‘302 Reps won’t return to House in June’

                                           Speaker, House of Representatives, Mr. Aminu Tambuwal

About 302 out the 360 members of the House of Representatives will not return to their seats when   the 8th session of the National Assembly will be inaugurated on June 6, investigation by The PUNCH has shown.

Leading the pack are the Speaker,   Aminu Tambuwal; the Deputy Speaker,  Emeka Ihedioha; the House Majority Leader, Mulikat Akande-Adeola; the Chief Whip,   Ishaka Bawa; the Minority Whip,   Sampson Osagie; and the Deputy Minority Leader,   Abdulrahman Suleiman-Kawu.

Other prominent non-returning lawmakers are a former Chairman, Adhoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy Probe,   Farouk Lawan; and the Chairman, House Committee on Petroleum Resources (Upstream),   Ajibola. Muraina.

Lawan, also a former chairman, House Committee on Information and House Committee on Education, was first elected to the House in 1999.

Wike planning to cede oil wells to Bayelsa –APC

                                                                                           Nyesom Wike

The All Progressives Congress in Rivers State on Thursday alleged that the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate in the state, Mr. Nyesom Wike, planned to have some of the state’s oil wells ceded to Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom and Abia states if the PDP wins the April 11 election.

Making the allegation in a statement in Port Harcourt by its Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, APC said Wike planned to pay N1bn monthly to the First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, and some yet to be verified amount to 10 other chieftains of the PDP if elected into office.

The statement read, “This planned and unacceptable rape of Rivers State coffers, which was revealed to us by a patriotic Rivers State citizen, has made us even more resolved to prevent the emergence of a PDP-led government in our dear state.

Jonathan, family move personal effects from Aso Rock

                                                                               President Goodluck Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan and his family members have started moving their personal belongings out of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, few days after the President lost his re-election bid, Saturday PUNCH can authoritatively report.

Our correspondent sighted some buses loaded with travel bags moving out of the President’s official residence at about midday on Friday.

One of the buses, a white 18-seater Hiace bus marked PF 6244 AL, was still being loaded with bags of different shades and sizes at the time of filing this report.

It was not clear at press time where the buses were heading for.

A source said the early removal of the personal effects of the first family might have been necessitated by the need for the renovation of the residence ahead of the May 29 handover date.

Kano REC, wife, two children die in fire

                        Kano State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr. Mikhail Abdullahi

The Kano State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr. Mikhail Abdullahi, his wife and two children have died in a fire outbreak.

According to the police, the fire occurred around 4:00am on Friday.

The state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, told journalists that the victims died as a result of suffocation after inhaling smoke emitted from the hose of a split air conditioner at the Master’s Bedroom.

The fire was said to have occurred as a result of a spark in the family’s generator.

While giving a graphic account of the incident, Idris said, “Today (Friday) at about 4:30 am., the policemen on duty at the official residence of the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Kano State, Alhaji Munkaila Abdullahi, located on No. 2 Sir Kashim Ibrahim Road, Nassarawa GRA, Kano, observed a fire emanating from a split air conditioner in the sitting room.

No regrets campaigning for Jonathan –Nollywood actors

                              L-R: Omoni Oboli, Lancelot Imasuen, Segun Arinze and Fidelis Duker

Finally, the presidential election has come and gone with some people in celebration mood while some others went home sulking and licking their wounds.

The people who may likely be saddened with the development are certainly Nollywood actors because most of them massively supported President Goodluck Jonathan in his second term bid.

At every opportunity they got, be it on social media or even on TV adverts, the actors didn’t fail to sing the praises of the president who, according to them, had imparted on their industry.

And since the last election didn’t favour their desired candidate, Saturday Beats asked some of them if they regretted the choice they made and most of them claimed they didn’t.