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Senate Presidency: Saraki Group Kicks Against Open Ballot, Insists On Open Secret Ballot

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<b>The ruling All Progressives Party (APC) may not overcome the internal wrangling on the choice candidates for Senate presidency any time soon as there appears to be a disunity between the two major contending groups: Senators of Like Minds of Bukola Saraki and Unity Forum of Ahmed Lawan.</b></div>
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Indications of this emerged when the Senators of Like Mind made a press release which TNN found on the Facebook page of Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki.<br />
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PRESS RELEASE BY APC SENATORS-ELECT OF LIKE MINDS We the Senators-Elect of Like Minds today 6TH of June 2015, on the...<br />
Posted by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bukola.saraki">Abubakar Bukola Saraki</a> on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bukola.saraki/posts/10153366411054962">Saturday, 6 June 2015</a></blockquote>
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Buhari, Osinbajo To Declare Assets Publicly After Verification - Presidency

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<b>President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday said he and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo would only declare their assets publicly as promised during their campaigns after the Code of Conduct Bureau had completed the verification of their declared assets.</b></div>
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He expressed the hope that the verification would be concluded within the first 100 days of their administration during which they promised that their assets would be declared publicly.</div>
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Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, made the clarification in a statement made available to journalists.</div>
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Shehu had penultimate Saturday issued a statement indicating that Buhari and Osinbajo had declared their assets before CCB without giving details of the assets declared.</div>
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The development attracted criticism from individuals and groups who recalled that Buhari, during electioneering, promised to declare his assets publicly and encourage those who will work with him to do the same.</div>
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But Shehu in the latest statement said the President and Vice President had said that in fulfillment of one of their campaign promises, their declared assets would be released to the public upon the completion of their verification by the CCB.</div>
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He said the statement was warranted by the need to clarify some suggestions that the President and the Vice President may not, after all, declare their assets publicly.</div>
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He however described the concern raised by members of the public as "a little precipitate".</div>
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The presidential spokesman said the President and Vice President remained committed to their electoral promise of declaring their assets publicly within the first 100 days of their administration.</div>
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Buhari, Osinbajo To Declare Assets Publicly After Verification - Presidency

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday said he and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo would only declare their assets publicly as promised du...

House Speakership: APC Reps Elect Gbajabiamila As Candidate

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<b>Information reaching <i>The Nigeria Newsroom </i>has it that the representative of Surulere 1 Federal Constituency, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, has emerged the winner of the primaries conducted by the All Progressives Congress (APC) for a consensus candidate for the Speakership of the House of Representatives.</b></div>
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Gbajabiamila emerged on Saturday at the APC primaries conducted at the International Conference Center (ICC) in Abuja after defeating Hon. Yakubu Dogara.</div>
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Dogara and his supporters were said to have staged a walk out from the venue of the primaries.</div>
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The candidates were, however, said to have signed an agreement before the election to abide by its outcome.</div>
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Gbajabiamila was said to have polled 160 votes out of the 182 accredited voters for the election.</div>
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The APC has 209 members in the 360-member House.</div>
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There had been concerns over the ability of the APC to have a unified voice when the election for the leadership of the National Assembly comes up on Tuesday.</div>
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The primaries for the presidency of the Senate is expected to come up later on today.</div>
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Some have speculated the process will commence at 8pm.</div>
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The fight is expected to be a straight one between Senators Bukola Saraki and Ahmad Lawan.</div>
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Buhari Denies Ambassador Access To Aso Villa For Coming Late

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<b>Here we go! The CHANGE has started. </b></div>
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A Facebook post by a Kaduna State Senator-elect and activist, Shehu Sani, says an Ambassador was denied access to Aso Rock Presidential Villa for coming 15 minutes late to a scheduled dinner meeting.</div>
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President Buhari had invited all Ambassadors for a dinner at 7pm but a particular Ambassador (whose identity was not disclosed) reportedly arrived the Villa gate at 7:15pm and was denied entry.</div>
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Nigeria President Vows War Crimes Probe | VOA

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<b>Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday said his government will leave "no stone unturned" investigating allegations of widespread torture, abuse and the killing of more than 8,000 prisoners during a military offensive against Boko Haram militants.</b></div>
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Buhari tweeted the announcement in response to Amnesty International's Wednesday report that drew from dozens of brutal videos and images showing abuses and killings apparently carried out by the Nigerian armed forces. The London-based rights group has named five senior officers who it says should face investigation.</div>
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In footage supplementing the 133-page report, prisoners are beaten to death while others are shot and thrown into open graves. Amnesty officials say the research draws from interviews with more than 400 victims, eyewitnesses and senior members of security forces.</div>
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Most of the prisoner deaths occurred during detention, says Amnesty’s Daniel Eyre.</div>
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“We have found that more than 7,000 people have died in military custody in northeast Nigeria in some of the most appalling conditions imaginable," he said. "They died of starvation, of thirst, as a result of lack of access to medical care. Many were tortured.”</div>
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Amnesty’s evidence also points to the widespread extrajudicial killing of prisoners. Some were hung on poles and suspended over fires; others were thrown into pits, had their throats cut, or were shot.</div>
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“More than 1,200 men and boys were unlawfully killed by the Nigerian military," he said. "That includes cases like what happened after the Giwa Barracks attack, where more than 640 recaptured detainees were executed in one day. And our report shows that the people at the top of the Nigerian military knew about these crimes and did not take action to stop them.”</div>
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The charges overshadowed Buhari's first trip abroad as president. He vow to "to promote the rule of law and deal with all cases of human rights abuses," during a stop in neighboring Niger to discuss Boko Haram and pledge a new strategy to fight the terrorists.</div>
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"Five years of the evil presence of this sect is enough," he told Niger officials on Wednesday, adding that although Nigerian soldiers have suffered many defeats, it is not the moment to criticize.</div>
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Furthermore, he said, "we are going to mobilize our best forces to attack this sect."</div>
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The Amnesty report names five senior officers who it says should face investigation.</div>
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On Thursday, Major General Chris Olukolade, Nigeria’s Director of Defense Information, accused Amnesty of trying to blackmail the military and said the five senior officers named in the report have "no reason" to indulge in the allegation made against them. </div>
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But evidence supporting the charges, says Eyre, is compelling.</div>
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“In fact, at one point they commissioned a report, which showed the appalling conditions in detention, the disease that was causing these deaths," he said. "And yet they did not take action to put an end to these deaths. And that is why we are saying they need to be investigated for their responsibility.”</div>
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The United States, which had strained ties with President Buhari’s predecessor Goodluck Jonathan, has signaled its readiness to expand military cooperation in the fight against Boko Haram. But analysts say Nigeria’s Western allies will want the allegations of war crimes to be fully investigated.</div>
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<b>Compared to the BBC’s John Simpson or CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Adeola Fayehun from Nigeria is not exactly a global name in the world of television reporting. This week, though, she made broadcasting history as she did something that all few African reporters have ever dared do: ask one their ageing dictators when the hell he is going to quit.</b></div>
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As this video from Ms Fayehun's TV channel shows, the feisty reportress ambushed Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe during a visit to Nigeria last weekend, asking the 91-year-old: "Are you going to step down?"</div>
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To the fury of his assorted security goons, she then refused to go away as they tried to push past her, repeating the onslaught like an African Jeremy Paxman. "Mr president, don't you think that it's time you step down sir, so you can rest? When will there be change in Zimbabwe, sir? Is there democracy in Zimbabwe?"</div>
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Footage of her grilling of Mr Mugabe has now become a viral hit on among internet users in Africa, for whom it's all too rare to see a leader publicly challenged in such fashion.</div>
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Yet while it may seem like nothing more than a piece of entertaining televisual theatre, take it from me, this kind of buttonholing takes quite a bit of guts. Waylaying any Head of State is a nerve wracking enough experience at the best of times, and when it's someone like Mugabe, there is every chance of a roughing up if he doesn't like the drift of the questions (remember the vicious beating that his bodyguards once gave to the gay rights activist Peter Tatchell).</div>
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Not only that, in many parts of Africa, reporters can also find themselves arrested if they pull stunts like the ones Ms Fayehun did, especially if their target is a visiting Head of State. It hopefully says much about press freedoms in Nigeria these days that the Nigerian police did not apparently see fit to intervene – and that they let reporters near Mr Mugabe in the first place.</div>
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Indeed, at the risk of perhaps reading too much into it, this little episode says much about the changing politics of Africa in the 21st century. On the one hand you have countries like Nigeria, which despite its many problems, has just completed yet another relatively peaceful election, where the outgoing president has handed power without a fuss to his successor, Muhammadu Buhari. And on the other, there are still Cold War era gerontocrats like Mugabe clinging to power in the likes of Zimbabwe.</div>
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