News
The presidential candidate of the Mass Action Joint Alliance party, MAJA, Prof. Mercy Funmilayo Adesanya-Davies, has told the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to step down for her.
According to her, since MAJA party and the PDP were members of the Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, it was needful for the emergence of a candidate for the coalition.
Adesanya-Davies said this when she received some Nigerian students who paid her a courtesy call on the sidelines of World Student’s Day.
The MAJA presidential candidate said the former Vice President Atiku should step down for her on account of Atiku’s age and also because she is a woman.
She added that the odd favoured young candidates for the 2019 general elections.
“Since men have failed Nigeria, they should give women a chance to emerge as the nation’s next president and return the country back to the path of progress,” she said.
“The main topic of their discussion was on the prospect of her emergence on the CUPP platform, as she hopes to be the next president of Nigeria in 2019, having received the National Association of Nigerian Students’ NANS Outstanding Leadership in 2018 as well as the students’ endorsement.
“I will, in fact, seize this opportunity to appeal to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to kindly step down for me at the CUPP as President Buhari of APC steps aside, because this time indeed is a-woman-youth-academician ticket and a tip to the Middle-belt Christian Nigeria currently bearing all the brunt of killings in the North.

“And that is where I come in,” she said

     A former Chairman of thependent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof Attahiru Jega, has declared that Nigeria was in dire need of competent and assertive leaders.
The former INEC boss said the country does not necessarily need a strong leaders, adding that an incompetent leader who is strong will end up destroying institutions.
He made these points at the 58th Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association in Abuja on Monday.
According to him, “What we require most are the competence and capacity of leaders to take decisions and be assertive in ensuring that those decisions are actually implemented.
“So, we have to be very careful in thinking that a strong leader can really help.
“Just like a weak leader can wreck an institution, a strong leader, who has just that power and courage, but lacks the capacity, ability and competence to lead, can also wreck strong institutions
“Competence of leadership is a very important variable in bringing about the stable political transition, good governance and deepening of democracy.”
Jega further warned that politicians must stop treating elections as a do-or-die affair.
He recalled that a former president once said elections must be do-or-die, an incident he described as most unfortunate.
The former INEC boss added, “We must emphasise professionalism, impartiality and non-partisanship. This is because quite too often, you have good and strong institutions, but once partisanship is introduced and partiality become the norm, as many public institutions in this country, then those institutions would not be able to deliver effectively on their mandates.
“From my experience, I am convinced that electoral integrity is key to stable political transition and to ensuring that there is a framework for good governance and societal development.
“Electoral integrity is not just about the integrity of the election management body. It is also the integrity with which the key stakeholders engage with the electoral process.”                           

Scene of the incident
A suspected cable thief with a charm in his mouth, was on Tuesday night, electrocuted while attempting to steal copper from a PHCN installation in the Karu area in Abuja.
It was gathered from eyewitnesses that the suspect's body has been brought down from the electric pole and has been deposited in the morgue.
Here are more graphic photos from the scene;

The immediate past governor of Ekiti state, Ayo Fayose, on Tuesday, October 16, 2018, visited the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

The visit, according to Fayose, was to present himself for questioning over misappropriation of funds during his tenure as governor of Ekiti state.
Pulse and other journalists were at the EFCC facility at Wuse 2, Abuja during Fayose's visit.
X
Advertisement
Here are five we noticed.
1. Fayose is still in the PDP
play
Fayose, Wike and Fani-Kayode at EFCC headquarters in Abuja.
(Tori.ng)
As against claims in some quarters that Fayose had dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), all that happened at the EFCC headquarters showed that the ex-governor is still loved by the party.
Prior to Fayose's arrival, Governor Nyesome Wike, former aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, and other members of the party were on ground to receive him.
2. Fayose is still the king of drama

play
Ayodele Fayose
(Twitter/@GovAyoFayose)
Although Fayose did not show up at the EFCC headquarters with a mattress and pillows as he had promised, the former governor came with a bag stuffed with clothes.
"EFCC I'm here" read the inscription on Fayose's shirt.
What a way to to announce your arrival.
 
play
Governor Ayo Fayose
3. FFK is a customer at the EFCC headquarters


While trying to enter the EFCC office, a security detail asked Fani-Kayode to identify himself.
"You should know me. I am a regular face here,"  the former minister who is also facing trial over alleged corruption replied.
4. Few protesters showed

Some pro-Fayose protesters were on ground to give the former governor some moral support.
Dressed in branded while shirts, the chanted anti-government slogans asking President Muhammadu Buhari to resign for "running Nigeria aground".
5. Nigerians no longer believe Fayose

play
Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose, after he was allegedly hit by a teargas canister
(Twitter/@OfficialPDPNig)
As we awaited Fayose’s arrival, a journalist had complained about the former governor’s “non-stop drama”.
“This man loves drama. When will he ever stop?” he asked.
“What if he isn’t acting,” I replied in Fayose’s defence. But he continued, sighting his collapse in Ekiti days to the governorship election that produced Kayode Fayemi as governor.

play
Dr Kayode Fayemi
(Punch)
After Fayose went into the EFCC building, journalists and other Nigerians walked away in groups discussing the governor’s visit to the anti-graft agency's office.
“All these things he is doing will not prevent the EFCC from doing their job. If they want him locked up, there is nothing Wike can do about it. Fayose is just wasting his time,” a passerby said as others laughed out loudly.

Former governor of Delta State, Jams Ibori has finally spoken on the defection of Emmanuel Uduaghan from the Peoples Democratic Party to All Progressives Congress, APC.
Former Minister of Information, Professor Sam Oyovbaire , while quoting Ibori said he felt sorry for Uduaghan following his defection to APC.
Ibori asked those close to Uduaghan to pray for him. Oyovbaire told Vanguard in Asaba on Friday.
Oyovbaire said: “The second day Dr. Uduaghan showed up at the APC caucus meeting in Abuja, I was with Chief Ibori, we had opportunity to discuss about Uduaghan, believe you me, what he told me, I have no cause not to believe him, he said he was sorry for his older cousin for leaving PDP.
“He said to quote him that we should just pray for him, let him go, which meant that he may have done some works, but I was not part of that work, so I will tell you that I have every cause to believe that Ibori is very much is with us.
“The day we were having this conversation, his daughter, who had bought her form in PDP was going around for consultation to appreciate the leaders of Ethiope East PDP, particularly in Mosogar and Jesse axis, so all evidence points that James Ibori is with us. He felt bad, I am not sure that he is happy that Uduaghan had to go and that was why he said please help me pray for him.”

The Super Eagles will take on Libya on Tuesday, in their fourth fixture of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying series.

The Mediterranean Knights were humiliated 4-0 by Nigeria last Saturday and will be looking for revenge.

South Africa currently top the table with seven points from their first two matches, while Gernot Rohr’s men are second with six points.

Libya have four points.

The game kicks off at 7pm Nigerian time.



Tuesday, October 16

First half: The Eagles took the lead through Ighalo and Musa, before Mohamed Zubya pulled one back for the Libyans. 1-2.

Half-time read: Nigeria can go top of Group E if they hold on for a win in Sfax.

Second half: Ahmad Benali equalizes to make it 2-2. However, Ighalo strikes again. So it’s 3-2 now.

Full time – Nigeria defeated Libya 3-2.
 Don't Miss subscribe sport news

The police and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have both said they cannot immediately swing into action to unravel the circumstances surrounding a series of scandalous videos that seemed to show Governor Umar Ganduje taking bribes from public works contractors in Kano State. The initial …

*
*Efcc can't take action know of the ganduje bribery issues until they get more issues on it