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His Excellency, the Executive Governor of Bauchi State, Senator Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed today performed the launching of empowerment programme under Kaura Economic Empowerment Programme (KEEP) for beneficiaries in Ganjuwa and Darazo Local Government Areas of the state. At the ceremony in Kafin Madaki of Ganjuwa Local Government and Darazo Local Government separately, Governor Bala said the occasion is a continuation of the formal launching of the programme in all the 20 Local Government Areas of the State. He said the empowerment items are part of the package the State Government earmarked to address unemployment and poverty in the state. He added that his administration is desirous of pulling the majority of people of the state out of poverty and it is determined to give the necessary support to poverty alleviation and economic empowerment agencies to effectively and efficiently discharge their responsibilities. Governor Bala reassured the people of the state that his administration ...

  July 13, 2021 Press Statement  INEC: Onochie’s Rejection At Senate Is Victory For Nigerians, Democracy- PDP The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) describes the Senate’s rejection of President Muhammadu Buhari’s nomination of his aide and All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Lauretta Onochie, as a national commissioner in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), as the triumph of the Nigerian people over the barefaced attempt by the Buhari led-APC administration to corrupt and hijack the commission ahead of 2023 elections. The PDP asserts that the rejection of Lauretta Onochie by Nigerians has saved the nation from very serious crisis as well as salvaged INEC and the entire Nigerian electoral process from a ruinous pollution that would have led to the collapse of our democratic order. The party asserts that Onochie’s vexatious nomination, in total affront to paragraph 14 of the 3rd schedule of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), was a very dangerous machinatio...

  The All Progressives Congress has refuted reports in the media that it has suspended former Imo State Governor Senator Rochas Okorocha. The party in a statement by its Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, John James Akpanudoedehe, described the purported letter announcing the senator’s suspension as fake. In the statement titled, ‘APC Alerts on fake letter of Senator Rochas Okorocha ‘Suspension’, Akpanudoehede said the letter was forged.  The “fake” letter had claimed that Okorocha was suspended by the APC for alleged anti-party activities on Tuesday.   The statement read, “It has come to the attention of the National Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress that a fake letter of a purported suspension of Senator Rochas Okorocha from the party is circulating in the public space. “Fifth columnists and forgers have obviously taken advantage of the unfortunate and recent leaks of our official correspondences with the Independent National Electora...

  According to a letter from the party’s Imo State chapter dated July 12, 2021, Mr Rochas was suspended for anti-party activity.“This is to inform you that the All Progressives Congress (APC) Party’s National Working Committee (NWC) has ratified your suspension by the Imo State Chapter of our great party for anti-party activities,” the letter said. The ruling party accused Mr Rochas of “Continuous discrete meetings with the opposition party both at the state and national level, working in opposition to the APC-led government in Imo state, and flagrant public abuse on the person and office of the President, Federal Republic of Nigeria (an APC-led government). “This suspension follows after the recommendation by the Imo State Disciplinary Committee set up to investigate allegations of gross anti-party activities against you which is in line with Article 21 (B) I-VI of the party’s constitution,” the APC said. More photos below.

  Senate Confirms Five As INEC Commissioners  The Senate has rejected Lauretta Onochie as a National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday confirmed the appointment of five National Commissioners for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). This was done following the consideration of the report of its Committee on INEC. The nominees of the President, Muhammadu Buhari who were confirmed were, Prof. Muhammad Sani Kallah (Katsina); Prof. Kunle Ajayi ( Ekiti); and Saidu Ahmad (Jigawa), Baba Bila (North East) and Abdullahi Zuru (North- West). One more photo below.

In keeping with the promise by Governor Hope Uzodimma to recover the commonwealth of Ndi Imo, the Government of Imo state has recovered IBC properties at Orji in Owerri North Local Goverment Area covering a total of 48 hectare of land.  The recovery is in line with the white paper recommendations. More photos below.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, July 13, 2021, arraigned one Jamiu Jimmy Ajose on a three-count charge bordering on forgery, possession of forged documents and making false statements to an officer of the EFCC before Justice Chukwujekwu of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos. Ajose, in his quest to stand surety for a former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adesola Amosun, who is standing trial over an alleged case of fraud perpetrated while he was in office, tendered forged documents to a Court Registrar and made false statements to an EFCC operative. one of the counts reads: “That you, Jamiu Jimmy Ajose, sometime in 2021, in Lagos within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, uttered to the Registrar of the Federal High Court, Lagos a forged document titled “Recommendation for Bail”, wherein you misrepresented yourself as one “Mr Augustine Buko Kappo of No 19, Toyin Davies Street, Ejigbo, Lagos”, knowing same to be false with the intent th...