BVP MEDIA STATION NEWS HEADLINES Tuesday 26 March, 2019. Good Day to our Cherished Readers. **NIGERIA* APC won’t share power with PDP – Oshiomhole APC urges Police, DSS to invesitgate Atiku’s claim to access to INEC server Zamfara governor speaks on Appeal Court judgment nullifying APC primaries Rivers: AAC deputy gov candidate dumps party for PDP Renowned poet, Gabriel Okara, dies at 97 Many cheat death As another building collapses in Lagos PDP candidate, Mohammed, defeats Bauchi governor Over N1.3trn stolen under Jonathan –Magu EU scores supplementary polls low on security, others CIBN shifts professional test to April 24 Passage of 2018 CAM bill in sight as reforms boost friendly business environment EFCC docks suspected internet fraudster Lawan, Ndume declare for Senate presidency Court Orders SARS to Pay Businessman N5m for Unlawful Arrest, Torture Nigeria Must Be Innovative to Tackle Security Challenges, Says CDS Sirika Defends N48.027bn A
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Nigerian Online Newspaper Buhari Anoints Candidates For Speaker, Senate President Of 9th National Assembly Report says President Muhammadu Buhari has given the nod to Ahmad Lawan as senate president and Femi Gbajabiamila as speaker of the house of representatives in the in-coming national assembly. The national working committee (NWC) of the ruling party was in a meeting with the newly elected APC members in the house of representatives on Monday when this report was filed. Lawan and Gbajabiamila, who are currently the leaders of the APC caucus in the upper and lower chambers of the national assembly, enjoyed the support of the president in 2015 but Senate President Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the house of reps, teamed up with some Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmakers to edge them out. While Lawan did not get the opportunity to go head-to-head with Saraki, Gbajabiamila lost to Dogara by eight votes. However, Saraki is out of the way, having left the APC f
POLITICS Ndume Joins Senate Presidency Race, Writes Oshiomhole March 25, 2019 Ali Ndume, News Alert, Nigerian senate The senator representing Borno South, Ali Ndume, has announced his intention to run for the office of the President of the Senate in the 9th National Assembly. Mr Ndume, made this known in an intent letter to the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole dated March 25 and made available to journalists in Abuja on Monday. In the letter, Mr Ndume sought the blessing of the party to contest, believing the position would be zoned to the North East zone where he hails from. Mr Ndume, a former Leader of the Senate, in the letter, said his plan to contest for the position is as a result of his desire to help improve the economic situation of the country. The letter reads: “Following the successful conduct of the 2019 general election and the overwhelming victory of our great party, the APC at all levels, I hereby forward my le
JUST IN: Another Building Collapses In Lagos Island. A three-storey building has reportedly collapsed in Kakawa street, Lagos Island on Monday. According to a resident of the street, no one was trapped because the building was marked for demolition and occupants had vacated. The Nation reports that The collapsed structure, however, affected a bungalow with three occupants.
Ondo State News World TB Day: Ondo Government Sensitises Residents, Conduct Free Screening. As part of strategy to reduce incidences of Tuberculosis in the State, the Ondo State Government has commemorated the 2019 World Tuberculosis Day by embarking on Road Walk and conducting free screening. Stakeholders took off for the Road Walk from the Ondo State Cultural Center Adegbemile through Oja Oba to Oba Ademuagun hall (formerly Akure City Hall) almist funfair to sensitise residents on tuberculosis and also distributed educative fliers on TB. In the words of the TB Programme Officerr of the Ondo State Primary Healthcare Board, Mrs Olufunke Adeniyi said the World TB Day is an annual world sensitisation event done to bring people together so that they can know as much as possible about Tuberculosis, it’s signs, symtoms, causative organisms and how to access care. Mrs Adeniyi said the sensitisation is being done at the three tier of government and residents are being encouraged
From a President To Pauper: Meet Youngest President Ever In West Africa In 1992 at just age 25, Captain Valentine Strasser had seized power from His former boss President Joseph Momoh and had become Sierra Leone’s Head of State making him the youngest ever in West Africa. Strasser sat on wealth and many opportunities but he soon allowed his youthful exuberance to be his waterloo .He engaged in high level of profligacy and failed the war against rebel leader Forday Sankoh. He grew unpopular with accusations of mismanagement and ordering the killing of many of dissenters of his regime. Majority of his soldiers defected to the rebel army after he employed the services of mercenary front Executive Outcomes. Strasser was ousted in 1996 through a palace coup staged by his deputy Julius Maabo who assumed his position afterwards. Strasser fled to London and attempted studying law at Warwick University on scholarship. He couldn’t feed nor afford decent accommodation. Hardship, coupl
Nigeria election: Newly elected Governors, political parties [Full list] 2019 general election has produced 27 governors-elect. However, Rivers, Adamawa and Bauchi States are still undecided. INEC, however, concluded election in Plateau, Benue, Sokoto and Kano on Saturday. DAILY POST has compiled list of governors elected so far from the March 9 and March 23 governorship election. Below is a list of the governors-elect: 1. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi – (PDP) Enugu State. 2. David Umahi – (PDP) Ebonyi State 3. Inuwa Yahaya (APC) Gombe State 4. Okezie Ikpeazu (PDP) Abia State 5. Abubakar Bello (APC) Niger State 6. Seyi Makinde (PDP) Oyo State 7. Emmanuel Udom (PDP) Akwa Ibom State 8. Prof. Ben Ayade (PDP) Cross River 9. MaiMala Buni (APC) Yobe State 10. Babanide Sanwo-Olu (APC) Lagos State 11. Dapo Abiodun (APC) Ogun 12. Ifeanyi Okowa (PDP) Delta. 13. Babagana Zulum (APC) Borno 14. Mallam Nasir El-Rufai (APC) Kaduna) 15. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha (PDP) Imo 16. Moh
POLITICS BREAKING: Court Strikes Out APC Candidate’s Suit Seeking To Stop Collation Of Bauchi Governorship Election Results March 25, 2019 APC, Bauchi state, INCE, News Alert An Abuja Division of the Federal High Court has deferred its judgement in a suit challenging the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to continue with the collation of results in Bauchi State, after an initial suspension of the results. The court had entertained a suit filed by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Governor Mohammed Abubakar, asking the court to determine whether INEC has the powers to decide collation of results after the announcement of a suspension. Mr Abubakar’s lawyer, Ahmed Raji, had approached the court requesting among other things, an ex-parte application preventing INEC from proceeding with its decision to collate results in the state. Clarifying an earlier decision made, following that ex-parte application, the judge, Inyang Ekwo, said