09/26/18

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The Police on Wednesday arraigned Iliyasu Lawal, 28, Nura Iliyasu, 29, and Idris Suleiman 28, in a Wuse Zone 2 Magistrates’ Court FCT for allegedly trespassing the premises of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the trio, who are residents of Kaduna State, were accused of attempts to commit suicide inside the presidential villa.
Mr Augustine Urom, the Prosecuting Counsel, had averred that Lawal, on September 12 allegedly climbed an MTN telecommunication mast within the presidential villa to commit suicide while the others watched.
Urom further told the court that the Department of State Service (DSS) had transferred the defendants to the FCT Police Command on Sept.18.
He further averred that the defendants allegedly invaded the Aso Rock Villa with various protestation placards capable of making the public to revolt against the Federal Government.
Urom said the First Information Report (FIR) had alleged that the display of the defendants was capable of igniting uprising against a Constituted authority.
The prosecutor claimed the offences contravened Sections 79, 348, 114, 113 and 231 of the Penal Code.
The defendants, however, pleaded not guilty to the five-count charges of joint act, criminal trespass, inciting disturbance, disturbance of public peace and attempt to commit suicide levelled against them.
Mr Uche Uwazuruonye, Counsel to Lawal and Suleiman thereafter filed an oral application seeking the court to admit his clients to bail.
Uwazuruonye, said the alleged offences were bailable, adding that his clients would always be available to stand justice.
“I assure the court that the defendants would not jump bail if admitted,’’  he said.
Similarly, Mr Dim Udebuani, Counsel to the second defendant, Iliyasu prayed the court to also grant his client bail, saying this will provide for him required right atmosphere to prepare his defence.
The Magistrate, Mr Muhammad Abdulmumini went ahead to admit the three defendants to bail in the sum of N250, 000 and a surety respectively.
Abdulmumini said the sureties must be from a Grade Level Seven Officer and above in the Federal Civil Service within the jurisdiction of the court.
The Magistrate adjourned the case until Oct. 16 for hearing.
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The governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Senator Iyiola Omisore, has agreed to form an alliance with the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Osun rerun election.

Omisore told journalists in Ile Ife on Wednesday that he decided to support the APC after the party accepted the conditions he gave earlier for his support.

The SDP candidate had said he would only support any party (between PDP and APC) that agrees to uphold SDP’s core values.

He said he informed both the APC and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of his conditions.

The conditions include a pledge to ensure motivation of workers in the state, payment of salary arrears in the first three months in office, equity in infrastructure provision across the state, the adoption of a local content policy for all projects in the state.

He also wants traditional rulers to be made more relevant.

According to the SDP candidate, only the APC has accepted his conditions and that is why the SDP is going to form an alliance with the APC.

Omisore’s decision comes after the National Chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole, led a delegation from the party, to visit him and canvass his support for APC governorship candidate, Gboyega Oyetola.

Both the APC and the PDP have made moves to secure the support of Omisore since Sunday when the Independent National Electoral Commission declared Saturday’s governorship election in the state inconclusive.

INEC had declared the election inconclusive after announcing that the margin between the two top candidates was less than the total number of votes in polling units where voting was cancelled.

PDP candidate Ademola Adeleke led the race with 353 votes after polling 254,698 votes, as against the 254,345 votes his closest rival, Gboyega Oyetola of the APC got.

There are 3,498 voters spread across seven polling units where the rerun election will be held.

Omisore who secured the third highest number of votes in the governorship election is considered pivotal to the outcome of the rerun election, hence the clamour for his support.
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Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode on Wednesday expressed readiness to participate in All Progressives Congress (APC) primary election slated for Saturday 29 September.

Ambode, who will contest the party’s ticket to earn himself a second term with two former commissioners, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Obafemi Hamzat, has allegedly fallen out of favour with his political benefactor and national leader of the party Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Some of Ambode’s alleged undoings include sidelining the top brass of the party in policy making and decisions in the state since his election to office in 2015.

Sanwo-Olu, on the other side, is reportedly being backed by local council chairmen, Tinubu’s Mandate Group of the APC and other factions of the party.

Speculations have it that, Ambode was asked to step down to avoid the humiliation of a seating governor losing his party’s ticket. A move which the Governor has shunned to declared his readiness to contest his return ticket for next year’s election.

“As our great party approaches Saturday, September 29th, 2018, earmarked for the direct primary election to choose the candidate to fly our party’s gubernatorial flag at the next general election,” Ambode said in a statement signed by Lagos Information & Strategy Kehinde Bamigbetan.

“I am happy to restate my commitment to participate in that process having procured and submitted my nomination form and having formally declared my intention to seek a second term to continue on the path of unprecedented growth and development that our State has witnessed since 2015.”

The Governor said he is reiterating his readiness in line with the choice of the party in Lagos State and the validation given to the direct primary preference by the Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC).

Ambode assured members of the party that his re-election will ensure continuity of the “growth and development it has witnessed over time and ensure that the opposition does not take root in the State.”

The Governor, while commending other aspirants for their courage and commitment to the party urged party faithful “to come out en masse and vote peacefully in all the 20 Local Governments and 245 wards where the election will take place.”
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The ongoing nationwide recruitment exercise being conducted by the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) was disrupted for hours in Lokoja on Tuesday when one of the applicants collapsed suddenly and died.

The Kogi State Sector Commander of the FRSC, Mr Olisegun Martins, who confirmed the incident said that the applicant, a male collapsed shortly after successfully completing a two-kilometre race.

Martins said that the applicant, who could not disclose his name even dropped his tally before he suddenly fainted and collapsed.

According to the commander, a team of medical officials of the FRSC joined by their Nigerian Army counterparts quickly attended to the applicant and administered first aid on him.

He was later taken into the army clinic in the Chari Megumeiri Barracks where the recruitment was taking place for treatment.

Martins said, however, that the applicant died barely 30 minutes after he was admitted into the clinic.

He said that the incident would not result in the suspension of the recruitment in Kogi, expressing his condolences to the family of the deceased.

On Sept. 25, the FRSC commenced the recruitment of 4,000 people out of some 324,000 shortlisted applicants.
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The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has insisted on its planned strike as the meeting with the Federal Government has ended in a deadlock.

The meeting between the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, and the Tripartite Committee was to look into the issue of the minimum wage which has led to a planned strike.

Mr Nigige on Wednesday assured the union that the Federal Government will take steps in addressing the issues.

But the NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, has insisted that the position of the union still stands, despite the minister’s assurance.

The NLC had earlier declared an indefinite strike starting from midnight.

According to them (NLC), its decision to embark on the strike is as a result of the Federal Government’s refusal to reconvene the Tripartite Committee on a new National Minimum Wage.

The organised labour is also alleging that its request to reconvene a meeting of the Tripartite Committee was not met, and the leaders have cautioned the Federal Government against foot-dragging on the issue.

However, the minister has said that the Tripartite Committee will reconvene on October 4, 2018.
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