Alleged N42bn Railway fraud: Former SGF, 2 ex-PDP chairmen fingered

Memoranda from various stakeholders have started pouring in before the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee set up to investigate contract awards for the Rehabilitation of   Railway tracks and the procurement of Coaches and Locomotives between 2010-2014.  “Nigerians would be shocked at the level of massive frauds committed by highly placed government functionaries when the findings of this committee are made public,” a source close to the committee told Vanguard, yesterday.

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This judicial rascality must stop

#Just before APC and Buhari throw Nigeria into chaos with judicial rascality. Here is where the Tribunal erred on Taraba State judgement of yesterday.

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Section 140 of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended):
"Where an Election Tribunal or Court determines that a candidate who obtained the highest votes was not qualified to contest the election, it shall not declare the candidate with the second highest votes as elected, but it shall order for a fresh election."
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Assuming but not conceding that the Tribunal, which sat in Abuja was right to declare that it was wrong for the PDP primary that produced Governor Ishaku to have taken place in Abuja, at best, fresh election ought to have been ordered.

#This judicial rascality must stop

68-year-old woman kidnapped at gunpointin Delta

A 68-year-old woman, Mrs. Evelyn Agboro, was over the weekend, reportedly kidnapped by unidentified gunmen operating at Emevor, Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta State. According to reports, the armed men, who came in black T-shirts and a Vento Volkswagen car with registration No. AM 518 EFR, drove into the victim’s resident where they allegedly forced her into their car at gunpoint. Confirming the incident, acting Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, in the State, Mr. Charles Muka, said officers have been mobilized to search for the victim and apprehend the suspects. Muka said, “On the day the incident was reported, police detectives swung into action, trailed the suspects and on sighting the officers they abandoned their vehicle and fled into the bush.“When the car was searched, an identity card belonging to one of the suspects at Ubogo town was recovered and he was immediately arrested,” the pork added. Muka, however, added that the victim was yet to be rescued. He said there had not been a ransom demand from the criminals.

Eaglets’ victory bold response to Buhari’s failure to acknowledge youths’ potentials – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has told PresidentMuhammadu Buhari that the victory of the Golden Eaglets at the FIFA U-17 World Cup clearly indicates that the nation’s youths are endowed with talents and should be encouraged to excel. Describing the feat as a bold response by the Nigerian youth to the series of ​“uninspiring and negative utterances and actions​​ of President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC government,” the party accused the current administration of refusing to acknowledge the potentials of the nation’s youths. The main opposition party, in a statement issued on Monday by its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh held that, “The victory is a clear demonstration that Nigeria, as a country is endowed with enormous talents and potentials waiting to be exhibited to the entire world.

Biafrans at it again: Protest in Aba disrupts all activities in Aba.

Reporting from ABA.
Schools, shops and markets we're put on hold completely with protesters move from school to school, market to market and street to street making sure that there is no activity going on except the protest.

   Remember activities were on the of 7th November 2015 grounded in Onitsha, the commercial city of Anambra State and its environs by youth sympathetic to Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) who were protesting the continued detention of their leader, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu.