Obasanjo facing divine punishment for past deeds –Akiolu

                                                                             Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu

The Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, says former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s recent accusation against the President Goodluck Jonathan administration smacks of hypocrisy.

The monarch said this while fielding questions from journalists at the inauguration of four naval warships in Lagos on Thursday.

Akiolu said Obasanjo illegally withheld the state’s allocation for several months and refused to release it even after the Supreme Court ordered him to do so.

He said, “If I want to do something, I don’t pretend. God gives many people long life so that they can get enough punishment. Let me tell you something; all the injustices they committed against Lagos State from 1999 to 2007, God Almighty is punishing them now.

Police recover stolen PVCs in Delta

                                                                    Nigerian permanent voters card

The Delta State Police Command says it has arrested some of the people that were involved in the theft of 6,000 Permanent Voter Cards and voter registers from the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, in Oghara, on Monday.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Celestina Kalu, on Thursday, said 7,365 PVCs were recovered from the suspects.

She said one Hadjia Shakira Adewale of INEC office, Oghara in Ethiope-West Local Government Area had reported to the police at Oghara that unknown gunmen broke into INEC office and made away with 6,000 PVCS and registers.

Don’t confirm Obanikoro as minister, APC advises Senate

                                                    Former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro

The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress says the Senate should live up to expectation by rejecting the ministerial nomination of Senator Musiliu Obanikoro.

The APC, in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Mr. Joe Igbokwe, said the Senate should not be intimidated by the pro-Obanikoro protesters that demonstrated in front of the National Assembly complex on Wednesday.

The party said Obanikoro had been fingered in the rigging of the June 21, 2014 Ekiti governorship election which was purportedly recorded on tape.
Although Obanikoro has denied rigging the elections, the APC, told the Senate that confirming Obanikoro’s appointment would send wrong signals to Nigerians and the international community that the system encourages impunity.

Sambo using religion to divide Nigerians —APC

                                                                             Vice-President Namadi Sambo

The All Progressives Congress has accused Vice-President Namadi Sambo and his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, of using religion to divide Nigerians.

The party, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Thursday, said Sambo, while addressing PDP supporters in Kaduna, said the APC was pushing a Christian agenda and should be rejected at the polls because its vice-presidential candidate, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), has “5,000 churches.”

The APC said, “It must baffle every right-thinking Nigerian what the vice-president stands to gain by his resort to basic instincts. It is more baffling against the background of the fact that it was his party, the PDP, that first labelled our party, the APC, as a Muslim party.

NIS to deport illegal immigrants before elections

                                                                 Some immigration officers at a parade

The Nigeria Immigration Service, Akwa Ibom State Command, has said it will repatriate all illegal immigrants from the state before 2015 general elections.

The state NIS Controller, Abdullahi Garba, told journalists in Uyo, on Thursday, that that 10 foreigners had returned 10 Permanent Voter Cards to the command and they had been handed over to the Independent National Electoral Commission in the state.

He revealed that the command had mapped out flashpoints within the 31 local government areas of the state for mop up exercise and subsequent repatriation of illegal immigrants before the forthcoming elections.