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target=_blank>2019 Budget: I Rate Saraki Very Low On Patriotism, Says President Buhari
Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has passed a vote of no confidence on the leadership of the National Assembly in the enactment of the 2019 Appropriation Act.
Buhari, while speaking, on Monday night, during a videotaped interview broadcast on Nigerian Television Authority, NTA, said he had conveyed his reservation directly to the legislative leaders while assenting the bill on Monday morning.
When asked to comment on the delayed budget passage, president Buhari said, “I think a culture was developed in the National Assembly that they should dictate the terms, which was wrong. It is the executive that dictates the terms and takes it before the legislature. It (the legislature) will examine it and agree or disagree with it.
“But when they go around posing that they are the government and not the executive, then that’s the problem. I felt and I spoke personally to the Senate President, Saraki, and the leader of the House, Dogara. They could not deny it.
“I asked them how they felt to hold the country at ransom for seven months without passing a budget. Unfortunately, they were not hurting me; they were hurting the country. So, really, in terms of patriotism, I think I rated them very low indeed.”
The President noted that constitutionally, he could not help that there were things that had to go through the legislature.
“But to hold a budget for seven months cannot be justified if you really bother about the country,” he added.
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target=_blank>LIVE: President Buhari Addresses Nigerians In ‘Special Interview’
On Service chiefs
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On Insecurity
The president said, “the Police has failed this country.”
On Kidnapping and Banditry
President Buhari said, “expose the kidnappers and the thieves.”
On His Past Electoral Adventure
“There is no local government i have not visited in Nigeria.”
On What He Will Do Differently
President Buhari said: “I will persuade the Police and the Judiciary to be hard on criminals.”
On The Fight Against Corruption
He said, “my frustration is that the fight against corruption is taking too long.”
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On How Nigerians Can Help Him Fulfill His Mandate
“Nigerians should expose criminals in their neighborhood so the country can easily attract foreign investors.”
On Boko Haram
President Buhari said, “we have achieved success against Boko Haram.”
On Relationship With The Legislative Arm Of Government
Buhari said, “when the Legislative arm goes around posing like the Executive, there is a problem. I asked Saraki how he feels holding the country to ransom, so I rate the low in patriotism.”
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target=_blank>APC Sets Up Committee To Deal With Anti-Party Activities In Zamfara State
The All Progressives Congress has set up an anti-party committee to deal with issues which led to the defeat of the party in Zamfara State.The committee is coming a few days after the Supreme Court voided the elections of APC candidates in Zamfara.The five-man committee is chaired by the Deputy National Chairman, South, Otunba Niyi Adebayo.Justice Tanko Muhammad, Chief Justice of Nigeria, delivering a unanimous judgment of the five-man panel declared the first runners-up in the 2019 general elections in the state as the winners of all the posts earlier declared to have been won by the APC and its candidates.
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target=_blank>Corrupt Nigerians Will Come For Me With Asset Declaration Questions After 2023 Says, President Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday told the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) to hold on to his asset declaration forms because it will come in handy as a defense against corrupt Nigerians seeking to get back at Him in 2023.He made the comments when he, in the company of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, received fresh assets declaration forms at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.President Buhari said: “I am very pleased that you are here, I assure you I will quickly fill this form and dispatched it back to you so that at the end of 2023, I believe there are a lot of people that will like to take it back on me.“So please, make sure you keep it safely because there are people who believed they shouldn’t be questioned which they are being questioned and some of them are already in trouble.“I expect them to fight back and this is one of the instruments. So I hope you will keep it.”“I have never met you before. I thank you for accepting to be in this very important institution and I thank you very much for serving me my forms which I must fill constitutionally before my second term of office.
“It is only institutions like you that will bail us out from the efforts that we have been making to make sure that people in public office do not abuse that public office and that those who come in and those that are leaving certain positions make sure that they hold the integrity of the office and of the country generally.”
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target=_blank>Six Months After Exposing State Of Yoldeboki Primary School, Gombe State Govt Begins Construction Of Classrooms
Six months after a report on the devastating state of Yoldeboki Primary School, Gombe State Government has begun construction of new blocks of classrooms for the pupils.
In November 2018, the Civic Media Lab and Tracka visited the school, which is located in Tambeyolo community of Akko Local Government of Gombe State; 20 minutes drive from the capital of the State, to witness the deplorable state of the school.
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It was discovered that not only do pupils lack enough teachers and learning materials, but they also suffer one of the worst predicament that could befall pupils.
The students receive lessons under the open sky, subject to the whims of the elements, with a tree doing its best to provide shade.
Community members and teachers put resources together to build a block of classrooms but after some years, the building suffered the same fate as the ones before it.
All efforts by the community members to seek the intervention of the government proved abortive as all promises made were never met.
However, after the visit by Civic Media Lab, Tracka and a wide publication by Saharareporters on the bad condition of the school and what students go through on daily basis, the government has begun construction of new classrooms.
Seun Akinfolarin, Executive Director of Civic Media Lab, thanked the state government while urging the government to intervene in other school suffering from the same predicament in the state.
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target=_blank>Federal Government Declares May 29 Work-Free Day
The Federal Government of Nigeria has declared May 29, work-free day to commemorate the presidential inauguration.
Georgina Ehuriah, Permanent Secretary at the ministry of the interior made the announcement in a statement on Monday on behalf of the minister, Abdulrahman Dambazau.
Dambazau congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari on his re-election and wished the president a memorable inauguration day.
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target=_blank>Court Nulls APC’s Victory, Declares PDP Candidate Winner Of Imo Reps Seat
A Federal High Court in Owerri, has declared candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), winner in an intra-party suit filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Harrison Nwadike of APC had approached the court to invalidate the candidacy of Ugonna Ozurigbo for Nwangele/Njaba/Isu/Nkwerre Federal Constituency of Imo state, on the basis that the primary election conducted was not the one approved by the law.
However, the judge ruled against the two candidates of APC and declared Kingsley Echendu of the PDP as the rightful winner.
He said that Ozurigbo was automatically selected contending, “automatic ticket is unknown to law.”
Joined in the suit are APC and the Independent National Electoral Commission.
Delivering the judgment, Justice Tijanni Ringim, accepted the plea of Nwadike and ruled that the mode of selection of the party was not done with due process and with the proper backing of the law.
The judge ruled that the primary election be canceled and that the APC did not have any candidate in the election.
Justice Ringim also ruled that the runner-up in the election be declared as the winner and the commission should recognize him as the winner of the election.
The trial judge also ruled that APC should refund N3million to Nwadike as his nomination fees and that APC and Ozurigbo should pay Nwadike another N10million while INEC should pay N500,000 cost.
Speaking after the ruling, Nwadike avowed to challenge the ruling of the court declaring Echendu as the winner even though the candidacy of Ozurigbo was voided.
He maintained, “it was wrong for the court to have declared the PDP candidate the lawful winner of the general election.”
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target=_blank>Boko Haram Kills 7 Villagers In Borno, Steals Food
At least 7 persons have been killed and two critically injured when Boko Haram terrorists attacked Jere local council area of Borno state on Monday morning, SaharaReporters can confirm.
The terrorists stormed Wulari Bulama-Isa village behind Bakassi IDP camp near Maiduguri at about 2 am is during Moslem Subhi prayer, slaughtering no less than seven persons.
Sources in the Civilian Joint Task Force who spoke to SaharaReporters said those who were killed include members of the CJTF.
The killing they said was selective and the invaders looted and stole foodstuff from the villagers.
One resident Bulama Bashir who confirmed the incident said, ” We could not bath the deceased as a result of the blood stain, they slit their throats; none of them were shot.
“We have buried them according to Islamic rites but they were soaked with blood, it is sad that this killing continues.”
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target=_blank>BREAKING: President Buhari To Address Nigerians Tonight In An Interview
President Muhammadu Buhari will on Monday night appear on the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) in a special interview at 10 pm.
Garba Shehu, presidential spokesperson conveyed the details of the broadcast in a brief statement on Monday.
He said: “All Television station’s and other electronic media outlets are enjoined to hook up to this broadcast”.
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BREAKING: INEC Presents Certificate of Return To Mattawalle As Zamfara State Governor-Elect
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has presented a certificate of return to the Candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mohammed Mattawale as Governor-elect of Zamfara State.
The National Commissioner, Amina Zakari made the presentation in Abuja on Monday during the formal presentation of the certificates to all the candidates of the party.
Six members of House of Representatives and three senators also received their certificates.
The Chairman of the commission, Mahmoud Yakubu urged the political parties to adhere strictly to the internal democracy which serves as guiding principle particularly the conduct of the primaries.
In his own acceptance speech, the Governor-elect thanked the commission for obeying court order. He, therefore, asked the people of Zamfara state to see the verdict as the will of God.
Mattawale promised to run an all-inclusive government in the state just as he asked them for their cooperation in the interest of the state.
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