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The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, says his target as President would be to continue with oil exploration in Gombe State for the benefit of the region and the country.
Tinubu made this vow at the palace of the Emir of Gombe; Abubakar Shehu-Abubakar III, when the presidential campaign council visited to canvass for the monarch’s support.
The APC presidential candidate visited the palace before proceeding to Pantami Stadium, where he was received by a mammoth crowd of his supporters and party members. He said, “I will ensure the prosperity of Gombe as as a state. I will continue with oil exploration for the benefit the North and Nigeria in general.”
Emir Shehu-Abubakar lauded the APC presidential candidate, saying he had built sterling track record which had endeared him to residents in his domain. At the rally, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy Professor Isa Pantami, who represented the President of Nigeria, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), urged residents of Gombe State to vote for Tinubu, and other APC candidates.
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A 14-year old boy, Ashfa Ibrahim, on Monday, drowned in an open stream at Danzaki Village in Gezawa Local Government Area of Kano state.
This is contained in a statement signed by Alhaji Saminu Abdullahi, the spokesperson of the state Fire fighting department, and made available to newsmen in Kano on Tuesday. The statement indicated that the sad incident occurred on Monday afternoon.
We received a distress call from one Ibrahim Abdullahi and we dispatched our rescue team to the scene but the victim was rescued from the stream unconscious, he said. victim was later confirmed dead by a team ofl doctors at the Gezawa General Hospital.
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A Federal High Court in Abuja has extended the order restraining the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from suspending or expelling Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers from the party. Justice James Omotosho gave the directive on Tuesday after the counsel to the governor, Dr Joshua Musa, SAN, and lawyer to the PDP and others, Johnson Usman, SAN, agreed on March 6 to argue their case.
Justice Omotosho had, on February 2, given a restraining order against the party and others listed in the face of Wike’s motion dated February 2. Others joined in the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/139/2023 include its National Working Committee, NWC, and National Executive Committee, NEC, National Chairman of PDP, Dr Iyorchia Ayu.
The governor is praying for an order directing all parties to maintain the status quo and stay all actions in the matter relating to the threat to suspend or expel him from the party.
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Some Lagos residents have alleged exploitation by some policemen who pretend to be riders of commercial motorcycles, popularly called Okada, which have been banned in some parts of the state. The residents, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday, said that the alleged perpetrators were usually in Okada uniform and deliberately drove their victims to a task force against Okada riding.
According to the residents, the ‘Okada riders’ carry their passengers to a waiting task force for arrest. They alleged that after the arrest, the task force, made up of policemen, would allow the ‘Okada riders’ to drive off but threaten the passengers with prosecution.
They said that the task force would take the passengers to their station and make them to pay as much as N50,000 for bail.
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The Kano State Peace Committee on Tuesday expressed concern over the increasingly violent attacks among political supporters in the state. This is contained in a statement by the secretary of the committee, Ibrahim Waiya, and released to newsmen on Tuesday.
He said the committee had observed with dismay that the recent Peace Accord signed by eight political parties’ governorship candidates in the state had been grossly violated by some party supporters with violent clashes in recent times, especially at the following notable locations: Dambatta/Makoda, Rimin Kebe, Mandawari, Rigiyar Lemo, Larabar Abasawa, Dawakin Kudu and Tudun Wada.
This ugly development is glaringly threatening the peace and security of the state. The most current reported violence unleashed on the residents of Rimin Kebe quarters of Nassarawa LGA, which claimed the life of an innocent young boy by the alleged supporters of a candidate seeking election for the House of Representatives, was not only dangerous to the lives of Kano citizens but also uncalled for.
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