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Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested 10 persons alleged to be involved in the burning of 11 buses close to the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Obot Akara Local Government Area of the state. The Police Public Relations Officer, Odiko Mcdon, paraded the suspects on Tuesday on behalf of the Commissioner of Police, Bashiru Makama, at the police headquarters in Uyo, the state capital. He said the suspects committed the offence on Friday, hours before INEC announced the postponement of the general elections. The command’s spokesman disclosed that weapons recovered from the suspects included two locally-made shotguns, 25 live cartridges, substances suspected to be Indian hemp, two machetes, and charms among others. According to him, the suspects will be transferred to the Force Criminal Investigation Department for further investigation. Mcdon urged politicians to abide by the rules and advise their supporters to conduct themselves ...

The Acting Inspector General of Police, Muhammed Adamu, has called on Nigerians to go out and vote on Saturday, without any fear of molestation. He made the call on Tuesday during a security meeting in Abuja. According to him, following the postponement of the election earlier scheduled for February 16, and a subsequent review of the security situation, it became necessary for the Force to boost security in the nation. Speaking further, the IGP warned against snatching of ballot boxes and other forms of criminality. The President had on Monday ordered security officials to “deal ruthlessly” with anyone who attempts to snatch ballot box during the rescheduled general elections on Saturday, February 23, 2019. “Anybody who decides to snatch ballot boxes or lead thugs to disturb it, maybe this is the last unlawful action you will take,” President Buhari said. “I really gave the military and the police (order) to be ruthless. We are not going to be blamed that we want to rig ...

A 75-year-old pensioner of the Delta Steel Company Aladja-Warri in Delta State, Prince Brume-Ezewu, has threatened to commit suicide over his 12 years unpaid pensions by the Management of DSC. The Septuagenarian father of eight children, who spoke to DAILY POST in Asaba, said: “I need help from the National Assembly, human rights and the civil society as a result of the deliberate removal of my name from the pension list as well as stoppage of my pension payment since 2007”. He said further, “I am the first Pensioner of the Delta Steel Company, Uvwian-Aladja in Delta State that retired in July 1983. and as at the time of my retirement, I was paid my gratuity and the monthly pension was on until 2007 when the pension was stopped. I want to die, I have no money to feed, no money to train my children. Within two weeks if no payment of my pensions, I will kill myself on the road. I am very hungry, very hungry.” Brume-Ezewu said that everything went well until 2007 when his pension...

Trevor Smith Jr. a.ka. Busta Rhymes, an American rapper, has announced a release date for his remix of a single, `Fall’ by David Adeleke. a.ka. Davido. The star took to his Instgram page @bustarhymes on Tuesday to confirmed that the song done alongside Davido and his signed artist Prayah was due to be released on March 20. Busta Rhymes and Prayah who belonged to the Conglomerate label had earlier hinted at the possibility of a remix of Davido’s ‘Fall’. ‘Fall’ was one of the four singles released in 2017 that re-defined the course of Davido’s career. The song received acceptance on American radio and the billboards since the close of 2018, making it the most Shazamed song in the US for last year. The song also became the longest charting Nigerian song on the Billboard. Source:https://samueljackson12.blogspot.com/2019/02/davido-us-rapper-busta-rhymes-set-to.html

Jose Mourinho has described Arsene Wenger as “one of the best football managers in history” after the former Arsenal boss was presented with the lifetime achievement prize at the Laureus World Sport Awards in Monaco on Monday. The Portuguese famously called Wenger a “specialist in failure” and the two men clashed several times during Mourinho’s time at Chelsea and Manchester United. But their relationship has since got cold, since Wenger left the Gunners last year. And as Wenger received his lifetime achievement award, Mourinho was one of a number of names from the world of football, to praise a career which saw the Frenchman manage over 1,000 games, win three Premier League titles and seven FA Cups during his time at Arsenal. Wenger also led Arsenal to a historic, unbeaten Premier League season as they won the title in 2004. “There were some episodes along the road. “I can only speak by myself. I really enjoyed the competition. But the real respect was always there. ...

A video grab from footage broadcast by the UK Parliament’s Parliamentary Recording Unit (PRU) shows Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May as she speaks during the weekly Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) in the House of Commons in London on February 13, 2019. – The British government denied Wednesday it was secretly plotting to bounce MPs into a last-minute choice just days before Brexit between a rejigged deal or a lengthy delay. ITV television reported that it had overheard Prime Minister Theresa May’s chief Brexit negotiator Olly Robbins in a Brussels bar saying the European Union would probably let Britain extend its March 29 departure date. (Photo by – / PRU / AFP) / The president of the EU Commission Jean-Claude Juncker will host British Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday for talks on the Brexit crisis. Juncker’s spokesman Margaritis Schinas told reporters that the pair would meet at the European Union’s headquarters at 6:30pm (1730 GMT). The news Tuesday came a day ...

Kola Al-Amin The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan Zonal Office has arrested one Kola Al-Amin, a former staff of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB over alleged forgery and obtaining money by false pretences. His arrest followed a petition alleging that sometime in November, 2010, Kola who operates under the name of “Cool Technologies Consult Limited” with office located at No.4/900, Taiwo House, Second Floor, Yemetu Total Garden, Ibadan, Oyo State approached the complainant, a microfinance bank (name withheld) with a Local Purchasing Order (LPO) for the supply of internet hardware which he claimed was from JAMB headquarters, Abuja. He requested the microfinance bank to advance him a loan of 10,000,000.00 (Ten Million Naira) only to finance the LPO. The petitioner further alleged that Kola was granted the loan with the agreement that the proceed of the LPO from JAMB will be paid directly into his account with the microfinance bank but that...

Bangladesh on the map Bangladesh authorities have blocked almost 20,000 websites as part of an anti-pornography “war”, a minister said Tuesday. Internet providers in the conservative Muslim-majority nation took down pornography and gambling websites in the past week under orders from the telecommunications regulator. “I want to create a safe and secure internet for all Bangladeshis, including children. And this is my war against pornography. And this will be a continuous war,” Mustafa Jabbar, the posts and telecommunications minister, told AFP. Popular social media apps such as TikTok and Bigo — which authorities believe are misused — have also been blocked in the South Asian nation, Jabbar said. Most of the blocked sites are foreign, but a few local websites and social media platforms have also faced action under the crackdown, he added. The crackdown was launched after Bangladesh’s High Court in November asked the government to block pornography websites and publication...

Atiku Abubakar The presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, yesterday said President Muhammadu Buhari was showing his “true colours and complete disregard for the constitution” by saying ballot boxes’ snatchers would be doing so at the expense of their lives. Atiku, in a statement by his Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, said threatening people with death in the context of an election “is incitement to electoral violence.” Atiku, who kicked against the plan to deploy soldiers for the 2019 general elections, describing it as an anomaly in democracy, also condemned alleged “intimidation tactics of the Federal Government. Responding to Buhari’s remark that the military and the police had been directed to be ruthless at ballot boxes’ snatchers, Atiku said deployment of troops “creates an atmosphere of warfare, which in turn heats up the polity, which is why it is not a common occurrence in other climes during elections.” ...

Adedayo Kanisuru, an hair dresser, on Tuesday urged a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan to dissolve the 12-year-old marriage between her and her estranged husband, Sherif, because he usually threatens her with broken bottle. In her petition to the court, Adedayo, a resident of Apete area of Ibadan, said that her husband often attacked her with broken bottles whenever there was any dispute. “Whenever there was any misunderstanding between Sherif and I at home, the first thing he does is to break a bottle and threaten to stab me. “My lord, Sherif is such a wicked man no woman should ever marry because he tortures the two children and I with starvation and lack of care. “As if that is not enough, he comes to my shop to destroy my goods and leave me with nothing. “Worst still, Sherif has secretly married another wife somewhere and has even abandoned the two children to me. “The last time he came home, Sherif stole the little I had left on me and when I complained, he unleashed ...

The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS), has begun a nationwide crackdown on landlords and property owners who have rented out to non-Ghanaians with no immigration status. According to the GIS, these rented properties and residences have become the haven for cyber fraudsters and other criminals. “The use of such properties by persons who are illegally residing in the country make such owners liable of the offence of harboring an illegal migrant, as stipulated in Section 52(1)(b) of the Immigration Act 2000 (Act 573),” said a release signed by Comptroller-General, Kwame Asuah Takyi. “Section 52(1)(b) states that, a person who knowingly harbours any person whom he knows is to be deported or has reasonable grounds to believe has acted in contravention of this Act commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding GHS1,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or both,” the statement added. The strongly-worded release by the Immigration Service boss com...

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) says the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has agreed to improve the safety and welfare provisions of corp members in the rescheduled elections, Premium Times reports. The corps said INEC gave the assurance at a meeting with the management of NYSC over the harsh experience of corps members recruited as ad-hoc staff for the botched February 16 polls. NYSC said INEC gave full assurances on the adequate arrangement for transport, accommodation, security, especially at the Registration Area Centres (RACs) throughout the period of the elections. The presidential and National Assembly elections have been rescheduled to Saturday while the state elections will also hold a week later on March 9. Premium Times earlier reported how the corps members were exposed to risks and the elements on Friday as they prepared for the elections. Irate corps members also protested the nonpayment of their allowances by INEC. Speaking in a sta...

One of Nigeria’s greatest strength — and perhaps weakness — is her ability to make global headlines for birthing some of the most ingenious people to have walked the planet. Today, on this episode of Nigeria’s talent export is Wendy Okolo, the first black woman to bag a doctorate — not honorary — degree in aerospace engineering, anywhere on the planet. Born to a family of six in southeastern Nigeria, Okolo says her number one heroes are her sisters — Jennifer and Phyllis — who taught her biology, and other sciences with their day-to-day realities. Okolo received her B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2010 and 2015 respectively. During her undergraduate years, she was in the African Student Society at the University of Texas at Arlington. She was also the president of the society of women engineers in the university. Okolo’s career has taken flight at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the U.S. ...

Karl Lagerfeld at Paris fashion week in 2018. Photograph: Victor Boyko/Getty Images for Dior Homme Haute-couture designer Karl Lagerfeld has died at the age of 85, French media reported on Tuesday. Lagerfeld was artistic director at Chanel. A spokesman for Chanel was not immediately available for comment. From his perch at Chanel, the German-born designer presided over the most famous of all fashion houses like the 18th-century absolute monarchs he modelled himself on. With his powdered white pony tail, black sunglasses, and starched high-collared white shirts, he was as instantly recognisable as his celebrity clients. While other designers came to be associated with a particular look, Lagerfeld’s greatest invention was “Karl”. He put himself at the heart not just of his own label, but also of Chanel and Fendi — the Italian house he headed for more than half a century. Such staggering stamina and longevity in a world as ephemeral as fashion, where talents regularly cras...

(From L) US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, Chinese Vice Premier and lead trade negotiator Liu He and US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin talk before the opening session of trade negotiations at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on February 14, 2019.  AFP US-China trade talks aimed at ending a damaging tariff war will resume from Tuesday in Washington, the White House said. The last set of talks ended Friday in Beijing with no deal, though US President Donald Trump said discussions were going “extremely well” and suggested he could extend a March 1 truce deadline for an agreement to be reached. The next round of negotiations will commence with deputy-level meetings before moving on to principal-level talks on Thursday, said a White House statement issued Monday. For the US, the talks will be led by Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and include Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, economic policy advisor Larry Kudlow...

Everything you need to live well Yesterday, news hit the internet that popular comic Yoruba actor, Babatunde Omidina popualarly known as Baba Suwe is down with chronic diabetes. It was also reported by some media outlets that the ailing screen star has been abandoned by colleagues and the film industry but the National President of the Theatre Arts and Motions Pictures Producers Association of Nigeria, (TAMPAN), Mr Latin has reacted to this. In his reaction, Mr Latin who is also an actor himself denied the rumors that the actor has been abandoned. According to him, the medical bills of the actor is something the association has been taking care of since 2017. He said, “I have just instructed the Lagos State executive of the association to check on him (Baba Suwe) to ascertain his health progress. I can tell you that we have not abandoned him, as well as any of our members, as being speculated in some quarters by mischief-makers.” It would be recalled that back in 2011, the...

Venezuelan opposition leader and self declared acting president Juan Guaido delivers a speech during the Venezuela Oil Industry Forum in Caracas on February 15, 2019. Juan BARRETO / AFP Japan’s foreign minister on Tuesday declared his country’s support for Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, who has declared himself interim president in a challenge to ruling leader Nicolas Maduro. “Our country has called for early elections… but unfortunately elections have not been held yet,” Foreign Minister Taro Kono said at a press conference. “Considering the circumstances, our country clearly backs provisional president Guaido. We once again call on the country to hold free and fair elections,” Kono said. The move by Tokyo comes amid a growing crisis in Venezuela, with increasing pressure on the country’s embattled leader Maduro and the army. On Monday, US President Donald Trump urged the Venezuelan military to back Guaido or “lose everything”. The US has called for Maduro to ...

 Dr Jonathan David Popular Malaysian pastor, Dr Jonathan David, has revealed winner of the 2019 presidential election. The cleric, who made the revelation in a viral video, prophesied victory for the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, President Muhammadu Buhari. According to him, God told him that Nigeria is on the path of righteousness and will not return to corruption Pastor David also predicted that the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, will serve for four or five more terms, by which time, Nigeria would have been a force to reckon with globally. He said, “With what God is doing in Nigeria, it will become the food basket to provide resources, it is going to replenish the land and their money will change nations, their money will rebuild cities, with the resources that they have and the people that they have, God will begin to use them as a model nation,” he said in a YouTube video. “Moving them out of corruption into righteousness, moving them f...

Everything you need to live well Florence Ita Giwa was born on this day in 1946 in Cross River to former staff of “The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper” and “The West African Pilot,” Beatrice Bassey-Ita. To many, Ita Giwa is known as “Mama Bakassi.” To some, she is the wife of the veteran journalist, Dele Giwa. Still, to some, she is a notable politician. After her secondary education, Ita-Giwa travelled to Kilburn Polytechnic, U.K where she graduated in Nursing. She landed a job as a representative for the Beecham pharmaceutical company. In a search for personality development, she moved to Standall Pharmaceutical where she was made a representative of Lagos State. Under the administration of General Babangida Badamasi, she was appointed the Delta State chairman of the National Republican Convention (NCR). In 1992, she was elected a member of the House of Representatives and was appointed a member of the House of Representatives committee on the devolution of power, a membershi...

Chelsea’s Italian head coach Maurizio Sarri gestures on the touchline during the English FA Cup fifth round football match between Chelsea and Manchester United at Stamford Bridge in London on February 18, 2019. Ian KINGTON / AFP Maurizio Sarri insists he isn’t worried about being sacked as Chelsea manager despite his troubled side’s lackluster FA Cup surrender against Manchester United. Sarri faces a fight to save his job after FA Cup holders Chelsea crashed to a 2-0 fifth round defeat at Stamford Bridge on Monday. Ander Herrera headed United into the lead from Paul Pogba’s cross in the 31st minute. France star Pogba doubled United’s advantage on the stroke of half-time when he met Marcus Rashford’s cross with a diving header. Sarri endured chants of “you don’t know what you’re doing” and “you’re getting sacked in the morning” as furious Chelsea fans showed their frustration at the club’s fifth defeat in their last 10 games. Chelsea’s stars, publicly criticised by their ...

Workers wait for the launch of the first British built Honda Jazz family supermini to leave the production line at the Honda car plant in Swindon, western England. Max NASH / AFP Honda announced Tuesday it would shut a major plant in Britain, putting 3,500 jobs at risk as the auto manufacturer became the latest Japanese firm to downsize operations as Brexit looms. The factory in Swindon, southwest England, is Honda’s only EU plant and has produced the manufacturer’s “Civic” model for more than 24 years, with 150,000 units rolling off the line annually. The plant will shut in 2021, Honda announced, “at the end of the current model’s production lifecycle”. The decision “has not been taken lightly and we deeply regret how unsettling today’s announcement will be for our people,” said Katsushi Inoue, chief officer for European regional operations, in a statement. The firm blamed “unprecedented changes in the global automotive industry” for the decision but it comes amid invest...

Man understood to be North Korean negotiator Kim Hyok Chol (centre, blue tie) after walking off an Air Koryo flight from Pyongyang, at Beijing international airport on February 19, 2019. – Kim Hyok Chol arrived in the Chinese capital and was expected to board a plane bound for Hanoi later in the day. (Photo by Ed JONES / AFP) The North Korean special representative for the US arrived in Beijing on Tuesday, apparently en route to Vietnam to meet his Washington counterpart ahead of a second summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said. Kim Hyok Chol arrived in the Chinese capital at around 10 am (0200 GMT) and was expected to board a plane bound for Hanoi later in the day. His trip comes three days after Kim Jong Un’s de-facto chief of staff, Kim Chang Son, landed in Hanoi to discuss protocol and security matters with the US team ahead of the summit on February 27-28. Kim Hyok Chol and his US counterpart Stephen Biegun were engaged in three ...

Global Finance magazine has named its 20th annual World’s Best Investment Banks in an exclusive survey to be published in the April 2019 issue. Winning organizations will be honoured at an awards ceremony on the morning of October 19, 2019 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC during the IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings. J.P. Morgan was honored as the Best Investment Bank in the world for 2019 while Coronation Merchant Bank was recognized as the Best Investment Bank in Nigeria along with Barclays, VTB Capital and DBS Bank as the Best Investments Banks in Western Europe, Central & East Europe and Asia – Pacific regions respectively. Investment banking plays a key role in moving the global economy forward. Our awards highlight the investment banks that stand out in delivering quality insight and innovative deals that meet their clients rapidly changing needs,” said Joseph D. Giarraputo, publisher and editorial director of Global Finance. Commenting on the award, Abu ...

Jose Mourinho has buried the hatchet with Arsene Wenger after paying glowing tribute to his arch rival at Laureus World Sports Awards. he former Manchester United manager surprisingly recorded a video message to the unemployed Frenchman, who received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the glitzy ceremony in Monaco. The pair were often at each other’s throats when they competed at the biggest Prem clubs. Former Arsenal boss Wenger famously pushed Mourinho on the Stamford Bridge touchline during his second stint in charge of Chelsea. It got nasty at times in the media with Mourinho calling Wenger a “specialist in failure” and a “voyeur”. Mourinho said: “There were some episodes along the road. “I can only speak by myself. I really enjoyed the competition. But the real respect is always there. He made lots of history in that football club. Wenger was recognised with the special honour for his three Prem titles and seven FA Cup victories during 22 years in North London. Th...

President Donald Trump and Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guadio US President Donald Trump on Monday urged Venezuela’s military to accept opposition leader Juan Guaido’s amnesty offer, or stand to “lose everything,” as a crisis deepened over President Nicolas Maduro’s refusal to let in desperately needed humanitarian aid. Bringing in humanitarian aid is crucial to the viability of Guaido, who has denounced Maduro’s re-election last year as fraudulent and in January declared himself interim president, a move recognized by some 50 countries. He has given the Maduro government until Saturday to let shipments of mainly US aid into the country, which is in the grip of a humanitarian crisis due to shortages of food and medicine exacerbated by hyperinflation. Addressing supporters and Venezuelan expatriates in Miami, Trump said he had a message for officials helping keep Maduro in place. “The eyes of the entire world are upon you today, every day and every day in the future. ...

Following the now trending news that veteran actor, Babatunde Omidina, also known as Baba Suwe is battling a life threatening ailment, Nollywood actress, Mercy Aighe, has reacted. Mercy who revealed through her Instagram page that she had at one point in time try to reach out to the comic actor after the news broke out but he said he was fine and didn’t need help. However, she said now that she is sure that he needs help, she would do all withing her power to assist. Source:https://samueljackson12.blogspot.com/2019/02/mercy-aigbe-reacts-to-news-that-veteran.html

The Islamic State in West African Province, ISWAP, the international affiliate of the Boko Haram terror outfit has released two women amongst those taken during the ambush of the Borno State governor’s convoy along Dikwa and Gamboru Ngala highway on February 12, 2019. The two women, who were said to have been released on Sunday, however, came with a message from the terrorists’ group that other women with them are going to be married off on Thursday. The women who came into the state capital on Monday with the message from Boko Haram, also said the group have many fighters, both young and old and are in control of the vast land between Dikwa and Gamboru-Ngala in Borno state northeast Nigeria. “There are a lot of us women, men, both young and middle aged. The militants have killed some of the men and young boys they took. We (women) were kept in smaller group, but they kept rotating us around the vast empty land until Friday, when they asked that the two of us leave. They showe...

Lagos bus The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, said residents of Bauchi paid the lowest bus fare within the city in January. The NBS said this in the  “Transport Fare Watch for January 2019”  published on its website. The bureau said the residents paid N98.28 per bus trip, followed by residents of Abia and Enugu who paid N121.11 and N125.24 respectively. The transport fare watch covered the following categories: bus journey within the city per drop on regular routes, intercity bus journeys and state routes as well as charge per person. It also covered air fare charge for specified routes per journey, journey by motorcycle (Okada) per drop, and water way passenger transport. Meanwhile, the report said states with highest bus fare for journeys within the city were Abuja (N300.27), Cross River (N307.69) and Zamfara, N302.03. It said the average fare paid by commuters for bus journey within city decreased by -3.60 per cent month-on-month and -4.78 per cent yea...

[FILE PHOTO] INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu Nothing in the recent history of Nigeria has shocked the entire country like the postponement of the long awaited general election in the morning of February 16, 2019, just three hours to the elections. It is unprecedented anywhere in the world; and it is only in Nigeria that such bizarre incident could happen, no other place. Only President Buhari and the INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, knew exactly what happened and why the poll was cancelled that day. The development has, once again, brought opprobrium to Nigeria. We are made a laughing stock and ridiculed as a country that can’t do anything. We can’t fix electricity, can’t fix roads, can’t conduct census, can’t even organise ordinary election that war torn countries like DR Congo, Afghanistan and South Sudan have organised successfully. Nigerians are blaming the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) under Mahmood Yakubu and President Muhammadu Buhari and his ruli...

Operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Rivers State have recovered 31 Electronic Card Readers (ECRs) believed to have been stolen from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The SRCs were recovered in a bush on Rumuji-Emohua axis of the East-West Road in the Southsouth state. They were allegedly thrown into the bush by thugs who were fleeing to escape arrest. The thugs were believed to be working for one of the major political parties. SARS yesterday notified the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Rivers State, Mr. Obo Effanga, seeking for more information and the cooperation of the commission and its officials to ensure detailed investigation. A top official of the SARS in Rivers, said that the hoodlums, who drove in a brown Toyota Camry saloon car around 9am on Saturday, were given a hot chase by operatives of the squad, making them to escape, after throwing a bag containing the 31 card readers into the bush. The SARS chief also revea...

The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has directed its members nationwide to reduce petroleum pump price from N145 per litre to N140. Chinedu Okworonkwo, national president of the association, made this known in a statement released on Sunday. According to the statement, which was signed by Bashir Dan-Malam, chairman of the association’s Kano chapter, the price slash will be effective between February 20 and February 25. “IPMAN was prompted to slash N5 from the N145 per litre official Petroleum pump price in a bid to motivate Nigerians to return to vote again on February 23,” the statement read. “We urge all our members across Nigeria to immediately reduce the fuel pump price from N145 per litre to N140 per litre. “This is because of the political situation that hit the country after INEC suddenly announced the postponement of presidential and National Assembly elections after Nigerians were fully prepared. “We are all aware how Nigerians trav...

As mixed reactions continue to trail the postponement of the 2019 general elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), political stakeholders have chided the electoral umpire over the unfortunate scenario. They warned INEC that the collective wishes of Nigerian people in electing their leaders should not be thwarted Recall that INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, while addressing reporters on Saturday morning at the press centre of the commission’s headquarters in Abuja, the nation’s capital, said that the polls would not go on as planned due to some challenges encountered by the commission. He explained that the decision to postpone the polls followed a careful review of the implementation of the logistics and operational plans put in place for the exercise. Reacting to the development, in a chat with DAILY POST on Monday evening, the Senior Special Adviser to the Abia State Governor on E-governance, Mr. Obed Nnaji Asiegbu, claimed that the postpo...