Category: News - Page 458 - African News Today

24Sep

By Emmanuel OdimbaNo Comments

Judiciary, Justice, News, Nigeria

Opinion: Still on the Osun Elections

The gubernatorial election held in Osun State on Saturday has once again brought up the issue of the Independent National Electoral Commission's powers to declare an election as "inconclusive" and the circumstances under which it could so declare. The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, as amended clearly spells out the condition under which a governorship candidate can be declared winner of an election. Section 179(2)(a)(b) of the 1999 Constitution provides: “A candidate for an election to the office of a governor of a state shall be deemed to have been duly elected where, there being two or more candidates- (a) he has the highest number of votes cast at the election;and (b) he has not less than one-quarter of all the votes cast in each of least two-thirds of ...

Opinion: A Compromised INEC is Murdering Nigeria’s Hard Earned Democracy by Mike Ozekhome SAN

24Sep

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Justice, News, Nigeria

Opinion: A Compromised INEC is Murdering Nigeria’s Hard Earned Democracy by Mike Ozekhome SAN

The announcement by INEC,that the Osun state election conducted on Saturday,22nd September2018,was inconclusive and the fixing of 27th of September for a so called rerun,is a dangerous subversion and travesty of the electoral process,a blow to our hard earned constitutional democracy and an ominous sign of the farce to expect in 2019-subversion of the people's will. INEC has earned for itself the inglorious reputation of holding inconclusive elections (Kogi,Bayelsa,et al);and working in cahoot with the ruling APC party,always eager to do its dirty electoral bidding,to commit daylight robbery of votes.This they have just done to Adeleke's votes to defeat the will and legitimate franchise of the good people of Osun state. I wholly condemn this ludicrous mockery of our electoral proce...

Nigeria: Osun Elelctions – PDP Alleges Crack Down on Its Officials in the State

24Sep

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Crime, Justice, News, Nigeria

Nigeria: Osun Elelctions – PDP Alleges Crack Down on Its Officials in the State

The People's Democratic Party has this afternoon alleged that there is an ongoing crack down on its official in Osun state. In a series of tweets, the party said this was in preparation of a plot to rig the runn-off elections. It tweeted "Breaking! Ongoing Random Arrest of PDP Leaders/Supporters in Osun State.There is an ongoing crackdown on top PDP leaders at Osogbo,Ile Ife and Orolu in preparation for the grand plot to rig the forthcoming supplementary polls." It noted that one of its top leaders, Aljhaji Fatai Diekola was arrested "At Osogbo, a top leader of the @OfficialPDPNig, Alhaji Fatal Diekola was arrested. He was rough handled and beaten up despite his ill health. His aides were matcheted. Other PDP leaders at Osogbo are been harrassed with many of them unable to sleep ...

Nigeria: Osun Elections – Davido Calls on Buhari to do the Right Thing

24Sep

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Justice, News, Nigeria

Nigeria: Osun Elections – Davido Calls on Buhari to do the Right Thing

Popular Nigerian Musician and nephew to the PDP candidate in the recently conducted Osun Gubernatorial elections has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to do the right thing. Davido took to his Twitter page to pass on this message. According to him, the people have spoken and so Buhari, who he called a man of integrity, should do the right thing. His tweet read "You are a man of Integrity sir please do the right thing !! @MBuhari .... @inecnigeria @IsiakaAdeleke1 !! The People have spoken!!" He noted that the people had spoken against a back log of unpaid salaries, lack of empathy for pensioners and more. "The good people of Osun have spoken against no salaries for 3 years,against lack of empathy for pensioners, against fake elephant projects that doesn’t benefit our peop...

Nigeria: Osun Elections – PDP Rejects Inconclusive Verdict by INEC

24Sep

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News, Nigeria

Nigeria: Osun Elections – PDP Rejects Inconclusive Verdict by INEC

The Peoples Democratic Party and other stakeholders protested on Sunday after the Independent National Electoral Commission declared the Osun State governorship election inconclusive. The commission also fixed the rerun poll in the seven polling units where election result was cancelled for Thursday, September 27, 2018. Although the candidate of the PDP, Senator Ademola Adeleke scored 254,698 votes to beat the candidate of the All Progressives Congress who polled 254,345 votes, INEC said Adeleke could not be declared the winner because the number of votes cancelled – 3,498, was higher than 353 by which the PDP candidate defeated Oyetola. The Returning Officer, Prof. Joseph Fuwape, who is also the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology Akure, announced the result o...

Nigeria: Ras Kimono’s Wife Dies Three Months After His Death

24Sep

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Life, News, Nigeria

Nigeria: Ras Kimono’s Wife Dies Three Months After His Death

Efemena Okedi, the wife of late Raggae artiste, Chux Ohai, aka Ras Kimono, is dead. The death of the 42-year-old is coming three weeks after her husband was buried. Ras Kimono had slumped at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport on Saturday, June 9, 2018, and died the following day at a Lagos hospital. The Under Pressure crooner was aged 60. PUNCH Metro gathered that Okedi attended a family function on Saturday. She reportedly complained of a chest pain on Sunday and was rushed to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, where she died. Okedi, who was said to be the third wife of the late music legend, was also his manager and a member of his band during his lifetime. Ras Kimono’s brother-in-law, Theophilus Ehizibue, confirmed the incident. He noted...

Opinion: Still On Adebayo Shittu’s Service Scandal

21Sep

By Emmanuel OdimbaNo Comments

Corruption, Crime, News, Nigeria

Opinion: Still On Adebayo Shittu’s Service Scandal

I am taken aback by the line of defence proffered by Minister of Communications, Barrister Adebayo Shittu for skipping National Youth Service. Is the man kidding Nigerians? I have heard the man speak on various occasions and consider him intelligent. I however consider his reason for deliberately skipping the National Youth Service as one of the most silly and unreasonable arguments I've ever heard from a lawyer. His argument is said to be that having been elected into the Oyo State House of Assembly at age 26, after law school, he felt that was "National service"! Maybe the "Honourable Minister" should revisit the N.Y.S.C Act. Is the Honourable Minister telling us that Mrs Kemi Adeosun who was Ogun State Commissioner for finance and later Minister of finance should have claimed...

Opinion: Open Letter to Ahmed Asiwaju Bola Tinubu by General Adeyinka Adebayo

20Sep

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News, Nigeria

Opinion: Open Letter to Ahmed Asiwaju Bola Tinubu by General Adeyinka Adebayo

My dear Asiwaju, I am compelled to write this open letter to you because of the state of affairs of the Yoruba nation. Firstly, I wish to acknowledge that fate has put you in a prime position to determine to a large extent the direction that the Yoruba people will go. The indisputable truth is that one may quarrel with your politics but your sagacity is never in doubt. Even those who don't see eye to eye with you agree that you are imbued with unusual native intelligence, uncommon people skills and unrivaled foresight. You, more than any other person, has been the game changer since the advent of democracy in 1999. It is for these reasons that I have chosen to direct this letter to you. My singular purpose is to tug at the strings of your heart. I am not writing to appeal to partisan c...

Nigeria: Return Our Stolen Asset, Not Give Doomsday Prophecy On 2019 – Presidency to HSBC

16Sep

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Corruption, Economy, News, Nigeria

Nigeria: Return Our Stolen Asset, Not Give Doomsday Prophecy On 2019 – Presidency to HSBC

PRESIDENCY WANTS HSBC TO RETURN OUR STOLEN ASSETS, NOT GIVE US DOOMSDAY PROPHECY ON 2019 The Presidency wishes to make clear to all Nigerians, and particularly the global banking giant HSBC which said the second term of President Muhammadu Buhari would stunt the economy, that what killed Nigeria’s economy in the past was the unbridled looting of state resources by leaders, the type which was actively supported by HSBC. A bank that soiled its hand with ‘‘millions of US dollars yet-to-be-recovered Abacha loot’’, and continued until a few months ago to shield the stolen funds of one of the leaders of the Nigerian Senate has no moral right whatsoever to project that a “second term for Mr. Buhari raises the risk of limited economic progress and further fiscal deterioration.” Rather, ...

Nigeria: Davido Mocks EFCC, Tells Them to Also Freeze His U.S Account

16Sep

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News, Nigeria

Nigeria: Davido Mocks EFCC, Tells Them to Also Freeze His U.S Account

In what was clearly a mockery of the Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Davido responding to the alleged freezing of his account tweeted ""Make dem go Wells Fargo for ATL na ??" Obviously having fun with his fans on Twitter, with some offering to lend him some money with a promise to pay back with thousands of percent interest, Davido engaged with them, laughing and saying among other things "Osun go sweet die!!" "IMOLE DE!!!! PDP OSUN!!! @ademolaadeleke_01 !!! Sure sir!!" The PDP candidate in the forth coming Gubernatorial elections in Osun, Ademola Adeleke is his uncle. It is speculated that the freezing of his account and that of his dad and uncle is a move by the ruling APC to distabilize their campaign efforts. Davido simply says "Adeleke Ni oo! Meaning, It's Adele...