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                                                             By Boluwaji Obahopo LOKOJA—Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, said, yesterday, that the proposed verification for recall of   Senator Dino Melaye would go on as scheduled on Saturday. Sen. Dino Melaye Senator Melaye is currently on admission at National Hospital, Abuja, following injuries sustained as he allegedly attempted to avoid being taken to Kogi for trial by the police. But Kogi State State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Prof. James Apam, who stated this at a stakeholders’ meeting in Lokoja, said the commissioner would remain unbiased on the outcome of the exercise. He said: “The verification exercise, which is the first in the line of activities to be carried out in a recall process, will be done on April 28, 2018, in 552 polling units...

                                                             Forces of evil will never triumph — Melaye *APC’s the loser – Faleke *Bello wasted N5bn – PDP *Prove allegations – Gov Bello By Boluwaji Obahopo LOKOJA —The recall verification exercise of the senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye, has failed after the verified signatories to the petition for his recall fell short of requirement. Sen. Dino Melaye For the verification to succeed, 50 per cent plus one of the signatories to the petition had to be verified. However, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, said only 5.34 per cent of the petitioners turned up for verification of their signatures. The Declaration Officer for the exercise, Prof. Ukertor Moti, who announced the result of the exercise held in the senatorial district on Saturday, said...

                                            By Boluwaji Obahopo, Lokoja THE attempt to recall Senator Dino Melaye, (APC, Kogi West) flopped on Saturday following a low turn-out for the verification of signatures of petitioners. Results announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC at the end of the exercise showed that only 18,742 signatories to the recall petition could be verified out of the 189,870 signatories on the petition. Verified signatories were below the requirement of the law that 50 per cent and one, of the signatories must be verified before the recall process can continue to the next stage. Sen. Dino Melaye Consequently, the embattled Senator Melaye who is in hospital after the drama that followed his arrest with the Police survived the recall attempt. Many who had thought that incarceration of the senator in the hospital, coupled with his ru...

Reposting                                                            THE National Assembly has a gift for manufacturing absurdités ;its team-lead, the Senate, takes the cake in throwing up legislative horrors every   now and again.   And so the nation’s consciousness of democratic governance, suffered another shocking   assault recently, when thugs invaded the Senate and made away with the mace. The Senate was in session, and had indeed in the chambers, Ghanaian legislators, who were observing our own process, presumably, for information and experience. In the event, they got full lessons on exactly ‘’how not to do it’’. A surprise prèsence in the Senate on that fateful day also, was Senator Ovie Omo Agege. His presence was an element of surprise, because, earlier on,   he had been controversially suspended by ...

                                                      AT the weekend in Owerri City, General Yakubu Gowon, Nigeria’s one time military ruler made a statement which was widely circulated. The General was at the Government House Owerri to pay a courtesy call on the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, as part of the activities lined up for the National Prayer Rally which held in Owerri on Saturday. Gowon was quoted as expressing dismay over the incessant insecurity challenges in the country, saying that his heart bleeds over the activities of Boko Haram, herdsmen, and other armed militants, whose actions he describes as man’s inhumanity to man. He condemned the killings and lamented that his heart bleeds at the rate at which innocent lives were lost including those of the Catholic priests murdered in Benue on Tuesday. He therefore made a clarion c...

                                                                                                                  Former media aide to ex President Goodluck Jonathan, Reuben Abati, has said that the move by the National Assembly to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari is an impossible mission. Reuben Abati made this known in an article titled ‘Buhari’s impeachment: Mission impossible saying that that the 1999 Constitution grants the President of Nigeria, enormous, if not excessive powers, but the framers of our Constitution did not extend such powers to cover indiscriminate spending of public funds, hence the combined effect of Sections 80 – 85 and S. 162 is to provide checks and balances against the...