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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Ben Agande & Omeiza Ajayi KADUNA: The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has advanced reasons for its inability to scale down the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration CVR to the ward level, saying doing that would require the level of funding that the commission does not have INEC chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this on Wednesday during a meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners (REC) and other senior staff of the commission over the ongoing continuous voters registration process. According to Yakubu, about N1.2bn would be required daily to pay allowances of adhoc staff, while the total budgetary​ provision for CVR in the 2017 budget which includes rerun and tenured elections, bye-elections and general elections is N1.2bn this year. He added that INEC decided to deploy the CVR exercise at the local government level because it is the only affordable option that can be accommodated within its current budgetary allocation. He...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Nwafor Sunday In the bid to douse and calm the temperaments of some of the Reps members who voted for the passage of the South East development bill that was rejected by the majority of the house, Hon. Sunday Karimi, PDP, representing Kogi West district enumerated the reasons behind the rejection of the bill. Most of these reasons according to Hon. Sunday in Channels television includes: 1. They brought the bill as a result of agitations from their people. 2. looking at the common interest of Nigeria as a nation not a specific zone, i.e South East region. 3. Military governments contributed immensely in the development of South East region after the civil war. 4. Government after government has done a lot for the development of the South East. 5. When the bill for the development of North East was passed in the house, we have know reason not to accept it because of the Boko haram things going on cum the destruction of properties. 6. Speaker rejecting th...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Efforts by the Boko Haram terrorist sect to rebuild one of its logistics base has been thwarted by Nigerian Airforce fighter aircraft that destroyed the new base. Director of Airforce Public Relations, Air Commodore Adetokumbo Adesanya noted that the logistics base was discovered by Air surveillance aircraft one of several reconnaissance its mission to the Sambisa Forest and environs. Adesanya said in the statement, “On 16th May 2017, the Nigerian Air Force Component of Operation Lafiya Dole conducted an Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) mission in the Sambisa general area, as part of ongoing efforts to clear the area of remnants of the Boko Haram Terrorists group. “During the ISR mission, a black vehicle and some Boko Haram Terrorists were seen on the fringes of the Sambisa Forest. “A confirmatory ISR mission on 17 May 2017 revealed that the Boko Haram Terrorists are attempting to build a logistics base in the location. “Accordingly, Nigeri...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Ola Ajayi I BADAN— A 25 year-old woman, Mrs Esther Alex, was yesterday arraigned before an Iyaganku magistrate court in Ibadan for allegedly setting ablaze a building rented by her husband, to prevent him from reconciling with his first wife, who had been sent packing for her inability to bear children. In a count charge filed against her, she allegedly “willfully and unlawfully set a building on fire.” The prosecutor, Mr. Sunday Ogunremi, alleged that the accused on April 29, at Osuntogun Street, Oke-Itunu, Ibadan magisterial district, did willfully and unlawfully set fire to a building belonging to her husband’s landlady, Mrs Risikat Alarape, which is valued at N500,000. The accused told newsmen that she committed the offence out of love  for her husband, as her husband was making moves to reconcile with his ex-wife. Chief Magistrate Abiola Richard then ordered her remanded  and adjourned the case to June 13.     The post Wife sets ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Evelyn Usman T HE Divisional Police Officer, DPO, in charge of Ijeshatedo Division, Lagos, Mohammed Yakubu, has been arrested in connection with the killing of a fashion designer, last weekend. Recall that Jamiu Ayoade, who had attended a friend’s birthday party at 49, Wosilat Daudu Street, Ijeshatedo, was reportedly shot at close range. Vanguard gathered that during investigation, the DPO informed the Command that he only led his men to the area following information that cultists were on rampage. He also denied that neither he nor his men fired any shot during their visit, describing claims that he shot the late Ayoade as a lie. Owoseni visits family Yakubu’s claim was partially admitted as true until the Command’s boss, Fatai Owoseni, visited the bereaved family’s home yesterday. Vanguard was reliably informed that some of those who claimed to have witnessed the incident narrated how it occurred to Owoseni. Residents also revealed that Sunday’s in...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Former Arsenal defender Laureano Etamé-Mayer on Wednesday said pressure would not force Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger to resign. Arsenal side face Southampton in the English Premier League (EPL) on Wednesday and a win would lift them into fifth position. Newsmen report that the Frenchman, whose contract expires at the end of this season, has been criticised by some fans. Etame-Mayer, popularly known as Lauren, said Wenger knew how to deal with pressure, and hopefully things would be in the right way sooner or later. “I don’t think he will resign. He has been under pressure for 30 to 35 years now and was managing big clubs with big pressure,’’ the former Cameroon right-back said. In February, Wenger said he would decide on a new contract between March and April, but later said that he made a mistake in giving that timeframe. Newsmen report that the 40-year-old Lauren played 159 league games for Arsenal between 2000 and 2007 and was also part of the “invincibl...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet), has predicted localised thunderstorms over the Central States of the country such as Jalingo, Ibi, Abuja, Minna, Bida and Lokoja on Friday morning. NiMet’s Weather Outlook by its Central Forecast Office (CFO), on Thursday in Abuja, also predicted localised thunderstorms over Bida and Ilorin in the afternoon and evening hours. It added that the central region would have day and night temperature of 28 to 35 and 18 to 23 degrees Celsius respectively. The agency predicted that the Southern States would experience localised rains over some coastal cities of Lagos, Ijebu-Ode and parts of inland cities of Ibadan, Warri, Benin and Asaba in the morning. It also predicted prospects of thunderstorms over Enugu, Abakaliki, Awka, Obudu and Ogoja and chances of rains over Port-Harcourt, Bayelsa, Uyo, Eket and Calabar in the afternoon and evening hours. The agency added that the region would also have day and night temperatures o...