FG ORDERS BAYELSA CHIEF JUDGE TO SWEAR IN NYESOM WIKE AS GOVERNOR.

Following the impasse that has left Rivers State without a substantive Chief Judge for long, the Federal Government, yesterday, directed the Chief Judge of Bayelsa State to swear in the governor-elect of Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Wike, on May 29.

Meanwhile, lawyers have reacted, expressing divergent views on the development.

The directive for the Bayelsa CJ to administer the Oath of Allegiance and Oath of Office on  Wike was contained in a statement by the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke, SAN.

MEET SENATOR-ELECT DINO MELAYE'S LAMBOUGHINI. Lol....

Senator-elect Dino Melaye posted this on his facebook page before it was taken down.

In the caption for the Lamborghini, the senator-elect says ‘No Vex, Na God’. And we can deduce he was talking to his haters................

BUHARI IDENTIFIES 3 KEY AREAS HIS ADMINISTRATION WILL FOCUS ON.

President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, has identified insecurity, the economy/unemployment and corruption as the focal areas that would define his administration.

The incoming President disclosed this in Kaduna yesterday while playing host to the national executive council of the Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, where he promised that his administration will not tolerate people living above their means.

“My administration will concentrate on three major areas on assumption of office; that is insecurity, the economy/unemployment and corruption. We will ensure we nip insecurity in bud,” he said.

ADRIAN ROBINCON(25) FORMER NFL PLAYER COMMITS SUICIDE.

Former NFL and Temple University football player Adrian Robinson committed suicide by hanging, the Philadelphia medical examiner’s office told the Denver Post on Monday.

Robinson had recently signed with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League, and the team announced his death on Sunday. Robinson was 25.

The former NFL linebacker played 12 games for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2012 and then spent time with three different teams — the Broncos, Chargers and Washington — in 2013.

“Adrian was a beloved father, son, brother, friend and teammate,” the Symmetry agency, which represented Robinson, said on Facebook. The agency also started a GoFundMe campaign for Robinson’s daughter, Avery Marie.

Robinson compiled 22.5 sacks over his four years playing for Temple, and he received the 2009 MAC Defensive Player of the Year award.

NIGERIAN AIR FORCE MEN BEAT FAAN OFFICIAL TO COMA.

An official of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, was yesterday beaten unconscious by two Nigerian Air Force officers in charge of traffic control at the departure section of the international terminal wing of Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos.

The FAAN staff, Mohammed Shuaibu, who works at the protocol and passages of the agency, had told his friend to pick him at the airport but when he arrived, the airmen attempted to remove the number plates of his car.Shuaibu was said to have begged the Air Force men not to take away the number plates.

According to eyewitnesses, Shuaibu, dressed in FAAN staff uniform, introduced himself and showed his identity card, but an argument reportedly ensued and the Air Force men descended on him.

He was beaten by the airmen until he collapsed, with blood gushing out of his nostrils.

SAUDI ADVERTISES FOR SWORDSMEN AS EXECUTION RATE SOARS.

Saudi Arabia advertised vacancies for eight executioners Tuesday after beheading nearly as many people since the start of the year as it did in the whole of 2014.

Why Saudi Arabia is poised to behead a dissident cleric and publicly display his corpse Vox.com

The civil service ministry said that no qualifications were necessary and that applicants would be exempted from the usual entrance exams.

It said that as well as beheadings, the successful candidates would be expected to carry out amputations ordered by the courts under the kingdom's strict version of Islamic sharia law.

DON'T TREK FOR BUHARI PRAY FOR HIM.

Alhaji Mohammed Shehu, an aide to President-elect Muhammadu Buhari has advised youths to pray instead of trekking for the incoming leader’s administration.

Shehu gave this advice during interview  in Abuja on Monday. According to him, the incoming administration acknowledges the excitement of youths over Buhari’s election but would prefer that they channel their energies towards praying than embarking on, sometimes dangerous, journeys.

`It’s kind of overwhelming. Last week, I told youths to stay where they are, stop trekking, and pray for the incoming administration instead.

PRESIDENT OF BURUNDI FIRES KEY MINISTERS OVER FAILED COUP.

Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza has dismissed his defence and foreign ministers after last week’s failed military coup, according to a presidential spokesperson.

Emmanuel Ntahonvukiye, a civilian, was named on Monday to replace Pontian Gaciyubwenge, the defence minister, while Alain Aime Nyamitwe was appointed foreign minister to succeed Laurent Kavakure, the spokesperson said.

Al Jazeera’s Haru Mutasa, reporting from the capital Bujumbura, said Nkurunziza was “under a lot of pressure” not to stand for a controversial third term and perhaps he had put trusted allies in those positions “who won’t try to stab him in the back”.

PRESIDENT JONATHAN SECRETLY SIGNS 2015 N4.425 BUDGET.

President Goodluck Jonathan has signed the 2015 Appropriation Bill into law. Investigation by correspondent on Monday revealed that Jonathan decided to sign the budget into law a couple of days back without fanfare.

As of the time of filing this report, it could not be confirmed why the President had kept the development away from public knowledge.

The Senate had passed the 2015 budget on April 28, following the passage of the same bill by the House of Representatives on April 23, with an expenditure outlay of N4.493tn, up from the N4.425tn proposed by the Executive.

NIGERIA GOVERNORS' FORUM ASK OKONJO IWEALA TO ACCOUNT FOR $20BN EXCESS CRUDE OIL MONEY.

The Nigeria Governors’ Forum on Tuesday demanded explanations from the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on $20 billion being accruals for the Excess Crude Account for two years.

This was part of a communique issued at the end of a four-hour meeting which ended in the early hours of Tuesday at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja.

The communique was read by the Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi,  who announced that the NGF has reconciled and reunited as a single association of the 36 state Governors of Nigeria regardless of region.

WOMAN NARRATES HOW BOKO HARAM PREPARES FEMALES FOR SUICIDE ATTACKS.

One of the women freed by soldiers from Boko Haram’s captivity, Meriam, 36, has narrated how the sect fighters trained and prepared girls and women for suicide missions.

Meriam, who had just arrived at one of the internally displaced persons’ camp in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital from Gwoza, revealed this to the New York Times.

She narrated how she was imprisoned with dozens of other women including some who were being trained as suicide bombers.

SACKING SPREE - JONATHAN SACKS EXECUTIVE SECRETARY OF NIPC.

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has approved the appointment of Mrs. Uju Aisha Hassan-Baba, as the new Executive Secretary/Chief Executive of the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC).

In as statement issued by Reuben Abati, presidential spokesman and media adviser, Mrs. Hassan-Baba takes over from Mrs. Saratu Altine Umar who has been relieved of her appointment as the Executive Secretary/Chief Executive of NIPC with immediate effect.

No reason was stated for the sack of Altine.

WE WILL REVIVE UNREST IN THE NIGER DELTA IF BUHARI DRAWS FIRST BLOOD - ASARI DOKUBO.

Following the defeat of President Goodluck Jonathan in the March 28 presidential election, leader of the militia group, Niger Delta People Salvation Front, Asari Dokubo, has declared that his group is ready to commence its armed struggle against the Nigerian state.

Mr. Dokubo on several occasion in the recent past promised to make Nigeria ungovernable if Mr Jonathan, an Ijaw from the Niger Delta, was not-re-elected.

Speaking on Sunday at the Annual Major Isaac Adaka Boro’s Memorial Public Event, the militant said whatever restraining order the Jonathan’s administration had on the armed struggle for the self determination of the Niger Delta people has now been voided with the emergence of the in-coming Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.

NIGERIA IS VERY BROKE - GOVERNOR ROTIMI AMAECHI DECLARES.

The Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has again declared that Nigeria is broke and blamed the inability of the state and others to pay workers’ salaries and pensions on the nation’s current poor financial condition.

Amaechi said that the nation’s economic condition could be noticed through the dwindling statutory monthly allocation usually received by the state from the Federal Government.

Speaking during a thanksgiving service organised by the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, and his campaign outfit, the Greater Campaign Organisation in Port Harcourt on Sunday, the governor recalled that he was described as an alarmist last year when he cried out over Nigeria’s poor financial state.

WE FAILED NIGERIANS - @PDPNIGERIA APOLOGIZES.

The once acclaimed largest political party in Africa have admitted their leadership failure in the past 16 years of democratic rule in Nigeria.

In fact, a possible merger with other political parties is being discussed at the moment.

See the tweets from the verified twitter handle of PDP.

EMPTY TREASURY AWAITS BUHARI.

If the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and President Goodluck Jonathan had known that the bubble will burst in March 28, 2015 presidential elections, I bet they would have been a little bit cautious and prudent in dealing with the nation’s finances.

In a special farewell service for the President in Abuja by the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion President Jonathan lamented that he fears persecution targeted at him and his Ministers from the All Progressives Congress, APC-controlled Federal Government after May 29, 2015. 

President Jonathan had to swallow the bitter pill of letting the world know what has been troubling his innermost chambers since it became obvious that the game has been won and lost in Nigeria.

FORGIVE US FOR ALL THE WRONGS WE DID - PRESIDENT JONATHAN BEGS NIGERIANS.

Outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan has asked for forgiveness from Nigerians hurt directly or indirectly by his actions during his tenure as Vice- President, acting President and President.

He explained to worshippers at a farewell service organised   in his honour   at the Aso Villa Chapel in Abuja on Sunday, that those actions were not deliberately done.

Jonathan pointed out that there were times one would take a decision in the best interest of all but friends and associates might not understand why.

TRAGIC!!!!!!!! - INDIAN NURSE WHO WAS IN COMA FOR 42 YEARS AFTER BRUTAL RAPE DIES. #SAYNOTORAPE.

 

A Mumbai nurse who was in a coma for 42 years after being sexually assaulted while working in a hospital has died, hospital authorities said Monday.

Aruna Shanbaug suffered severe brain damage and was in a vegetative state after she was raped and strangled by a hospital worker in 1973.

Shanbaug was diagnosed with pneumonia last week and had been on a life support system for the past few days, said Pravin Bangar, medical superintendent at Mumbai's King Edward Memorial Hospital.

Shanbaug's case sparked a debate over India's euthanasia laws after a Mumbai-based author and friend of the nurse petitioned the courts to stop force-feeding her through a tube so her suffering would not be prolonged.

I WAS FLOWN IN AND OUT OF NIGERIA FOR SURGERY DURING THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN - PATIENCE JONATHAN.

Wife of the President,   Patience Jonathan, on Sunday disclosed that she battled with another round of ill-health   during the re-election campaigns of her husband, President Goodluck Jonathan.

Mrs Jonathan, who was flown abroad about two years ago on health grounds, said the latest   was so severe   that she had to be sneaked out of the country to Germany in January for a   major surgery.

She spoke during a farewell service in honour of the Jonathan family at the Aso Villa Chapel. The President’s wife said before she left the German hospital after the operation, she was billed for another in a bigger hospital immediately after the elections but that God miraculously healed her.

OFFICIAL TITLES - BUHARI DROPS GENERAL WHILE OSINBAJO MAINTAINS PROFESSOR.

The president-elect and former military ruler, Maj. General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) has hinted that he will drop the general-title from May 29 when he will be sworn-in as the president of Nigeria. He wish to be known and addressed as Muhammadu Buhari, instead of Maj. General Muhammadu Buhari (retd).

The Vice-President-elect, Oluyemi Oluleke Osinbajo, who is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and Professor of Law, is to be known and addressed as Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN.

This was contained in a statement signed by Garba Shehu, the Directorate of Media and Publicity.

“From May 29, 2015 the President-elect and Vice-President-elect are to be respectively known and addressed as Muhammadu Buhari, President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Federal Republic of Nigeria and Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, Vice President, Federal Republic of Nigeria”.