Saturday, 30 January 2016

Nigerian Newspapers: 10 things you need to know this Saturday morning



Good morning! Here are 10 things you need to know this morning:
1. The Supreme Court, Friday nullified the election of Senators Stella Oduah and Andy Ubah over pre-election matters. Also nullified was the election of House
Of Reps members from Anambra State. Odua and Ubah are to be replaced by Annie Okonkwo (Anambra Central) and Chris Ubah (Anambra South) respectively.
2. Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, was Friday denied bail by an Abuja Federal High Court. Kanu was sent back to Kuje Prison after the judge ruled against his bail application.
3. The Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, has said a new tariffs regime for electricity consumers across the country will become effective on Monday, February 1, stressing that the new regime will enable the power distribution, generation and transmission companies to acquire needed infrastructure.
4. No fewer than 10 persons were killed in a bomb blast that occurred inside the grain market in Gomi international market, Adamawa State on Friday. Report says twenty-eight others were injured and taken to different hospitals for treatment.
5. The management of Leadership Holdings Limited, publishers of Leadership newspapers, has reportedly returned the N9 million it received from the Presidency through the Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria as compensation for the seizure of its publications in 2014. This contained in a letter dated January 29 and addressed to the General Secretary of NPAN.
6. Justice Uche Agomuo of the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt Friday granted bail to twenty pro-Biafran protesters. The accused were granted consolidated bail, but each of them must present 2 sureties.
7. Students of the Obafemi Awolowo University, on Friday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to probe the activities of the university’s Vice Chancellor, Prof. Bamitale Omole.
They made the appeal in a message they sent to the President through the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who was at the university to deliver a lecture, titled ‘Nexus between corruption and underdevelopment of Nigeria’ at the University’s Faculty of Arts.
8. Kogi State governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello has reinstated 15 Local Government chairmen sacked by former Gov. Idris Wada, for decamping to the All Progressives Congress (APC). This was contained in a statement issued in Lokoja on Friday by Bello’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr Kingsley Fanwo.
9. Three suspected armed robbers were on Friday morning burnt to death at Orunu village in Ofu local government area of Kogi. Report says the armed suspects blocked the Orunu-Idah road junction and were about to start their operation when some youths in the area mobilized against them.
10. Former Ondo State Special Adviser on Information Communication Technology, Engr. Tunji Light Ariyomo has joined the governorship race in the State. The politician disclosed this on Friday, saying that he joined the race to make a difference.

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Yanda Zaka Canza addreshin Ip dinka A Komfiyuta Na Windows
Barkan Mu Da Warhaka. Yau Nazo Manah Da Yanda Zaka Canza IP
address A komfiyuta . Ko wanna Dan Adam, Yana Dana Sa Dalilai
Akan Meya Sa Zai canza IP address wasu Sabida Tsaro Wasu kuma
Dalilin Su Ka Dai Suka Sani. Amma Nidai Nayi Ne Domin Al'Umma
Su Amfana...

A Takaice Meye IP Address
Wato dai Ip address Wani Hanya ce Wanda Take Nuna Na'urar da
take yin Amfani da Ita.. kuma Kowacce Na'urar

[misali: Komfiyuta
da Waya Sailula] Suna Da Nasu IP Address Na dabam .. Ana iya
gano inda ake amfani da na'urar ta wannan IP din..
Yanda ake Canza IP Address
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2. Zabi Network da kuma Internet.
3. Danna akan Network and Sharing Centre.
4. Zabi Canza adapter settings a sashi na Hagu.
5. Yanzu Kayi Right Click akan Network din ka kuke haduwa na
Sadarwa Yanar Gizo [ Connecting] a lokacin.
6. Zabi Properties
7. Yanzu Sai ka Danna Sau biyu [Double Click] akan Internet
Protocol Version 6(TCP/IPv6)
8. Yanzu Sai Ka Zabi Yin Amfani Da Wa'innan IPv6 address:
9. Yanzu Sai Ka Sanya Ko wanna Irin Ip address Kake So a gurin
10. Ka danna Sau biyu akan Madanni Wanda Yake Nuna Mai Amfani
Ne [Valid Bottom] Sai Ka danna OK
Karin Bayani
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S/Court sacks Oduah, Uba, others

The Supreme Court yesterday nullified the election of the two remaining senators from Anambra State. All three senators from the state emerged on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Those removed yesterday were Senators Stella Oduah and Andy Uba.
To replace them, according to the apex court, are Chris Ubah (Anambra South) and Annie Okonkwo (Anambra Central).


In the judgment by a five-man panel of justices delivered by Justice Inyang Okoro, the court set aside the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Abuja delivered on February 16, 2015 while it upheld the decision of the Abuja Federal High Court that was delivered on December 15, 2014.
It would be recalled that the Anambra State executive committee of the PDP led by Ejike Oguebego had sued the PDP, INEC and the Chukwudi Okasia-led faction of the PDP over the validity of the state’s party leadership.

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Majalisar Dinkin Duniya ta ce ta bankado karin lalatar da dakarun Turai suka yi da yara a Jamhuriyyar Afrika ta Tsakiya.
Babban jami'in kare hakkin bil Adama na Majalisar Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, ya ce an yi lalata da yaran ne a kusa da wani sansanin 'yan gudun hijira da ke filin jiragen sama na Bangui.
Masu bincike na Majalisar sun ce wata yarinya 'yar shekara bakwai ta shaida musu cewa, sojojin Faransa sun yi lalata da ita kafin a bata ruwa da biskit.
Mista Zeid ya ce lamarin ya faru ne a shekarar 2014, amma bai fito fili ba sai a 'yan makonnin nan.

The agony of dying before being born

Anthonia Ogoko didn’t feel anything particularly wrong with her sixth pregnancy. It was to be her last, she had decided. When the pains started, she knew something was wrong.
“My babies died inside me before” Ogoko remembers, looking back on memories of distress in the final stages of her pregnancy. “They were twins.” She has stopped having children, but that singular loss has never left her.


In the last 15 years, the number of mothers dying from pregnancy-related causes and children dying in the first 28 days of life has been sliding - but not the number of children losing their lives before they are born.
Last year, an estimated 313,700 infants were stillborn across the country, according to a new series on stillbirths published by Lancet last week. Only India, with 592,100 stillbirths, surpassed Nigeria among 10 countries with the highest stillbirth rates.
Among them, the 10 countries - including Pakistan, China, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Bangladesh, Indonesia, Tanzania and Niger - account for two out of every three stillbirths in the world, according to the Lancet study. And there were some 2.6 million stillbirths last year. A global push hopes by 2030, stillbirth rates around the world could fall to just 12 or less per 1000 births.
Some 56 countries, many of them in Africa, will need to at least double present progress in the reduction of stillbirths - which are highest in conflict and emergency areas, noted the study.
The details are in the data, if Nigeria is to accelerate progress toward the “12.” At present, stillbirth numbers are “unacceptably high,” said Dr. Segun Adeoye, programme manager at the Society for Gynaecology and Obstetrics of Nigeria (SOGON).
Despite interim and long-term data, the dearth of quality data has prompted introduction of maternal death review - a no-blame inquiry into any death of any pregnant woman in Nigeria.
At present, the review has been altered to include surveillance and response to baby deaths immediately before and after birth - any death from about 20th week of pregnancy to four weeks after birth.
The review is being piloted in Abuja and Lagos, and will give “more precise and accurate data on why mothers and babies are dying,” said Adeoye. “In all facilities and communities, we will know exactly why they are dying and it will inform decision makers on actions to take,” he added. “The action might not necessarily be something big, it might be just ensuring health workers are at their duty posts.”
Only two out of every three children in the world have a birth certificate, and stillbirths even less, but experts believe it is a “missed opportunity” for better data.
“Stillbirths often go unrecorded, let alone lead to counselling,” said Toyin Saraki, founder of Wellbeing Foundation Africa. She lost one of her twin children and has blamed failures in public healthcare - and then gone on start Wellbeing, which works to improve reproductive, maternal; newly-born, child and adolescent health.
She also co-authored the third report in the Lancet Series, titled ‘Stillbirths: Economic and psychosocial consequences.’
“I was fighting for one life and bewildered how to mourn the other life… People did not know whether to congratulate or commiserate with me,” Saraki remarked.
At least two-thirds of births are in hospitals, but 1.3 million children died during labour last year, according to the report. Dooshima Ochefa’s [not her real name] baby was one - it presented with its foot and, egged on by her birth attendants, she continued to push. Distressed, her baby died, still tucked in her womb.
Margaret Hassan had taken herbal remedies prescribed by her traditional birth attendant and going into labour was extra pain.
“She was tired,” Chinomso Ibe remembers as a midwife. “We listened, and the baby was gone. We had to induce her to deliver the baby.”
Ibe has gone on to start Traffina Foundation, which encourages women to attend antenatal clinics and give birth in hospital, al

Chelsea announce Pato deal

Chelsea have completed signing of Alexandre Pato on loan from Corinthians.

The former AC Milan striker, has agreed a move until the end of the current season and the Blues will pay all his wages, believed to be only around £30,000 a week over the period.

Pato admitted after his unveiling, that it was a dream to join the Stamford Bridge club.

“I am so happy to sign for Chelsea. It is a dream for me,” he said.

“I am looking forward to meeting and getting to know my new team-mates and cannot wait to play.

“I thank Chelsea for their support and hope I can repay this faith to the club and its fans.”

The 26-year-old is unlikely to feature in Chelsea’s FA Cup clash with MK Dons on Sunday.

Mark’s unending woes

Happenings towards the February 20 rerun of Benue South senatorial poll as ordered by the appellate court which sacked Senator David Mark from the red chamber of the National Assembly indicate trouble for the former Senate president.
The fragile relationship among members of Mark’s People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the district may have substantially broken down, with the defection of many stalwarts to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The defectors include the immediate past deputy governor of Benue State, Chief Stephen Lawani, a former minister of state for the Niger Delta, Dr. Sam Ode, a former minister of state for education, Dr. Jerry Agada and former federal permanent secretary, Chief Mike Okibe Onoja, all of Mark’s Idoma ethnic stock.


Director of publicity of the APC, John Ikwulono told our correspondent that Lawani, Ode and Onoja, as well as hundreds of their supporters have fulfilled all necessary requirements for them to become members of the party.
“They are just waiting for a date to be scheduled for their formal decamping. The date fixed for that earlier was cancelled because of the burial of late Tor Tiv which falls within the same period. But I can tell you that they have fulfilled the party’s condition at various levels,” he said.
Our correspondent reports that the Senate seat of the zone became a major issue after the nullification of the March 28 election and has ever since marred the spirit of unity which had sustained power brokers in the area in the past.
Mark who is a non-lily livered politician would by the new development have to fight vigorously in the coming battle to sustain his hold on the seat as apparently, the perceived super force that was at work to settle political scores with the Agbegede-Otukpo born ex-military administrator would stop at nothing to oust him.
No doubt, the defectors are politicians with structures in the district, and their movement to another camp means Mark will have to do the extra campaign to convince the electorate to vote for his return to the Senate.
It is recalled that Onoja had stepped down at the last minute for Mark during the PDP’s senatorial primary election, a development that paved the way for the former Senate president to return to the red chamber for the fifth time. On the other hand, Ode and Lawani contested the PDP governorship primary which produced Prince Terhemen Tarzoor.
While Onoja hinged his reason for defection on need to remain in the mainstream of national politics, it was learnt that his decision was actually borne out of bitterness towards Mark, who had refused to honour a gentleman’s agreement between them to hand over the baton in the 2015 election.
Daily Trust gathered that the two bosom friends had on a lunch date over a dish of ‘amala and okoho soup’ during the build-up to the 2011 polls sealed an unwritten agreement for the former military governor Plateau and Katsina states to replace Mark at the Senate in 2015.
But, that was never to be, as the later allegedly convinced the Idoma power bloc that his party would win the election to maintain the status quo, and by political calculation, he would emerge as the country’s president in 2019.
It was learnt that based on that ‘brilliant idea,’ Onoja stepped down. “And you will recall that he said his decision was in the interest of the Idoma nation. So he stepped down for the Idoma collective agenda and not for Mark,” a source who craved anonymity said.
The source added that it was for that singular reason that Onoja turned down the APC’s offer to become its party’s senatorial flag bearer when they met with him in Abuja, having already pledged allegiance to the superiority of Idoma nation over his ambition.
A press statement issued and signed by Comrade Alegwu Adadu and Hon. Alex Onah Aboh and dated January 11, 2016, confirmed the defection of Onoja, a former federal permanent secretary in the defence ministry.
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Armsgate: EFCC reportedly traces N4.8bn to Obanikoro’s children accounts

Messr Babajide and Gbolahan Obanikoro, two sons of former Minister of state for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, may soon be arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

This indication follows a disclosure that N4,745,000,000.00 was traced to a company the duo have interest in, Sylvan McNamara Limited.

According to Vanguard, the money was allegedly paid in several tranches into the company’s account number: 0026223714 with Diamond bank from the Office of the National Security Adviser account with the CBN.

It was gathered that all the transfers were effected between June and December, 2014.

First, N200 million was transferred into Sylvan Mc Namara’s account on June 5, 2015, while N2billion was also wired into the account from the CBN/ Imprest Main account on June 16, 2015.

Another transfer of N700 million entered the account on July 7, 2014, while N1billion was credited to the account on July 30, 2014.

Other transfers included: N160 million on August 8, 2014; N225 million on August 22, 2014; N200 million on November 14, 2014 and N200 million on December 5, 2014.

The newspaper said its sources disclosed that both Gbolahan and Babajide Obanikoro, as directors of the company, were also signatories to its account until 2014 when one Olalekan Ogunseye was made the sole signatory to the account.

The payments were said to have emanated from the office of the National Security Adviser as payment for a job not yet known.