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Thursday, 14 April 2016
The government of Benue State is worried about the growing resentment of its people against Fulani herdsmen.
Repeated attacks by armed Fulani herdsmen which have left hundreds of people dead and thousands homeless have led to the formation of the Movement Against Fulani Occupation, MAFO in the state.
Addressing members of MAFO during their peaceful protest around Makurdi on Thursday, Deputy Governor Benson Abounu warned against any form of reprisal attacks against Fulani herdsmen.
Abounu assured the protesters that Benue State was collaborating with the Federal Government to prevent further crises between the herdsmen and their host communities in the state.
He also said that the state government was working round the clock to rehabilitate individuals and communities affected by recent Fulani herdsmen attacks.
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.
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.
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
Wednesday, 13 April 2016
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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