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The National and State Assembly Elections Petition Tribunal sitting in Lakoja, Kogi state on Friday nullified the 2019 election of Sen. Dino Melaye to represent the Kogi West Senatorial District at the Senate.
The Tribunal ordered that a fresh election be held with 90 days.
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Seventeen passengers have been reportedly killed in an auto-crash on Thursday at Bacita junction along the Ilorin-Jebba-Mokwa express way in Kwara.
The FRSC official said that the crash occurred at a sharp bend, as a result of over speeding which led to head on collision by the two vehicles.
“Due to excess speeding in which the two drivers were involved while driving their vehicles at the time when the crash occurred, they could not negotiate the sharp bend properly, and when they eventually met, it resulted in head on collision”, he said.
He, however, called on motorists to be more careful while driving on the nation’s highways to check avoidable accidents.
According to him, passengers should not hesitate to caution or report any reckless driver to law enforcement agents nearby.
A stalwart of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara, Mallam Saliu Mustapha has charged the new ministers to be more proactive and dedicated in the discharge of their duties.
Suspected armed robbers on Tuesday attacked the convoy of Nasarawa State Deputy Governor, Dr Emmanuel Akabe, killing three policemen and a civilian.
The Head of Civil Service is being quizzed by the anti graft agency over alleged N3bn contract scam.
Ja that she is also being investigated over alleged abuse of duty tour allowance, money laundering and alleged theft of government funds.
Mrs Oyo-Ita is said to have being granted an administrative bail but is now hospitalised under the close watch of the anti-graft agency.
She was appointed as the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation in acting capacity in October 2015 and confirmed in January 2016 by President Muhammadu Buhari
The Emir of Ilorin and the Chairman of the Kwara State Traditional Council, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, has appointed Engr. Suleiman Yahaya Alapansanpa as the new Danmasanin Ilorin.
Alapansanpa, a retired public servant and Fellow of the Nigeria Society of Engineers, (FNSE) was until his appointment, the Chairman of the Annual Ilorin Emirate Durbar Committee, Kakakiblog reports.
His appointment was in recognition of his sterling qualities and aged long contributions to the Emirate.
The Ashiru Leadership Forum on Saturday expressed support for the ministerial nomination and subsequent confirmation of the two ministerial designates from Kwara, Alhaji Lai Mohammed and Sen. Gbemisola Saraki.
The forum in separate letters addressed to the two ministers, attributed their appointments to the sterling qualities, high human relations and humility that the office deserved, which it said the duo possessed.
The letter, which was signed by the National Coordinator of the forum, Mr Muyideen Bammeke and made available to Kakakiblog on Saturday in Ilorin, described the ministerial appointments as well deserved.
“It is an honour well deserved as you are appointed and subsequently confirmed by the Nigerian Senate.
“The Ashiru Leadership Forum wishes to hereby convey its warmest congratulations to you.
“Your sterling qulailities, high human relations and humbleness are credentials that this noble office deserves.
“We wish you every success in your new duties. Please be aware that you have our full support”, the letter read.
Kakakiblog reports that Lola Ashiru, whose the forum is named after is a senator representing Kwara South Senatorial District at the Senate.
Hon. Ali Yusuf-Jimoh, the Deputy Chief Whip of the Kwara House of Assembly, has pledged to construct a drain in Duma, Ilorin East Local Government Area of the state, to tackle the erosion ravaging the community.
Yusuf-Jimoh made the pledge on Wednesday during an on-the-spot assessment visit to the erosion site following a downpour.
The lawmaker, who was received by the people of the community, said that the project would commence soon to ameliorate the sufferings of residents.
Yusuf-Jimoh, an All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmaker representing Ilorin East Constituency in the House of Assembly, said the project would be his own way of impacting on his constituents.
“This erosion that has been disturbing you for decades would soon become a thing of the past.
“I am an eyewitness; the problem has been there for a very long time. But this time around, the slogan of ‘O to ge’ (enough is enough) that transformed to ‘Ise ya’ (let’s begin work) and metamorphosed to ‘Ise ti nlo’ (work is ongoing) in the state will take care of the project.
“Now I am telling you authoritatively and as a son of the soil that the project will be embarked upon with immediate effect.
“I just want to implore you to be prayerful for this government of Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq to succeed because it is a government of the people, by the people and for the people,” he said.
Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the lawmaker explained that he would have to embark on the project with his personal money because of the protracted problem that the residents of the area had suffered due to the perennial erosion.
He said that a four man-committee had been put in place with the head of the community as the chairman to hasten the job.
“Now, this is part of my contribution to the constituency. I am bringing out the funds from my personal purse; there is no constituency allowance because my constituency is very paramount to me.
“They sent me there to represent their interests and this forms part of what I was sent there to do,” he said.
Yusuf-Jimoh also asserted that he had embarked on repair of boreholes across the 12 political wards in the constituency to address the issue of water scarcity in the area.
He also explained that the transformers in five rural communities that were faulty had been repaired and reconnected to the national grid.
The lawmaker stated further that the APC government in the state would leave no stone unturned in ensuring rapid development.
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara, Mallam Saliu Mustapha has urged the people and relevant stakeholders in the Ilorin Emirate to jealously preserve the cultural heritage of the city against slipping into extinction.The scheme is targeted at addressing the challenge of youth unemployment in the country.
Justice Bibiye, communications manager of NSIP, said the beneficiaries were dismissed following reports that some of them had not gone to their respective places of primary assignment (PPA) in a long time.
“Instances have compelled the need for continued action against those who are seen to be undermining the smooth implementation of a well-thought-out federal government social intervention initiative,” he said in a statement.
“N-Power is not a charity programme and, therefore, everyone captured under the scheme is expected to justify his/her engagement by demonstrating diligence, hard work and commitment to duty at their PPAs.
“Acts of dereliction of duty, indolence, absenteeism and indiscipline on the part of volunteers shall continue to be dealt with decisively and in line with the rules of engagement.
“To ensure seamless execution of the programme in order to achieve the set goals, the NSIO has increased the number of monitoring partners, with fresh discussions having commenced in earnest to seek enhanced supervision and the strengthening of monitoring, for effective and efficient service delivery of all components of the NSIPs.”
He urged both the media and the public to report cases of absenteeism, adding that strict measures would ensure “fewer cases of misconduct” do not compromise the success of the entire programme.
“Field reports reaching us from our independent monitors, the states, the schools and other places of assignment confirm that the vast majority of the volunteers have been of good conduct,” he said.
“The public and the media would only be supporting the efforts of the administration to reduce unemployment, by reporting the relatively few indolent, erring volunteers who were lucky to have been selected to serve under such a programme.”
In January, TheCable exposed massive fraud in the scheme, detailing how beneficiaries connive with officials to abscond from duty.
Posing as an unemployed graduate, TheCable’s undercover reporter interacted with different officials who were willing to capitalise on the loopholes in the scheme.
N-Power was introduced in 2016 by the Buhari administration “to imbibe the entrepreneurship culture in the Nigerian youth aged between 18 and 35 — both graduates and non-graduates”.
An estimated 500,000 youth across the country are currently enrolled, providing services in establishments spanning schools; primary healthcare centres; agricultural sector; local government offices, among others. Their take-home pay is N30,000 monthly.
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