Chief Timipre Sylva became Bayelsa governor on May 29, 2007. On April 15, 2008, the Court of Appeal nullified his election, ordering fresh elections. Sylva won the re-run polls. When his tenure was about ending in May 2011, he secured a court order that his tenure began in 2008, not 2007. That his one year as governor was awoof! Governors Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto), Liyel Imoke (Cross River) Murtala Nyako (Adamawa) & Ibrahim Idris (Kogi), who had at different times had their elections nullified, copied Sylva. The quintet refused to stand for elections in 2011. However, there arose people who felt…
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A group, African Civil Society Forum (AFRICSOF) has kicked against the use of legislative chambers as platforms for political witch-hunts or targeted vendettas or war. TheHintsNews reports that the Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu came back from his medical leave, he had been at loggerhead with his deputy, which subsequently led to the move by the state Assembly to impeach him. But, on September 26, a Federal High court sitting in Abuja restrained the House of Assembly, the Chief Judge of Ondo State, the Ondo Governor and indeed other defendants in the case from taking steps that would lead to the impeachment…
The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has warned airlines operators of the consequences of cancelled and delayed flights, stating that compensations and fines would be imposed on any defaulting airline soon. He noted that it was what the federal government has told airlines in Nigeria except those caused by natural occurrences. Keyamo made the disclosure during a meeting with airline operators in Abuja on Monday. On delayed flights, Keyamo noted, “I want to speak for the ordinary Nigerians who complain every day about delayed, cancelled flights. “I know you have said all your reasons. You have blamed…
Phrank Shaibu, the Special Assistant to the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar, says no amount of image laundering can save President Bola Tinubu sinking reputation. He stated this in a statement on Monday while reacting to the establishment of a new media directorate and the appointment of an additional five aides by the Tinubu administration. TheHintsNews reports that President Tinubu had earlier new aides includeing: Mr. Fela Durotoye (Senior Special Assistant to the President — National Values & Social Justice); Mr. Fredrick Nwabufo (Senior Special Assistant to the President — Public…
The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Worldwide has warned that the plan by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to transmit Bayelsa governorship election results manually would plunge the state into an avoidable crisis. TheHintsNews reports that the electoral body had fixed November 11 for governorship election in Bayesla, Imo and Kogi states. However, the President of IYC Worldwide, Dr. Theophilus Alaye, stated this in a statement issued on Monday, while reacting to a recent press conference organised by the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of Bayelsa State, Ofiong Efanga on his plan to adopt manual mode of transmission of the governorship…
President Bola Tinubu Monday fortified his media as he prepares for a fierce media war with the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). TheHintsNews reports that the President has been in the eye of the storm as regards questions over the certificate issued to Tinubu by the Chicago State University (CSU) on his graduation from the school in 1979, seems to have come to another head recently. The Registrar of CSU, Mr. Caleb Westberg, had last week during the deposition disowned the certificate tendered by Tinubu to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the 2023 presidential polls,…
The Director General, Nigeria Mining Cadastre Office (MCO), Engr. Obadiah Simon Nkom, Monday solicited the assistance and inputs from the National Assembly to improve the Mining Cadastre Office and transform the mining sector in the country. This was even as the Senate Committee Chairman on Solid Minerals Development, Senator Osita Ngwu, commended the MCO for its migration to electronic mining cadastre in line with best practices, saying that the government was having a new direction from oil to solid minerals. Nkom made the appeal when the Solid Minerals Development Committee Chair paid a familiarisation visit to MCO in Abuja. He…
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says it recorded a substantial reduction of 22 per cent in the total number of road traffic crashes (RTC), injuries and fatalities as well between January and September 2023. The agency said it also recorded decrease in road traffic injuries and 23.1 per cent reduction in road traffic deaths when compared with the same period in 2022. According to FRSC road traffic crash dashboard, within the period under consideration, the Corps recorded a total of 7,830 road traffic crashes as against 10,039 in the same period in the year 2022, representing 22 per cent…
The State High Court in Maiduguri has convicted and sentenced two fraudsters: Mohammed Idris and Ibrahim Magaji to eight years imprisonment for obtaining money under false pretences. The Maiduguri Zonal Command of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) secured their conviction on Thursday, October 5, 2023. Idris was arraigned before Justice Umaru Fadawu of the Borno State High Court on one-count charge bordering on obtaining under false pretence to the tune of N1 million, while Magaji was arraigned on one-count charge bordering on criminal misappropriation to the tune of N11.5 million. The charge against Idris read: “That you, Mohammad Idris…
A former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hon. Yekini Nabena, has said that media reports suggesting that the Minister of State for Petroleum, Heineken Lokpobiri, and 2019 governorship candidate, David Lyon, had formed alliance with Governor Douye Diri of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the November 11 for the governorship election was mere propaganda. Nabena, who is the Secretary, Media and Publicity Committee of the National Gubernatorial Campaign Council for Bayelsa state insisted that the propaganda tactics being employed by the PDP camp in Bayelsa towards the governorship election would not work because…