persons receiving money from friends and family members based overseas has been uncovered. According to documents seen by SaharaReporters, the apex bank, which has refused to disclose the exact foreign remittances it has received from 2016 to 2018, deliberately stocks the US dollars it receives on behalf of Nigerians to trade them off through crooked means.  The CBN, it was gathered, was warehousing the dollar component of remittances in foreign banks, thereby making it impossible for the naira to appreciate against the dollar in the foreign exchange market. Blowing the lid off this seeming goldmine for the CBN leadership, the Femi Falana chambers through Mrs Funmi Falana on February 10, 2020 wrote to the apex bank, demanding to know the accurate remittances for 2016, 2017 and 2018 respectively. This request, according to the law

Mrs Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu, wife of Ondo State governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, has tested positive for Coronavirus, SaharaReporters can confirm. This is coming barely two days after her husband was confirmed to have contracted the virus. A source in the government confirmed the news to our correspondent on Thursday. The source also revealed that some security aides to Mrs Akeredolu also tested positive for the virus. "Unfortunately, her (Mrs Akeredolu) result came back positive with some of her aides today. "Health officials have advised them to quickly go on isolation and I am sure they have taken the advice. "So, for now, we don't expect the governor and his wife to be seen in public places because we are in danger with the rising cases in the state." Commissioner for Health in the state, Wahab Adegbenro, died of the virus on Thursday.  See Also Breaking News BREAKING: Ondo Health Commissioner Dies Of COVID-19 0 Comments 11 Hours Ago PUBLIC

The Kano State Government has asked all civil servants to resume duties on Monday, July 6. Governor Umar Ganduje made this known during the state’s Task Force on ‪COVID-19 press briefing at the Government House on Thursday. ‪Ganduje also announced the total removal of lockdown in the state. He said, “All ‪Kano state civil servants are to go back to work with effect from Monday, 6th July 2020.” PUBLIC HEALTH Breaking News News AddThis :  Disable advertisements :  from All Content via

President Muhammadu Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the indefinite suspension of the Managing Director/Chief Executive of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, Mr Adebayo Somefun. A statement by the Ministry of Labour and Employment on Thursday stated that four directors of the agency were also asked to proceed on suspension. They are the Executive Director, Finance and Investment, Mr Jasper Ikedi Azusalam; Executive Director, Operations, Mrs Olukemi Nelson, and Executive Director, Administration, Alhaji Tijani Darazo Sulaiman. Their suspension, according to the ministry, was due to the preliminarily established prima facie infractions of the Financial Regulations and Procurement Act and other acts of gross misconduct. Corruption Breaking News News AddThis :  Disable advertisements :  from All Content via

Festus Keyamo, Minister of State for Labour and Employment, has revealed that Nigerian lawmakers were trying to influence, who to be employed in the temporary work scheme as he cleared the air on what led to the row with the legislators. SaharaReporters had earlier on Tuesday reported that Keyamo engaged in a rowdy session with lawmakers during a committee meeting over the allocation of N52bn for the creation of 774,000 jobs for Nigerians. Speaking on what led to the issue, Keyamo said the lawmakers were trying to have a large input on how the programme should be implemented and, who would be part of the scheme. He avowed that he would not surrender the programme to their control since their powers under the constitution does not extend to that.  He stated that rather than give in to compromise from lawmakers or any politicians, he would resign from heading the scheme.  See Also Sahara Reporters 774,000 Jobs: Keyamo, Nigerian Lawmakers Engage In Rowdy Session Over N52bn

The Independent National Electoral Commission has said it would be carrying out the accreditation of electoral observers and media through an online platform. Chairman of the commission, Mahmood Yakubu, revealed this on Tuesday during a town hall meeting on ‘Fixing Nigerian elections’ which was organised by YIAGA. Yakubu said the party had learned from previous election conducted and the humongous number of litigations that followed election conduct.  He said, "We have been deepening the usage of technology not only in management of electoral processes but processes that lead to elections. "We also introduced the accreditation of observers online. The media will be accredited online and we said that parties must also submit their nominations online. "Recall that before the Kogi and Bayelsa governorship election, we had so many litigations simply because the process of submission was manual. "We learnt from the experience of what happened and insisted th

SOC Okenwa Recently in Accra, Ghana, an anonymous Ghanaian businessman reportedly led some armed men into the premises of the Nigerian Embassy and bulldozed some structures under construction claiming that the Nigerian property encroached on their ancestral land. As the 'bandits' were pulling down the block of apartments on the property in the night it was reported that some policemen were sighted near-by but they did nothing to restrain the gang from defacing Nigeria and her sovereignty. And days after the ugly incident in the Ghanaian capital city a video went viral online depicting a violent demonstration of some frustrated Nigerians inside the Nigerian embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia. They were seen destroying whatever they could lay their hands on. The dozens of young men were protesting the intimidation and harassment they were daily subjected to by the immigration personnel of their host country. Following the death of a Nigerian, days prior, who jumped down accide