Taraba judgement: Violence erupts in Wukari

Barely 24 hours after the Taraba State Elections Petition Tribunal nullified the election of the state governor, Darius Ishaku, violence has erupted in Wukari area of the state.

Taraba is one of the northern states that has witnessed high amount of ethno-religious crisis in the last few years, with Wukari being a major spot for violence.

Reports say Sunday’s crisis started following celebrations and protests for and against the court ruling, delivered in favour of the All Progressives Congress candidate, Aisha Alhassan.

A resident of the town who spoke to PREMIUM TIMES on phone, Kawu Musa, said the crisis broke out after some touts took advantage of the anti-ruling protests to unleash mayhem.

He said some residents fled their homes to the bush for safety, adding that gunshots rent the air earlier in the day before the deployment of security agents to restore order.

“They just started firing sporadically, chanting war songs, we have to flee,” Mr. Musa said.

It was, however not clear the extent of destruction or if there were casualties as at the time of this report.

The Taraba State Police Public Relations Officer, Joseph Kwaji, confirmed the incident, saying soldiers and a detachment of police officers from the state command and other neighbouring divisions were promptly deployed to the town.

He said law and order had been restored in the affected areas.

The Taraba election tribunal on Saturday nullified the election of Mr. Ishaku mainly on the grounds that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, primary that produced him was held after the deadline approved by the electoral commission, INEC; and was thus illegal. The tribunal ordered that Mrs. Alhassan be sworn in as governor.

The PDP and the Mr. Ishaku have, however, indicated their intention to challenge the ruling at the Court of Appeal which by Nigerian law means the current governor will still continue in office.

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Aneke Twins Disagree On Marriage

Enugu based Nollywood identical twins, Aneke twins have disagreed on their take on marriage.

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The ladies in an interview with sunnewsonline disagreed on the kind of man they both like. According to Chidiebere, she can’t ever share her man with another woman, while her twin, Chidinma said, she can share her man with another woman and in fact she can be a second wife as long as there would be peace in the marriage.

When asked if they could be second wife, the two had this to say;

Chidiebere: The difference between then and now is that our father and mothers understood each other and knew what they wanted. But I can’t share my husband with another woman.

Chidinma: How they measured wealth those days was in how many children and wives one had. I don’t have a problem with polygamy but will my fellow wives be able to live the way my father and his wives lived? I believe it is still possible to live that way even now.

few months back, Aneke twins celebrated there birthday in enugu with the Physically challenged, The widows, the motherless babies and the elderly people at the various old peoples homes.

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Aisha Buhari Visits Rev. Fr Mbaka

Politics and Religion!

Aisha Buhari was at Enugu State to hold her women health initiative project tagged “Aishatu Buhari women health initiative”  the health screening programme took place at the queens school Enugu and over 2000 women were screened for free.

Mrs. Buhari was accompany by Mrs. Dolapo Osinbajo the wife of the Vice President, they were received by the wife of the governor of Enugu state Mrs. Monica Ugwuanyi and other dignitaries. The State governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi was also there to welcome the President's wife to the state.

While addressing the women at queens school Enugu. Mrs. Buhari said all hands must be on deck in the fight against seven ailments that severely affect women which include cervical and breast cancer, diabetes, hypertension and more.

She also paid a courtesy visit to Enugu Catholic priest and the founder of Adoration Ministry, Rev Fr. Ejike Mbaka.

South South, North East have Nigeria’s highest rates of abortions

Incidences of induced abortions are more prevalent in the South-South and the North-East regions of Nigeria, a new report says.

The study, conducted by US-based Guttmacher Institute, and Ipas, a nongovernmental organisation that focuses on female reproductive rights, puts the South-South in the lead, and the South West at the bottom.

The report shows that besides insurgency, the North East region of Nigeria is also plagued by a high rate of abortions – second only to the South-South.

“The proportion of abortions is lowest in South West, at 11 per cent, and highest in the South-South at 17 per cent, and 16 per cent in the North East,” the report says.

It adds that at least 1. 2 million induced abortions take place in various parts of Nigeria every year.

Olutosin Owolude, a consultant lecturer are the department of gynaecology at the University of Ibadan, who presented the report Thursday in Abuja, said increased rates of abortions, done mostly through unsafe methods, have further heightened maternal mortality in the country.

“As we all know, Nigeria has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world, presently put at 560 per 1000 births,” he said.

Mr. Owolude said the study, which was conducted in 2012, went through series of checks before its publication in 2015.

“These involve scientific methods that you have to rigorously follow,” he said. “It takes a long time to do this kind of study and to make sure that we do our analyses in a way that we are very confident of the findings,” said Mr. Owolude.

“We typically do not want to reveal the results until we have the study peer reviewed and get expert opinion that we have done all we need to do to have a scientific finding,” he added.

According to him, the number of induced abortions nationwide doubled from a previous report in 1996, which gave the number as 610, 000 nationwide.

He associated the reason for the increase to poor economic conditions which he said has led to an increase in the desire for smaller families.

He said Nigeria’s growing population, was another notable factor.

Mr. Owolude said the report also showed that about 40 per cent of women who engage in induced abortions suffer complications serious enough to require treatment.

He called on the government to salvage the situation by creating family planning programs as well as increasing sex education.

He said the government should provide equipment and manpower to meet the health needs of women suffering from complications resulting from abortion, as well as introduce programs focusing on improved use of contraceptive products.

Ipas country lead and senior advisor, Hauwa Shekarau, said the program was aimed at exposing the challenges of women and highlighting their reproductive rights, stressing that the life of one woman is as important as that of every woman.

“Because of the restrictive nature of the law regarding abortion in Nigeria, many women suffer, due to fear for stigmatization, among others. Yet every day the numbers of abortion continue to rise,” she stated.

She called on the Nigerian government and people to face the challenges posed by incidences of abortion in order to avoid an increase in mortality rates in the country.

SOURCE: Premiuntimesng

Last Single Honourable In House of Assembly Gets Married

The last single honourable in Lagos state House of Assembly, Moji Lawal is finally married.

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Moji was the first ever female aspirant in Apapa constituency, and emerged their first female representative on May 29, 2015. There were over 100 delegates in the primaries before she emerged her party – All Progressive Congress (APC)’s candidate.

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Her husband, John Paul, is a businessman. In an interview conducted with Punch earlier this year, Moji stated she was up to the challenge of entering marriage with a demanding career.

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A progressive to the core, Mojisola Lasbat Lawal was a member of the defunct Alliance for Democracy (AD) which transformed to the Action Congress (AC) which also emancipated to Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and now to All Progressive Congress (APC) party. A dynamic political team player, Mojisola Lasbat Lawal served as a Senior special assistant on intervention and inter-governmental relation in Apapa local government. Got elevated to serve as the supervisory coucilor for health in the same local government and has been a team player in the day to day health care delivery programmes in the local government till date.

Congratulations to the couple.

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Aisha Buhari Frowns At Child Abuse

The wife of Nigerian president, Aisha Buhari has frowned at the recent reports of child abuse in a school in Kano.

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According to a statement released by the director of media, Zakari yau Nadabo, yesterday, Wednesday, November 4, the wife of the president is very sad about alleged sexual abuse of minors in a school in Kano.

Read the press statement below:

The wife of the president Mrs Aisha Muhammadu Buhari has expressed concern over the recent reports of incidences of alleged sexual abuse of minors in a school in Kano. She said this when she received a group of concerned women and parents of some of the victims at the presidential villa.

The meeting followed the receipt of a petition by parents of two of the victims of the sexual abuse .
The wife of the president who promised to take all appropriate actions acknowledged the steps being taken by the kano state government in addressing the problem.

She commended the concerned mothers for taking a bold step in coming out to petition such immoral tendencies in the society.

Just recently, Aisha Buhari called on governors of all states to establish children’s parliament that would prepare them as future leaders.

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Ministers without portfolios

Now that President Muhammadu Buhari has had his 36 ministers confirmed by the Senate for him to fulfil the constitutional requirement, fulfil all righteousness and assuage people’s agitation, he can still go ahead to merge the ministries and reduce the number to 15 functionally, while maintaining 36 nominally.

He should give his top 15 minister-designates portfolios that meet his need to cut cost and then give the remaining 21 persons portfolios as ministers for special duties on diverse matters and then pay them their basic salaries without other perks of offices that are not written in the books.

He should also give them one room office, equipped with only a laptop and printer without even a secretary or attendant. Anyone who is dissatisfied can resign. We must learn to cut cost of governance in Nigeria.

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