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Buhari Never Cancelled Memos Signed Off By Abba Kyari – Presidency

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The presidency on Tuesday night denied that President Muhammadu Buhari has cancelled memos signed off by the late former Chief of Staff, Mallam Abba Kyari.

Some reports had suggested that about 150 unauthorized memos may have been uncovered in the Chief of Staff’s office.

But a statement issued by Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the president on media and publicity, described the report as fake news.

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It said the president was duly re-elected and has not ceded his powers to any other individual.

The statement read: “The attention of the Presidency has been drawn to media reports alleging that President Muhammadu Buhari has cancelled a number of memos and appointments signed off by his former Chief of Staff

“Not surprisingly, these reports have quoted unnamed sources.

“There is not a grain of truth in these reports and Nigerians should please ignore the insinuations behind them.

“President Buhari was duly re-elected by Nigerians in February 2019. He has not and will never cede to anyone else, that power and trust given to him by the Nigerian people.”

Nigerians Lucky To Have Buhari At A Time Like This — Femi Adesina

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Special Adviser to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has said that Nigerians are lucky to have a leader like his principal at a time like this.

Adesina stated this via his social media handle while dismissing attempts to pitch him against his boss, the president. According to him, he is a Buharist.

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In a post on his Twitter handle, Adesina wrote:

“A quote from mischief-makers is making the rounds, ascribed to me. I just dey laugh. I am a Buharist any day, no apologies, and I believe the president and I believe the president is leading the country well. In fact, we are lucky to have him at a time like this. All attempts to demonize me will fail.”

Just a few days ago, a former Presidential Adviser, Tanko Yakassai had passed a vote of no confidence on Buhari.

Yakassai had described Buhari as an incompetent leader who can’t fix the problems in the country.

FBI To Investigate Death Of Black Man After Video Shows Officer Kneeling On Neck [VIDEOS]

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The FBI and the Minneapolis Police Department are investigating the arrest of a black man who died after being handcuffed and pinned to the ground by an officer’s knee, in an episode filmed by a bystander and denounced by the mayor on Tuesday.

The arrest took place on Monday evening, the police said in a statement after officers responded to a call about a man suspected of forgery. The police said the man, believed to be in his 40s, was found sitting on top of a blue car and “appeared to be under the influence.”

“He was ordered to step from his car,” the department’s statement said. “After he got out, he physically resisted officers. Officers were able to get the suspect into handcuffs and noted he appeared to be suffering medical distress.”

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The statement said that officers called for an ambulance and that the man was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center, “where he died a short time later.”

On Tuesday morning, without referring to the video recorded by a bystander, the police updated a statement, titled “Man Dies After Medical Incident During Police Interaction,” that said additional information had “been made available” and that the FBI was joining the investigation.

The bystander video that circulated widely on social media Monday night shows a white Minneapolis police officer pressing his knee into a black man’s neck during an arrest, as the man repeatedly says “I can’t breathe” and “please I can’t breathe.”

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Within minutes the man, lying face down in the street with his hands cuffed behind his back, becomes silent and motionless, the video shows; the officer continues to pin the man to the pavement with his knee.

Bystanders plead, curse, and begging the officer to stop and telling him the man’s nose is bleeding. Another officer faces the people gathered on the sidewalk. An ambulance medic arrives and, reaching under the officer’s knee, feels for a pulse on the man’s neck.

The medic turns away, and a stretcher is wheeled over. The arrested man is then rolled onto the stretcher, loaded into an ambulance and taken away.

The video did not show what happened before the officer pinned the man to the ground by his neck. Chief Medaria Arradondo of the Minneapolis Police said at a news conference Tuesday that he had received information the night before that he “deemed necessary to contact the special agent in charge of the Minneapolis bureau of the F.B.I.”

He said he asked the agency to investigate, and declined to comment on what information he received.

The mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, on Tuesday, described the event as “awful” and “traumatic.”

“Being black in America should not be a death sentence. For five minutes, we watched a white officer press his knee into a black man’s neck. Five minutes,” Mr Frey said in a statement.

“When you hear someone calling for help, you’re supposed to help. This officer failed in the most basic, human sense,” he said. “All I keep coming back to is this: This man should not have died.”

The police department’s statement said that no weapons were used and that the officers’ body cameras were recording. Mr Frey said at a news conference that he had seen the video “taken and posted by a civilian” but not the body camera footage.

The department said it had asked the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to investigate. The bureau did not reply early on Tuesday for an emailed request for comment.

“Whatever the investigation reveals, it does not change the simple truth: He should still be with us this morning,” the mayor said. “I believe what I saw and what I saw is wrong on every level.”

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Raise Funds For Education Like You Did For COVID-19 – ASUU Tells FG

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The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has called on the Federal Government, FG, to declare a state of emergency in the education sector and raise funds to tackle the rot therein, just as it did to contain Coronavirus outbreak in the country.

ABN TV reports that The National President of ASUU, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, who stated this in a chat with Vanguard on Tuesday, said the effect of poor funding of education became glaring when COVID-19 broke out in the country and most of the nation’s teaching hospitals did not have ventilators to help keep patients alive.

Ogunyemi noted that China, where the disease broke out, was able to quickly tackle the scourge by resorting to public tertiary teaching hospitals because they were well funded by the state.

“Look at how much money has been raised to fight COVID-19 pandemic. This is because it is seen as a health emergency. We can do the same for the education sector.

“The poor funding of the sector has deep damaging effects on our national life. A poorly trained medical student would end up being a great danger to the health of the people.

“There are cash cows like the Central Bank of Nigeria, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and others that funds can be drawn from.

“Instead of doing so, our politicians are only interested in drawing funds from them to prosecute elections. Have you ever seen the budgets of the CBN or the NNPC?

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“If we want to really catch up with the rest of the world, we must adequately fund the education sector. We plead with parents, guardians, students and Nigerians generally to understand our position and know that we cannot go on postponing the evil day.

“In fact, the evil day manifested in out lack of adequate response to the COVID-19 outbreak by our teaching hospitals,” he said.

On the complaints that trailed the payment of February and March 2020 salaries of lecturers through the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, IPPIS, Ogunyemi said his union had been vindicated.

“As we speak, our members in some universities namely Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Akwa, University of Jos, University of Maiduguri, Abubakar Tarawa Balewa University, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture are yet to be paid their salaries.

“Ridiculously, some lecturers were paid 20 per cent of their salaries. Those who got anything reasonable were paid 80 per cent of their salaries.

“We have said it that IPPIS is too straitjacketed and not suitable for the university system. Even some sister unions that did not see what we had seen about IPPIS are now complaining.

“The only solution is for the government to do away with the toga of arrogance and embrace our Nigerian Universities Accountability and Transparency System.

“We are sounding a note of warning that we won’t tolerate further mutilation of our salaries. Our members have been on the same salary structure since 2009.

“The government has been provocative and lackadaisical in its approach.  How do you keep shifting the goal post when a goal is about to be scored,” he stressed.

The ASUU boss added that it seemed some people in government were interested in punishing university lecturers for no just cause.

Recall that ASUU has been on strike since early March this year over IPPIS, implementation of a Memorandum of Action signed with the government,  better funding of education generally among other issues.

Going by the position of the union, even if schools shut down due to COVID-19 outbreak are asked to reopen now, the university system may still experience Industrial disharmony.

MURIC Calls For Impeachment Of Governors Who Allowed Congregational Eid Prayers

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Ishaq Akintola, director of Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, says governors who allowed congregational Eid prayers committed impeachable offences.

On Sunday, congregational prayers held in different states while some religious faithful openly flouted guidelines issued by the presidential task force (PTF) on COVID-19 such as physical distancing and compulsory use of face masks in public places.

For instance, in Kano, which currently has the second-highest number of active COVID-19 cases and fatalities in the country, Eid prayers featured large gatherings of people.

In a statement, Akintola said the actions of the governors ran contrary to directives by the federal government, Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI) and the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA).

He asked lawmakers of the states to “do the needful as the governors committed impeachable offences”.

“It is a shame that governors can play to the gallery even when it has to do with human life. This is not Islam. It is articulated religiosity,” Akintola said.

“There must be consequences when people in positions of authority gamble with the lives of their citizens.

“This singular action has put the whole country in danger and we only have to wait for the next two weeks as the virus incubates for us to know the impact of the governors’ intransigence.

“This is how not to worship Allah. Neither is it about the right to celebrate a festival. MURIC as a human rights body will not defend the indefensible. Islam is a religion of justice.

“Therefore we will not bend the rules or change the goal post after the game has already started just because Muslim governors are involved this time around.

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“The fact that we vowed to promote Allah-given fundamental human rights of Muslims does not mean that we would look away when Muslims do the wrong thing.

“After all we were all here when Christians marked Easter without fanfare, pomp and pageantry. So why can’t we as Muslims control ourselves?

“We have not seen the end of this incident if we have conscious lawmakers in the state assemblies.

“Any lawmaker worth his salt will know that the action of the erring governors stand in contra-distinction to the provisions of Article 14 Section 2(b) of the1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria which stipulates that the security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government.

“In essence, the governors have committed impeachable offences. We, therefore, call on the state legislators to do the needful.

“We do not want governors who do not care about human life.

“The choice before the governors is this: apologise publicly or resign and pack out of government house, otherwise your impeachment is just around the corner.”

He apologised to Nigerians “on behalf of the Muslim community”.

Akintola on behalf of MURIC, also called on President Muhammadu Buhari to speak against the Congregational act which he described as an embarrassment.

“Every Nigerian Muslim must take responsibility for this. These recalcitrant governors have embarrassed Islamdom.

“We must admit our wrong, particularly because what we did is capable of bringing untold hardship upon the whole country.

“The next two weeks will tell. But to start with, we must show remorse and apologise to fellow Nigerians for exposing the country to danger,” he said.

“It is on this note that we of the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) tender unreserved apology, first to President Muhammadu Buhari, the Federal Government and all law-abiding citizens in the country.

“If we have always been quick to confront those who maltreat Muslims, we must not be silent when the Muslims themselves wrongly defy the rest of Nigerians and embark on actions capable of causing mass death among innocent Nigerians.

“We must speak truth to power because the truth is sacrosanct. The governors simply went on a show of shame.

“It is disgraceful. It is a huge blunder. When did Nigerian Muslims become more Muslim than their Makkan counterparts?

“Why must we assemble for Congregational Eid Prayers in Nigeria when Muslims in all Arab countries prayed at home? Muslims in Senegal, Gambia, Ghana and other West African countries prayed at home.

“President Muhammadu Buhari must not allow these erring governors to go scot-free. They must be sanctioned. FG must speak up.

“The action of these recalcitrant governors must be condemned in strong terms. Thereafter, Mr President must design suitable punishments that will touch only the office and personality of the governors without necessarily affecting the gullible and misled citizens in the state.

“Those who fail to take responsibility have no cassu belli for occupying the government house.”

It’s Not Time To Open Schools, Churches, Mosque, Others — Buhari Tells Nigerians

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The Federal Government has insisted that Churches, Mosques in the country remain closed amid coronavirus in Nigeria.

President Muhammadu Buhari reiterated its decision in a post on the micro-blogging site, Twitter on Tuesday, where it stressed that the updated guidelines for the ease of the COVID-19 lockdown were still in force.

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In an advertorial by the Federal Ministry of Health shared on its Twitter handle on Tuesday, the Federal Government said: “Schools, Churches, Mosques, Clubs, Bars and Gardens” are to remain closed.

The guidelines by federal government was issued for Abuja, Ogun, Lagos, and other states effective from May 18 to 31, with a mandatory curfew between 8 pm-6 am, it added that passenger flights and interstate travels (except essential services) remained prohibited.

However, various states had last week, lifted the ban on religious gathering for Juma’at, Eid, and Sunday services with Kano and Nasarawa states, among others observing services but the Federal Ministry of Health urged everyone to take responsibility and “abide by the restrictive guidelines.”

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The tweet added that: “These are updated guidelines for the ease of the lockdown, which has been shared by @NigeriaGov

Let us please #TakeResponsibility read the information and abide by the restrictive guidelines.

“Together, we will all work together to end #COVID19inNigeria.”

FEC Has Become Cancerous Under Buhari, Should Be Disbanded – PDP

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Why Buhari Didn’t Remove Fuel Subsidy – Garba Shehu
President Muhammadu Buhari

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP says the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Executive Council, FEC has become cancerous, disorganized, chaotic, and incapable of driving an organized, result-oriented system and as such should be disbanded.

The party’s position is predicated on the degenerated hostilities among officials in the Buhari Presidency, including Presidential aides, ministers, and heads of agencies, which have further exposed a scandalous breakdown of the administration’s central command system.

Our party asserts that this situation is a mark of failure by the Buhari Presidency, FEC, and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to provide organized leadership for our nation.

The PDP said a situation where officials are constantly at daggers drawn among themselves in unending clashes, backbiting, betrayals, leakage of sensitive documents, and internal bickering over pecuniary and political interests, in manners not different from street skirmishes of common cult groups, is unacceptable to our nation.

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It is indeed shocking that the acrimony had sunk to a situation where the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, reportedly evicted the staff of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) from their allocated office, with guns, while the Chairman of the Commission, Hon. Abike Dabiri was on an official assignment with the President.

Currently, the newly appointed Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, are said to be at each other’s throat, with the SGF reportedly querying the decision of the President to sack the former Director of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, Mr Usman Mohammed.

The situation had degenerated into serious confusion in the federal executive.

Nigerians can recall the bitter wrangling, wherein the National Security Adviser (NSA), Maj. Gen Babagana Monguno, earlier this year, alerted that Presidential responsibilities, including presiding over sensitive security matters, have been hijacked by late Chief of Staff, Mallam Abba Kyari, thereby frustrating the fight against insurgency and acts of violence ravaging our country.

Furthermore, the power sector is still under the stress of squabbling between the SGF and the Minister of Power, Sale Mamman, with the SGF, reinstating some officials who were sacked by the minister in December last year.

The nation has also not forgotten the embarrassing public fight between the First Lady, Aisha Buhari and President Muhammadu Buhari’s cousins, over rooms in the Presidential Villa, which further exposed the chaotic situation in the President Buhari-led administration.

Before then, the First Lady had alerted the nation that a cabal had hijacked the federal executive and taken over governance of our nation.

It is said that presidential hostilities had resulted in escalated cases of internal sabotage including the leakage of sensitive documents as exposed by the Head of Service, Dr Folasade Yemi-Esan and recently witnessed in the embarrassing leakage of President Buhari’s draft COVID-19 speech.

Nigerians can now see how vulnerable our nation has become and why it is extremely difficult for our country to witness any progress under the Buhari Presidency, which has also ruined all the gains achieved under the PDP.

Indeed, no nation can achieve meaningful development under a rancorous and shambolic federal executive council as currently constituted, with the height of irredeemable division among them.

Such a situation never obtained under the watch of the PDP in the glorious years of our nation.

Our party, therefore, counsels President Buhari to re-direct the course of our Nation’s tides by disbanding his poorly assembled and dysfunctional federal executive council.

He should foreclose the parochial posturing of his administration, FEC by engaging more competent hands to run the affairs of our nation.

Wike Denies Solely Taking Decision To Demolish Hotels

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Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has denied solely taking the decision to demolish two hotels in the state for a violation of Coronavirus lockdown order.

The governor of Rivers State made the comments on Tuesday after coming under intense public fire for several days with many individuals and groups calling for his ‘head’ after the decision to demolish two hotels.

He said, “I don’t take decisions alone in the fight against COVID-19. All decisions are taken by the State Security Council and they are for the overall interest of Rivers people. 

Governor Nyesom Wike added that“You know people applaud government decisions when it suits them but when it does not favour them they say it is politically motivated.

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“Rivers State Government does not have anything against hoteliers in the state, but decided to shut down their activities because some cases of COVID-19 were recorded in hotels.”

Governor Wike also blamed the hoteliers for failing to assist the government in providing relevant information regarding those that test positive for Coronavirus in their facilities.

According to him, adequate information would have helped the state’s Ministry of Health and other relevant agencies to carry out proper contact tracing.

Lawmakers Accuse NDDC Of Illegal Spending, Failure To Present Performance Records

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Lawmakers of Nigeria’s House of Representatives have accused the leadership of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, of engaging in illegal spending of funds belonging to the commission.

The lawmakers also accused the NDDC of refusal to submit its performance budget since 2018.

A forensic audit is ongoing in the NDDC after the commission squandered N40bn in three months.

The NDDC was also involved in the spending of N5bn for the procurement of Personal Protective Equipment for health workers and provision of community-based sensitisation campaign against the spread of COVID-19 to a company named Signora Concept Services Limited.

ABN TV reports that The spokesperson for the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, in a statement on Tuesday also denounced claims by the Executive Director in charge of Projects and member of the Interim Management Committee of the NDDC, Dr Cairo Ojougboh, that the lower arm of the National Assembly was against the ongoing forensic audit of the commission.

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Kalu stated that while the House had been pushing the commission “to do the needful and render account to the Nigerian people”, it was not against the audit of NDDC’s expenditure.

Kalu said, “The House recalls that for more than 13 months after the time required by law, the commission deliberately failed to submit its 2019 budget to the National Assembly for approval, choosing instead to engage in illegal and unauthorised spending to the tune of billions of naira.

“It took the intervention of the House, following a motion moved by Rep. Benjamin O. Kalu on November 26, 2019, to compel the commission to present its 2019 budget.

“On December 10, 2019, the date fixed for the budget defence, the commission failed to appear with its 2018 budget performance report, a document critical to assessing its previous expenditures and approving its 2019 budget; as a result of which, the budget defence had to be stepped down.

“The commission was only able to return with their budget performance report on February 5th, 2020 following which the House passed the 2019 budget three weeks after (February 27th, 2020)

“The negligence and/or deliberate mischief of the commission has also frustrated all efforts by the National Assembly to expeditiously approve the commission’s 2020 budget till date, the commission has refused to render an account of their 2019 budget expenditures to Nigerians.”

The lawmakers insisted that the supervision of the auditing process by the IMC or any other subjects of the audit defeats the cardinal principle of natural justice and undermines the integrity of the investigation.

The House also vowed to continue with its independent investigations, in order to be equipped with information in anticipation of the outcome of the forensic audit.

Convert Okorocha’s University To Govt Asset Now Or…, Kinsmen Tell Gov. Uzodinma

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Kinsmen of the former governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha, have issued three weeks ultimatum to Governor Hope Uzodimma to reclaim the private university, Eastern Palm University, built by Okorocha and return same to the state.

This is just as the kinsmen have threatened to institute a court action if the government failed to take over the property.

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The Orlu kinsmen of Senator Okorocha, who spoke under the aegis of Orluzurumee Youth Assembly, in a letter addressed to Governor Uzodimma and dated May 18, 2020, said they were dismayed by the inexplicable neglect of the Eastern Palm University in Ogboko by the Imo State Government.

The letter, dated May 18, 2020, and signed by Comrade Christian Okolie as chairman of the education committee and Comrade Ugochukwu Okoro as secretary, reads that the silence of Governor Uzodimma has fanned a lot of insinuations over the ownership of the institution and has bolstered the audacity of “some pretenders” who lay claims thereto.

The letter reads in part: “We recall with great sadness that the condition precedent which justified the revocation of ancestral lands of the host communities by the government was that the tertiary academic institution would serve public interest. Every instrument establishing the university is clear on this.

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“As a result, we demand that the Imo State government immediately put the school to use within three weeks or give back the lands to their owners. If the government fails to do so, we shall not hesitate to institute legal action against the government.”

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