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PHOTO BY STATE HOUSE FG Needs N900bn To Fix NJC Backs Kogi Govt On Data 2 Refineries – Kachikwu 5 Capturing Of Judiciary Workers SON Confiscates Fake 33 A’Court Reserves Judgment Senate To Pass 2019 FG’s 30-year Bond 31 Shi’ite Protesters 2 Products Worth N300bn In Osun Gov’ship Election 7 Budget Tuesday 7 Oversubscribed By N49.30bn Cause Panic In NASS 2 NEWS www.leadership.ng Leadership Newspapers @leadershipNGA Thursday, April 25, 2019 Group News Editor: Ekele Peter Agbo Chief of Army Staff, Lt-General Tukur Yusufu Buratai (5th right) and others during the COAS 2019 first quarter conference and combat arms training week, in Jaji, Kaduna State Shi’ite NJC Backs Kogi Govt On Data Protesters Cause Panic In NASS BY KAUTHAR ANUMBA- Capturing Of Judiciary Workers KHALEEL, Abuja The Islamic Movement of BY SAM EGWU, Lo- paychecks. which the NJC delegation can only to be feared by workers that Governor koja Nigeria (IMN) yesterday He stated: “The meeting recommended that everyone those who have anything to Yahaya Bello was pleased laid siege on the National was a very fruitful one. should sheathe their hide, assuring that genuine with the outcome of the The National Judicial Assembly protesting the The state governor Alhaji swords and jointly conduct workers of the Judiciary who meeting as it would enable continued detention of their Council (NJC) yesterday Yahaya Bello was in the the table payment and were suffering unnecessarily his administration pay waded into the dispute leader, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky. meeting. The state Chief biometric capture to allow will jump at the opportunity. available salaries to his This is as the House of between the executive Judge, Justice Nasir Ajana the Judiciary staff access He also disclosed that workers in the Judiciary. Representatives abruptly and the judiciary in Kogi was in attendance and their salaries which has been some members of the It would be recalled that adjourned plenary State, and recommended the delegation of the NJC hanging since the face off delegation confirmed at the the Judiciary Staff Union proceedings over claims that that the judiciary workers headed by the former began. The law lords noted meeting that even as judges of Nigeria (JUSUN) had the sect reportedly defied should comply with the President of the Court of that the exercise does not they have participated in embarked on indefinite security and broke through Table Payment and the Appeal, Honourable Justice interfere with the autonomy similar exercises in their strike in the state over the first gate leading into the data capturing exercise Umaru Abdullahi. of the judiciary.” states. the matter leaving their complex. adopted by the government “Parties made their Fanwo stressed that the Fanwo concluded by members unpaid for some The deputy speaker, and organised labour in the separate cases after exercise was harmless and assuring the judiciary months. Hon Yusuf Lasun, who was state. presiding over a Committee This was the outcome of of the Whole, before the a closed-door meeting of a adjournment announced that high-powered delegation ‘Boko Haram Leadership Network Structure Decimated’ reports had reached him that from the NJC with BY TARKAA DAVID, Abuja the protesters had crashed Governor Yahaya Bello of favour of Russia, adding that and other infrastructural places and killed many the trade relations has been development investments innocent citizens. the first gate and was worried Kogi State, some of his The minister of Defence, below expectation leaving in oil and gas sector.” “The group has overwhether there was adequate aides and a team from Mansur Dan-Ali, has gap for many unexploited He said the terror group has the years been receiving security on ground to contain the Judiciary led by the disclosed that the Boko potentials. over the years been receiving inspiration, training as well them. embattled state Chief Judge Haram terrorist network According to him, “At the inspiration, training as well as mutual support from other Lasun stated that it was held in the governor’s office. has been overwhelmed and moment the countries’ trade as mutual support from transnational terror groups important for the House to Briefing journalists after its leadership structure ties are lopsided in favour of other transnational terror within and outside Africa. take precautionary measures. the meeting, the director decimated due to the Russia. Russia is the biggest groups within and outside “Nonetheless, owing to the LEADERSHIP gathered general, Media and Publicity sustained counterinsurgency market in Europe, while Africa and called on the sustained counterinsurgency that as the protesters to the governor, Kingsley operations by Nigeria and Nigeria the biggest market Russian government to step operations by Nigeria and advanced towards the gate, Fanwo, said the parties other countries of the Lake in Africa. up military support to end other countries of the Lake the security operatives made progress aimed at the Chad Basin Commission. “The trade relations have insurgency in the region. Chad Basin Commission swiftly shut the gate and speedy resolution of the Dan-Ali stated this in a been below expectation “Since 2009, my country which include Benin, Niger, beefed up security at the issues. paper he presented at the 8th leaving gap for many Nigeria has been combating Chad and Cameroon, the second gate. He revealed that the International Conference On unexploited potentials. terrorism engendered by Boko Haram terror network Protests by members of the IMN agitating for the release meeting recommended that Security in Moscow, Russia. Nigeria would also be the Islamic Sect called Boko has been overwhelmed and of their leader has been a the judiciary workers should During the conference, interested in Russia helping Haram. Members of the Boko the leadership structure is he said that Nigeria-Russia it build nuclear power plants, Haram sect have carried out presently decimated,” he reoccurring event around the participate in the biometric National Assembly. exercise and receive their trade ties are lopsided in petroleum pipelines, railways series of bombings of public said. Thursday, April 25, 2019 www.leadership.ng Leadership Newspapers @leadershipNGA 3 our stand APC And NASS Leadership ne controversial gerous when one becomes an objection to it. The position of Chambers. issue that has appendage to the other. Most the party runs contrary to the According to Section 50(1a) of dominated the po- unfortunate will it be if the view of other aspirants and the 1999 constitution, as amend- litical space since legislative arm allows itself to zones barred from the contest. ed: “There shall be a president and the conclusion of be a rubber stamp to executive There are fears that should the Deputy President of the Senate who Othe 2019 general elections is bills, to the detriment of the party have its way, such im- shall be elected by the members who gets what at the National citizens. posed leaders may not last and of that House from among them- Assembly. The leadership tus- The way the ruling party their tenure would be turbu- selves’’. The 109 elected senators sle especially as it affects the is going about trying to im- lent. Both the constitution and and 360 House of Representatives offices of the Senate president pose certain individuals on the rules governing activities of members are the constitutional and the Speaker of the House of leadership of the National As- the Senate and House of Rep- kingmakers as far as the emergence Representatives is smouldering sembly portends a dangerous resentatives specify that prin- of presiding officers of both cham- and the candidates are not pull- dimension, since many of the cipal officers will be elected bers are concerned, and not national ing any stops. lawmakers have also raised by members on the floor of the chairman of a ruling party or even Ordinarily, this should not the president. have been a major concern but Since 1999, no leader who was for what played out in 2015 imposed on any of the chambers of when leaders of both chambers the National Assembly had peace emerged against the permuta- or completed its tenure. Under the tion of the leadership of the rul- Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), EDITOR: Muazu Elazeh ing All Progressives Congress DEPUTY EDITORS: Raliat Ahmed-Yusuf Evans Enwerem and Adolphus (APC). Members of both Upper Chika Okeke Wabara were imposed as Senate and Lower legislative chambers .