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The Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, the apex socio-cultural body of the Niger Delta people, has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s Democracy Day address, to the nation, as rhetoric, apathetic, and largely, a promissory note. In a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Ken Robinson and obtained by DAILY POST on Friday, PANDEF said it had expected to hear commitment from Mr. President on the Amendment of the 2010 Electoral Act, which he withheld assent in 2019; particularly, with off-season Gubernatorial Elections around the corner. The group, which rated the address low said after 21 years of uninterrupted democratic rule, the least President Buhari should bequeath to Nigeria, is an Amended Electoral Act that would strengthen the Nation’s Electoral process, and guarantee credible, free and fair elections, Unfortunately, nothing of such was in his address. PANDEF also regretted that the only achievement in the Niger Delta, President Buhari could cite in his address, was...

Following the resumption of LaLiga in Spain and other leagues across Europe amid partial lockdown in Kano State, Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has directed for the re-opening of all viewing centres in the state. He, however, directed them to observe all protocols enunciated by health workers. He made this known when the leadership of Soccer Viewing Centres Association, Kano State, paid him a courtesy call in his office, Friday, urging for ease of the lockdown order for the centres. He equally donated 40,000 face masks for the distribution in their viewing centres, so as to strengthen observance of the laid down protocols. “It is in line with our decision to see that our economy bounces back, through reinvigorating commercial and other business activities in the state, that I have directed all viewing centres to be re-opened from today,” he said. Reminding that, as they gather youths in their viewing centres, they must make sure that they use that as a platform to create awareness am...

The Nigeria Police Force says it granted cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky, bail because it is “mindful of the people” it takes into custody. Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, told newsmen that Bobrisky was arrested in connection to a N30m fraud, adding that the matter was under investigation. Mba said, “He (Bobrisky) was arrested, but he has been granted bail; he is no longer in our custody but he is still under investigation. He was arrested on the allegation by a businesswoman that he fraudulently collected N30m from her. “We had to grant him bail because of the lockdown and we are also mindful of the people we take into custody but the case is still under investigation.” share this story with friends

Police detectives from Abuja, on Thursday, arrested cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky, over an alleged N30m fraud. It was gathered that Bobrisky was arrested at the Lekki area of Lagos State. Newsmen learnt that a yet-to-be-identified businesswoman petitioned the police and alleged that Bobrisky fraudulently collected the sum of N30m from her. It was learnt that Bobrisky was later granted an administrative bail. The Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, who confirmed the arrest, stated that the matter was under investigation. He said, “He (Bobrisky) was arrested, but he has been granted bail; he is no longer in our custody but he is still under investigation. He was arrested on the allegation by a businesswoman that he fraudulently collected N30m from her. share this story with friends

A student, Yusuf Isah Adi, has been hacked to death with a cutlass in Ugah area of Lafia, Nasarawa State. A community leader, Musa Saidu, told our reporter on Thursday that the late Adi was attacked when he was sleeping by one Rabiu Musa Omiya. Saidu alleged that Omiya hit Adi with a cutlass on his head and also injured Adi’s younger brother during the attack. He said, while the younger brother of Adi is still receiving treatment at an undisclosed hospital, the late Adi lost too much blood and died. Before his death, Yusuf was a student with the College of Health Science and Technology, Keffi, Nasarawa State. Saidu said that the assailant is, however, on the run, but the incident has been reported to the Police “C” Division. According to him: “Police Special Anti Robbery Squad, (SARS) came and arrested two people in Ugah town and left.” The spokesman of the police in the state, ASP Ramhan Nansel, confirmed the incident and said that they were still trying to apprehend the suspect share...

Africa has recorded over 5,800 deaths due to complications arising from COVID-19. According to the latest numbers released by the World Health Organization, WHO, regional office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, there are 5,801 deaths recorded in the continent. Africa has also recorded over 215,000 COVID-19 cases and 98,000 recoveries in 54 countries. As of Friday, Egypt has 1,342 reported deaths, the highest on the continent, followed by South Africa with 1,284 fatalities and Algeria with 741 deaths. Other countries are Sudan (401 deaths), Nigeria (387 deaths), Cameroon (215 deaths), Morocco (211 deaths), Mali (97 deaths), DR Congo (97 deaths), Kenya (92 deaths), Somalia (85 deaths), Chad (72 deaths), Mauritania (71 deaths), and Niger (65 deaths). DAILY POST recalls that recently, the  WHO provided an update on coronavirus in Africa. Source: https://dailypost.ng/2020/06/12/covid-19-list-of-countries-with-highest-coronavirus-deaths-in-africa/ share this story with friends

By Evelyn Usman A 23-year-old man, old Badmus Quadri, has been arrested for defiling one of his neighbours three-old child in Owode community,  Ogun State. The child’s mother, went to the market, leaving her in her siblings’ care on Thursday. However, on arrival, she noticed blood in her vagina and upon interrogation, her child mentioned the suspect’s name and describes how he allegedly defiled her in his room. The distraught mother reported the matter at the  Owode Egbado Police division. A spokesman for the Ogun State Police Command, DSP Abimbola Oyeleye, who confirmed the arrest, said, “upon the report, the DPO Owode Egbado division, SP Olabisi Elebutte, led her detectives to the area where the suspect who is a neighbor to parents of the victim was promptly arrested after the victim identified him. “The victim was quickly taken to the general hospital at Idiroko where it was confirmed that she has been defiled.  Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police CP Kenneth Ebrimson...

For Nigeria to make an impact in the comity of nations and savour the dividends of democracy, President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration must take urgent steps to restore security and improve the economic fortunes of Nigerians at all levels, a former Education Minister, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi, has said. The ex-Minister, who made this call in a statement on Friday to commemorate Democracy Day celebration, extolled the late M.K.O. Abiola as a symbol of unity and democracy in Nigeria. The former minister said, “The late Abiola was an employer of labour. He worked so hard from scratch to become a wealthy businessman with several investments in different sectors of the economy. “The lesson Nigerians must take away from his life is to strive to unite and see themselves as one and their brother’s keeper,” Gbagi said. He tasked the Federal Government on the need to address the spate of insecurity in many states in the country and to embark on the immediate diversification of the nation’s ec...

By Omeiza Ajayi ABUJA: A support group of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, the Ondo APC Mandate Group OAMG has kicked against the re-election bid of Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu, warning the national leadership of the party against ceding the ticket to him. The Mandate Group alleged that the APC lost the 2019 presidential election in the state because the governor worked against the interests of the party. Addressing journalists Friday at the national secretariat of the party in Abuja, Convener of the group, Olugbenga Bojuwomi, said the party should just forget about winning the state if Akeredolu picks the ticket, threatening to work against the APC. “We do not expect the national leadership of the party to allow Akeredolu to contest even the primary. If we were in a sane society and the party was working normally, we would not expect Akeredeolu to still be in the party. “If the party eventually features Akeredolu as the sole candidate after the July primaries, we the APC members in...

MKO ABIOLA The Abiola family of Abeokuta in Ogun on Friday demanded for an official recognition of late chief M.K.O Abiola as an ex-president of Nigeria. The Head of the Family, Chief Olanrewaju Abiola, made the demand at their family house in Abeokuta. The late M.K.O Abiola was believed to have won the June 12, 1993 presidential elections. Abiola said the recognition had become necessary for Nigerian leaders to rule in peace. He commended Buhari for conferring a posthumous highest national honour of the Grand Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (GCFR) on Late Abiola and recognising June 12 as Nigeria’s authentic Democracy Day. He, however, urged the president to actualise the mandate that Nigerians gave to his late junior brother, Moshood, on June 12, 1993, by conferring an official status of an ex-president of the nation on him. Abiola also demanded that all the entitlements that should have accrued to his late brother from 1993 to date should be fully paid to the family. ...

Deploys 5,000 Agro-Rangers to protect farmers, investments As cotton, garment industries receive CBN’s intervention By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja As Nigeria and Nigerians celebrate Democracy Day on June 12, 2020, and 21 years of uninterrupted democratic dispensation, President Muhammadu Buhari, in a national broadcast to commemorate the day, assured farmers of availability and affordability of fertilizers for the 2020 cropping season. Buhari, who also maintained that the agricultural sector remains a major sector to achieve his administration’s drive for economic diversification, disclosed that 5,000 Agro-Rangers had been deplored to protect farmers and agribusiness investments. He further stated that with more Nigerians utilizing opportunities in the agricultural sector his government will continue to support them through the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Anchor Borrowers Programme and similar schemes. He said: “Agriculture remains the key to our economic diversification strategy. The Pres...

By Chinonso Alozie – Owerri Former governor of Imo state, Senator Rochas Okorocha has challenged the Economic Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to publish details of the bank accounts where it recovered from him (Okorocha) N7.9 billion. Okorocha who is representing Imo West senatorial district, in a statement in Owerri, through his Special Adviser on Media, Sam Onwuemeodo, also demanded from the EFCC, to publish the houses of Okorocha, in Owerri and Abuja, which the anti-graft agency said it has marked. Also, the statement blamed the EFCC saga faced by Okorocha, on former administration of Emeka Ihedioha and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who they said wrote a petition against Okorocha and his family. According to Senator Okorocha’s reaction on the recovery of N7.9 billion by EFCC, “The media had reported the Head of the Port Harcourt zone of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, (EFCC), Mr. Usman Imam, to have claimed at a press conference, on Thursday, June 11, 2020, that...

The police command in Benue on Thursday presented a suspected rapist, who allegedly dragged a seven-year-old child into a church hall and had carnal knowledge of her. This is coming days after Uwavera Omozuwa, a 100-level Microbiology student of the University of Benin, was allegedly raped and killed by yet-to-be-identified persons at the Ikpoba Hill branch of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Benin, while reading in the church. The Commissioner of Police, Mr Mukaddas Garba, who presented the suspect in Makurdi said that the case was reported on Tuesday. “On June 9, a case of rape was reported at Orokam Police Division that one of the suspects dragged a seven-year-old child into a church hall in Ogwurute area of Orokam and had carnal knowledge of her” “The victim is currently receiving treatment at General Hospital, Ijadoga, while the suspect, allegedly confessed to the crime,” he said He also presented three other suspected rapists and 32 others said to be involved in kidna...

…Health Minister decries rejection of patients …Says sporting activities not resuming yet By Chioma Obinna & Omeiza Ajayi Despite the spike in cases of COVID-19 in the country, the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19, PTF, yesterday ruled out another total lockdown, saying it would only strengthen the guidelines to check the trend. This is even as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, alerted Nigerians to be prepared for more confirmed cases of COVID-19, adding that the recent increase in cases and gaps in contact tracing was critical aspects of the national response to the pandemic. Disclosing these during its daily briefing on COVID-19 in Abuja, the Chairman of PTF, Mr. Boss Mustapha, who also urged Nigerians to celebrate June 12 in solemnity, said the issue of review would not be contemplated but noted that the guidelines already in place would be strengthened. “In the issue of review, we will not have that in contemplation because you can’t move up and come down again. W...

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the deployment of additional detectives to Edo State to support the police command there to unravel the brutal killing of Miss Vera Uwaila Omosuwa in Benin. The deceased undergraduate of the university of Benin was said to have been raped and killed in a church in Benin the Edo state Capital. The IGP who gave the order in Abuja, however commiserated with the family, friends and colleagues of the deceased, even as he called for calm. He said the police would do everything in their powers to bring the perpetrators of the callous act to book in the shortest possible time. share this story with friends

The President made his feelings known during his 2020 Democracy Day Speech on Friday.    Muhammadu Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari says he is upset with the recent cases of r*pe in the country. The President stated this during his 2020 Democracy Day Speech on Friday. “I am particularly upset with the recent cases of rape in the country,” he said, noting that the Nigeria Police Force will bring the perpetrators of the “heinous crime”  to justice.                               Source: https://www.tori.ng/news/148209/president-buhari-reveals-how-he-feels-about-the-re.html share this story with friends

By Soni Daniel The Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, has declared a state of emergency on gender-based and sexual form of violence. The decision, taken at the 10th COVID-19 teleconference meeting of the forum, is coming amid rising cases of rape across the country. In a communique issued at the end of the meeting, the governors condemned sexual and gender-based violence, saying they were committed to ensuring justice was served. It also called on its members yet to implement laws against sexual and gender-based violence to do so in order to reduce the spate of rape in the country. The governors also called obn commissioners of police in their states to provide detailed report on the actions taken to strengthen their responses to rape cases reported to them. The communique read: “Governors have agreed to declare a State of Emergency on Sexual and Gender-based Violence. Governors strongly condemned all forms of violence against women and children and committed to ensuring that offenders face...

A leading clergyman, Pastor Giwa has reiterated that now is the right time to divide the country as leaders have failed to bring the change.    Pastor Giwa has called for the country to be divided   The Presiding Pastor of Awaiting The Second Coming Of Jesus Christ Ministry, Adewale Giwa, has called for Nigeria to be divided as he said that those behind June 12 political crisis are still ruling the country to date.   Giwa, in his message in commemoration of this year’s Democracy Day, on Thursday, said the past and current politicians had failed to learn from what transpired on June 12, 1993 election.   According to him, politicians have continued to rob Nigerians through their collective votes and resources.   This, the cleric noted that it had caused a major setback to the nation’s democracy. “The few politicians who robbed us in 1993 election are still holding the keys to Nigeria’s future. “As the saying goes in Yoruba,’ BI igi ba wo lugi ti ori re law ko...