Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Senator Uche Lilian Ekwunife has been declare the winner of APC primary election for Anambra Central Senatorial Zone

Today January 19th 2016 , Reporting From Anambra State Nigeria, where the Election Was Conducted, Senator Uche Lilian Ekwunife has been declare the winner of APC primary election for Anambra Central Senatorial Zone. She is now the valid candidate for APC in the forthcoming Anambra Central Senatorial district fresh election. She is to replace Dr. Ngige who is now a Honourable Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
The primary was contested with great force between Uche Ekwunife and and Mrs. Ikeazor. Iyom Uche Lilian Ekwunife won with a wide margin... while cruising to victory once again.

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Sharon Olive Ikeazor: enters Anambra Senate race

Sharon Olive Ikeazor: alleges foul play

The All Progressives Congress has debunked reports that announced a winner for the party’s primaries to select a candidate for the Anambra central senatorial election.
The primaries could not be concluded on Wednesday as voters in three out of seven local councils were yet to vote.
One of the aspirants for the seat, Sharon Ikeazor alleged some foul play by her main rival, Uche Ekwunife, who crossed over from the Peoples Democratic Party.

Uche Ekwunife: a contender for the seat

In a statement today, APC national secretary, Alhaji Mai Mala Buni warned against the declaration of any result from the primary election conducted by the party
“Senator Domingo Obende who was duly appointed by the party to conduct the primaries is yet to declare a final result, hence any other result announced from any quarter is null and void”, Buni said.

Stella Oduah Foundation Digs Deep For Untapped Talent

Senator representing Anambra North, Stella Oduah has shown a leaning towards sports development in the nations by pushing for a football Talent Hunt via her Princess Stella Oduah Foundation.
The competition held at different locations across the Senatorial zone with several supporters in attendance.
Christ the King College hosted the Onitsha South tournament while Washington Grammar School was the venue for the Onitsha North tournament. Both had 4 teams of Under 13 teams each with both male and female teams.
The colourful event was keenly contested with several talent spotters on hand to pick out tomorrow’s stars. Chairman of the organising committee, Prince Ugboma, Oduah’s sponsorship of such a tournament was aimed at boosting not just youth development but creating gainful employment too.
Chief of Staff of the Foundation, Princess Nwaka Ononuju revealed the best talents from the tourney would ultimately be sponsored for international competitions.

EPL: Gunners Feel The Blues After Mertesacker Red

The Big German sees a red for his poor tackle on Costa

Before the game Arsene Wenger spoke of treating Diego Costa with “more discipline.” Good buzzwords,but his team did the exact opposite. The Spaniard scored right after he helped get Per Mertesacker get sent off for a baffling attempt of a tackle.
Costa did make it seem worse than it was,and for the German who had gone 44 games without a card of any sort, this was disappointing. The former Atletico Madrid striker remains a nightmare for the Gunners defence and his villains status will not bother him one bit.
Wenger took off Olivier Giroud and that decision wold come back to haunt him. No focal point in the Arsenal attack reduced the cannons to mere slingshots. Add that to Wenger giving the captaincy to Theo Walcott and they were done before they knew it.
Arsenal were complicit for their poor shooting though. Walcott and Matthieu Flamini were woeful with their finishing on separate occasions. Arsenal were so bad Branislav Ivanovic notched an assist against them.
On a weekend that saw so many home teams fall, Arsenal did not seem like the home side till Alexis Sanchez was introduced. Even then they tended to over-elaborate things.
Old boy Cesc Fabregas seemed like a different player at the Emirates. He seemed to feel right at home. Tackling, making mazy runs, completing intricate passes and taken advantage of the misfit Aaron Ramsey/Flamini midfield partnership.
Chelsea have not dropped points after going ahead this season in away games and you could see why today. A mental edge over Wenger’s men was on display as the home side only mustered just 1 shot on target. Surely title winning teams ought to do more.
The referee, Mark Clattenburg waved away 2 penalty calls against the Gunners and Fabregas simply said”It’s not the first time, second time or third time it happens” after Koscielny checked him in the box. Another occasion saw an Arsenal player handle the ball within the box but play continued.
it seemed such a bad day at the office for Arsenal as they made it 9 hours and 32 minutes without a goal against their London rivals. That bizarre, no look tackle from the Captain of a team Chelsea always seems to beat.
It is not lost for the Gunners just yet. They sit just 3 points off Leicester and they can dust themselves and start all over again.
Stamford Bridge loyalists have a good night’s sleep to look ahead to. A point away from 12th position, perhaps relegation panic was just a false alarm for the deposed Champions.
Fun Fact Of The Day: Billionaire, Flamini has finally lost an Emirates game after a long, long run. 53 games long actually, 34 wins, and 16 draws. That 1st Half chance could have preserved his record if he had converted it.
Chelsea also finally won 2 games in a month!

Chan2016: Nigeria vs Guinea

As the battle for supremacy in the group standings enter the final stages, Nigeria’s Home based Eagles will be gunning for a victory to avoid any upset and book

their place at the top of the summit.
Their opponent, Guinea, are not new to the competition and they will do all they can to make their Nigerian counterparts work harder for their victory.
While a draw will ensure passage into the quarterfinals for the Eagles, Guinea on second spot will fancy their chances of qualification ahead of the book makers favourites, Tunisia.
After two games, the Super Eagles lead Group C with 4 points while Guinea is ahead of Tunisia in second place based on goals scored while the Mena of Niger brings up the rear.
Should Nigeria lose to Guinea, the outcome of Tunisia vs Niger game will possible reset the table from the current standings.
While Sunday Oliseh, the Eagles coach, has assured that his boys will be firing on all cylinders to consolidate their top spot and remain at the capital-Kigali, but their opponent has threatened to make life unbearable for the Eagles when they file out at the Gisenyi stadium, near the border town with Congo, three hours by road from Kigali, the capital of Rwanda.
“We know Nigeria is a good side and they have been doing extremely well in this tournament but we are not afraid of them. I’m confident Nigeria can be beaten come Tuesday.”Said Mohammed Kanfory Bangoura, the Guinea Head Coach.
Nigeria will go into today’s battle as favourites having met with Guinea 16 times at full international level with Nigeria having an edge over the Syli National cumulatively.
Both team will head into the game without injury worries and Nigeria striker Chisom Chiakatara has passed a late fitness test to be included in today’s line up.

FG to Receive $750m Abacha Loot – AGF

Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami on Tuesday, January 26 stated that the Federal Government is set to receive an additional $750 million loot of former military Head of State, Sani Abacha.
Malami disclosed this during an interactive session with the House of Representatives Committee on Justice, adding that his ministry is also aiming to recover £6.9m of James Ibori former Delta State Governor.
“In respect of of the recovery of looted assets, the ministry will engage in an agreed waive policy of using Mutual Legal Assistance Agreements or other bilateral and multilateral instruments to seek cooperation with other jurisdictions to ensure the repatriation of illicitly-acquired assets in foreign jurisdictions.
“The collaboration will equally involve the engagement of foreign-based Counsel to attend to matters on behalf of the federal Government. Low-hanging fruits being targeted in this initiative include $750m ‘Abacha loot’ as well as the sum of GBP 6.9m of the ‘Ibori loot’.
“In the long run, the ministry will be in a position to coordinate the recovery of Billions of Dollars in foreign jurisdictions, based on current estimations.”
While commenting on the the Insurgency faced by the country, Malami said, “My ministry is currently processing approximately 800 terrorism cases for prosecution .
“The resources required for the successful prosecution of these cases as well as the general coordination of the Criminal Justice Sector as envisaged under the ACIA, were fully captured in the original proposal made by the ministry to the Ministry of Finance, “he added.

INTERVIEW: We Will Exercise Our Power To Ensure AMCON N6 Trillion Debt Is Recovered – Legislator

Yesterday, January 2016, the Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions met with the first set of invited institutions to appear before her for interactive sessions. In this interview, our reporter, who had a tête-à-tête with the Chairman of the committee, Senator Rafiu Ibrahim, digs out salient issues most particularly matters surrounding AMCON Trillions Debt.

READ THE FULL INTERVIEW BELOW:

How can you approach the economic problem facing Nigeria at present?

The major problem of the country is the dwindling revenue of the nation, which the main source is oil. Everyone knows that globally, the price of commodities is going down. This however, is simply determined by demand and supply. The CBN is concentrating on managing the demands because the supply is sliding down. So they have to manage the demands. By so doing, they are doing demand management.

At our own end, we will support them. But on every support we’re giving any of these agencies, the Nigerian people, the Nigerian public, and businesses: small, medium and micro are number one.

What does the Senate intend to arrive at by the meeting with these institutions?

Our main objective is to have an in-depth analysis of what their experience has looked like over the years of operation, and what are they thinking going forward and the level of spirit of change in them –doing things better. We want to know what they think the senate can do to help them in all of their modus operandi. That’s the major objective. We want to identify their major challenges and how they think those encounters can be confronted, and what do they think is our roles. We have opened to them that they have to be proactive in engaging with us, informing us of every development before it escapes to the public domain so that once we’re carried along, we would be able to give them supports where needed.

What power exactly do you think the legislature has in helping the country solve its economic challenges?

For any economic challenge, the major problem is always the legal framework. If its not watertight, people have a way to identify the loopholes and take advantage of them. The objectives of whatever policy put in place no matter how fantastic, as a matter of the loopholes, would never be achieved. The executive therefore must work hand-in-glove with the legislative arm to be able to achieve the objectives of any policy. The power of law enactment and oversight functions is ultimate and highly needed to change the face of this country for better, as far as democracy is still the practice.

In such a case where the judiciary, as alleged by AMCON, is shielding these debtors, how can you challenge the judiciary?

It’s very simple. The law is the superior. That would be easily achievable by legislation. In our meeting with the institutions, we have asked them to call on us if they need any constitutional review. Because this senate is passionate about the progress of this country and we believe the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari is determined to do everything to ensure things are not only brought back to normalcy but also done properly. The government is resolute in the fight against corruption, both in the public and private sector. From what we have been able to discover from our interrogation with AMCON, I’m so sad to note that there’s massive corruption in the private sector, which is aided, directly or indirectly, by the judiciary.

How fast can you assure Nigerians of this recovery?

It depends on the speed at which AMCON goes. Our doors are open and we’re very much at work. Like I said earlier to them, if they could bring bills tomorrow morning seeking amendment of their acts to give them more power to be able to recover very faster, or even to the extent of constitutional amendments, I can assure you the work would be given flying acceleration by us immediately. You can see the President of the Senate assuring Nigerians at the inauguration of the Constitution Amendment Committee where he promised we would finish by June. What that means is that if they could bring their proposals forward now, by June they will have an amendment in their constitution and see themselves empowered with whatever is required to help them do their job efficiently.

About N6tr is locked up. At this moment of economic decline, this myriad amount of money is important to this county as water is to life. In jugular, litigation, conflict and courts, we need to support these institutions to recover the debt without further hesitation. People are actually not denying these debts, but after negotiating they still negotiate and re-negotiate again. You can imagine a negotiated judgement!

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Oduah To Know Fate On Feb. 2 About N255m BMWs

Former Minister of Aviation, Senator Stella Oduah, will on February 2, know her fate as a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos is set to deliver judgement in a suit she filed seeking to stop her prosecution over the alleged 2 armoured BMW cars purchased for N255m when she was a minister in 2013.
In the suit filed in July 2015, Oduah prayed the court to bar the Federal Government from investigating her over the vehicles.
Oduah, on August 26, 2015 obtained an order of preliminary injunction from Justice Mohammed Yunusa of the Federal High Court in Lagos, restraining the defendants, the Federal Government and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, from taking any action against her pending the final determination of the suit.
The judgement was initially slated for Monday, January 25, by Justice Okon Abang, but could not proceed owing to the transfer of the presiding judge from Lagos to the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court.
Justice Abang, who was moved from Lagos to Abuja early this month, had on December 1, 2015 fixed January 25 for judgement in the case after taking arguments from all the parties in the suit.
But erstwhile registrars to the judge, told The Punch that Justice Abang would return to Lagos on February 2, to deliver the judgment.
This was confirmed by Abang on Tuesday, January 26, when he lashed out at the prosecution in the trial of National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh, over the failure of the Nigerian Prison Service, NPS, to bring in the accused as at 9am, forcing him to postpone the trial by an hour.
Abang said he had a timeline for the trial, as he had to round in up to meet a case in Lagos, presumably Oduah’s.
Oduah has maintained that the Ministry of Aviation did not buy the said BMW, saying the vehicle was on a lease to the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, a parastatal under the Ministry.