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Mixed reactions greet rejection — 14th March 2018 Ismail Omipidan; Chinelo Obogo; Chukwudi Nweje, Lagos; Ndubuisi Orji, Abuja The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said it was not surprised that President Buhari declined to assent to the new legislation “owing to his tendencies as a politician.” In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the opposition party flayed Buhari for treating the National Assembly with disrespect. “The PDP believes in democracy and subscribes to all its tenets including the respect for the powers of the National Assembly to make laws and to amend such laws as occasion demands,” the party said. Ologbodiyan said the PDP was not afraid of the 2019 general elections because they know that Nigerians had already rejected President Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC). “Against this backdrop, the PDP assures to provide all the members of our great party a level playing field to choose a presidential candidate in a nation
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Herdsmen killings: Soyinka blasts Buhari

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  Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has warned President Muhammadu Buhari to learn from history and stop treating killer herdsmen with kid gloves. Soyinka also described incessant attacks by killer herdsmen, in many parts of the country, as a declaration of war on Nigeria. The Nobel laureate made this known in a statement yesterday. Soyinka specifically warned Buhari not to fall into the same trap former President Goodluck Jonathan fell into with Boko Haram insurgency when the sect kidnapped 267 girls on April 14, 2014. “We have been here before – now, ‘before’ is back with a vengeance. “President Goodluck Jonathan refused to accept that marauders had carried off the nation’s daughters; President Muhammadu Buhari and his government – including his Inspector-General of Police – in near identical denial, appear to believe that killer herdsmen who strike again and again at will from one corner of the nation to the other, are merely hot-tempered citizens whose scraps occasio
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Fulani Herdsmen Dies After Fighting With Female Farmer In Delta – Punch Newspapers

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  A Fulani herder, Muhammed Haruna, has allegedly died from injuries he sustained after being stoned by a female farmer in Delta State. It was gathered that the herder and his colleague drove their cattle into the yet-to-be indentified woman’s farm in the Upper Agbarho area of Ughelli. The incident, Southern City News learnt occurred last week. It was gathered that the woman and the herders were engaged in a stone-throwing match after a heated argument
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Anambra Central: APC, APGA, PDP express diverse views on scheduled election

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  INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu The major political parties contesting for the Anambra Central Senatorial seat have expressed mixed feelings towards the announcement of a date for the re-run election amidst controversial court judgements. The election has been delayed by legal battles since the Court of Appeal sacked Uche Ekwunife of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, as winner of the seat on December 7, 2015. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has fixed January 13 for the conduct of the re-run election to fill the vacant seat. INEC’s decision followed a judgement by the Appeal Court which on November 21, 2017 ordered the commission to conduct a re-run election within 90 days. Three weeks later, another judgement emerged from the Federal High Court ordering INEC to issue the Certificate of Return to Obiora Okonkwo of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as the validly elected senator for the district. Mr. Okonkwo had contested the PDP ticket with Ms. E
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Kogi Gov.’s N10b Loan for Salary Payment; Who Approved It and When?

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  Idris Miliki Abdul The current administration of Alhaji Yahaya Bello was inaugurated on the 27th of January 2016 and less than one month of its inauguration, it embarked on Screening and Verification of the actual numbers of civil servants and their wage bill. An exercise that lasted for not less than 14 months, culminated in various crisis ranging from non-payment of salaries of civil servants and pensioners in Kogi State, Including the local government workers. Despite the colossal amount ranging into Billions of Naira from statutory allocation, Bailout and Paris Club refund received by the current administration including but not limited to Local government funds meant for the administration of the Local councils, the state has continuously been in perpetual crisis due to lack of payment of workers and pensioners as at when due. More worrisome and alarming, on Friday 5th January 2018, at the Presidential villa Abuja, the Governor pronounced to the whole world while brie
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Breaking: INEC releases 2019 general elections timetable, presidential election to hold on Feb. 16th 2019

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The Independent National Electoral Commission has announced the 2019 general elections timetable and schedule of activities. According to the timetable, Presidential and National Assembly primaries will begin on August 18th 2018 while campaigns will commence on November 18, 2018. Campaigns for the governorship and state assembly are scheduled to commence on December the 1, 2018. Presidential and National Assembly elections will hold on February 16th, 2019, while the governorship, state assembly and area council elections in the federal capital territory will take place on March 2nd, 2019. See the full timetable below
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Teachers’ Attitudes Responsible for Poor Education in Kogi Public Schools – Commissioner

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Kogi State Commissioner for Education, Mrs Rosemary Osikoya has bemoaned poor attitudes of teachers in public schools in the state as responsible for the dwindling fortune of the sector. She made the lamentation, Thursday, during an inspection tour of schools to monitor the resumption of primary and secondary schools pupils for the new term in selected schools within Lokoja metropolis. Mrs. Osikoya, who expressed disappointment over the way teachers in the schools she monitored treated the issue of their return to classes, expressed shock at some of the negative things she discovered. The Commissioner who wondered why some school head teachers could be careless with the issue of record keeping about the schools they head, said she was surprised that some of them could not even maintain the academic records of their students, lamenting that she was let down by what she met on the ground. She said some teachers could not even prepare for the classes they were supposed to teach
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