Ekweremadu To APC: National Assembly Not Your Secretariat

Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has warned the ruling party, All Progressives Congress, APC, not to misconstrue the National Assembly as its party secretariat.

Senator Ekweremadu, who spoke through his Special Adviser on Media, Uche Anichukwu, was called up on a RayPower Radio morning programme, tagged: “Political Platform”, where he responded to questions on the alleged forgery/amendment of the Senate Standing Rule, 2011.

When told that some, especially from the APC felt that his principal took a seat that rightly belonged to the APC, Mr Anichukwu said the seat did not belong to any political party.

He said: “Going by Section 50 (1) of the 1999 Constitution, that Office doesn’t belong to anybody or party. It belongs to Nigerians. That is why APC lawmakers became Speakers in Plateau and Benue State Assemblies last June even when the APC was in minoity. By the way, are some people trying to tell Nigerians that if the PDP had won majority in the National Assembly, which is an independent arm of government, and head both chambers, then the President Buhari Administration would cease to function?

“Just as I said in a statement a few days ago, we will not be intimidated and will do everything democratically possible to protect the independence of the National Assembly.

He washed his hands off the allegation, saying at the time the said Senate Standing Rule/Order 2015 was made, he had ceased being the Deputy Senate President and so was no longer a principal officer to have contributed to the making of the document in question.

He said the making of a new Rule/Order for a new Senate or House was entirely the business of the National Assembly bureucracy, asking those striving to frame him up to look elsewhere.

He said: “Let me just explain here that every National Assembly, that is every Senate or House has its Standing Rule/Order as every Standing Rule/Order normally has a life span of four years. So, if you go to the Office of the Clerk to the National Assembly now, you are likely to find Standing Rules/Orders of 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011 and the current 2015.

“From the point of the valedictory session of the 7th Senate on 4th June, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, Distinguished Senator David Mark and the rest of other members of the 7th Senate ceased to be senators until the 9th of June, when the 8th Senate was inaugurated; and as usually done, the new senators received new Standing Rule/Order 2015.

“The making of that 2015 edition of the Senate Rule/Order is the business of the bureaucracy of the National Assembly. What the 8th Senate can do, which its predecessors have sometimes done is to amend as suitable. And the process of the amendment is spelt out in the that document.

Collapsed building: T.B Joshua launches attack on coroners verdict

Article written by freelance Synagogue Church reporter, Ihechukwu Njoku. Read below...

Nigerian Prophet T.B. Joshua has launched a scathing attack against the verdict of the coroner’s court in Lagos yesterday which ruled the tragic collapse of a building within his church last year was due to structural failure.

"The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations rejects the verdict of the coroner on the grounds that it is unreasonable, one-sided and biased,” a statement released via their official Facebook page read, attributed to Barr. Olalekan Ojo, lead counsel to The SCOAN.

“The church maintains its stand that the incident was as a result of sabotage,” the statement continued, further adding that the public should not be misled by media reports casting sensational headlines suggesting the church was liable for prosecution over ‘criminal negligence’.

The statement highlighted that no evidence was found that The SCOAN hired incompetent professionals or used substandard materials in the construction of the building.

“There was no finding that connected the incident with the lack of a building permit,” the statement proceeded, adding that the process of procuring the necessary approval was well underway and had been assessed and accepted by relevant government agencies before the incident.

“The church disagrees most vehemently with the finding that the incident was due to structural failure,” continued the strongly worded statement, insisting the verdict failed to consider substantial evidence which pointed to sabotage and ruled out structural failure.

“It was a one-sided verdict which left many issues unaddressed and questions unanswered.” The SCOAN highlighted that the verdict failed to even recognise the CCTV footage released by the church which showed “the 6-storey building falling in less than 4 seconds – a manner consistent with controlled or externally induced demolition”.

It concluded by stating that Chief Magistrate Oyetade Komolafe’s admission “that the conduct of the investigation of the incident was compromised... calls into question the integrity and reliability of the entire investigation.” Joshua’s supporters were vocal in their support of the ‘prophet’ in the thousands of comments posted beneath the statement, many insisting the verdict was the work of ‘the devil’.

“If you bury a lie, it will rot. If you bury the truth, it will rise,” wrote Opeyemi Oduwole. “We South Africans know what happened to the building; we know the truth. No matter how they lie, the truth will prevail,” added Bridget Mkhonto.

Joshua followed up on the statement by posting a video on Facebook highlighting the differences between controlled demolition and structural failure with the caption, “No matter how fast a lie runs, the truth will someday overtake it.”

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Official photos from Royal baby, Princess Charlotte's christening

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Deplorable state of Okota road & the hardship it brings to residents (photos)

This is the sad state of Okota road in Lagos. A LIB reader sent in the photos and wrote;

For over 6 years, this road has been like this and at the moment, it has started affecting our way of life as residents around Okota now get to work late in the morning and get home in the wee hours of the night due to the deplorable state of the road. A drive that is meant to take between 5-7mins takes almost 2 hours. We want to bring the attention of the Lagos state Governor, Ambode, our rep at the Lagos House of Assembly Hon Emeka Idimogu aand the senator representing Lagos Senatorial West, Hon Solomon Adeola to please come to our aid. As tax payers, we deserve better" More photos after the cut...

Graphic pics: Policeman's man chopped off while struggling to stop a commercial bus driver

These pics have gone viral on Twitter but no one is saying exactly what part of Nigeria it happened and when it happened. According to the story, the police man pictured above got his left hand cut off while struggling for control of the steering wheel of a commercial bus with its driver during an attempted arrest. Continue to see graphic photo of the Police man's severed hand

Photo: ISIS releases pic of one of the suicide bombers who carried out attack in N'Djamena, Chad

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The son of the immediate past Attorney General of the Federation & Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke, on Sunday July 5th crashed his father's 2015 Porsche 911 Turbo which cost about N40m, into a fuel queue in Abuja while racing with some of his friends.

According to Abusidiqu.com, the younger Adoke and his friends, who were driving a Mercedes-Benz C class were racing in the city centre of when he lost control around Maitama roundabout leading to Transcorp Hilton hotel and crashed into a fuel queue. See the photos after the cut..

The 2015 Porsche car ran into a 1998 Toyota Camry car leaving the driver injured and unconscious. Eyewitnesses say the young Adoke and his friends initially fled the scene of the incident but they later returned and with the help of the police took the injured man to the hospital.

The car Porsche allegedly hit below...