Perpetrators of Bayelsa poll violence’ll be punished – IG

Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase

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Adelani Adepegba, Abuja
The Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, says that perpetrators of the violence that marred the Bayelsa supplementary poll will be punished.

He stated that investigation to apprehend the masterminds had commenced, noting that three people lost their lives during the election.

FG Is Committed To Addressing Housing Deficits – Osinbajo

 

Nigeria’s Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) led government is fully committed to addressing the nation’s housing deficits.
The Vice President also reiterated that the Buhari-led administration would deliver other promises made to Nigerians during the electioneering campaigns last year.

Vice President Osinbajo made the statement while performing the foundation laying ceremony of 2,000 mass houses for low income earners at the Millenium City Estate in Kaduna State, North West, Nigeria, on Tuesday.

Professor Osinbajo said that Nigeria could be great again under President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration if all the resources were properly harnessed and corruption was wiped out at all levels of governance.

UN commences vocational training for 496 victims of Boko Haram insurgency

“UNDP feels that it is part of its mandate to ensure that the women and the youth are given skills that can last them through their lifetime

The United Nations says its vocational training for 496 victims of Boko Haram insurgency from Adamawa, Borno and Yobe State will commence on January 25.
Matthew Alao, the Conflict Prevention and Peace Building Analyst of the UN Development Programme, revealed this fact to the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Abuja.

Alao explained that the UN was sponsoring the Boko Haram victims to acquire vocational skills under the first phase of the UNDP Livelihood Support Scheme for the North East.
He said: “You will recall the impact of the insurgency in the North East and how people have been displaced and idle for a long time.

S’Court decides on Gov Ortom Friday

The Supreme Court has fixed Friday, January 15, 2016 to deliver its judgment in the appeal challenging the election of Benue State governor, Dr. Samuel Ortom, on April 11, 2015.

Dr. Tarhemen Tarzoor, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate brought the appeal after the Court of Appeal upheld the verdict of the Benue State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal that affirmed Ortom’s election.

A full panel of the apex court presided by Justice Walter Samuel Nkannu Onnoghen, on Monday, heard the appeal and reserved judgment for January 15.

Lead counsel for the appellant, Adebayo Adenikpekun (SAN) told the apex court that their case was anchored on the fact that Ortom who contested on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC) and was returned by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at the election was not qualified to contest in the election having not being validly nominated by the APC to stand for it.

Adenikpekun said that Section 177 (1) (c) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, when married with the provision of Section 87 of the Electoral Act, gave the appellants locus standi to challenge the outcome of the election even though they were not members of APC.

Joachim MacEbong's Questions To Buhari And Saraki Over 2016 Budget

Editor’s note: Reacting to the breaking news of the allegedly missing 2016 budget details, Naij.com’s Joachim MacEbong muses upon what this development would mean for the images of President Muhammadu Buhari-led government and Bukola Saraki’s Senate — and why such a predicament could happen (as we are led to believe) in the first place.

Since President Buhari’s budget presentation in front of the National Assembly on December 22nd, in which he gave the highlights of the 2016 budget, it was curious that the full budget by line items was not made available, like it is usually done. The wait for the budget entered into the new year, with no word from the presidency, save for a statement that any budget making the rounds was false. In addition, there was also a denial that the president had in fact withdrawn the budget about a week ago, in order to make further cuts.