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As the battle for the recall of the representative of Kogi - West senatorial district, Senator Dino Melaye , rages , prominent Okun indigenes have thrown their weight behind the embattled senator. A former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Chief Bayo Ojo ( SAN ); a former Minister of Health, Prof Eyitayo Lambo; and a former Minister of Police Affairs , Maj .-Gen . David Jemibewon ( retd. ) , have declared their support for Melaye. A statement issued by the Okun Development Initiative, on Monday , in Lokoja , said it had become imperative for the group to come out with a position on the ongoing recall process after the Independent National Electoral Commission acknowledged receiving more than the required numbers of signatures for the exercise. The statement signed by the group ’ s chairman, Lambo, said the purported recall had , once again, brought the dilemma of Okun to the fore . It said , “The Okun Development Initiative, a prominent socio - cultural a...

The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has said that it has not released the names of its candidates for the July 22 , 2017 local government council election . A statement by the Assistant Publicity Secretary of the party , Abiodun Salami , on Monday , said the list would be released after the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission would have concluded the screening of the aspirants. It explained that the screening would be concluded by July 6 , 2017. The statement said , “We shall release the authentic list of our candidates in the 20 local government areas and the 37 local council development areas after the release of LASIEC’s screening results, in conformity with the electoral guidelines. Salami debunked a newspaper publication ( not The PUNCH ) , which said the party had released the names of its candidates for the election .

The Federal Road Safety Corps ( FRSC ) is reported to have just issued some guidelines that include compelling road traffic offenders to be subjected to what they term “psychiatric examination ”. The offences that would lead to this mandatory examination include the use of phones while driving , route violation , traffic light violation , dangerous driving and overloading. The persons apprehended for any of these offences will be taken to what the FRSC describes as “ recognised public medical facilities ” and they would be made to “bear the cost of the examination ”. It is clear, even to the designers of these guidelines, that the purpose of this compulsory psychiatric examination is not to identify any psychiatric disorder but to use psychiatric consultation to shame the culprits . That is , what the FRSC hopes to achieve is not the identification and treatment of illness , which are the reasons why hospitals exist , but to use the threat of medical psychiatric consultation to co...

A retired Supreme Court justice , Francis Tabai , has said true implementation of the various provisions of the constitution is the answer to the growing ethnic agitations across the country . According to Tabai, the country ’ s constitution was beautifully designed to accommodate every section and ethnic nationality but successive governments had failed to implement its provisions for true governance that would ensure that every part was carried along. The retired jurist made the remark while speaking at a birthday lecture/ luncheon organised for a Niger Delta activist , Chief Mike Loyibo , in Warri, Delta State. He noted that ongoing clamours for restructuring would not have arisen if successive governments had implemented the constitution accordingly . Tabai said , “The Nigerian constitution contains provisions that accommodated the various national issues presently agitating ethnic nationalities across the country but the problems we have had is in its implementation as leade...

A former Legal Adviser of Daily Sketch Newspaper and First Bank Nigeria Plc , Afolabi Olasope, has urged the Federal Government to seek political and diplomatic solutions with the Cameroonian government on the ceding of Bakassi Local Government Area of Cross Rivers State. The International Court of Justice, The Hague , which is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations , ceded Bakassi to Cameroon on October 10 , 2002. Media reports said the Cross River State Governor, Prof. Ben Ayade , recently broke down in tears while relating the plight of the displaced Nigerians to the National Commissioner , Commission for Refugees , Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons , Hajia Sadiya Faruk. Ayade lamented that no human being deserved to live under the kind of poor condition in which the displaced people of Bakassi were living . In an interview with journalists in Ado Ekiti, Olasope appealed to the Federal Government to engage with the Cameroonian government for both political ...

Graduates from Egbema and Gbaramatu Kingdoms , the hometown of ex - militant leader , Chief Government Ekpemupolo alias Tompolo , in Delta State, have threatened to shut down the operations of Chevron Nigeria Limited in the area if it fails to convert its graduate operator /maintenance trainees into permanent workers within 48 hours. The graduates, under the aegis of KOMBOT - Egbema and Gbaramatu Graduates Association , said they took the decision following the failure of Chevron to convert them into full members of staff after completing their 18 - month graduate training programme with the oil giant. In a statement signed by their President and Secretary , Mr. Yabrade Moses and Asoki Victor Warebi respectively , on Monday , the graduates lamented that after the completion of their programme they were still being retained as trainees when they ought to have been converted into permanent workers in line with the terms of the programme . The statement read in part , “ We, the under...

… says legislators more interested in boreholes than building highways •‘No concession agreements on Lagos -Ibadan road, Niger bridge’ Okechukwu Nnodim , Abuja the Minister of Power , Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola , on Monday hit back at members of the National Assembly , as he argued that the lawmakers had “stark and worrisome knowledge ” about the budget of his ministry before altering several of its allocations in the 2017 Appropriation Act. Fashola , who expressed deep concern over the recourse of the National Assembly ’s spokespersons to name -calling regarding his observations on the 2017 budget, also stated that there was no concession agreement for the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Second Niger Bridge , as well as other road projects across the country . In a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media, Mr. Hakeem Bello, the minister said he was worried that the National Assembly failed to address the fundamental points about development-hindering cuts in the allo...