BREAKING: Court Nullifies Madumere's Impeachment

Court Nullifies Madumere;s Impeachment
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A Federal High Court sitting in Owerri, the Imo State capital has nullified the impeachment of the Deputy Governor of the state, Prince Eze Madumere, by the State's lawmakers.

The court’s nullification is on the ground that Madumere’s impeachment did not follow due process, therefore illegal.

The presiding judge, Justice Benjamin Iheka, who made the announcement on Tuesday, 25th September 2018 insisted that he (Madumere) remains the Deputy Governor of the state.

Justice Iheka faulted the Chief Judge of Imo state Pascal Nnadi and the Attorney General of the state Miletus Nlemadim, of the process of the impeachment.

According to Justice Iheka, the Chief Judge did not comply with section 188 subsection 5 of the 1999 constitution as amended.

It (constitution) stipulates that the Chief Judge must set up a 7-man panel of inquiry within 7 days but on the contrary, the Chief Judge did after 9 days. According to the constitution, such action makes the impeachment process invalid, null and void.

Madumere was impeached on July 30, 2018, by 19 out of the 27 lawmakers on allegations of absence without reasons for a period of three months and a failure to perform constitutional duties like attending state executive and state security council meetings.

Others included his alleged failure to attend meetings with the governor and other government functionaries as well as an alleged concealment of felonious acts in the United States of America (USA).

BREAKING: Buhari Approves N42.68bn For Aviation, Education Sectors

Buhari Approves N42.68bn For Aviation, Education  Sectors
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The Nigeris's President, Muhammadu Buhari had graciously approved the sum of N22.68 billion to be immediately paid ex-workers of the Nigeria Airways Limited in liquidation, after fifteen years.

In addition , the president directed the sum of N20 billion be released to the public universities for revitalization scheme.

The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed communicated President Buhari's directive on Monday, 24th September 2018 at a joint meeting with the ex-workers of the defunct National Carrier and members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities ( ASUU).

Ex-workers of the airline have been in a dire and despair condition following accumulated outstanding benefits running for years after the airline was liquidated. The distraught ex- workers staged a protest Tuesday at the entrance gate to the headquarters of ministry of finance, a day after resumption of office of the new Minister. Zainab empathized protesting ex- workers with a promised to take up the issue.

She said: ” Upon my resumption of office as the Minister of Finance, some pending fiscal issues in the aviation and education sectors were immediately brought to my attention. As such, I took it as a challenge to quickly address key issues regarding the settlement of existing claims in both of these sectors. Consequently upon this , i’m happy to inform you that Mr. President has graciously approved the sum of N22.68 billion and N20 billion to aviation and education sectors respectively “.
While promising that, the balance of fund of retired Airways workers would be paid as soon as government finances improve , which she pegs at six months from now, she said the initial amount after liquation came to N78 billion.

” This amount was verified by Presidential Initiative on Continuous Audit (PICA) and other relevant stakeholders in line with the condition of service of Nigeria Airways in liquidation and other extant rules and regulations. At the end of which the sum of N45 billion was agreed as the total retirements benefits of the affected staff”.

On N20 billion approval for public universities, which came in the wake of ASUU’s fresh ultimatum for strike, Zainab said revitalization fund to be released to beneficiary universities was inline with administration’s determination to revitalize public universities to ensure smooth running.
” You may recall that the ASUU signed a Memorandum of Understanding ( MoU) with the federal government of Nigeria sometime in 2013 on the terms and conditions on which the government would improve funding for staff welfare and the provision of critical infrastructure in our public universities. However, the implementation of this bilateral agreement has had certain challenges due to revenue shortages and other reasons “, she said.

Responding, ASUU Vice- President Emmanuel Oshodeke said the agreement entered with government was higher than what government offered.

#OsunDecide: INEC Declares Election Inconclusive, Fixes Supplementary For Thursday

#OsunDecide: INEC Declares Election Inconclusive
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The Independent National Election Commission (INEC) has declared the 2018 Osun guber polls inconclusive.

The Returning Officer (RO) in the governorship race, Professor Adeola Joseph Fuwape, the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) said the declaration was based on the nation’s Constitution.

According to him, the difference between the two leading parties was a mere 353 votes as compared with the 3,498 votes cancelled in some polling units owing to irregularities.

Consequently, Prof. Fuwape announced that the rerun of the election would take place on Thursday, 27th September 2018.

Senator Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) polled 254,698 votes while his opponent of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Gboyega Oyetola scored 254,345.

The declaration of election results took several hours as some of the results generated controversies and the returning officer had to supervise a recalculation of some of the results.

Here are the details of the results.
1.Boluwaduro: APC LG:3843, PDP:3779, SDP:1766, ADP:858
2.Atakumosa West LG : APC: 5019, PDP: 5401, SDP: 1570, ADP: 718
3.Ifedayo LG: APC: 3182, PDP: 3374, SDP: 1377, ADP: 176.
4.Ede South: APC: 4512, PDP: 16693, SDP: 855, ADP:
5.Orolu LG: APC: 5442, PDP:7776 , SDP: 2043 ADP: 388, ADC:79.
6.Obokun LG: APC: 7229, PDP: 10859, SDP: 1907, ADC: 106, ADP: 663
7.Ilesha East LG: APC:9790 , PDP:8244 SDP:3620 , ADC: 188, ADP: 1275(APC)
8.Boripe LG: APC: 11655, PDP:6892, SDP: 2730,ADP:1137, ADC: 137(APC)
9.Ilesha West
APC: 7251, PDP: 8286, SDP: 2408, ADC: 127, ADP: 2363(PDP)
10.Oriade LG
APC: 9778, PDP: 10109, SDP: 2265 , ADC: 109, ADP: 1224
11.Irepodun LG
APC: 6517, PDP: 8058, SDP: 4856, ADC: 158, ADP: 2564(PDP)
12.Ila LG
APC: 8403, PDP: 8241, SDP:3134, ADC: 96, ADP: 183(APC)
13.Isokan LG
APC: 7297, PDP: 9048, SDP: 3460, ADC: 56, ADP:682(PDP)
14.Odo-Otin LG
APC: 9996, PDP:9879, SDP: 2941, ADC: 1034, ADP: 1112(APC)
15.Ayedaade LG:
APC 10861, PDP: 9836, SDP: 2967, ADC: 145, ADP: 1645(APC)
16.Atakumosa East LG
APC: 7073, PDP: 5218, SDP: 2140, ADC: 06 , ADP: 629(APC)
17. Ede North LG
APC: 7025, PDP:18745, SDP: 1382 ADC: 89, ADP: 758(PDP)
18. Ifelodun LG
APC: 9882, PDP:12269 , SDP: 1970, ADC: 236, ADP: 2844, (PDP)
19. Ayedire LG
APC: 5474 , PDP: 5133, SDP2396:, ADC:144 , ADP:1642, (APC)
20. Ife North
APC: 6527, PDP:5486, SDP:5158, ADC:94, ADP: 745, (APC)
21. Ejigbo LG
APC: 14779, PDP: 4803, SDP4803:, (APC)
22. Egbedore Local Government
APC: 7354, PDP:7231 , SDP: 3367
23. Ife Central Local Government:
APC:6957 , PDP:3200 , SDP:20494 ADC:194, ADP:1053
24.Irewole LG:
APC: 10049, PDP: 13848, SDP: 1142, ADP: 1915(PDP)
25.Olorunda LG
APC: 16254, PDP: 9850, SDP:7061, ADC:335, ADP:1407, (APC)
26 Ola-Oluwa LG
APC:5025 PDP: 4026 SDP:2104 ADP:2194 ADC: 1408(APC)
27. Ife South LG
APC: 7223, PDP:4872, SDP: 6151, ADC:136 , ADP:561. (APC)
28. Ife East
APC:8925, PDP: 6608, ADC: 237, ADP: 509, SDP: 17643
29.Iwo Local Government
APC:7644 , PDP: 6122, ADP: 16, 425, ADC: 1164, SDP: 4153
30.Osogbo LG
APC: 23379, PDP: 14499, SDP: 10188, ADC:413, ADP: 2478.