March 8, 2023

[GIST] Rodgers to stick with Iheanacho against Chelsea

[GIST] Rodgers to stick with Iheanacho against Chelsea

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 Brendan Rodgers looks set to keep faith in the Kelechi Iheanacho as a show of strong support for the Nigerian in the wake of his missed chances in the Foxes defeat to Southampton last Saturday, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. Kelechi Iheanacho missed three golden opportunities in the encounter as the Foxes suffered a 1-0 defeat


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[GIST] Investment firm buys stake in NGX

[GIST] Investment firm buys stake in NGX

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A substantial shareholder of the Nigerian Exchange Group, Miri Strategic Emerging Markets Fund LP, has bought over N38m shares of the Group. This was revealed in a notice on insider trading issued on Tuesday. It said the Fund bought 1,480,000 units of NGX Group shares at N26.09 per share. In the financial year 2022, the


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[GIST] Chelsea beat Dortmund 2-0, reach Champions League quarter-finals

[GIST] Chelsea beat Dortmund 2-0, reach Champions League quarter-finals

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Chelsea kept their season alive by beating Borussia Dortmund 2-0 at Stamford Bridge to progress to the quarter-finals of the Champions League 2-1 on aggregate on Tuesday. Raheem Sterling and Kai Havertz, with a twice-taken penalty, got the goals as the Blues relieved the pressure on manager Graham Potter. The Englishman’s job was on the


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March 7, 2023

Timi Frank to Appeal Court: Reject INEC’s request to reconfigure BVAS

Timi Frank to Appeal Court: Reject INEC’s request to reconfigure BVAS

 


A political activist and former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, on Tuesday, called on the Appeal Court to reject a request by the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, seeking an order of court to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines.


The court had issued the orders in the ruling it gave on Friday, granting permission to Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi to inspect the sensitive materials used for the conduct of the presidential election.

Yakubu, in his motion before the court, said the order needed variation to enable it to deploy the machines for the Saturday, March 11, 2023, Governorship and State Houses of Assembly election.

But Frank, in a statement in Abuja, urged the Justices of the Appeal Court not to vary its orders nor grant INEC’s request to reconfigure the BIVAS machines.

He said that the request was a ploy to INEC tamper with evidence against the substantive order of the court that barred the Commission from tampering with the BIVAS and other sensitive election materials yet to be inspected by Atiku and Obi.

He insisted that if the request of INEC is approved by the Court, then all necessary data needed to prove the massive rigging in the just concluded Presidential election would be lost as they would fraudulently and deliberately be deleted by the Electoral umpire.

Frank, who is the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) Ambassador to East Africa and Middle East, said:

“I hereby urge the Appeal Court not to vary its orders nor accede to the request of INEC to reconfigure the BIVAS machines.

“The request of INEC in all its ramifications is anti-people, ungodly, preposterous, jejune and beyond imagination.

“It is a poly by INEC to hide and bury germane evidence that would enable the various opposition parties to prove their election petition cases before the courts.

“The Appeal Court must realise that the outcome of this case would show whether it is on the side of the suffering and impoverished Nigerians or against them.

“This is a man who told the whole world that INEC was ready for the two elections and that the BIVAS was already configured for the two election, why this sudden change of mind and request for reconfiguration if not to destroy key evidence and hide the evil the commission perpetrated during the Presidential and National Assembly election forever?

“The Appeal Court justices should know that the outcome of the last presidential election is most unfortunate and painful, and Nigerians are still trying heal.

“Therefore, Nigerians believe they will do substantial justice by rejecting the request of INEC to tamper with the BIVAS.

“The court must not by any means add salt to the injury already inflicted on the people by INEC through a compromised election and manipulated results.

“We insist that there is absolutely no need for the Court of Appeal to vary its orders nor grant the request of INEC until after the BIVAS and other sensitive election materials used for the Presidential election have been digitally and forensically inspected by the aggrieved parties as already ordered by court.”

According to the Bayelsa-born political activist, “if there is anything that needs reconfiguration, it is Yakubu’s brain and the INEC he presides over that conducted the worst election in the history of Nigeria and not the BIVAS machines used for the last election which are yet to be inspected by aggrieved political parties as ordered by the Appeal Court.”

END

Signed:

Comrade Timi Frank
ULMWP Ambassador to East Africa and Middle East
[GIST] Brazil’s ex-president faces probe over Saudi jewels

[GIST] Brazil’s ex-president faces probe over Saudi jewels

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Brazil’s justice minister asked federal police Monday to investigate reports ex-president Jair Bolsonaro tried to illegally import jewelry worth $3.2 million gifted by Saudi Arabia, as tax officials probe a second present of jewels. The far-right former president has faced mounting questions over the jewels since newspaper Estado de Sao Paulo reported Friday that customs


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[GIST] Discordant tunes in Oyo LP over Makinde’s adoption

[GIST] Discordant tunes in Oyo LP over Makinde’s adoption

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The Obidient Movement in Oyo State and some Labour Party candidates contesting for the state House of Assembly, on Monday, distanced themselves from the endorsement of Governor Seyi Makinde as their consesus candidate for Saturday’s governorship election. This was made known in a communique read by one of the House of Assembly candidates, Ayodeji Babalola


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[GIST] Bench role helped me improve – Bassey 

[GIST] Bench role helped me improve – Bassey 

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After putting up a Man-of-The-Match display for Ajax in their 1-0 victory over Nijmegen on Sunday, Nigeria international Calvin Bassey admitted that sitting on the bench had helped him improve his game and learn the Dutch’s style of play. Bassey became the third most expensive signing by Ajax after his €23m transfer from Scottish club Glasgow Rangers last


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