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Controversy Trials Lagos Explosion •Police Anti-Bomb Experts Visit Site

CONTROVERSY TRAILS LAGOS EXPLOSION •POLICE ANTI-BOMB EXPERTS VISIT SITE
CONTROVERSY has continued to trail the Wednesday night explosion at a farm tank along Creek Road in Apapa area of Lagos State as experts from the Anti-bomb unit of the Nigeria Police, on Thursday visited the scene of the explosion
National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency , Nigerian Army and the National Emergency Management Agency also visited the scene but none of these agencies has been able to ascertain the cause of the explosion
The Nigerian Tribune gathered that the two tankers that were involved in the explosion had already been loaded with petroleum product, and that they both had minor fire incidents, before the real explosion occurred.
There were insinuations that the spark of fire from one of the loaded tankers might have led to the full blown explosion, that rocked the entire Apapa community
Security men at the scene also did not rule out the fact that the burnt vehicle might have been wired primarily for the purpose of bombing the tank farm thus creating a big explosion
There was heavy traffic gridlock around Creek Road as policemen, who were investigating the cause of the explosion, cordoned off a large part of the road, making free flow of vehicles impossible
A worker in the area, who identified himself as Fortune called for a thorough investigation into the occupants, and particulars of the Toyota Sienna vehicle, that reportedly ignited the explosion
The Nigerian Tribune gathered that the management of the tank farm, in its explanations to the security agencies, still claimed that nobody could ascertain the cause of the explosion.
According to the company, two minor incidents from the loaded tankers occurred, but they claimed that the incidents were thoroughly dealt with before they escalated
Meanwhile the image maker in charge of the state police command, Ngozi Braide, insisted that the explosion had, as of Thursday evening, had not been confirmed to be a bomb explosion
Braide said that “police have commenced investigations into the incidents, while bomb experts visited the scene today and investigations have started. I cannot tell you what the cause is until, when we conclude our investigations.”
She added, “I may not be able to tell you the number of people that died but I will be coming up with a statement later. We have commenced investigation. In cases like this you just do not go and be making statements up and down. After the investigation, we will come up with what transpired and make it known to the press.”
Ibrahim Farinloye, the spokesperson of NEMA, South-West, also claimed that “nobody can ascertain the cause of the incident for now but we have handed over the investigations to the police.
Source: Tribune

CONTROVERSY has continued to trail the Wednesday night explosion at a farm tank along Creek Road in Apapa area of Lagos State as experts from the Anti-bomb unit of the Nigeria Police, on Thursday visited the scene of the explosion

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Ekiti Poll: APC Overrules Fayemi's Position

EKITI POLL: APC OVERRULES FAYEMI, GOES TO COURT •PARTY IS PLANNING MAYHEM —PDP
DESPITE the acceptance of defeat by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Ekiti State governorship election, Dr Kayode Fayemi, the opposition party, on Thursday declared that the election was skewed in favour of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and has resolved to challenge it in court.
National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who read the party’s communique at the end of the inaugural meeting of its National Working Committee (NWC), said that processes leading to the election were against his party.
According to Alhaji Mohammed, “in order to prevent a recurrence of what happened in Ekiti, especially the militarization of the process, the harassment and intimidation of citizens, especially those in opposition, my party has decided to challenge in court some of these constitutional breaches”.
He added that the party,”will also encourage our leaders and supporters, who were arrested, harassed and intimidated to seek the enforcement of their constitutionally-guaranteed fundamental rights that were recklessly abridged by the security agencies”.
Speaking further, he said, “Our decision to act is not only to ensure that these irresponsible and unconstitutional acts are not repeated in subsequent elections, especially that in Osun in August and next year’s general elections, but also because we have always said that evil thrives when good men do nothing!”.
The last governorship election in Ekiti State, it will be recalled, was won by Mr. Ayodele Fayose of PDP and the party’s candidate, Governor Kayode Fayemi, openly congratulated the PDP candidate.
The party however said that, “We are very proud of Gov. Fayemi for his conduct and comportment before, during and after the election, and we hail him as a true democrat in the true spirit of the APC’s belief that election is never a do or die affair, and that Nigerians must always be free to elect those to govern them”.
To this end, the party said that, it decided to challenge the outcome of the election because, “election is a process, and whatever happens on the voting day is only an integral part of that process. What happens before, during and after the voting day complete the process”.
The party noted that, “If, therefore, we view the just-concluded election in Ekiti as a process, then we can confidently say that while the events of the voting day itself may have led many to believe that the election was free and fair, the same cannot be said of the events before, during and after the election.
“We therefore believe that we owe it a duty to the continuous improvement of our electoral system and indeed the sustainability of our democracy to X-ray this election within the context that we have outlined above and draw the necessary lessons”, the party stated.
On incidents before election day, “We believe that the events leading to the D-Day in Ekiti negate the principles of a free, fair and credible election. From the militarization of the election to the police attack on our supporters, arrest and detention of our leaders across the state and the use of huge funds to induce voters, the federal authorities skewed everything in favour of the PDP.
“At a press conference addressed by our Chairman on June 20th, we warned that our democracy was in clear and present danger from anti-democratic forces who are bent on winning elections, at all cost. Today, we restate that warning and call for a reversal of the incidents that made sure a level playing ground was not provided for all the candidates at the just concluded election in Ekiti.
“While voting on Election Day may not have been characterized by the usual brigandage and violence, we submit that the entire process was everything but free and fair. If an integral part of the process was badly tainted as we have clearly and fully demonstrated above, then the entire process cannot but be tainted. Voting in Ekiti may have been free of the usual violence or manipulation at the collation centres, but the entire electoral process in the state was neither free, fair nor credible”, the party maintained.
APC is planning mayhem —PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday descended heavily on the national leadership of the APC for not accepting the processes and outcome of the last Saturday’s Ekiti State governorship election which was won by the PDP candidate, Mr. Ayodele Fayose,alleging that the opposition was planning mayhem in the state so as to discredit the out come of the poll .
In a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja last night by its National l Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, the party said the position of the APC national leadership over an election widely accepted as one of the freest, fairest and most credible elections in Nigeria, and in which their candidate, Governor Kayode Fayemi had also conceded defeat, demonstrates their ‘preference for anarchy and blind homage to nihilism and destruction of the democratic order”.
According to the PDP,“the APC has once again confirmed that it is nothing but a chaotic organisation, totally averse to democracy and orderliness. It has shown that it is a party of desperate, frustrated and violent individuals promoting a Janjaweed ideology.
“This is a party that is fully aware that it was trounced in all the local governments of the state and even lost in the polling units and wards of its campaign Director-General and that of its Deputy National Chairman, yet it is bent at fomenting trouble to disrupt the peace in Ekiti state apparently out of frustration that it did not get the chance to rig the polls”,the statement added.
It pointed out that “We restate our commendations to security agencies for the roles they played in maintaining law and order and providing level playing ground for all parties before, during and after the election”.
“However we wish to alert of an orchestrated plot by the APC to now use the instruments of wild allegations and spurious claims to set the stage to unleash mayhem on Ekiti state using imported armed thugs. We therefore urge Nigerians to note this and hold the APC responsible should there be any breakdown of law and order in Ekiti State,” the party said.
Source: Tribune

Despite the acceptance of defeat by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Ekiti State governorship election, Dr Kayode Fayemi, the opposition party, on Thursday declared that the election was skewed in favour of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and has resolved to challenge it in court.

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Former Speaker Bankole Set To Join Ogun Guber Race

BANKOLE TO JOIN OGUN GUBER RACE
ABEOKUTA—A strong indication has emerged that former Speaker of House of Representatives, Hon. Dimeji Bankole will soon declare interest in the 2015 governorship election in Ogun State.
Vanguard gathered that the former Speaker is being tipped by the Presidency to contest the governorship election under the People’s Democratic Party against incumbent governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun in 2015.
It was gathered that, the move was calculated to tackle the ruling All Progressives Congress in the state in 2015 because both Amosun and Bankole hail from Ogun Central Senatorial district.
Addressing the PDP members in Ilaro during Ogun West Senatorial District stakeholders meeting, Bankole hinted that he may declare his governorship ambition at the next stakeholders meeting scheduled to hold in Abeokuta, Ogun central.
Bankole however, warned that it would be dangerous to assume that the party would win the governorship election in the state on a platter of gold.
He therefore urged members ot the PDP to go back to their wards and local governments and mobilise the people.
Source: Vanguard

A strong indication has emerged that former Speaker of House of Representatives, Hon. Dimeji Bankole will soon declare interest in the 2015 governorship election in Ogun State.
Vanguard gathered that the former Speaker is being tipped by the Presidency to contest the governorship election under the People’s Democratic Party against incumbent governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun in 2015.

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USA Delivers Military Equipment To Nigeria

In its avowed determination to give technical support to the Nigerian military, the United States of America yesterday confirmed the delivery of special military equipment to the Nigerian government as part of efforts to assist the country in the rescue operation of the over 200 school girls abducted from Chibok in Borno State over two months ago.

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Fayemi's Concession Of Defeat Was A Fraud – FAYOSE

The Ekiti State governor-elect, Mr Ayo Fayose, on Thursday in Abuja, said that the concession of incumbent governor Kayode Fayemi to defeat was a propaganda stunt aimed at eliciting public sympathy.
Fayose told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that although Fayemi at the weekend conceded publicly and congratulated him, the governor had not picked calls from him since then....

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Thursday

ANGER AS KUTIGI WALKS JOURNALISTS OUT OF CONFAB

THE chairman of the ongoing National Conference, Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Idris Kutigi (retd), attracted the anger of some delegates on Wednesday when he walked out journalists covering the conference.
His order infuriated many of the delegates who threatened to stage a walkout of the conference if journalists were not allowed to cover the proceedings.

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MILITARY ISSUES RED ALERT, NO MORE LEAVE, PASS FOR OFFICERS

Military officers and men were placed on red alert yesterday — no thanks to the increasingly daring moves of the deadly Boko Haram sect.
Fears of likely infiltration or inducement of officers and men have made the military hierarchy to recall those on leave, The Nation learnt.
Besides, the military has placed restrictions on Facebook networking by officers and other ranks.
Military personnel have also been stopped from taking annual leave or travelling out of their official postings.

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N’Korea Threatens War On US Over Movie

North Korea has promised “merciless” retaliation if a forthcoming Hollywood movie about killing Kim Jong-un is released, BBC reports.
A North Korean foreign ministry spokesman said in state media that the movie’s release would be an “act of war”.

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I TAKE HOLY COMMUNION, I CAN’T STEAL —ATUCHE

A former Managing Director of Bank PHB, Mr Francis Atuche, on Wednesday denied the N25.7 billion theft charge preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Atuche, who took to the stand in his ongoing trial, before Justice Lateefat Okunnu of a Lagos State High Court in Ikeja, told the court that he was not a thief.

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EDO LAWMAKERS HOLD PLENARY AT ASSEMBLY GATE

Warring lawmakers of the Edo State House of Assembly, on Wednesday, held two different parallel sessions at the entrance gate of the assembly complex.
Apparently uncomfortable with the scorching sun they had endured since Monday, some of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmakers in the assembly helped themselves with the party’s crested umbrellas.

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ASHIWAJU FACE OF THE WEEK

Cyril Ramaphosa has been elected as the 14th president of the ANC. Ramaphosa became deputy president after his election to the position in the ANC in 2012. At the time he was wooed by President Jacob Zuma’s camp to give the slate “credibility” when then ANC deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe contested Zuma for the top post. Before that he was the chair of the national planning commission that produced the National Development Plan, the country’s blue print for growth towards 2030.

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Friday

Controversy Trials Lagos Explosion •Police Anti-Bomb Experts Visit Site

Ekiti Poll: APC Overrules Fayemi's Position

Former Speaker Bankole Set To Join Ogun Guber Race

USA Delivers Military Equipment To Nigeria

Fayemi's Concession Of Defeat Was A Fraud – FAYOSE

Thursday

ANGER AS KUTIGI WALKS JOURNALISTS OUT OF CONFAB

MILITARY ISSUES RED ALERT, NO MORE LEAVE, PASS FOR OFFICERS

N’Korea Threatens War On US Over Movie

I TAKE HOLY COMMUNION, I CAN’T STEAL —ATUCHE

EDO LAWMAKERS HOLD PLENARY AT ASSEMBLY GATE

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