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  • Saraki sad ‘dancing-senator’, Adeleke won on PDP platform

    Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has expressed his sadness over Ademola Adeleke’s victory on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party.

    Recall that Adeleke, whose victory dance set the internet abuzz yesterday defected from the All Progressives Congress to run as the opposition party’s flagbearer in last weekend’s by-election.

    The Senate President made this known on Wednesday shortly after he had sworn-in the Adeleke as the Senator representing Osun-West.

    In a Facebook post, Saraki said though he is happy with Adeleke’s victory, he, however, was sad that he was not coming in as an APC Senator.

    Saraki said Adeleke’s defection was caused by a mishandling of pre-election matters in the APC.

    He said it should serve as an eye-opener to the APC that the will of the people should always be respected.

    He said, “I was filled with emotions today as I swore in the brother of Late Senator Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke as Senator representing Osun West. I’m sure that my late friend, his family, good people of Ede and Osun West Senatorial District are delighted that the legacy of ‘Guv’ can continue.

    “I am sure my departed colleague will, in his grave, be happy and filled with joy today and always.

    “My only sadness is that Senator Ademola Adeleke is not coming in as an APC member. This is the result of mishandling of the pre-election matters by our party.

    “I hope Senator Ademola Adeleke will very soon return to his natural fold, the APC, where he rightly belongs.

    “I hope this development will serve as an eye opener to our party at all levels that the will of the people must always be respected. We all have a good lesson to learn from this.

    “Once again, I congratulate Senator Ademola Adeleke and I hope he will live up to his brother’s expectations and further uplift the legacy established by their late father, Senator Ayoola Adeleke.”

  • JUST IN: Saraki swears-in Senator Adeleke

    JUST IN: Saraki swears-in Senator Adeleke

    Senator representing Osun West Senatorial district, Ademola Adeleke on Wednesday took his oath of office as a senator on the floor of Senate.

    The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki on Wednesday performed the oath of administration on the new senator moments after Senate approved the votes and proceedings of the previous day’s business.

    The new senator received his certificate of return at the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Monday.

    Adeleke, younger brother of the late incumbent, Isiaka Adeleke, contested the Osun Senatorial bye-election, held last Saturday, on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. He defeated Mudashiru Hussein of All Progressives Congress, winning in nine of the 10 LGAs that constitute the senatorial district.

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that while late Senator Isiaka Adeleke was an APC senator, his brother, Ademola emerged on the platform of the PDP. With his emergence, the PDP number in the Senate rise to 42, with APC still is 66.

    Currently there are 108 Senators in the 109-member body. One seat, Anambra Central, is vacant following the nullification of the election of Uche Ekwunife.

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that a viral video of the new Senator dancing in a celebratory mood has gone viral.

  • News Hour 10-07-2017 I TNGtv

    News Hour 10-07-2017 I TNGtv

  • Photos: Osinbajo, Saraki, Dogara, Obasanjo, others attend Amosun’s daughter’s wedding

    Photos: Osinbajo, Saraki, Dogara, Obasanjo, others attend Amosun’s daughter’s wedding

    The ancient city of Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital on Saturday witnessed an usual gathering of elite members of the Nigerian society, politicians, captains of industries and service chiefs for the society wedding of the daughter of Governor Ibikunle Amosun, Miss Ayomide Amosun, and Mr. Oladipupo Dabiri; son of former House of Representatives member and Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari, on Nigerians in Diaspora, Abike Dabiri – Erewa.

    The African Church Primary School, Ita Iyalode, Abeokuta, the venue of the traditional engagement and Nikkah ceremony and Muhammad Buhari Presidential Estate where the reception took place was filled to the brim with the high and mighty in Nigeria’s political and business class.


    The Acting President Yemi Osinbajo prayed for harmony and blessings of God upon the couple while his wife, Dolapo who supervised the cutting of the wedding cake also prayed God to grant them “joy, happiness and favour” in their marriage.

    The officiating clergy, Abdul – Rahman Ahmad, who is the National Chief Missioner, Ansarudeen Society of Nigeria, in his brief sermon, said marriage is an institution ordained by Allah and advised the couple to have the fear of Allah in dealing with one another and love each other.

    Chief Obasanjo in his brief remarks, congratulated the parents of the bride and groom as well as the couple, urging them to have the courage to understand there would always be friction in marriage and said when it occurs, they should deploy effective communication to resolve it.

    In his words: “Marriage is sweet but it must have a time of friction and when frictions happen please I urge you to iron it out immediately, do not let it last more than 24 hours and the only way you can do that is through communication. Always maintain good communication,” Obasanjo said.

    Also, Speaker Yabuku Dogara advised parents to spend their energies to training the child, attributing high rate of moral decadence and loss of values to bad homes.

    He said marriage is ordained by God and must be sustained by man, explaining that the family remained the most important institution on earth where discipline takes root.

    In his words: “The rate of crime in the society is not because our security agencies are inefficient but because most parents have failed to properly train their children.”

    “As parents, we must deploy our energies at properly training our children because bad homes bring about a bad society,” Dogara said.

    Eminent Nigerians that witnessed the wedding include the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) who was represented by former Finance Commissioner (Lagos State), Olawale Edun, Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dogara, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode (Lagos), Senator Dino Melaye, former Managing Director of GTbank, Fola Adeola, Senator Gbenga Ashafa, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu (Ondo), Governor Yerima Shettima (Borno), Governor Abdul – Azeez Yari (Zamfara), Governor Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo), Governor Godwin Obaseki (Edo), Minister of Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, Governor Bello Masari (Katsina). Others are Governor Abubakar Badru (Jigawa), Governor Ahmed Abdulfatah (Kwara) and Senator Gbenga Ashafa.

    Others are former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Alfa Belgore, former President Obasanjo, Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, the Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, Chief Bisi Akande, Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, his Finance counterpart, Kemi Adeosun, Chairman of the defunct Interim National Government(ING), Chief Ernest Shonekan,

    Chief Femi Majekodunmi, the Alake of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo, the Olu of Ilaro, Oba Kehinde Olugbenle, the Osile of Oke – Ona Egba, Oba Adedapo Tejuoso, the Olowu of Owu Kingdom and Oba Adegboyega Dosunmu.

    Also in attendance are father of the groom Bayo Dabiri and mother of the groom, Abike Dabiri – Erewa, and her husband, Segun Erewa, Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, former Commonwealth Secretary, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, Senator Olorunimbe Mamora, Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, former Inspector General of Police, Musiliu Smith, former Attorney – General and Minister of Justice, Prince Bola Ajibola, Senator Lanre Tejuoso and Commissioner of Police Ogun State, Ahmed Iliyasu.

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    Others are business mogul and industrialist, Alh. Aliko Dangote, his counterpart in the oil sector, Femi Otedola, Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu, Chief Femi Falana, former Ogun State governor Gbenga Daniel, a former Governorship candidate in Ogun State, Prince Gboyega Isiaka, Minister of Labour, Dr. Chris Ngige, ex – Deputy Governor Femi Pedro (Lagos), Founder First City Monument Bank (FCMB) and Olori – Omooba of Ijebuland, Otunba Subomi Balogun, former Governor Lateef Jakande (Lagos), General Alani Akinrinade (rtd), Senator Daisy Ehanire Danjuma, Senator Grace Ita – Giwa and Interior Minister Abdul – Rahman Danbazzau, former Governor Adams Oshiomhole (Edo), Governor Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia), Senator Anthony Adefuye, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. John Odigie – Oyegun, Afenifere chieftain, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, Chief Kensington Adebutu, former Governorship candidate of the Labour Party in Ogun State, Prince Jide Awosedo, and Prof. Pat Utomi and the nation’s Post Master – General, Chief Bisi Adegbuyi.

     

  • CCT trial:I was under intense pressure to resign – Saraki

    Senate President Bukola Saraki has said he was under intense pressure to resign while his trial before the Code of Code Tribunal lasted.

    Saraki said this on Friday while addressing his supporters at the Ile Arugbo section of his Ilorinhome.

    He said his contribution to the ruling party prevented him from yielding to the pressure of resigning.

    Saraki hinted on the roles played by the Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu- Gambari and clerics, during his trial at the tribunal.

    He said, “We thank God for today because when the entire travail started it was from this same place that we gathered and said we would come back on a day like this to do exactly what we are doing now.

    And I want to thank the Emir of Ilorin for staying very firm with us. He did it to the extent that even his colleagues across the country knew and at a point he said we would not beg again; that we would resort to prayers because we were innocent. You know he too has legal background, so he said we would focus on God.

    “And for you women, I can’t thank you enough. When the matter started you were all confused and you did all within your power and means to help us. You did everything out of love, not out of politics.

    “At the height of the travail, I called a cleric and he said the matter was for them, not even for me so they were indeed praying for us and I want to thank them too. We are in this position because God wants it so. When they asked me to resign, I said, why? We know how much we fought for this government to come into place. They are just fighting God; they are envious of what God is doing. That is why we will still come back to this same place on the remaining issues, he stated.”

  • Pidgin News 07-07-2017 I TNGtv

    Pidgin News 07-07-2017 I TNGtv

  • In Photos: British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Arkwright visits Saraki in Kwara

    In Photos: British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Arkwright visits Saraki in Kwara

    British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Paul Arkwright, on Friday visited Senate President Bukola Saraki in his constituency, in Ilorin, Kwara state.

    Arkwright who attended Saraki’s monthly constituency gathering was decked in an attire of the people of the state.

     

     

  • TNG News Hour 05-07-2017

    TNG News Hour 05-07-2017

  • Drama as senators plot to declare Saraki as Acting President

    Drama as senators plot to declare Saraki as Acting President

    A mild drama played out at the Senate on Tuesday after Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe raised an order that there was a vacuum in government because Acting President Yemi Osinbajo was not in the country.

    Abaribe said there was serious problem in the country because “we have nobody in Nigeria who is at the head of the government”.

    “I simply want to bring to the attention of this chamber and all Nigerians and to ask the question, the acting president is the person who is at the head of government now, but we have a serious problem in Nigeria today. We have nobody in Nigeria who is at the head of the government,” Abaribe said.

    “The law and the procedure and all the laws in Nigeria states that you cannot have a vacuum. Today the acting president is outside the country and so there is a vacuum.”

    This was however countered through order 53 rule 4 of the Senate standing rules, by Senator Kabiru Marafa representing Zamfara Central.

    “Mr President, my distinguished colleagues, it is the abuse of out sensibilities and that of Nigerians everywhere to make the assertion that there is no head of government in Nigeria and that there is a vacuum in the leadership of Nigeria,” Marafa said.

    “The constitution is very clear. If the president is out of the country, the constitution is clear as to who is the head of government. If the acting president is out of the country, the senate president is the next in the line of succession.

    “You should desist from making this unwarranted remarks.”

    Saraki in response said the matter Abaribe brought was not in line with what was being discussed.

    “He came under order 53 (4). This matter senator Abaribe brought out, as eloquently as being delivered is not in one with the discussion that we have now,” Saraki said.

    “So, we can have another day for that if need be. But according to our rules, it is not in line with our discussion. I have no choice but to rule the matter out of order.”

  • Osinbajo, Saraki, others mourn Maitama Sule

    Osinbajo, Saraki, others mourn Maitama Sule

    Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo and Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki have joined leagues of influential Nigerians outpouring emotions over the death of Alhaji Yusuf Maitama Sule.

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that the two-time minister and former Nigerian Permanent Representative to the United Nations, died in the early hours of Monday (today) at 88.

    Osinbajo in a statement noted that Nigerians home and away will miss the immense contribution of the late elder statesman for the forseeable future.

    His statement reads: “On behalf of President Muhammadu Buhari, the Government and the entire people of Nigeria, the Acting President conveys heartfelt condolences on this loss of a great national asset,” Mr. Osinbajo said in a statement signed by his spokesman, Laolu Akande.

    The acting president urged Mr. Sule’s “family, friends and associates, to be consoled by the fact that his selfless commitment to the stability of Nigeria will not be forgotten and would always be honoured.

    “Alhaji Sule never relented applying his wealth of experience to advance the cause of unity, peace and progress of Nigeria, and his fatherly counsel to those in authority had always been bold, sincere and untainted.”

    The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki also expressing his shock in a statement by his Special Adviser, Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, described the late Sule as a detribalized Nigerian who spoke truth to power at all times during his lifetime.


    He described the late Sule as an avowed and highly respected personality, core democrat, fearless politician, exceptional orator and an accomplished public servant.

    While commiserating with the immediate family of the deceased, the Emir of Kano, the Government and people of Kano State over the irreparable loss, the Senate President noted that it was gratifying that the late Sule lived long to, as one of those who fought for the nation’s independence, witness the modest achievements of Nigeria as a nation.

    As a mark of respect for the late Dan Masanin Kano, Saraki urged Nigerians to toe the path of dialogue in addressing their grievances and eschew ethnic tensions as embodied by the late former minister, saying that, “this is the highest respect we will pay to his legacies”.

    He called on both the Federal and the Kano State Governments to immortalize the great icon of peace and an advocate of justice and fairness.

    He stated that the deceased would be sorely missed for his knowledge, political sagacity, philanthropy, oratory and courage.

    Saraki said: “The news of the demise of Alhaji Maitama Sule, came to me with shock. This is one man that has become a permanent feature in the politics of the country, beginning from first republic when he was appointed a minister at his youthful age.

    “Through sheer oratory, the name Maitama Sule had become synonymous with wit and wisdom. He never minced words when speaking against ills in society and how to curb them.

    “He would remain an inspiration to both present and forthcoming generations on the lessons of tolerance, unity, and peaceful coexistence. He left at a time his wise counsel is in dire need to navigate our way out of current challenges confronting the country. I pray the Almighty Allah to grant his soul aljannah firdaus and his family the fortitude to bear the loss,” he said.