Court urged to restrain INEC from conducting Imo rerun election

A Federal High Court, Abuja has been approached to restrain the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC from further conducting the re-run election ordered in Imo North Senatorial District by the Court of Appeal, Owerri.

The suit filed by Igwe Maduakolam and marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/23/2016 joined INEC and the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the last election into Imo North Senatorial Zone, Senator Athan Nneji Achonu as defendants.

Among the relief sought by Maduakolam is an order of perpetual injunction restraining INEC from conducting or attempting to conduct any further re-run/fresh election into the Imo north Senatorial District till 2019, having failed to conduct the re-run election within the 90 days ordered by the court of Appeal in suit CA/OW/EPT/SN/52/2015.

The plaintiff also asked the court to declare that INEC cannot  conduct the said Imo North Senatorila District, Okigwe rerun election outside the 90 days ordered by the Court of Appeal, Owerri in accordance with Section 140(2) of the Electoral Act.

Finally, Maduakolam wants an order of the court directing Senator Athan Nneji Achonu to continue in office as the Senator representing Imo North Senatorial District since INEC has failed to conduct the rerun election within the timeline  ordered by the Court of Appeal, Owerri in its judgement of December 11, 2015 in suit No: CA/OW/EPT/SN/52/2015.

Meanwhile, Justice John Tsoho has fixed May 4, 2016 for preliminary hearing.

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DSS parades terror mastermind Al-Barnawi's second in command (Photo)

The Department of State Services on Thursday, paraded Bello Danhajiya who is presumed to be the second-in-command to the detained leader of Ansaru terrorist group, Khalid Al-Barnawi.

The DSS while parading the suspect before newsmen disclosed that he has been involved in many criminal activities including gun running and cattle rustling.

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Horror! Abuja housewife peels off housemaid's breasts with hot water

An intemperate housewife, Mrs Kemi Egbukole has found herself in hot waters after peeling off her 16 years-old housemaid's breasts with boiling hot water in Abuja.

Naira Naija News reports that the pregnant 36 years old mother of two poured the hot water on her house help, Miss Hope David as a punishment for waking up late.

Reports indicate that Mrs Egbukole is already being investigated by the Nigeria Police, the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC and the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP for human rights and trafficking offences.

Egbukole who lives at Lokogoma area of Abuja is said by her neighbors to be an unrepentant child abuser

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Face of Hope Foundation visits Abuja orphanage with gifts - (Photo)

The Face of Hope Foundation, FHF, last weekend, visited the Cross Mission Home International, an orphanage located at Dei Dei, a suburb in Abuja.

The foundation donated food items including yam tubers, instant noodles, biscuits and several other items to the orphanage.

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APGA wins Gwagwalada Area Council Chairmanship election

Alhaji Mustapha Adamu of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA was on Wednesday declared the winner of the Gwagwalada Area Council Chairmanship election in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

News Agency of Nigeria, NAN reports that Adamu was declared the winner following a re-run election conducted to determine the winner of the inconclusive April 9 election.

“Mustapha Bello of APGA, having satisfied the requirement of the law and scored the highest votes is hereby declared winner and elected,’’ said the Returning Officer, Mr Adamu Tanimu.

According to INEC's result sheet  APGA's Mustapha Bello got 678 votes in the supplementary election, bringing his total votes to 15,950 having polled 15,272 votes in the April 9 election, while the incumbent Chairman
Alhaji Abubakar Giri of APC got 23 votes bringing his total to 14, 569 votes

Mr Abdullahi of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP came a distant third with a total of 682 votes having failed to get a single vote in Wednesday’s re-run election.

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We will give pipeline vandals the Boko Haram treatment - Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has warned that vandals blowing up oil and gas installations would be treated like Boko Haram terrorists by his administration if they failed to desist from their acts of sabotage.

Addressing members of the Nigerian community in China, President Buhari said that Nigerian Armed Forces would henceforth deal with pipeline vandals as they have been dealing with Boko Haram terrorists.

He vowed not to relent in the fight against corruption which he described as a strong enemy that has destroyed the lives of many Nigerians

His words;
“I ask for your support to make our vision of stamping out corruption a reality in the shortest possible time. Whoever is caught will not be spared. The government is still being dared, but those who are sensible should have learned a lesson. Those who are mad, let them continue in their madness.

“I am aware that in the last two weeks, the national grid collapsed a number of times. I hope this message will reach the vandals and saboteurs who are blowing up pipelines and installations. We will deal with them the way we dealt with Boko Haram.”

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FRSC to enforce speed limit device

The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps FRSC, Mr Boboye Oyeyemi has directed road marshals to prepare for the imminent enforcement of the speed limit device across the country.

The FRSC boss gave the directive on Wednesday during a meeting with officers and men of the Kaduna Sector Command.

He announced that a Federal High Court in its judgment last week granted the FRSC the mandate to enforce the use of the speed limit device.

"As such, the legal hurdle has been cleared; we had a public hearing and President Muhammadu Buhari has given his approval for the enforcement of the speed limit device.

"We are just waiting for the House of Representative’s report before we commence enforcement.

"We need to cut down the speed of vehicles and any way we can do this should be a welcome development.

"We need to get it right because losing the active group of our population is not acceptable,” he said.

Oyeyemi noted that 50 per cent of crashes in the country were speed related, adding that President Buhari, worried about the situation, had given FRSC all the support it needed to meet its mandate, including provision of additional patrol vehicles, ambulances, administrative and recovery vehicles to ease operations.

"The government has shown its commitment. We must justify this trust by reducing road crashes, which is our major mandate,"’ he said.

NAN 

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