FEMA cuts emergency response time in FCT to three minutes (official).
According to the Federal Capital Territory Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), its emergency response time has been decreased from five to
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Read moreThere are at least 2.4 million registered voters in Liberia, and President George Weah is running for reelection following his first six years in office. After a great football career, Weah, 57, decided to enter politics and has promised to create more roads if reelected so that he may achieve his vow to repair Liberia’s broken economy, institutions, and infrastructure. Weah, who was elected in 2017 in the first democratic shift of power in the country in almost 70 years, is currently one of 20 contenders for president. The winner needs to get at least 51.9% of the vote to avoid a second-round vote. Weah concluded his campaign with a march through Monrovia on Sunday night, portraying his first term as a success despite serious setbacks. The iron-ore-rich West African nation is still recovering from two terrible civil wars that occurred between 1989 and 2003 and an Ebola epidemic that occurred between 2013 and 2016. I’m pleased with the results we’ve achieved despite the challenges we’ve faced. Weah informed his adoring audience that they had accomplished a great deal despite having fewer resources at their disposal and had resolved several systemic issues. The opposition and Liberia’s international partners have accused him of failing to do enough during his first term to combat corruption in the country. The United States sanctioned his chief of staff and two other high-ranking officials for corruption in 2022, prompting him to dismiss them. In his farewell address, he mentioned the nomination of impartial members to the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission and other measures done to combat corruption. We intend to step up our fight against corruption during our second term, he stated. Weah’s major opponent is Joseph Boakai, 78, who was the vice president till Weah defeated him in a runoff election in 2017. Boakai has based his campaign on the promise that he will save Liberia from the mismanagement of the Weah government.
Read moreAfter being sworn in twice and serving as governor for five years, Justice Donatus Okorowo decided on Monday that allowing Sylva to run for office again would be a violation of the 1999 constitution as amended. The party, however, claimed that the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) complaint was illegal under the Electoral Act in a statement released on Tuesday by Perry Tukuwei, Director, Media and Publicity for the APC Bayelsa Governorship Campaign Council. “The Party has briefed its lawyers to appeal the judgement and it is confident that the Court of Appeal will overturn the judgement of the Federal High Court,” the statement read. “Have no fear, my fellow Bayelanese! The PDP’s covert campaign to unseat Chief Timipre Sylva as governor of Bayelsa State should not dampen support for him. For the complete statement, see below: The Bayelsa All Progressives Congress Gubernatorial Campaign Council has reassured the people of Bayelsa that its candidate for governor, Chief Timipre Sylva, will win by a landslide in the next November 11, 2023 elections and be sworn in as governor on February 14, 2024. This reassurance follows a Federal High Court in Abuja’s ruling that the Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate will not be able to prevent Chief Timipre Sylva, the people of Bayelsa’s top choice for governor, from taking office on February 14, 2024. Chief Demesuoyefa Kolomo, who is not a member of the All Progressives Congress and who did not challenge our party’s governorship primaries, does not have the locus standi to sue in the matter, as only persons who contested primaries of a political party have the locus standi to file a pre- election matter to challenge the qualification of the party’s candidate in any election. For example, INEC published the names of the governorship candidates for Bayelsa, IMO, and Kogi on the 12th of May 2023, but this case was filed on the 13th of June 2023, violating Section 285 of the 1999 Nigerian constitution. Therefore, the case is time-barred since it was not submitted within the constitutionally required 14 days. The court’s decision to rule in favour of the plaintiff notwithstanding the absence of locus standi has surprised the party and the people of Bayelsa. The Supreme Court has also issued a practise instruction stating that any cases arising prior to an election must be adjudicated in the jurisdiction where the primary were held. The complaint was filed in Abuja as the last touch to their nefarious plan.
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Read moreKano State’s governor, Abba Yusuf, has granted a permanent, pensionable position to Dayyabu Haladu, a temporary employee who returned lost funds totaling $16,000 from the most recent Hajj operation in Saudi Arabia. His press secretary, Malam Bature Dawakin Tofa, made this announcement in Kano on Tuesday.Governor Yusuf sent an invitation to the next Hajj as well as a gift of N1 million. The governor made the announcement while reviewing the Hajj 2023 board report.He thanked the part-time worker for being happy with himself. He praised Dayyabu’s exemplary behaviour and said it was something everyone should strive to emulate. This gentleman, a part- time worker whose salary isn’t much to brag about, returned the missing funds. He stated it proved the man’s reverence for Allah and that he deserved to be honoured. Yusuf urged the people of Kano to uphold the state’s sterling reputation by exemplifying the admirable qualities of truthfulness, self-discipline, and satisfaction. Despite the current economic difficulties, Dayyabu responded by saying that he had repaid the stolen money to the state Pilgrims Welfare Board out of respect for Allah. He thanked the governor for his kindness and said he had never felt such happiness.Meanwhile, the governor has pledged to finally recognise the heroic actions of the wellknown tricyclist Auwalu Salisu, who found and returned N16 million in lost funds belonging to an international traveller. The governor has stated that there have been encouraging signs of an increased degree of trustworthiness among Kano residents, which has reflected well on the state as a whole.
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Read moreBy Toungo, Babayola M My heart goes out to the many All Progressive Party (APC) supporters in Adamawa state who have had to bear a leadership that is at best unsure of its next steps after losing power in 2019 – and with a sitting governor at the time. It appears that the party leadership is still recovering from the electoral battering they took in the 2019 elections, which is clouding their judgement and giving them a false sense of worth. After going through an election in which they were willing to do anything, even treason, to win the governor seat and coming up empty-handed, the APC leadership has resorted to making up bedtime stories in order to keep their apathetic supporters prisoner. I recently came across a video of one of the party’s “shadow cabinet members” making wild and unsubstantiated allegations about a phantom group of Islamic clerics hired by the state government to go to the president and tell him that Adamawa people do not want a female governor and that he should therefore suborn the courts to affirm the declaration of his excellency, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri as the elected governor of Adamawa state. As if that wasn’t enough, the APC had a mullah (?) film a video in which he rehashed all of the outlandish charges made by our “shadow cabinet member” earlier. Is it possible for Tinubu to intervene in someone else’s case while battling for his lofty post in court? I don’t usually give in to my first instincts of reacting to such childish outbursts, but seeing the two videos reminds me of Fox Network and Donald Trump. They inspire Trump followers to invade the United States Capitol Hill (the equivalent of our National Assembly) by promoting such conspiracy theories. Their plan was to declare Trump the winner of the elections in November 2019. This occurred in January 2020. The APC is unconcerned about how the public will react to such false information because they did worse during the elections and got away with it. They conveniently forgot that the president had the first female deputy governor. Both videos were devoid of facts but dense with innuendos, and their sole purpose was to inform APC leaders that “we are still around wo.” With federal appointments coming to an end, I believe that some people are attempting to position themselves in order to be noticed. Because the main course is almost over, the morsels and bones will suffice. You can sell yourself without insulting the system from which you seek protection; you may also get noticed if you have something to offer without ruffling feathers. If you lie to me when you are not in office, how can I trust you with my fate if I elect you to any post of public trust? The implication of what the two APC tendencies attempted to achieve – APC secular and APC spiritual – is to call the neutrality of the judiciary into question, the same judiciary that the party sought help from.
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