Again, Appeal Court Dismisses Suit Seeking Timipre Sylva’s Exclusion From Bayelsa Governorship Election

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Again, Appeal Court Dismisses Suit Seeking Timipre Sylva’s Exclusion From Bayelsa Governorship Election

The Abuja division of the Court of Appeal has finally cleared the coast for former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva to participate in the governorship election, less than 24 hours to the conduct of the polls in Bayelsa State.

The Appellate Court dismissed the suit seeking exclusion of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship candidate in the poll.

vernorship election, less than 24 hours to the conduct of the polls in Bayelsa State.

The Appellate Court dismissed the suit seeking exclusion of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship candidate in the poll.

While delivering judgment in an appeal instituted by one Isikima Johnson, against Sylva and two others, Justice Binta Zubar held that the suit was not only unjustifiable but brought in bad faith by the appellant against the respondents.

The Court agreed that the allegations of taking of oath of governorship office twice being held against Sylva cannot stand in the face of law because the first one had been invalidated by competent Courts.

Justice Zubar also dismissed the allegations against APC that its April 14, 2023 primary election which produced Sylva as flagbearer was done in contravention of provisions of the law.

Sylva had in his arguments presented evidence that showed that a five-man Electoral Committee on April 14 conducted the election in 106 Wards of the 8 Local Government Areas of Bayelsa and with 52062 votes, he came first, while the appellant came fourth with 584 votes.

The Court however held that with the evidence coupled with the monitoring report of INEC as a statutory body, the allegations by the Appellant that Sylva emerged without a primary election has no foundation.

Justice Zubar further held that the case of the appellant was statute barred having been instituted outside the 14 days allowed by law as a pre-election matter.

The Court of Appeal upheld the judgment of a Federal High Court in Abuja delivered by Justice Inyang Ekwo which on September 26 dismissed the suit for want of merit and substance.

SOURCE:  AIT

Operation Still Water 111: Nigerian Armed force Commits once again To Insurance Of Lives, Property

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 Operation Still Water 111: Nigerian Armed force Commits once again To Insurance Of Lives, Property

The Nigerian Army has reaffirmed it’s readiness to the protection of lives and property particularly during the coming Yuletide celebrations and beyond.

General officer commanding, second Divsion, Ibadan, Major General Bamidele Alabi revealed this during the banner off of activity actually water 111 in Igbeti, Orire nearby government area of Oyo state, where he noticed that the activity is to address pockets of security challenges particularly in the confined areas of Oyo state.

Fmr. Senate President Saraki Advocates Entrepreneurial Skill To Eliminate Female Gender Poverty

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Fmr. Senate President Saraki Advocates Entrepreneurial Skill To Eliminate Female Gender Poverty

Former Nigeria’s Senate president, Bukola Saraki has recommended effective empowerment through entrepreneurial skills as panacea to eliminate female gender poverty in Nigeria.

The previous Senate President who was addressed at an occasion by fatimah malofachi, a chief at ABS establishment unveiled this in Ilorin the Kwara state capital during a pioneering abilities obtaining preparing for ladies in Kwara state.

The chose members are supposed to be tutored and urged to use on compelling utilization of innovation and systems administration to give their organizations worldwide lift for more support. 

Canada Police Probe Video Cautioning Not To Fly Air India

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Canada Police Probe Video Cautioning Not To Fly Air India

Canada is home to nearly 770,000 Sikhs, who make up around two percent of the general populace, with a vocal minority calling for making a different Indian state called Khalistan.

(FILES) In this file photo taken on January 12, 2022 Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at a news conference on the Covid-19 situation in Ottawa, Canada. – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on January 31, 2022 via Twitter that he had tested positive for Covid-19 but was not experiencing severe symptoms. 

Canada’s federal police are investigating a warning in videos circulating online not to fly Air India starting November 19, the transportation minister said Thursday.

"We treat each danger in a serious way, particularly when it concerns carriers," Transportation Priest Pablo Rodriguez told correspondents in Ottawa.

The Regal Canadian Mounted Police, he added, "is doing an examination."

The recordings, posted web-based somewhat recently, include Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, the general guidance for the US-based Sikhs for Equity, which advocates the production of a different Sikh state cut out of India.

He cautions Sikhs in the video: "Don't fly Air India after November 19, your lives might be in harm's way."

He let Canadian media know that this was not a danger yet rather a call to blacklist Indian organizations.

The Sikh nonconformist development is generally completed inside India, where security powers showed no mercy to place down a rebellion in the province of Punjab during the 1980s.

Canada is home to exactly 770,000 Sikhs, who make up around two percent of the general populace, with a vocal minority calling for making a different Indian state called Khalistan.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in September raised charges that Indian specialists assumed a part in the June murder of a Canadian Sikh pioneer, close to Vancouver, and removed an Indian negotiator accepted to have a connection to the killing.

India excused as "ridiculous" the sensation allegation.

Relations among India and Canada have plunged over the perplexing killing, and Indian misery over how Ottawa has taken care of Sikh separatists.

Gov. Lawal Swears-In Sole Administrators In Zamfara, Tasks Them On Security And Probity

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Gov. Lawal Swears-In Sole Administrators In Zamfara, Tasks Them On Security And Probity

Zamfara State Governor Dauda Lawal has sworn-in Sole Administrators for the 14 local Government Areas of the state following the expiration of the tenure of the former Administrators.

Gov. Lawal of Zamfara state swear-in Local Government Administrators

The Oath Of Office was administered on the 14 sole administrators of the local councils by the Chief Judge of the State, Justice Kulu Aliyu.

Governor Dauda Lawal charged the Sole Administrators to work hard, in collaboration with security agencies to ensure peace in their domains

The governor warned them to desist from engaging in any corrupt acts, but be forthright, honest, and fair to all in their local council areas, and bring about the desired development.

He disclosed that the recruited five thousand youths from the 249 districts as Zamfara Community Protection Guards, will be trained and provided with arms and modern crime-fighting equipment to fight the bandits and protect their communities.

The Commissioner for Local Governments and Chieftaincy Affairs, Garba Yandi, promised that he would work closely with the sole administrators to ensure the actualization of the Rescue Mission of the Dauda Lawal-led administration.

The 14 sole administrators are expected to be in office for six and are expected to hit the ground running, by developing people-oriented policies, that will alleviate the plight of the communities that have been worst hit by activities of bandits and reduce poverty among the people in Zamfara State.

Valverde Extends Real Madrid Deal Until 2029

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Valverde Extends Real Madrid Deal Until 2029

The 25-year-old Uruguay international joined Real Madrid in 2016 at the age of 18, from Penarol in Montevideo.

Real Madrid’s Uruguayan midfielder Federico Valverde, Real Madrid’s Spanish forward Lucas Vazquez and Real Madrid’s Spanish defender Jesus Vallejo react at the end of the UEFA Champions League 1st round day 6 Group F football match between Real Madrid CF and Celtic FC at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid on November 2, 2022. 

 

Uruguayan midfielder Federico Valverde has extended his contract with Real Madrid for two more seasons until 2029, the Spanish club announced in a statement on Thursday.

The club did not give figures but, according to Spanish media, as with the recent extensions of Eduardo Camavinga, Vinicius Junior and Rodrygo, Valverde’s extension, which runs until June 30, 2029, would be accompanied by a release clause of one billion euros.

The 25-year-old Uruguay international joined Real Madrid in 2016 at the age of 18, from Penarol in Montevideo.

Colombian Guerrillas Free Liverpool Striker Luis Diaz’s Kidnapped Dad

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Colombian Guerrillas Free Liverpool Striker Luis Diaz’s Kidnapped Dad

The 26-year-old winger's father and mother Cilenis Marulanda were abducted by armed men on motorcycles at a gas station in their home town.

Luis Diaz signed for Liverpool from Porto in January 2022.

 

Colombia’s ELN guerrilla group on Thursday freed the father of Liverpool footballer Luis Diaz, 12 days after kidnapping him, according to live TV footage.

After being handed over by the rebels to a humanitarian mission, Luis Manuel Diaz arrived by helicopter in the northeastern city of Valledupar, some 90 kilometers (56 miles) from his hometown of Barrancas where he was abducted with his wife on October 28. She was rescued the same day.

“Long live Freedom and Peace,” President Gustavo Petro wrote on X, formerly Twitter, after the release.

The Bishops Conference of Colombia, involved in negotiating the handover, released a photograph of Diaz in a wooded area with a woman taking his vital signs.

The 26-year-old winger’s father and mother Cilenis Marulanda were abducted by armed men on motorcycles at a gas station in their hometown.

Marulanda was rescued hours later and a massive search operation by ground and air was launched for her husband, with more than 250 soldiers involved.

The ELN, which is in peace negotiations with Petro’s government, later acknowledged one of its units was behind the kidnapping, which it described as a “mistake.”

On Sunday, Diaz begged the ELN to free his father.

“I ask the ELN for the prompt release of my father, and I ask international organizations to intercede for his freedom,” Diaz said on X.

“Every second, every minute our anguish grows,” the young footballer added.