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- Senate President, Saraki Leads Senators To Visit Ekweremadu At His Home
- Can This 4-Year-Old Nigerian Girl, Be The Most Beautiful In The World?
- Nigerian Police Force Gives Press Release On The Invitation Of Bukola Saraki Over Offa Robbery Saga
- EXCLUSIVE: How Buhari’s Loyalists Plot, Failed To Take Over The Senate
- The APC Responds To Mass Defection Of Its Lawmakers
- Breaking: Senator Kwankwaso, Barnabas Gemade, Melaye, 13 Other Senators Defect From APC To PDP
- Ike Ekweremadu Cries Out, I Was Not Invited By EFCC, Police
- Saraki In The Senate Chambers, Presides Over Plenary
- Whereabouts Of Senate President, Ekweremadu Unknown, As NASS Is Thrown Into Confussion
| Senate President, Saraki Leads Senators To Visit Ekweremadu At His Home Posted: 24 Jul 2018 04:54 PM PDT
The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, led the Senators to the Apo Legislative Quarters residence of Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, whose house has been allegedly under siege by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and men of the Nigeria Police.Saraki had told lawmakers at the plenary that a solidarity visit would be paid to Ekweremadu.Related Topics: #Saraki, #IkeEkweremadu, #PDP, #PoliticsSharing is caring. Share this story  | ||||||
| Can This 4-Year-Old Nigerian Girl, Be The Most Beautiful In The World? Posted: 24 Jul 2018 04:02 PM PDT
A Nigerian professional photographer Mofe Bamuyiwa, has her job to another level, with the new focus on Kid models.Recently she hit a mine with the discovery of 'JARE', a four years old Nigerian, that the whole world has is asking; is Jare the most beautiful girl in the world?See more of her stunning pictures below:Related Topics: #Lifestyle, #Jare, #mofebamuyiwa Sharing is caring. Share this story  | ||||||
| Nigerian Police Force Gives Press Release On The Invitation Of Bukola Saraki Over Offa Robbery Saga Posted: 24 Jul 2018 03:01 PM PDT  NIGERIA POLICE PRESS RELEASE RE: INVITATION TO SEN. BUKOLA SARAKI, THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE CASE OF OFFA BANK ROBBERY AND GRUESOME MURDER OF MORE THAN 31 PERSONS AND SNATCHING OF 21 AK47 RIFLES ON THE 5TH OF APRIL, 2018.The Senate President must honour Police Invitation; otherwise the Force will not hesitate to use all the instruments of the Law to ensure compliance with the law.The Force did not besiege the Senate President residence as allegedThe Nigeria Police Force on the 23rd of July, 2018 invited Sen. Bukola Saraki, President of the Senate, Federal Republic of Nigeria, to report to the head of investigation team at the Intelligence Response Team office at Guzape junction, Asokoro Extension, Abuja today, 24th of July, 2018 at 8am for further investigation on his indictment from confessional statements from some of the five (5) gang leaders arrested for their active participation in the Offa bank robbery and gruesome murder of more than 31 persons and snatching of 21 AK47 rifles on the 5th of April, 2018 but the Senate President, Sen. Bukola Saraki, President of the Senate, Federal Republic of Nigeria refused to honour Police invitation as at the time of this press release.2. The Force therefore, insists that the Senate President, Sen. Bukola Saraki, President of the Senate, Federal Republic of Nigeria is being expected to report to the head of investigation team at the Intelligence Response Team office at Guzape junction, Asokoro Extension, Abuja and should honour the invitation, otherwise the Force will not hesitate to use all the instruments of the Law to ensure compliance with the law.3. The Nigeria Police Force's attention was also drawn to the innuendos in the early hours of today that some Police men were seen surrounding the residence of the Senate President; the Force wishes to categorically state that there was no authorised deployment of Police personnel to besiege the residence of the Senate President or his deputy as reported in the media. The police personnel seen in pictures in the media were those in the convoy of the Senate President and others attached to him. 4. However, the Inspector General of Police has directed a thorough investigation to ascertain the facts in the episode. The Force will not allow the end of justice to be perverted by this distraction. 5. The Nigeria Police will ensure that the rule of law prevails in this matter Ag. DCP JIMOH MOSHOOD FORCE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER FORCE HEADQUARTERS, ABUJA Sharing is caring. Share this story  | ||||||
| EXCLUSIVE: How Buhari’s Loyalists Plot, Failed To Take Over The Senate Posted: 24 Jul 2018 11:54 AM PDT
Game of thrones in the National Assembly. Read full publication by Premium Times below: The melodrama in Abuja, Nigeria's seat of power Tuesday morning was part of a grand plan by persons loyal to President Muhammadu Buhari to execute a 'coup' on the Senate leadership, multiple sources told PREMIUM TIMES.Sources familiar with the plan provided PREMIUM TIMES with details of the operation that went awry.Nigerians woke up Tuesday morning to the stories of siege on the residence of Nigeria's Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu.Mr Saraki later relieved the saga to his colleagues saying he escaped by the "intervention of the almighty God".Hatching of the plot began Monday night with the police divulging content of a letter signed by the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, inviting Mr Saraki for questioning. Mr Saraki was invited in connection with Offa robbery which occurred in his state of Kwara in April.Police had in the aftermath of the incidence alleged links between the suspected robbers and Mr Saraki.An earlier invitation to Mr Saraki to appear before police investigators was suddenly withdrawn and a written explanation from the senate president demanded instead. The letter on Monday said Mr Saraki was needed to clarify aspects of his statement. He was ordered to report to the police by 8 a.m. on Tuesday. Mr Saraki said the letter was delivered to his office at 8 p.m. on Monday. However, as Mr Saraki's convoy purportedly planned to leave his house for the police's offices, a detachment of police personnel stopped the convoy from moving out of the street. A security source knowledgeable about the actions of the police told PREMIUM TIMES the plan was for Mr Saraki to be arrested by the police at that point. In what appeared more like a choreographed happenstance than a coincidence, operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arrived at the residence of Mr Ekweremadu around the same time.
The commission said it was inviting Mr Ekweremadu in connection with a case of "conspiracy, abuse of office and money laundering" which it claimed to be investigating. "This commission is investigating the above mentioned case in which your name feature prominently and the need to obtain certain clarification from you become imperative," the letter partly reads. THE MASTER PLAN A government source the told our reporter that afraid that the Senate is bent on carrying on a mass defection plan, some loyalists of President Muhammadu Buhari in the red chamber sold the idea of taking over the Senate leadership to some officials of the government. This was after spirited attempts to stop the exodus, by the new leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and President Buhari looked fruitless. A plan was therefore hatched to create vacancy in the presiding post by taking out the two presiding officers from the Senate on the same day. To achieve this, the police, which had kept mum on its investigation of the Offa incident for over a month, was mobilised to revisit the Offa robbery matter by inviting Mr Saraki and then detaining him pending execution of the take-over plan, the source disclosed. EFCC was allegedly also primed to arrest Mr Ekweremadu, effectively leaving the Senate without a presiding officer. Spokesperson of the Police, Jimoh Moshood and EFCC's Wilson Uwujaren were not available to clarify positions of their organisations in the imbroglio. While Mr Moshood did not respond to repeated calls placed by our reporter, Mr Uwujaren's phone was switched off. The planners from the Senate, reportedly led by the Senate Majority Leader, Ahmed Lawan, planned to use the vacuum expected to be created to invoke Senate Rules to appoint Senate President pro-tempo, paving way to sacking the two principal officers. Attempts to get Mr Lawan failed as his known telephone line was not going through. He also did not respond to a text message sent to him, as at the time of publishing this report. HOW IT FAILED A principal actor in the anti-Saraki camp of the Senate told PREMIUM TIMES Tuesday morning that the plan, which he described as the second attempt at taking over the Senate, after the mace theft saga, was thwarted on the altar of "hypocrisy". He said a few senators led by Mr Lawan sidelined other loyalists of the president, including the Parliamentary Support Group, led by Abdullahi Adamu, in executing the latest plan. "There is too much hypocrisy and selfishness. Those who planned it wanted to be the sole beneficiaries of the leadership change," the senator said, asking not to be named. A decision among the senators on who succeeds Mr Saraki, in the event they succeeded, reportedly punctured the plan. Two names were prominent: Mr Lawan, who was leading the putsch, and Ali Ndume, a former Senate Leader who was removed from his post and suspended allegedly at the instance of Mr Saraki.
Mr Ndume however claimed ignorance of the plan when contacted Tuesday afternoon. "I just got back to Abuja last night. I cannot comment," He said. "Some of us told them that it would be illogical and amount to insensitivity to take the Senate president slot to the North-east, the same zone as the Speaker of the House of Representatives. "And since the speaker [Yakubu Dogara] is very strong at the House pf Representatives and there is nothing we could do about him, the best thing was to keep the Senate President position in the North-Central," another APC senator explained. The altercations over who takes the throne eventually led to the leakage of the plan by the Buhari loyalists to Mr Saraki who played a fast one. Though PREMIUM TIMES is yet to get details of how Mr Saraki made it to the National Assembly despite the siege on his convoy, a source close to the senate president said Mr Saraki actually sold a dummy to the Police. "He was not in the convoy. By the time they were holding the convoy at Lake Chad [Crescent] the SP was already at the National Assembly," an aide who spoke on anonymity said. Another source informed PREMIUM TIMES that Mr Saraki stayed away from his house for the night, after hearing about the plan to take him away the next morning. "Do you know that actually Saraki did not sleep in that house and that the convoy was a decoy? He just made the Police and all those trailing him to believe he was there," he said. Mr Saraki later surfaced at the Senate where he presided over the plenary. Fifteen senators announced their decamping from the APC at the sitting. Mr Ekweremadu could not attend as he was holed up by the siege which was lifted only after the days Senate sitting ended. Related Topics: #APC, #Buhari, #Police, #NationalAssembly, #Politics Sharing is caring. Share this story  | ||||||
| The APC Responds To Mass Defection Of Its Lawmakers Posted: 24 Jul 2018 08:17 AM PDT
The All Progressives Congress, APC, Nigeria's ruling party, said on Tuesday in responding to the mass defection in the National Assembly, said that it respects the rights of anyone to change parties.The party was reacting to the defection of 15 senators and 36 members of the House of Representatives from it on Tuesday. Majority of the defectors joined the opposition PDP."APC notes the development in the National Assembly with the defection of some of our members from the party," Bolaji Abdullahi, the APC spokesperson, said in a statement."APC remains in firm control of 25 states of the 36 states of the federation and maintains a clear majority in the federal House of Representatives and state assemblies."Read also: Breaking: Senator Kwankwaso, Barnabas Gemade, Melaye, 13 Other Senators Defect From APC To PDP "it would appear however that the individuals involved have different considerations beyond the grievances that they were willing to discuss and which our leaders were willing to address," Mr Abdullahi said. The party, however, urged its members to remain calm, saying it would continue to prepare the party towards 2019. "As a truly democratic party, we respect the right of every citizen to political association. Therefore, we urge our members to remain calm as we continue to work hard to position our party strongly for the next general elections. "We assure members and supporters that our great party will continue to consolidate on our majority status in the leadup to the 2019 General Elections, even as our government continue to work hard to deliver on our promises to Nigerians." NAN Related Topics: #APC, #NationalAssembly, #Politics Sharing is caring. Share this story  | ||||||
| Breaking: Senator Kwankwaso, Barnabas Gemade, Melaye, 13 Other Senators Defect From APC To PDP Posted: 24 Jul 2018 05:13 AM PDT
The official news of the defection of Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, former Kano State Governor, Dino Melaye, Kogi West Senator and 13 other All Progressives Congress (APC) Senators defecting to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been reported from the Senator, Tuesday.The other senators who has officially defected includes, Barnabas Gemade (Benue), Shaaba Lafiaji (Kwara), Rafiu Ibrahim (Kwara), Abdulazeez Nyako (Adamawa), Monsurat Sunmonu (Oyo) and Usman Nafada (Gombe).According to Sahara Reporters, the also includes; Senators Suleiman Hunkuyi, Ibrahim Danbaba, Ubale Shittu, Isah Misau, Suleiman Nazif, Soji Akanbi.Read also: PDP Receives 800 APC Defectors In Kwara StateThe mass defection was announced on Tuesday by Senate President Bukola Saraki during plenary. This was after Senate Leader Ahmed Lawan failed in his appeal to the senators to remain in the APC. Related Topics: #APC, #PDP, #Politics Sharing is caring. Share this story  | ||||||
| Ike Ekweremadu Cries Out, I Was Not Invited By EFCC, Police Posted: 24 Jul 2018 04:24 AM PDT
Senator Ike Ekweremadu, the deputy Senate President, has lamented the siege on his home by men of the Nigeria Police and the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,EFCC, today.Mr. Uche Anichukwu, the Special Adviser on Media, to the deputy Senate President, said in a statement, that neither the Police nor DSS invited his Principal, stating that he was expected to preside over Senate's plenary today in the absence of President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki.The statement read;"The Apo Legislative Quarters residence of the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, is currently under the siege of men of the Nigeria Police Force and the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.Read also: Southern University USA Appoints Ike Ekweremadu As Visiting Professor"With the President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, expected to report to the Intelligence Response Team of the Nigeria Police Force in Guzappe, Abuja, this Tuesday morning, Senator Ekweremadu is expected to preside over plenary. "They took over the entire vicinity before 6am. There is no going in or coming out. "Meanwhile, there was no prior invitation to the senator by any of the security agencies or the EFCC." Related Topics: #IkeEkweremadu, #Police, #EFCC, #Politics Sharing is caring. Share this story  | ||||||
| Saraki In The Senate Chambers, Presides Over Plenary Posted: 24 Jul 2018 03:38 AM PDT
Dr. Bukola Saraki, the Senate President, is seen now presiding over the Chamber's Tuesday's plenary.It was discovered that the Senate President had been on the National Assembly Complex premises long before the plenary began.Read also: Dr. Saraki Discloses When To Dump APCIt was earlier reported in various media platforms that his residence was besieged by security agents. How this report seem not to be correct going by the tone of the reports.Details later.......Related Topics: #Saraki, #Senate, #Politics Sharing is caring. Share this story.  | ||||||
| Whereabouts Of Senate President, Ekweremadu Unknown, As NASS Is Thrown Into Confussion Posted: 24 Jul 2018 03:07 AM PDT
Early this morning, there had been media reports, that heavily armed security operatives besieged the residences of both the Senate President, Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu.It is even said that the whereabouts of Saraki is presently unknown.At midnight yesterday, it could be recalled that the Inspector General of Police invited Saraki to report to the Force Headquarters for questioning over alleged murder allegation that happened in Offa Bank Robbery, Kwara, the home state of the Senate President.It is also reported that the residences of the two key principal officers of the Senate are under siege, the hallowed chamber is unlikely to hold plenary today.According to the Daily Post, some political pundits attribute the whole development as a political scheming by the presidency to forestall the grand plan by the lawmakers who are members of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, from defecting en masse to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, today.Meanwhile, there is uneasy calm in the National Assembly as many of the lawmakers are seen in groups meeting to find a way out of the looming political impasse. Related Topics: #Saraki, #Buhari, #IkeEkweremadu, #Politics Sharing is caring. Share this story  |
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