Reps Ask INEC To Delist Voters Who Didn’t Vote In Recent Polls From Register

The House of Representatives has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to delete from the voters’ register data of voters that fail to vote in two election cycles.

The House made the call on Thursday following the adoption of a motion of urgent public importance moved by Leke Abejide (ADC, Kogi).

The lawmakers resolved that whoever did not vote in the two election cycles held on 25 February and 18 March back to back be deleted from INEC register as non-existing human beings.

They resolved that INEC should develop a mechanism or software application where families who lost their loved ones can report the demise of a particular PVC number so that it can be duly deleted from INEC register, Polling unit, and Ward.

Moving the motion, Mr Abejide said several dead and fictitious persons were discovered in the voters’ register.

“In the last general election, it was glaring and crystal clear that people that were long dead had their names still displayed in the voters’ register. Even my own deceased Father who passed on long ago still has his name displayed on the board.

“Apart from dead voters there are millions of fictitious voters who do not exist anywhere on this planet earth but have their names on the INEC voters register,” he said.

Speaking against the motion, Nicholas Ossai (PDP, Delta), said the proposal is against the principle of the 1999 constitution. He said the right to vote is a fundamental right that is not subject to voting.

“When you are registered, it is a fundamental right. Those of them that have availed themselves to be registered the Constitution gives them that right whether they go to the polls to vote or not. Using that as a criterion to delist such persons is not in line with the constitution of the Federal Republic,” Mr Ossai said.

He added that the mover of the motion failed to provide facts to back the claims he is making. “Our members are speculating without facts. This motion should have been accompanied by facts,” he said.

Mr Ossai declared that the motion is “unconstitutional,” adding “It will fringe the rights of Nigerians”.

Sada Soli (APC, Katsina) said the motion is only asking INEC to clean its register ahead of the off-season elections in Kogi, Bayelsa and Imo States.

Following the debate, the motion was taken with an amendment that INEC should embark on verification of the data in the register.

When the motion was put to vote by the Deputy Speaker, Idris Wase, members voted in support of it.

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My Administration Will Make Corruption Unattractive - Tinubu Assures Nigerians

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We'll make corruption unattractive, Tinubu promises 

President-elect Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said his administration will put incentives and policies in place that will make corruption unattractive for judges and other Nigerian workers.

A statement by the Office of the President-elect signed by Abdulaziz Abdulaziz quoted Tinubu as making the pledge on Thursday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, during the inauguration of Magistrate Courts Complex. 

The event was part of Tinubu's two-day visit to the state to inaugurate projects executed by the Nyesom Wike administration. 

Tinubu said with the right incentives that guarantee conducive working atmosphere and polices that make it easy for workers to acquire credit facilities for essential needs the temptation for corruption would reduce. 

"You don't expect your judges to live in squalor, to operate in squalor and dispense justice in squalor. This is part of the changes that are necessary. We must fight corruption but we must definitely look at the other side of the coin. 

"If you don't want your judges to be corrupt you got to pay attention to their welfare. You don't want them to operate in hazardous conditions,"he said. 

The president-elect said lack of consumer credit which could make it easy for workers to acquire property such as houses and cars make them susceptible to corruption. 

"If you have consumer credit that will reduce the propensity for corruption. We don't want our judges to play foul, to compromise justice. I promise we are going to review all of these in a policy think tank." 

Tinubu also reiterated his commitment to the unity of Nigeria promising to be fair to all. 

"The unity of this country is not negotiable. That is what Wike and I are promoting jointly. I promise I will be fair to all."

Earlier, Governor Wike said the complex contained 24 courtrooms, offices and other facilities meant to decongest the state high court complex and expand access to justice.

He said his administration consider welfare of judges and condition of courts essential for speedy justice dispensation.

Wike charged the state Judiciary to ensure proper maintenance of the edifice for which financial provision had been made.

He once again thanked the President-elect for accepting to visit the state and commission the projects.

The ceremony was attended by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila as well as Governors Muhammad Badaru Abubakar (Jigawa), David Umahi (Ebonyi), Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq (Kwara) and Dapo Abiodun (Ogun). 

Also present were former governors Chief Bisi Akande (Osun), James Ibori (Delta), Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti), Adams Oshiomhole (Edo) and Ayo Fayose (Ekiti). Others were members of the National Assembly, Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Sunday Dare, a former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Mohammed Bello Adoke, SAN, National Women Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Betta Edu, Chief Ayiri Emami, among others.

Office of the President-elect
Abdulaziz Abdulaziz 
May 4, 2023

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Seventy Percent Of Teachers In South-west Are Unqualified - TRCN

The Registrar of Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN), Professor Josiah Ajiboye has disclosed that about 70 per cent of teachers in private schools in the South West are not qualified to teach children in classrooms in the country.

Ajiboye made this known on Thursday in Abuja at the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Council and INSTILL Education on capacity building for teachers in Nigeria.

He noted that a pilot phase of implementation of the MoU would soon commence with a capacity building for eight weeks.

Ajiboye said the MoU has three major components- pre-service teachers, integrating pre-service with in-service teachers and their capacity-building programmes while expressing confidence that the involvement to instil education would bridge the gap between pre-service and in-service teachers.

“With regards to our teachers, if you look at what we have said here today, three major components actually were identified: the pre-service teachers, even integrating pre-service with the in-service. We have looked at pre-service teachers, the in-service teachers and their training programmes and we have been able to see that there is a gap,” he said.

Lamenting that 70 per cent of the unqualified teachers lack the prerequisites to be registered by the Council, the TRCN boss stated that a large number of teachers in Nigeria have never been exposed to training and have been using outdated equipment for illustration.

“A large number of teachers in private schools in Nigeria today are not qualified. We wanted to use a consultant to get revenue from teachers in private schools. When we carried out a survey, we observed that a reasonable amount of 70% of teachers in the South-West are not qualified as well.

“They are not registrable with the TRCN. So that is to tell you that there is a big gap. So you cannot call them teachers but cheaters. You know that there’s a difference between teachers and cheaters. If you are not a teacher, you must be a cheater.

“So, these people are not registerable with TRCN because they don’t possess the requisite qualification that will allow us to register them. There’s a big gap there.

“Instill may be looking in the future on how to fill that gap. Like they are doing in South Africa; they may also, but the major component of this MOU is about the in-service teachers. How do we go about capacitating these in-service teachers, upskilling them,” he said.

On his part, the Dean of Operation at Instill Education, Mr Tom Parry, said the training received through his organisation will always end with a practical applicable component so that teachers have an opportunity to practice and understand.

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Skit Maker, Ogechi Alozie, Escapes From Kidnappers In Lagos

Popular skit maker, Ogechi Alozie, has narrated how she escaped from being kidnapped in Ikeja, Lagos State.

Ogechi revealed this in a post shared on her TikTok page on Thursday.

The skit maker went on to say she would have fallen victim if she was greedy, as she advised everyone to be careful and stay safe.

She said, "Kidnappers now create Instagram accounts, send direct messages to users just to lure and kidnap them.

"Yesterday around 4:00pm someone sent me a DM, saying that they want to use me for a commercial advert on 9mobile and asked me to come with my credentials to their office at Ikeja.

"Because I stay on the Island and by the time I get to address it will be so late, but they insisted I come to Chicken Republic inside a filling station opposite Radisson Blue at the back of Chevron.

"I went to the address with my personal assistant and telephoned the woman that contacted me, one Mrs Queen Akpobome, but a man picked up and said that Queen had gone to get something and he's the one in charge.

"A car pulled over to where we are and two came out to discuss with him. He received a call and asked us to go with him to Opebi area where Mrs Queen was waiting for us. Those same men again to came to Opebi and myself and my PA became uncomfortable, so I booked an Uber to take us home."

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Victory For Atiku, Obi, Would’ve Retired Many APC Leaders — Garba Shehu

Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, Thursday, said that many of the leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, would have been sent on compulsory retirement had it been that Atiku Abubakar of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, or Peter Obi of the Labour Party, had won in the February 25 presidential elections.

Shehu also said that the victory of the President-elect and Vice President-elect, Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima, respectively and the established control of the APC in 21 out of 36 states in the last general elections, firmly established the party as a dominant national Political Party.

Speaking while receiving the Arewa Young Lawyers’ Forum, AYLF, the umbrella body for all young lawyers in the Northern part of Nigeria, the presidential spokesman said, ‘‘This is a difficult reality for the opposition parties.”

According to him, opposition victory in the general election would not only have been a career-ending moment for many APC leaders but would also have had negative consequences for the various programmes of the Buhari administration that empowered marginalised groups and remedied much of the nation’s infrastructure deficit.

A statement issued by Patience Tilley-Gyado,
Deputy Director, Information, State House, quoted him as saying, “APC victory in the election is a watershed moment for the Buhari government, its orientation, its programmes and projects.

‘‘In the hands of the opposition, many of the laudable programmes of the Buhari administration would have been sabotaged or unimplemented.

“An important and overlooked aspect of the Tinubu/Shettima victory is that it ensures, not only an orderly transfer of power from the outgoing administration to the incoming one, but also the safety of policies and programmes of the outgoing government.

‘‘For this, we remain grateful to the Almighty, and to citizens of Nigeria for sticking with our Party.”

In accepting his appointment as Grand Patron of the Arewa Young Lawyers’ Forum, the presidential spokesman urged members of the association to be at the vanguard of promoting the study and practice of legal profession in the northern states.

“To build and secure democracy in our communities, you need lawyers and journalists as its guardians and protectors. Without one, the other will not be successful,” he admonished them.

The Chairman of AYLF, Barr. Olayinka Dauda Jimoh craved the support of the Presidency in giving strategic training to young wigs to enhance their leadership roles in the society.

Other members of the Forum at the meeting were Barr. Audu Umaru, National Welfare Director (Borno State), Barr. Ahmad Khalil, National Treasurer (Yobe State) and Barr Paul Gbande, Director of Publicity (Benue State).

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Russian & Ukrainian Politicians Fight During Summit In Turkey

The 🇺🇦 Ukrainian delegation on Thursday made an attempt to provoke their 🇷🇺 Russian counterparts at the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) Parliamentary Assembly summit in 🇹🇷 Ankara, the Russian delegation's head said, APA's Istanbul correspondent reports.

"During the speech of the Russian delegation the Ukrainian delegation attempted to sabotage, trying to interrupt the speech. Hanging flags, shouting insults. But we have a completely different task. Our task is not to politicize the process, which Ukraine did today, but, I repeat, we wanted to express our point of view," Olga Timofeyeva said.

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Buhari Set Nigeria 100 Years Back, Brought Religious Divisions– Buba Galadima

A chieftain of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, Buba Galadima, has responded to a recent claim by President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesperson, Femi Adesina, that his principal would leave Nigeria better than he met it in 2015 in terms of security and the economy.

Adesina had, in a statement on Sunday, claimed Buhari would not be leaving Nigeria the way he met it.

Reacting, Galadima prayed for God to visit Adesina with what the common people suffer daily in Nigeria.

Galadima said on Arise Television’s Morning Show program on Wednesday, “We wish that he (Buhari) could have kept the country (as he met it) on May 29, 2015. We could have clapped for him and escorted him to Daura or wherever he intends to live after leaving office.

“The man has set Nigeria 100 years back, divided Nigeria across religious lines, along ethnic lines and crashed economic policies that have left the dollar which he met at N157/$1 and he’s now leaving it at N800/$1, that is if you see the dollar to buy.

“And insecurity was confined to the North East generally, except some dark spots that had happened in Abuja, Kano, and some few other places. Today, you cannot travel to any part of Nigeria with your eyes closed. You have to spend the night praying that God delivers you.

“If that’s the kind of Nigeria that Femi Adesina wants, then I pray to God to visit him with what the common people suffer daily in Nigeria.”

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