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Lagos APC faults Bode George over comments on Tinubu June 18, 2019 The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress on Monday cautioned a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olabode George, to desist from fabricating lies against its National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. George, had in an interview with SUNDAY PUNCH commended Kola Abiola, the son of the late Chief Moshood Abiola, for exposing Tinubu. Kola had alleged that after the annulment of the June 12, 1993 election, Tinubu approached the late military dictator, Sani Abacha, and begged to be appointed a commissioner in Lagos. But the Lagos APC, in a statement issued by its Publicity Secretary, Mr Joe Igbokwe, said the PDP chieftain supported the “tissue of lies” because he lacked a sense of history. He said, “Before the annulment of June 12 1993 presidential election, governors, senators, members of the House of Representatives and members of the state Houses of Assembly had been in place, and to...

INEC: We Only Experimented With Server In 2018 •Insists it was not used for 2019 general election The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday insisted that the results of the 2019 general election were not transmitted electronically to its server, stressing that the commission only experimented with the technology during some staggered elections held in 2018. The commission said that the clarification was necessary because of rising controversy on the transmission of 2019 presidential election results from states to the INEC server. Speaking during the post-election retreat organised by the commission for its staff and ad hoc staff engaged for the last general elections in Osun State, INEC National Commissioner, Mr. Solomon Soyebi, explained that many factors forced the commission to drop the idea of electronic transmission of the results to a central server. Soyebi added that INEC experimented with electronic transmission of results during Anambra, Sokot...

News Rt. Hon. Aniekan Bassey, Speaker of the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly has approved the appointment of certain personnel for the smooth running of his office as Speaker of the 7th Assembly. Those appointed include Mr. Emmanuel Effiong (PRESS SECRETARY), Mr. Iwatt Charles Effiong (CHIEF OF STAFF), Mr. Darlington Udobong (SPECIAL ASSISTANT, MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS) and Mr. Desmond Edet Etim (HEAD OF PROTOCOL). Mr. Emmanuel Effiong, a Veteran Journalist and Newspaper Publisher, is a native of Mbiakong in Uruan Local Government of Akwa Ibom State. He holds an HND in Mass Communications from the Polytechnic Calabar, Cross River State. He comes on board with a rich profile of media practice spanning over three decades. Emmanuel Effiong pioneered the publication of the first all colored newspaper in the state in September 1999. He worked with the defunct Newswatch Magazine for 14 years, rising through the ranks as an Advertisement Executive to become the Special Projects M...

PRESS RELEASE! The Speaker of the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Aniekan Bassey has courteously approved the appointment of Mr. Emmanuel Effiong as his PRESS SECRETARY. Mr. Effiong, a Veteran Journalist and Newspaper Publisher, is a native of Mbiakong in Uruan Local Government of Akwa Ibom State. He holds an HND in Mass Communications from the Polytechnic Calabar, Cross River State. He comes on board with a rich profile of media practice spanning over three decades. He pioneered the publication of the first all coloured newspaper in the state in September 1999. He worked with the defunct Newswatch Magazine for 14 years, rising through the ranks as an Advertisement Executive to become the Special Projects Manager and subsequently the Advertisement Manager of the magazine.  He has been Chief Executive Officer of Global Media Ltd, a Public Relations Consultancy firm as well as Wood Concepts Ltd, an Integrated Media Services company. He was Chairman of Federated Ch...

Death in the dock! EGYPT’S FORMER PRESIDENT MOHAMMED MORSI DIES IN COURT Former Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi, has died in court, Egyptian state television reported on Monday. After mass protests against his rule, Morsi was overthrown by the military in 2013 and had been serving a seven-year sentence for falsifying his candidacy application for the 2012 presidential race.

News DSP Bala Elkana The Lagos State Police Command’s spokesperson, DSP Bala Elkana, has warned Nigerians to desist from buying stolen phones. According to him, “Under our laws, it is quite a serious offence for one to buy stolen phones. The law even regards the buyer to be more culpable than even the thief.  The punishment is more for the buyer than the thief. The wisdom behind that is to discourage people from stealing because if there is no market where they would sell those stolen things, they would not steal them but because they have a ready market, they easily steal. “This is why the law makes the punishment stiffer for the buyer.  The person who steals may get three years punishment, while the buyer could get seven years imprisonment and at the end, he will lose the property once we trace it to him. For a person to avoid buying stolen property, it is advisable that he buys things in the open market and not on the street or people who are just passing and not ...

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