Bamidele Emerges Senate Majority Leader
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Senator Michael Opeyemi Bamidele (Ekiti Central) has emerged Leader of the 10th Senate.
Former Ebonyi Governor Senator Dave Umahi is the Deputy Senate Leader.
Senator Ali Ndume is the Chief Whip of the Senate while Senator Lola Ashiru will occupy the position of Deputy Chief Whip.
Senate President Godswill Akpabio announced the appointment of these Principal Officers at plenary.
INEC Chair Meets RECs On 2023 Elections
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The chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu, is holding a meeting with the Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) on the just concluded general election.
The meeting is taking place at the INEC headquarters, Abuja.
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Release Or Charge Bawa To Court, Lawyer Tells DSS
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An Abuja-based human rights lawyer, Pelumi Olajengbesi has tackled the Department of State Services (DSS) over the continued detention of the suspended Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), AbdulRasheed Bawa.
In a statement on Tuesday, Olajengbesi, said the prolonged detention of Bawa by the secret police is illegal and an embarrassment to the nation’s justice system.
Olajengbesi said the DSS should charge Bawa to court for alleged offences levelled against his office as EFCC boss or release him to rejoin his family members.
On June 14, President Bola Tinubu suspended Bawa as the anti-graft czar over alleged abuse of office and “to allow for a proper investigation into his conduct while in office”.
Bawa was subsequently quizzed at the DSS headquarters the same day with nothing heard about the matter for three weeks now.
If We Reveal All We know, people’ll be shocked — JAMB Registrar
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The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, Tuesday said that Nigerians will be shocked if the board decides to reveal the details of the “forgery” perpetrated by Mmesoma Ejikeme, the candidate from Anambra State whom the board accused of manually inflating her UTME score.
Oloyede noted that the result paraded by Ejikeme was the template for a student who sat UTME two years ago.
In an interview with Premium Times, the former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin said, “If you scan the code, the candidate’s result will show. So I can say emphatically that the girl is parading a fake result. It is either she is being duped, or she is part of a syndicate manufacturing purported JAMB results.
“There are security features on our results, so I can emphasise that the girl is just trying to deceive the public. Her result is completely fake. Her claim that she printed the result from our site is a lie, and totally incorrect. If we should reveal all that we know, people will be shocked. So if people are looking for shortcuts to achieve an end, that is what would happen.”
Keyamo, Fani-Kayode Promoted Fake – EU Report Alleges
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The European Union Election Observation Mission has listed a former Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Femi Fani-Kayode, for propagating fake news during the 2023 general election in Nigeria.
EU accused Keyamo and Fani-Kayode of misleading Nigerians by spreading fake news during the 2023 general elections.
In its latest report, the EU Observers cited instances where both APC chieftains propagated fake news while campaigning for their candidates.
The report reads partly: “There was an increased incidence of misleading information in the days leading up to and during the election. In many cases, false reports were spread by well-known personalities associated with political parties.
On February 12, Festus Keyamo from APC promoted information published by a suspicious website, accusing Peter Obi of bribery. The story quickly became viral and was in a few hours debunked.
“Femi Fani-Kayode, a former minister of ation and an APC party member, made a claim on February 11, 2023, that the PDP presidential candidate Abubakar had a secret meeting with serving military generals in Abuja.
“He accused Atiku of wanting to incite chaos, provoke a coup d’état, and establish a new and unconstitutional order. Kayode posted this claim across multiple social media platforms, and it garnered 281.2k total impressions. The next day, he posted that the Army denied reports about a meeting between its officers and Atiku.”
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