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President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the National Executive Committee of the All Progressives Congress to reverse its decision granting a tenure extension for party executives at all levels. Buhari asked the party’s NEC to henceforth avoid taking decisions capable of leading the party into playing into the hands of the opposition. He said this in his opening remarks at the ongoing NEC Meeting of the party in Abuja. According to him, the tenure extension was at variance with the party’s constitution as well as the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He said he had received legal advice from the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice on the matter.

Worried by the age long crisis which has kept families at each others jugular, the Deputy Majority Leader, and Member, representing Ankpa 1 State Constituency in the Kogi State House of Assembly, Hon. Ahmed Mohammed has mediated peace among the people of Ojiapata Community in Ankpa Local Government Area of Kogi State. The lawmaker who received reports of clashes over land related issues last week immediately began moves to restore peace among the people by bringing the waring factions together to discuss peace. The conflict was between Ojiapata and Emekutu land owners. According to Hon. Ahmed, separate meetings were held in Ojiapata-Ankpa and Governors Lodge on Friday and Saturday where gray areas were amicably addressed. Ahmed appreciated the youths, elders and community leaders who attended meetings at short notice. “Despite the urgency, i wish to appreciate the youth, elders and community heads who attended our meetings despite the short notice, it shows that we are all ea...

Source: Vanguard News THE Senate has assured that it will completely carry out a holistic amendment of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development, NOGICD Act of 2010 before the end of the eighth legislative session. It also said that the Act requires amendment especially against the backdrop that all principal players in the Nigerian economy and foreign investors do not want local content. Saraki According to the Senate, it will in the next two weeks commence the amendment process, as it plans to put in place an action plan that would set out the modalities and the modus operandi needed to achieve the amendment of the current act as passed by the National Assembly. The Act establishes the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board,  NCDMB as the sole agency of the Federal Government that is responsible for driving Nigerian Content in the oil and gas industry. Disclosing this in Accra, Ghana at the close of a 3- day Stakeholders’ Sensitization Programme ...

Source: The Nation News President Muhammadu Buhari appears to be holding all the aces in his battle of wits with the National Assembly on the sequence of elections in the country. Fifty-four Senators have signed to abort plan by the legislature to override the President’s veto of the amendment to the Electoral Act on the order of elections. This is 17 more than the 37 he requires to stop the threat by the Senate leadership to override the veto. Also showing support for the President in the battle of wits are State governors elected on the platform of the party. Twenty-one of them met secretly again in Abuja on Thursday night to review the situation. The APC governors’ meeting took place at a residence in the Asokoro part of Abuja, according to sources. The agenda included how to end the crisis of confidence between the Presidency and the National Assembly; mobilizing support for the President’s Veto of some bills especially the 2018 Budget and the new order of ...

By Phrank Shaibu The name Dino Melaye, or simply called, Dino, gained unparalleled and national attention when the man was in the House of Representatives. It is a name that became associated with brigandage, rascality and unimaginable notoriety. Indeed, mischief could be said to be another word you could never dismiss each time the name is mentioned. Of course, those who were with him in the Ahmed Bello University (ABU), Zaria where he was mainly regarded and treated as a “hired thug” knew the heights the man could go to achieve his objective. But most of his fellow students in the university thought they had seen the worst of the “hired thug” then. It was therefore a great surprise to see their Ex-student in the House of Representatives displaying the same pranks for which he was very notorious in the university. Their surprise knew no bounds when they further discovered that there was no letting up in his capacity for mischief. It was not difficult to spot D...

By Mohammed Ahmed Yabagi Community Leaders in the Eastern Senatorial District of Kogi State have affirmed their resolve to support the state Governor, Yahaya Bello for a second term in office in next year's election. They echoed this resolved on Sunday in a maiden meeting they held with the Governor at Anyigba, the commercial capital of Igalaland. In a speech he delivered at the event, the Chairman of Igala Gagos Association, Nuhu Alfa praised Governor Bello for his giant strides in human capItal development, infrastructural overhaul,  agriculture, upgrade of healthcare facilities, reforms in the civil service and educational sectors, improvement in the state security architecture among others since his assumption of office. The Gagos, comprising Community Leaders from the nine LGAs in Igalaland,  the Chairman said, has over five hundred members in total. He was particularly ecstatic for the magnanimity of the Governor in granting them audience, a gesture he described as n...

A sanction unpatriotic Ankpas by the Nigerian Youth Graduate Assembly via her National President Comrade Ogbe Benson Aduojo “it is commonly assumed that where a man does not know where he is heading to, he knows where he is coming from, but when the assumption proves on the contrary, the man becomes a vagabond” Sequel to my earlier article entitled: ‘Ankpa is not for thuggery: spare our youth from your selfish politics and save the future of our home’ which was a shout out to Ankpa politicians to desist from politics of thuggery and selfishness and to the youth not to involve themselves in political thuggery or any social vices prior to the forthcoming general elections. Where upon, we so much believed that every reasonable Ankpa politician and youth who have good will for the development of Ankpa would get heed to and be guided towards sustaining the future of our ancestral home. However, we became disappointed and frustrated just a week after the passionate shout out when I saw ...

Listeriosis, an infection caused by the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes is currently ravaging South Africa in an outbreak that is said to be the worst so far in world history. Listeriosis outbreak which started in January 2017 in South Africa has so far infested over 1000 people and claimed almost 200 lives. As if that is not a bad enough news for Africa, World Health Organisation within this week warned Nigeria and fifteen other countries to brace up for Listeriosis outbreak, which they said might had been exported to these countries through the source of the outbreak in South African, which was discovered to be ready-to-eat meat products that have been contaminated with Listeria from the factory. But as it is with our culture in acegist.com, we get you informed at the right time. That is why we are bringing to you all you need to know about Listeriosis now and how to avoid contacting it. What is Listeriosis? – As we have earlier said, Listeriosis is an infection that is cau...

Source: The Leadership News Senate yesterday confirmed the nomination of Aishah Ahmad and Edward Lametek Adamu as deputy governors of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Also, Senate confirmed the appointment of three members of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria. The confirmed MPC members include: Professor Adeola Festus Adenikunji, Dr. Aliyu Rafindadi Sanusi and Dr. Robert Chikwendu Asogwa respectively. However, the Upper Chamber rejected the appointment of Dr. Asheikh A. Maidugu and asked President Muhammadu Buhari to alternatively submit to Senate a new name for replacement. Recall that Ahmad and Adamu were nominated as CBN deputy governors by President Muhammadu Buhari in October 2017 and February 2018 respectively, same with the MPC members. But their confirmation was delayed by the Senate after it had put embargo on all presidential nominees because of the unresolved impasse between the legislature and executive. The Senate yesterday received an...

Source: The Nation News President Muhammadu Buhari will receive the released Dapchi schoolgirls on Friday by 12 noon. The insurgents, Boko Haram, abducted 110 school girls from Government Girls Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State on the 19th of February, 2018. The girls were released on Wednesday morning after they stayed in the terrorists den for one month. They have been moved to Abuja receiving medical attention.

Source: Tempo News There is palpable tension in the camp of supporters of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki over the inability of one of his diehard supporters, Senator Dino Melaye to return to the country from Ghana, where is suspected to have gone into hiding, after accusation of arming young men to wreck havoc in Kogi state and make it ungovernable. Police spokesman, Jimoh Moshood had paraded 31-years old Kabiru Saidu alongside 25-years old Nuhu Salisu after their arrest on January 19 at Ogojueje in Dekina local government area of Kogi state, alleging the men had confessed to be working for the senator. Police said they seized two AK47 rifles, five pump action guns, two locally made pistols and heaps of charms from the thugs and their gang members. The force disclosed that the hoodlums similarly confessed of involvement in several kidnappings and working as political thugs to politicians. But the Police said it has filed a case at a Lokoja Court accusing the Senator and ...

By Prince Tijani Dauda: The United Nations General Assembly declared 22nd March as World Water Day to focus attention on the importance of fresh and clean water and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. Water is an essential building block of life. It is more than just essential to quench thirst or protect health; water is vital for creating jobs and supporting economic, social, and human development. Today, there are over 663 million people living without a safe water supply close to home, spending countless hours queuing or trekking to distant sources, and coping with the health impacts of using contaminated water. There is sufficient fresh water in Nigeria and the earth as a whole to make it accessible to everyone, but due to poor funding or decayed infrastructure and bad governance, every year, millions of people, mostly children, die from diseases associated with inadequate water supply, sanitation and hygiene. Water scarcity, poor wate...

Honorable Ahmed Mohammed on his weekly constituency outreach program to communities in Ankpa 1, paid a visit to Emekutu community and was led by the Onu Emekutu, Alh. Hassan Shaibu to their only source of water for years. The Onu Emekutu while briefing the Deputy Majority Leader said that, the only water source they have is the one coming out of the rock, they had to build a reservoir and a channel with pipes so that the water can flow from the rock to the reservoir, then our people can fetch. He pleaded with the Honorable to come to their aid, and as a man who has demonstrated it right from his first day in office and also worried about the lingering water crisis in rural communities, immediately flagged-off for construction of a motorized borehole and also, paid for the completion of the building of the reservoir. The Youth Leader, Mall Khalid Shaibu speaking on behalf of the youths describe Hon. Ahmed Mohammed as a leader that understand the plight of his people. He is a man that l...

The Deputy Majority Leader and member representing Ankpa 1 State Constituency at the Kogi State House of Assembly, Honorable Ahmed Mohammed condemned, in strong terms, the killings by herdsmen in oganè-nigwu and Omala LGA in Kogi State. Speaking to pressmen on Saturday 17th March 2018, The Deputy Majority Leader also called on the security agencies to beef up security in areas where this type of killing is ongoing. "Every life is valuable either within or outside the state. No life should be lost as a result of violence. I sympathize with the people of Dekina and Omala LGA and I must appreciate immediate response of the Kogi State government by ensuring that full security machineries are deployed to those areas. I am hopeful that, with this measures such attacks will be nipped in the bud.” He said. He condoled with the families of the victims and appealed to members of the affected communities to keep the peace and rest assured that the culprits will be apprehended and th...

Over the past few weeks a lot of news have made headlines on many ‘mediaphere’ in Nigeria. One of such news is the imbroglio entwined in the AJAOKUTA steel integrated plant Saga. A lot of questions have been asked by various sections of Nigerians, most calling on government to re-engage the original builders, and others, who have very little knowledge about the activities surrounding the grounding of the plant, being ignorant or indifferent. Questions of whether the original builders are still in existence and possessed the requisite wherewithal to complete the project is sadly gaining popularity, whereas a more germane question would have been whether they were willing to still partner Nigeria to complete the project or not, and not of their existence and competence. A little history of the Soviet Union may provide light as to whether this Russian company still exists or not. Soviet Russia, as Russia before the USSR was known, was a dynasty headed by a Tsar. Aft...

ANKPA IS NOT FOR THUGGERY: SPARE OUR YOUTH FROM YOUR POLITICS OF SELFISHNESS AND SAVE THE FUTURE OF OUR HOME. A shout out to Ankpa politicians by the Nigerian Youth Graduate Assembly via her National President, Comrd. Ogbe Benson Aduojo. "He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword". It is really heart-down-throding and a thing of disgrace for Ankpa to be hard of by the prevailing recent invented devilish act of some Ankpa politicians in their quest for political power which is really uncalled  for and totally strange to the land. Ankpa, the home of peace loving people is known to be free from thuggery and "Omawede" slogan even when the words and its activities were known and common in other neighbouring LGAs. The good people of Ankpa has been applauded for peace and unity in terms of thuggery and other political vices.This is so as there was no or just minimal records of thuggery in Ankpa political trend  right from the regime of Late Audu through Alh. Ibra...

Thugs intercepted and arrested By Military in Ankpa LGA The Nigerian Army has arrested three suspected political thugs in Ankpa LGA this afternoon and Arms and ammunition were also reportedly recovered from the thugs. The troops while on patrol arrested three out of six suspected political thugs who were in the convoy of Mr. John Aduga, who is declaring his political ambition to contest for house of Assembly this afternoon in the compound of Alhaji Isiaka Alfa. They were arrested while in possession of one 2 Riffle, Magazines, and a pair of personal belongings immediately after they left the venue of the program to cause havoc in town Details later...

Honorable Ahmed Mohammed representing Ankpa 1 State constituency on Sunday 4th March, 2018, in Ojède-Ankpa LGA flagged off a Social Welfare Scheme for Widows with over 250 widows to benefit and a promise that nobody would be left out in the prosperity for all. Speaking at the eventful ceremony, the Deputy Majority Leader said that the scheme would take care of the financial and health needs of the widows, and also empower them to be able to start up small scale businesses. He explained that the welfare scheme was another addition to the prosperity agenda as over 500  youths  were presently benefitting from the Ahmed Mohammed Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Scheme. Today we are here to witness another milestone in Ankpa LGA. The welfare scheme which is designed for selected widows to assist and empower you to cater for your needs. We will begin our first phase by selecting a total of two hundred and fifty widows drawn from the five wards in the constituency to par...

Ankpa 1 Constituency and the need for Hon. Ahmed Mohammed again and again by Comrade. Omale Danjuma The choice before Ankpa I Constituency in the coming State Assembly election is simple; A choice between going forward or going backwards, between the new ways and the old ways, between freedom and repression; between a record of visible achievements and beneficial reforms - and desperate power-seekers with empty promises which an ordinary old woman in the village knows. Therefore, the need for the continuity of Hon. Ahmed Mohammed at the Kogi State House Of Assembly will further bring more of his peoples oriented projects to the constituency and it beholds on us to jettison stereotypes and prejudice and do the needful in making sure that Hon. Ahmed Mohammed continues his good work irrespective of our various political ideologies. The time of old way of lamentation is over. This is a time of transformation, a time of fairness and justice, a time of politics of physical development. Th...