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Sanusi is still useful to the North

A bill seeking to amend the provisions of the 1999 Constitution to preclude the federal, state and FCT High Courts from entertaining pre-election disputes emanating from elective congresses of political parties scaled second reading on the floor of the Senate yesterday. The bill, sponsored by Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege (APC, Delta Central), seeks to alter Section 272 of the Principal Act by inserting, after subsection (3), a new subsection (4).

The proposed subsection reads, “Nothing in this section shall empower the High Court of a State to entertain a dispute from a member of a political party challenging the actions or decisions of a political party in respect of the election of a principal officer or member of its executive committee or other governing body following from a congress, conference, convention or other meeting convened by that political party for the purpose of electing such principal officers or . “This Act may be cited as the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (Fifth Alteration, No. 29) Act, 2020,” it added.

Also scaling second reading is a bill for an Act to alter the provisions of the 1999 Constitution, to provide immunity for of the legislature in respect of words spoke or written at plenary sessions or committee proceedings and institutionalise legislative bureaucracy in the constitution, sponsored by Senator Opeyemi Bamidele (APC – Ekiti Central). Other bills that scaled second reading during plenary on Wednesday are: A bill for an Act to alter the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 to make provision for the Financial Autonomy of Local Government Councils, sponsored by Senator Ahmad Babba Kaita (APC – Katsina North); A bill for an Act to alter the provisions of the Constitution to provide for the amendment of Section 54(1) and Section 96(1), sponsored by Senator Istifanus Gyang (PDP – Plateau North); and a bill for an Act to alter the provisions of the Constitution to give Local Government Councils direct control of their finances, by Senator Uche Ekwunife (PDP – Anambra Central).

Others are: A bill for an Act to alter the Constitution to provide for an upward review of the Derivation Formula for the inclusion of Solid Minerals and Hydro Power in the Derivation principle, by Senator Olubunmi Adetumbi (APC – Ekiti North); A bill for an Act to alter the provisions of the Constitution to make Right to Food and Food Security in Nigeria, by Senator Abdullahi Adamu (APC – Nasarawa West); A bill for an Act to alter the provisions of the Constitution 1999, to provide for the regulation of the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal, by Senator Surajudeen Akinola Basira (APC – Osun Central). The bills to alter the provisions of the constitution were referred by President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, to the Committee on Constitution Review, chaired by the Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege.

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/senate-moves-to-stop-high-courts-from-entertaining-pre-election-matters.html

*Presidency tackles Kwankwaso, says govs can remove monarchs
*Politics has destroyed our valuable tradition – Northern elders
*Kano govt denies banishment as Sanusi goes to court today
*New Kano emir weeps

One of the wives of the deposed Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, visited him yesterday at his new abode in Awe town in Nasarawa State.

Daily Trust reports that the wife of the dethroned emir arrived Awe at about 11.15 am along with three of the deposed emir’s children. She arrived in a white SUV with tinted glasses and was escorted by mobile policemen and officers of the Department of State Security (DSS) who were conveyed in two Toyota Hilux vans with Kaduna State Government number plates.

The Emir of Awe, Alhaji Umar Isa Abubakar; Chief of Azara, Dr Kabir Musa Ibrahim and Chairman of Awe Local Government Area, Alhaji Umar Da-Akano, were also said to have met with the deposed emir.

The people of the host community in Awe said they were overwhelmed with Sanusi’s presence but unhappy with his dethronement. Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje presents letter of appointment to Emir of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero, while the Deputy Governor, Dr. Nasiru Yussuf Gawuna, looks on at the Government House, Kano yesterday A resident, Mallam Ibrahim Usman Fulani said: “I am a Fulani man who rears cows. When I heard the news, I rushed to town to confirm. I wanted to travel but I will not until I observe Friday congregational prayer with him. Many people are waiting for that historic moment,” he said. Locals said power supply was being rationed on one-day-on and one-day-off basis in the area.

Awe is about 90 kilometres from Lafia, the capital of the state. It has a good tarred road but lacks basic amenities as residents buy water from vendors. A cart of 10 gallons containing 20 litres is sold for N200. Upon arrival, Sanusi II was taken to a two-bedroom bungalow with a guest house wing where he spent the night. The apartment, Daily Trust gathered, belongs to an official of Awe Local Government Area.

According to a source, the place is a temporary abode for the ex-emir as another ‘befitting’ accommodation was being prepared for him.

Govs can appoint, remove monarchs – Presidency

The presidency said yesterday that President Muhammadu Buhari has no hand whatsoever in the dethronement of Sanusi II as Emir of Kano. Presidential spokesman Garba Shehu, in a statement titled “Leave President Buhari out of the Kano Emirate Issue”, said such insinuations were untrue, malicious and politically motivated.

Former governor of Kano State, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, while speaking on a BBC Hausa programme, alleged that it was President Buhari that asked Governor Abdullahi Ganduje to remove Sanusi. Kwankwaso said, “Even the Kano government has stated that it is an order. The president is involving himself in Kano affairs; but where he is expected to speak, he will not. He only speaks where he is not required to. “What happened on 9th of March 2020 is very sad for the people of Kano, people of Nigeria and the entire world. You know HRH Sanusi is an international man. We saw what happened on the brazen abuse of power in the dethronement process.

This, to us, is very unfair.” But the presidency said it was unfair and disingenuous of opposition politicians to try to link the situation in Kano State to the federal government and the president. The statement reads: “The president does not have a history of intervening in the affairs of any state in the country, unless the issue at hand is of national consequence. On such matters which impinge on national security, he has a duty of involvement as the law stipulates. “As outlined in the constitution, the appointment or removal of emirs and other traditional leaders is strictly within the jurisdiction of state governments.”

The president prayed that the will of Allah will be done at all times, and that the emirate/state and its people continue to experience progress irrespective of who is on the throne, it also said.

Bayero wept as he bade farewell to Bichi people

The newly appointed Emir of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero, yesterday wept as he bade farewell to the people of the emirate where he was emir. The emir, while making his remarks shortly after he received his letter of appointment, had to pause awhile to control his emotion. He said the people of Bichi showed him real love, respect and while he was their emir.

“I really appreciate you, the people of Bichi. Today, I am leaving you not because I do not want to stay with you but because this is how Allah has destined it. “As Muslim faithful, we must believe in destiny in all our undertakings. We must believe that whatever happened to us is from Allah the Almighty,” he said. He also appealed to the people of Kano to live in peace with one another and government and traditional institutions to move the state forward. In his remarks, Governor Ganduje said, “I am so happy today because the people of Kano are happy. I am so delighted for this occasion which to me is the first of its kind since the creation of Kano State.

“This is the first time in the history of Kano where two sons of late Emir Ado Bayero, who ruled the state for 53 years were appointed emirs. This is the first time in the history of Kano where two brothers of same mother same father received letters of appointment as emirs,” he said. Shortly after the presentation of letters of appointment to the two emirs, Aminu Ado Bayero was escorted to emir’s palace in Kano by a mammoth crowd, and his brother, Nasiru Ado Bayero was escorted to Bichi.

Source: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/family-visits-sanusi-in-awe.html

Aisha Muhammadu Buhari’s foundation, Future Assured Initiative, with from Presidential Committee on Northeast and funds from Petroleum Equalization Fund (PEP) has enrolled 639 out-of-school youths for WAEC and NECO exams for free. Lead project coordinator of the Youth Educational Program (YEP), Nasir Sani disclosed this to journalists during a monitoring session of some of the out-of-school youth taking lessons in preparatory for the exams at Aliyu Mustapha Secondary School in Yola.

He said the selected candidates are those who have lost hope in education due to their families’ financial background and those who have written the WAEC and NECO exams once and could not write again due to their financial status. He said the program will cover three zones—the central zone hosted in Aliyu Mustapha, Southern zone at College of Agriculture Ganye and northern zone at the Adamawa State University, Mubi.

Sani said the programme, which started in 2017 with 135 out of 350 candidates ed for both WAEC and NECO, amidst poor performance. In order to change the narrative, they thought there is a problem in the teaching methods and decided to come up with a different system of using ICT so as to make learning easier with e-books installed in Tablets given to each of the 639 out-of-school youths.

He said they have received much from the Adamawa state government, Ganwari Ganye and the Emir of Mubi. A beneficiary, Mariya Muhammad, who dreamed of becoming a doctor one day said the training has broadened her horizon.

Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/foundation-s-639-out-of-school-youth-for-jamb-neco-in-adamawa.html

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission yesterday re-arraigned Uyiekpen Giwa-Osagie, the lawyer to former vice-president Atiku Abubakar, for allegedly laundering $2m during the 2019 general elections. In the three counts filed before the Federal High Court in Lagos, the EFCC accused the lawyer and his younger brother, Erhunse Giwa-Osagie, of conspiring to make a cash payment of $2m without going through a financial institution.

The anti-graft agency said the transaction violated provisions of Sections 18(a) and 1(a) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act 2011, adding that the defendants were liable to be punished under Section 16(2)(b) of the same Act.

But the Giwa-Osagie brothers pleaded not guilty before Justice C.J. Aneke. They had earlier been arraigned in August last year before Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the same court. Their re-arraignment yesterday followed the transfer of the case file from Justice Oweibo to Justice Aneke.

Following an application by their lawyer, Ahmed Raji (SAN), Justice Aneke permitted them to continue on the bail earlier granted them by Justice Oweibo. The judge later adjourned till Monday, March 9, to rule on the lawyer’s application seeking permission to travel to London for medical appointment.

Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/efcc-re-arraigns-atikus-lawyer-for-money-laundering.html

A woman not man

Citytrend:
I may God lead his actions.
And i wish him whatever he wishes this great country. Good for good and evil for evil

The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Ibrahim Tanko has sworn in the Acting President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem. Justice Dongban-Mensem took over from Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa who retired as the substantive President of the Court of Appeal after attaining the statutory retirement age of 70 years.

Her appointment was approved by President Muhammadu Buhari following a recommendation from the National Judicial Council (NJC). Speaking during the ceremony on Friday, Justice Muhammad described Justice Dongban-Mensem as a hardworking and seasoned jurist.

“The whole world had testified that you can do it. The testimony that comes from colleagues and the generality of the public and colleagues and those of us which you met. Please continue to bear that testimony. People have good things to say about you,” he said.

“I urged you to carry your colleagues along and do a lot of consultations with them, have a lot of confidence and if need be, pay them a visit to their various divisions,” the CJN stated He wished her God’s guidance and protection in her new role. Supreme Court justices at the event were Justices Bode Rhodes-Vivour; Olukayode Ariwoola; Kudirat Kekere-Ekun; Ejembi Eko; Amina Augie; Sylvester Ngwuta; Justice Uwani Abba-Aji and Paul Galunje.

Governors Simeon Lanlong of Plateau State, Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi State; Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha and the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ahmed Idris Wase were among the dignitaries present at the event. The former head of the Enugu Division of the court, graduated from Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria.

She specialised in Criminal and Civil Procedure Law, Taxation and International Public Finance, Public International Law, Legislative Drafting, Constitutional and istrative Law and International Commercial Transactions. She received her LL.B and LL.M from Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria-Nigeria and a Post Graduate Diploma from the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, Russel Square, London.

Justice Mensem was Registrar of Plateau State High Court in 1979 and Magistrate of various grades up to Chief Magistrate between 1981 and 1990. She was Visiting Lecturer on Press Law at the Catholic Media Centre, Kaduna from 1988-1992 and Part-time Lecturer at the University of Jos between 1989 and 1997. From 1990-1993, Justice Dongban-Mensem served as Deputy Chief Registrar, Superior Courts and Protocol Affairs and was appointed Judge, High Court of Justice, Plateau Judiciary from 1993-1996.

On transfer from the former, Dongban-Mensem became the Judge, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Judiciary from 1997-2003. Apart from being on several s of investigation in the Plateau State Judiciary, she has performed numerous ad-hoc duties in the capacity of Secretary, Plateau State Law Report Committee, Secretary/Legal Adviser, Ad-hoc Committee on Widowhood Practices in Plateau State all in 1991 and a Pioneer Board Member/Legal Adviser, Plateau State Commission for Women from1991-1992 among several others. She was also an Advisory Committee Member for FCT Judiciary on the National Centre for State Courts International Programs Division from 2001-2002 and was Acting Presiding Justice of the Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal between November and December 2009.

Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/justice-dongban-mensem-takes-oath-as-acting-president-court-of-appeal.html

OSHO bobo good bye ...

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Political activities in the National Secretariat of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC have been paralysed following the suspension of its National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole by a FCT High Court, Daily Trust reports. One of our correspondents who visited the office of embattled party Chief at about 12:05pm reports that workers in the office did not show up at their duty post – a development that came after scores of security operatives besieged the Secretariat to enforce the judgment of the court.

Meanwhile, a Federal High Court in Kano on Thursday, presided over by Justice Lewis Allagoa ordered the status quo be maintained in the matter regarding the suspension of Oshiomhole. The party chief, who had earlier called reporters for a press briefing at his private residence in Aso Drive, Abuja presented the judgement to journalists through his Chief Press Secretary, Simon Egbebulum and aborted the scheduled briefing.

But in a swift reaction by the National Vice Chairman (North East), Mustapha Salihu during a press conference at the party’s National Secretariat, argued that two courts of coordinate jurisdiction cannot sit on the same matter. He said, “First of all, I want to be very brief because we have a case in court and I am a plaintiff, so, I don’t want to subjudice. But I want to tell you from my knowledge of law, two courts of coordinate jurisdiction cannot seat on appeal of an order or judgement given by each other.

“A Federal High Court cannot sit on appeal of FCT High Court. The only court that has the jurisdiction to sit on an appeal is the Court of Appeal in this case and the court order of the FCT High Court was served yesterday. “Most of you have the copy of order and it is an elementary law that first in time prevails. That of Abuja High Court came earlier and we sought interlocutory injunction and there is affidavit of urgency which seeks to prevail on certain kinds of mischief which we prayed that the court should help prevail which they did so.”

He added, “If you look at the main reason why that interlocutory injunction was granted, I don’t think that a Federal High Court of the same jurisdiction will now come and set it aside. We don’t need the knowledge of law to know that a High Court cannot sit on a matter of appeal in High Court. So, I don’t want to say much about the order but I want to say that it is only the Court of Appeal that can vacate this injunction.

“As you can see, we are in the secretariat and we are running the affairs of the party. So, the suspension still prevails until hearing of the matter or if there is any contrary order from the Court of Appeal.”

Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/oshiomholes-suspension-activities-grounded-at-apc-national-secretariat.html

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Nigeria’s debt hits N33.078trn as Senate approves Buhari’s $22.7bn loan Experts flay borrowing ‘96m Nigerians live in extreme poverty’ Nigeria’s debt profile has hit N33.078trn (108.1bn) following the Senate’s approval of a $22.7 billion (N6.923trn) loan request by President Muhammadu Buhari. The approval pushed up the nation’s total debt from $85.4bn (N26.047trn) accumulated as at…

Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/nigerias-debt-hits-n33-078trn-as-senate-approves-buharis-22-7bn-loan.html

The embattled National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has revealed why some persons are allegedly bent on removing him from office.

He disclosed this while speaking with newsmen shortly after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House, Abuja on Thursday. His revelation is also coming shortly after the news coming from Kano indicated that Justice Lewis Allagoa of the Federal High Court in Kano had set aside a ruling of the FCT High Court suspending him as the ruling party’s national chairman.

The former Edo State governor, who was ordered by an FCT High Court to stop parading himself as APC National Chairman, said he met President Buhari in order to brief him on the issue. Oshiomhole, who hinted that an unnamed minister and governors were behind his travail, said that the decision to delay hearing of the case to 7th April was to enable his opponents destabilise the party.

The embattled chairman alleged that those people plotting to get rid of him, because they wanted to be president in 2023, had “doubtful hold” on their state at the moment.

Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/why-my-opponents-want-me-out-oshiomhole.html

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A 34-year-old woman, Sherifat Shakirudeen, who allegedly assaulted her male neighbour by pouring urine on his face, on Wednesday, appeared before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos.

Shakirudeen is facing a charge of assault, to which she pleaded not guilty. The Prosecutor, Sgt. Cyriacus Osuji, told the court that the defendant committed the offence at about 6:00 am. on Jan. 15, at No.15, Adeseke Street, Oworonshoki area of Lagos. Osuji said the defendant assaulted the complainant, Mr Okon Bassey, by pouring urine on him.

He said that the defendant and the complainant had a misunderstanding and that instead of resolving it, the former poured urine on the latter while he was preparing to go out. The prosecutor said that the offence contravened Section 172 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

The Magistrate, Mrs M. O. Ope-Agbe, granted the defendant bail in the sum of N200,000, with one surety in like sum. Agbe, who said that the surety must be gainfully employed, thereafter adjourned the case till March 19, for trial. (NAN)

Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/woman-in-court-for-allegedly-pouring-urine-on-male-neighbour.html

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The National Vice Chairman of the party, (North East), Comrade Mustapha Salihu has said that the suspended National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, almost caused chaos before the court ordered he stepped aside on Wednesday. Salihu, while reacting to the judgement delivered by Justice Danladi Senchi, in an interview with journalists, specifically said Oshiomhole’s order to the Spokesperson of the party, Malam Lanre Issa-Onilu, during one of their meetings to announce one of the aspirants to fill vacant National Secretary position nearly tore the party apart.

The Adamawa-born APC chieftain stressed that such “autocratic” move by the embattled Chairman led five party including himself to drag Oshiomhole and the party to court, arguing that someone who had been suspended by his party in Edo state could not preside over the party affairs. He said, “Immediately the court injunction was given last time, the national chairman called on the party’s National Publicity Secretary to issue a statement to the press that Bulama is the National Secretary to the Party.

“I believe you guys are aware of the meeting that held about a month ago on that matter, which ended without a decision. Since then, there has not been a decision as to the replacement of the National Secretary.

The chairman is about to create more chaos within the party as he gave the order.” Daily Trust reports that, according to the court order, Oshiomhole is to step down pending the determination of the substantive suit seeking his perpetual removal as the APC chairman. Oshiomhole was suspended last November by the Edo State chapter of the APC over his alleged role in the crisis rocking the party in the state. The decision, according to a statement signed by the State Chairman, Aslem Ojezua, and Assistant State Secretary, Ikuenobe Anthony, followed the vote of no confidence ed on Comrade Oshiomhole by the chairmen of the APC in the 18 local government areas of the state.

The statement read in part: “Consequent on the development, the State Executive Committee has adopted the vote of no confidence ed on him and the subsisting suspension order from the organs of the party in the state.” It said the decision was necessary to prevent a repeat of what happened in Zamfara State, where the party was unable to field any candidate in elections.

Source: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/apc-natl-vice-chair-hails-oshiomholes-suspension.html

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The Supreme Court had on Tuesday dismissed the application seeking a review of the January 14 judgement of the court which removed former governor of Imo State, Emeka Ihedioha and declared Hope Uzodinma winner of the election. But in a dissenting judgement of the court by Justice Chima Nweze, the apex court set aside the judgement of January 14 and directed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to issue Ihedioha with the certificate of return. Here are 10 excerpts in that judgement:

One, “With profound respect, in the totality of all their submissions, the appellant respondents misunderstood the applicant’s point. Little wonder then that they did not offer any defence in the main argument of the applicants.”

Two, “In a nutshell, the applicants’ case was woven around their contention that the said judgement of this court was null and void since it was made without jurisdiction. Hence, time does not run against them in relation to the null judgement.”

Three, “This court is like other apex courts in other parts of the Commonwealth.

Four, “In the judgement of this court, this jurisdiction of court was not specifically dealt with. Hence, the judgement of Adah J.CA. is still a subsisting judgement.

Five, “The applicants equally complained that the said judgement of this court is a nullity in that it was delivered without jurisdiction. True indeed, one of the grounds of the first appellants (Uzodinma)’s reliefs was that the election was invalid by reason of non-compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Act (as amended). It was therefore, with profound respect, clearly preposterous to award him electoral victory in exercise he has deprecated and maligned as being invalid.”

Six, “Although the first appellant claimed that his 213, 695 votes were unlawfully excluded in the third respondent’s final result, the statement of his excluded votes in Exhibit AGA339527, the one on record, mysteriously omitted any reference to the votes scored by other candidates in that election. In my respectful view, having thus failed, neglected or omitted to plead the scores of other candidates in the said election, this court wrongly declared him as duly elected.”

Seven, “True indeed, DW 5, in his INEC form EC40G, Exhibit 63 RB1, 63 RB19 shows that elections in those polling units were either cancelled or did not hold at all. Unfortunate for defence was that the said first appellant misled this court into accepting those duplicitous and fake results which he had tabulated as shown above that was how 213, 695 votes were added to him and 1, 903 votes were added to the first applicant. The net effect was that although by Exhibit A1 Form EC8, Exhibit AGA2 in the affidavit in of the application, the total number of accredited voters in the state was 823,743, the total number of votes cast came 961, 083.

Wonders shall never end! That means there were 159,340 votes in excess of the total number of accredited votes. “In the circumstance, I think that the humble view, that this court has inherent jurisdiction of redeeming its image by setting aside the said judgement, is not out of place.”

Eight, “Even then, this court declared the first appellant the winner in the said election when there was no evidence that he satisfied the true requirement of highest number of votes cast in the election and a position of not less than one-quarter of all the votes cast in each of at least two-thirds of all the local government areas in the State, Section 179 (2) (a) and (b) of the Constitution. If left, the said judgement of the Supreme Court will continue to haunt our electoral jurisprudence now and in the future.”

Nine, “Like the US Supreme Court, while acknowledging the desirable objectives of the growing principles of finality and legal certainty, I take the firm view that this growing principles of finality and legal certainty cannot extinguish the clear legal rights of the applicant to have a fairer pronouncement of this court setting aside the said judgement of January 14, 2020.”

Ten, “Instead of indemnifying the learned senior counsel for the applicant in court, I commend his boldness and courage in approaching this court with this type of motion.”

Source: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/why-ihedioha-not-uzodinma-should-be-imo-governor-supreme-courts-dissenting-judgement.html

A former governor of Zamfara State and three-term senator of the Federal republic of Nigeria, Senator Ahmed Sani Yarima has said that he had no plan of introducing sharia law in the country if elected president come 2023. Yarima is planning to run for the office of the president of Nigeria in the next presidential election. While speaking during an interview with Daily Trust at his Abuja residence, said: “See, I did Sharia under the Nigerian constitution” “I prepared a bill, sent it to state assembly and the state assembly ed it into law because we have a homogeneous society and I did it with consultations with the Christians.

“I had a meeting with Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Zamfara State chapter and we had an understanding and the law was mainly for Muslims. “I am a Muslim, I want to live and die as a Muslim. And I want to practice my religion as provided for in the constitution. So, the issue of Sharia is being misunderstood and misinterpreted. There is no compulsion in religion.

“The constitution of Nigeria is what is being operated and that is what I will tell people. At least, I have been in the senate and I would have proposed a bill to introduce Sharia, but I know that is not possible. There is already Sharia in Nigerian constitution. What I did was to implement what is in the constitution at the state level. I don’t need to say I want to do the Sharia programme at the national level, it is not possible. Yarima however noted that if he is able to get the National Assembly to the bill, he could implement the sharia law in the country.

“At the national level, we have the House of Representatives and the Senate, if I can send my bill for Sharia and it is ed by the National Assembly, so be it,” he added. The former governor said he is attending an international school for Arabic studies for a course in Islamic Studies to enable him know more about Islam. “I am learning Arabic as a language and the Qur’an. For Arabic language; I would love to be able to read Islamic books in Arabic. You see, we that have concentrated all our education in the western education, would hardly see Arabic book and read it and understand what it says.”

Speaking further about his ambition to become president, he said he doesn’t believe in regionalism. “Let’s have the best people who have much more better things to offer to Nigerians. Everybody should come up with what they want to do for Nigerians and how they want to move Nigeria forward and such a person should be assessed by Nigerians whether he or she should be elected or not. “It is not from where you come from and not your religion.

As far as I am concerned, you should look at individuals as Nigerians otherwise we should ask for rotation of presidency in the constitution. If we are looking at regions, North-West has done, let’s go to South-South; which means anybody whether he is good or not but once determined by that zone should be elected. “If it is not determined by constitutional arrangement, every Nigerian should aspire to be in elective position of government.”

Source: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/why-i-cant-introduce-sharia-in-nigeria-if-elected-president-yarima.html

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Hope its not Coronavirus??

Pope Francis postponed his official appointments Friday and was working from home, the Vatican said, a day after cancelling a scheduled appearance at mass because of “a mild ailment”. Francis, 83, had appeared earlier in the week to be suffering from a cold.

He was seen blowing his nose and coughing during the Ash Wednesday service, and his voice sounded hoarse. He celebrated morning mass as usual and greeted participants at the end, but cleared his diary of everything apart from meetings at the Saint Martha’s guest house at the Vatican he lives, chief press officer Matteo Bruni said in a statement. Bruni had said Thursday that Francis was suffering from “a mild ailment”.

The decision to cancel public appointments for a second day in a row came as Italy grapples with the largest outbreak of the coronavirus in Europe, with some 650 cases and 17 deaths. The Vatican made no reference to the disease in its announcement. Francis has not previously curtailed any of his activities, which often include mingling with crowds and shaking hands.

The pontiff, who lost part of a lung as a young man and suffers from sciatica, very rarely skips appointments in his busy schedule. On Sunday he is due to go on a spiritual retreat with the entire Roman Curia — the Holy See’s istrative institutions — after presiding over the weekly Angelus prayer from a window overlooking Saint Peter’s Square. (AFP)

Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/pope-cancels-more-official-appointments-over-cold.html

Bubu is working

On January 16, 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari launched the new 64-page enhanced Electronic International port which has a 10-year validity period. Daily Trust had in November 2019 reported that many months after its launch, the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) was yet to commence the issuance of the new enhanced electronic port after an initial announcement…

Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/on-nigerias-new-e-port-and-us-travel-restriction.html

A former ally of President Muhammadu Buhari, Alhaji Buba Galadima, has said that his family are now ‘scattered’ with relatives over the seizure of his houses by the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON). The corporation had announced the taken over of the residence and company of Alhaji Galadima, over “debts to the tune of N900 million”.

But Galadima said the development was a witch-hunt and threatened to sleep outside the house, located in Wuse II, Abuja, so that Nigerians can see his plight. Galadima, however, told Daily Trust via telephone on Thursday that while he travelled to Lagos state over the matter, his families including wife, children and grandchildren were relocated to relatives’ houses in the FCT.

“They (AMCON) have taken over the house and the family are ‘scattered’ here and there with relatives. I am in Lagos to see the lawyers who handled the matter and some other issues,” Galadima said. He also told our correspondent that, he initially resisted the take-over bid with 30 Policemen who came to effect the take-over. He said he later agreed to move, but noted that the Policemen have been reduced to six. “The Policemen that came were respectful and friendly. They were 30 before and we now see that they have been reduced to six,” Galadima said.

Source: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/my-family-are-scattered-in-relatives-houses-buba-galadima.html