Samuel Anyanwu, Douye Diri Emerge PDP Governorship Candidates For Imo, Bayelsa

Off-cycle elections will take place in Kogi, Imo and Bayelsa States in November 2023.

PDP National Secretary, Samuel Nnaemeka Anyanwu has been affirmed as the Imo PDP Governorship Candidate. Emeka Ihedioha, as well as other key leaders in the State EXCO were conspicuously absent but did not stop the Kenneth Okon-led 7-man team from announcing the former Senator as the man to challenge incumbent Governor, Hope Uzodinma.

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Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, was the only Candidate cleared and affirmed as the Governorship Candidate of the Party. Governor Ademola Adeleke who led the Committee affirmed the former Bayelsa Central Senator as the Candidate to fly the Party's flag.

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Typical Of Nigeria, Blame The Victims And Not The Perpetrators - Aisha Yesufu

Typical of Nigeria, blame the victims and not the perpetrators. The OBIdient movement is your problem and not the terrorist APC government that killed and maimed its people to steal their mandate

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Turkish President, Tayyip Erdogan Congratulates Tinubu

President Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has congratulated Bola Tinubu on his victory in the 25 February presidential election.

This was contained in a statement by the Office of the President-elect on Wednesday.
According to the statement signed by Tunde Rahman, Mr Erdogan said in a letter to Mr Tinubu that he believed Nigeria under his (Tinubu) leadership would continue its course to a prosperous future.

The Turkish leader also said his country attached great importance to improving its relationship with Nigeria as the strongest nation in Africa.
“I believe that as our strategic partner, Nigeria, under your leadership, will continue its course to a prosperous future. Türkiye attaches great importance to improving its relations with Nigeria, as the strongest nation in the African continent,” Mr Erdogan.

Other world leaders who have congratulated Mr Tinubu since he was announced the winner of the presidential election on 1 March include President Xi Jinping of China, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, President Emmanuel Macron of France and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.

Read the full statement below:
Turkish President Erdoğan congratulates Tinubu as Nigeria’s next leader 
President of Turkey, Tayyip Erdoğan, has joined the list of world leaders that have sent congratulatory and goodwill messages to Nigeria’s President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

President Xi Jinping of China, United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, President of France, Emmanuel Macron, and Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, are among the global leaders that have since sent goodwill messages to Asiwaju Tinubu.
In his congratulatory letter, President Erdoğan, who described Asiwaju Tinubu as a brother, called for cooperation and partnership that would further the friendly relationship between Turkey and Nigeria.

Erdoğan, in his letter, also underscored the importance of Nigeria as the “strongest nation in the African continent” while wishing Asiwaju Tinubu a successful tenure of office that will usher in progress for the people of Nigeria.

President Erdoğan wrote, “On behalf of the Turkish Nation and my own, I would like to extend my heartfelt congratulations to Your Excellency on the occasion of your election as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria at the elections held on February 25, 2023.

“I believe that as our strategic partner, Nigeria, under your leadership, will continue its course to a prosperous future. Türkiye attaches great importance to improving its relations with Nigeria, as the strongest nation in the African continent.

“With this understanding, I have no doubt that with our joint efforts, we will develop friendly relations and the growing close cooperation between our countries to the mutual benefit of our people.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/593036-turkish-president-congratulates-tinubu.html

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7-Storey Building Collapses In Banana Island, Workers Trapped

An eight-storey building situated inside the luxurious Banana Island in Lagos State has collapsed.

The building, sources said, is Joe Faraday’s site with ongoing construction works inside it.

A source said while it is unsure what triggered the collapse, concreting was ongoing on the sixth floor before the collapse.

A terse statement by NEMA said workers are trapped in the building and its officials are mobilising the response team to rescue the trapped victims.

https://thenationonlineng.net/just-in-eight-storey-building-collapses-in-banana-island/

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Seven-Storey Building Collapses In Lagos

A seven-storey building under construction has collapsed in Banana Island, Ikoyi area of Lagos State.

The incident happened on Wednesday around past 3 pm.

Watch the moment the building collapsed https://twitter.com/MobilePunch/status/1646218056849391616?t=2yHbQEZIqmLCNB4rn_35kA&s=19

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Nigeria’s Unemployment Rate To Rise To 41% In 2023- KPMG

Global audit and tax advisory firm, KPMG, has projected that Nigeria’s unemployment rate is expected to rise to 40.6% as compared to 2022’s 37.7%.

KPMG detailed this forecast in its International Global Economic Outlook report – H1 2023 on Tuesday, where it stated that “unemployment is expected to continue to be a major challenge in 2023 due to the limited investment by the private sector, low industrialization, and slower than required economic growth and consequently the inability of the economy to absorb the 4-5 million new entrants into the Nigerian job market every year”.
The report also revealed in part that there are expectations for GDP to continue to grow at a relatively slow pace of 3% in 2023 owing to the slowdown in economic activity that typically characterizes periods of political transition in Nigeria.
Furthermore, the spillover from an expected slowdown in the global economy in 2023 and its trade and financial flow implications are expected to drag
on GDP.
“Additionally, growth will be negatively affected by the Naira Redesign Policy introduced in Q4 2022 and Q1 2023 and its implications on key non-oil sectors like manufacturing, trade, accommodation and food services, transportation, and other services, further slowing down overall GDP growth in 2023,” the report read.

On the resurgence of major aspects of the economy, it forecasted that the telecommunications, trade services, as well as the oil sector, are expected to see recoveries, on account of measures being taken to tackle security issues.

https://www.channelstv.com/2023/04/11/nigerias-unemployment-rate-to-rise-to-41-in-2023-kpmg/

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Electronic Collation Of Results Not Compulsory – Ex-INEC Spokesman

A former Director of Voter Education and Publicity of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, on Tuesday, said electronic collation of results for the 2023 general elections was not compulsory.

Osaze-Uzzi, who spoke on Channels Television’s Politics Today, said the prescribed mode of collating results is manual.

Former Director of Voter Education and Publicity of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, speaks on Channels Television’s Politics Today on April 11, 2023.

Making reference to Section 64 (4) of the Electoral Act, the former INEC spokesman said section empowers the electoral commission to start collating the result upon verification and confirmation of the result.

“The prescribed mode is the manual collation; it didn’t say you should collate electronically. There is nowhere in the law, guidelines you will see electronic (collation of result),” he stated.

“Go back to (Section) 64 (4). Verification and confirmation, that is what is required with the electronically transmitted. But collation is still manual.

“Before you start that process, you must go to the electronic ones and say ‘Are these figures consistent?’ It doesn’t say to start collating from the BVAS, transmitted results. It says to start collation. Before you start collation, look at it and if the figures are the same, you gather all the EC8As together. In that sense, it is a manual process.”

N3bn On Electoral Cases?

Although the presidential and governorship polls have been held nationwide, there are still litigations filed by aggrieved parties who are challenging the outcome of the exercise.

In view of this, there are reports that INEC has budgeted over N3 billion to defend the results of the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections and the March 18 governorship and state assembly polls.

Commenting on the issue, Osaze-Uzzi said though he read the reports in the media, he cannot officially verify how true it is from INEC.

He said, “I read that on social media, but I don’t know if it is an official statement from the commission. But yes, N3 billion for defending. But not just defending, but to the logistics of moving things around.”

https://www.channelstv.com/2023/04/11/electronic-collation-of-results-not-compulsory-ex-inec-spokesman/

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Okoli Ahize Chizoputam Killed By OAU Students Over Phone Theft Allegations

 

The students Civil Engineering, Awo Hall of OAU have tortured and killed a civil engineering student named Okoli Ahize Chizoputam aged 28, for allegations of phone theft.

A practice by the University titled Maximum Scientific Shishi being a code name for torturing students that are alleged to have committed an offense. This practice is always moderated by the Hall Chairman

In the case of Mr Okoli, the Awo Hall Chairman Badiora Timilehin and his social director Omiskin Seye were the moderators.

Sadly this despicable practice led to the death of young man as he was taken to the Teaching Hospital already Dead (BID).

The Moderators have been arrested by DSS of Ife Central.

There is no way @OAUniversity should be left out of this barbaric practice in the campus

So sad

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OAU: 500-level Student Tortured To Death

A 500-level Civil Engineering student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Okoli Ahize Chizoputam, has been killed over alleged phone theft on campus.

THE WHISTLER gathered that Chizoputam, 28, allegedly stole the phone at Awolowo Hall on Monday.

It was learnt that the final-year student was handed over to the leadership of the student union who further tortured him to death.

A source in the school said, “After Chizoputam was attacked by a mob, he was handed over to the student union leaders at Ken Saro-Wiwa hall. He was later tortured severely before he was rushed to the hospital where he gave up the ghost.”

The president of the OAU student union, Olayiwole Festus, confirmed the death of the final-year student.

He explained that “he was assaulted in a mob action at Awo Hall yesterday. The student was declared dead on arrival at the Emergency Medicine Department of OAU Teaching Hospital this afternoon.

“Preliminary investigations show that the deceased was accused of having stolen a phone. While we await an official report from the law enforcement agencies, I must state that this incident is a very sad one for Great Ife Students’ Union because our Union is not a Union of barbarians but that of intellectuals.

“Arrests and investigations of individuals suspected to be connected with the assault of the deceased are being made for consequent legal actions. Our Union does not support mob actions and justice must be served in this incident. Pending investigations of this unfortunate development, the activities of the Hall Executive Council of Awo Hall are suspended immediately.”

Similarly, the management of the institution through its spokesperson, Mr Abiodun Olarewaju, said an investigation is on and would make their position known after the investigation.

https://thewhistler.ng/oau-500-level-student-tortured-to-death-for-stealing-phone-on-campus/

Facebook User, Olumide GlowVille explains the meaning of "Maximum Shi Shi"

Everyone who graduated from OAU Ife must be familiar with the term Maximum Shi Shi (MSS).

It is a form of jungle justice meted out to people accused of theft, cultism, or any form of vice the student union frowns at.

The modus operandi is to parade such person around the hostels to receive beating from students. 

Victims of such treatment are usually beaten to a pulp, left with a swollen face and multiple injuries.

I remember the case of a guy caught in Awolowo Hall for stealing 5 laptops. Dude had successfully carted away the 5 laptops, he went back to take the laptop chargers when he was caught.

He was given maximum shishi and that was the last I ever saw or heard of him. 

I have always wondered if that guy and others like him were handed over to school authorities afterward or they just left the school out of shame. 

This morning, I read on Twitter that students of Awo Hall of OAU have tortured (Maximum Shi Shi) and killed a civil engineering student named Okoli Ahize Chizoputam aged 28, for allegations of phone theft. 

In the case of Mr Okoli, the Awo Hall Chairman Badiora Timilehin and his social director Omisakin Seye were the moderators.

Sadly this despicable practice led to the death of young man as he was taken to the Teaching Hospital already Dead (BID)

The moderator have been arrested by DSS of Ife Central

I really hope this serves a lasting lesson to the student community and this barbaric practice is banished forever! 

Jungle justice is never the right justice. 

#OG♠️

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