APC wins 16 Chairmanship seats in Ekiti council poll

 

     According to Vanguard,  Ekiti State Independent Electoral Commission  on Sunday declared the candidates of the All Progressives Congress APC winners of all the 16 Chairmanship seats in the local government election conducted on Saturday.

   Results of the 177 Councillor-ship seats were, however, still being awaited as at the time of filing this report. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Chairman of the commission, Justice Jide Aladejana, had declared the results in Ado Ekiti.

President Buhari Depart Abuja For Egypt

      President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to depart Abuja Tuesday for Aswan, Egypt to attend the Aswan Forum designed to set “An Agenda for Sustainable Peace and Development in Africa.”

Federal Government Launches Open Treasury Portal To Publish Financial Transactions

 

 

     Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), Ahmed Idris,  received a directive from President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday on the country’s daily income and expenditure. He was asked to  create an Open Treasury Portal (OTP) where information on financial transactions would be provided every day.

   Buhari spoke through the Minister of State for Niger Delta, Senator Tayo Alasoadura, at the launch of the Federal Government financial transparency policy/open-treasury portal in Abuja. The President told the AGF that the treasury was required to publish this information unfailingly. Though the idea of publishing accruals to  and withdrawals from the nation’s purse was muted in 2018, only a handful of government officials had access to the information.

Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege introduces new electoral bill

 

   Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege, on Monday, said he had introduced a bill for comprehensive amendment of the Electoral Act No. 6 of 2010. Omo-Agege said this at the Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room Stakeholders Forum on Elections, organised by the coalition of more than 70 civil societies in Abuja.

He said the bill, co-sponsored with Sen. Abubakar Kyari of Borno North Senatorial District, was now making its way to public hearing, having scaled Second Reading with overwhelming bipartisan support in the Senate. “It is a decisive response to a plethora of our Supreme Court’s decision inviting the National Assembly to make sensible amendments to the Electoral Act.

“And I believe it is responsible for us to take the apex court’s constructive guidance on issues that fundamentally affect our democracy. “This apart, Section 153 of the Electoral Act, 2010, as amended, specifically and expressly empowers INEC to “issue regulations, guidelines, or manuals for the purpose of giving effects to the provisions of this Act and for its administration thereof.

Fani-Kayode reacts to sack of Fowler by President Buhari

 

   Femi Fani-Kayode has reacted to the sack of Tunde Fowler as Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, by President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday. Buhari had announced Muhammad Nami, as Fowler’s successor and has forwarded his name to the Senate for approval. Reacting to the development, Fani-Kayode said he had predicted’s Fowler’s removal. He wrote on his twitter handle:

We inherited bankrupt State from Ajimobi – Makinde

 

   Oyo State Governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde has said his administration inherited an almost bankrupt State from his predecessor, Abiola Ajimobi.

  He urged Nigerians to join hands with anti-corruption agencies to fight corruption and stamp it out of the country, stressing that without eradicating corruption, no Nigerian citizen could experience dividend of democracy.

   Makinde stated this on Monday in Ibadan during a rally organised by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan Zonal Office to commemoration the International Anti-Corruption Day themed, “Zero Tolerance to Corruption”.

   The Governor, who pledged his support to EFCC in fighting corruption in Nigeria to a standstill, said that he inherited an almost bankrupt state due to the poor management of the state’s resources by his predecessor, pointing out, “Oyo State was almost bankrupt when we took over”. According to him, with corruption ravaging the country, it may be difficult for the good old days to come.

TREM Devotional 10 December 2019 – PICK YOUR CROWD

  “And he suffered no man to follow him, save Peter, and James, and John the brother of James.”
Mark 5:37 KJV

Beloved, learn to put aside everyone that tries to discourage you from your journey of faith. There are some people who will not go up with you on that journey. Put them aside!  In Genesis 22:5 Abraham had to tell his servants, ‘wait here, because you cannot go with me and Isaac to the next level.’ The reason why some things have not happened in your life is that you have allowed some things they said concerning you to affect you and to build a stronghold in you. So, it has become a weight and when you want to pray, you can’t pray. By the authority of heaven, I destroy that weight.

Topic: Steadfast Love [Billy Graham Devotional 10 December 2019]

Topic: Steadfast Love [Billy Graham Devotional 10 December 2019]

Your steadfast love, O Lord, is as great as all the heavens . . . — Psalm 36:5 (TLB)

Young people talk a lot about love. Most of their songs are about love. . . . “The supreme happiness of life,” Victor Hugo said long ago, “is the conviction that we are loved.” “Love is the first requirement for mental health,” declared Sigmund Freud.

Topic: Honor Your Parents [Andrew Wommack Devotional 10 December 2019]

Topic: Honor Your Parents [Andrew Wommack Devotional 10 December 2019]

John 19:26 ‘When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son!’

JOHN 19:26

Children are to honor their parents, even after they become adults. However, the command to obey is temporary (Gal. 4:1-2). Honor naturally leads to obedience if nothing is asked contrary to God’s laws, but honor and obedience are not synonymous.

Topic: Seek God First [Kenneth Copeland Devotional 10 December 2019]

Topic: Seek God First [Kenneth Copeland Devotional 10 December 2019]

Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. – Matthew 6:33

Whenever Ken and I talk about living by faith, I know there are some people who think, Oh, that’s easy for you. You’re preachers. You have it made! And, in some ways, we do. We have it made because our calling demands that we give God our attention, and giving God your attention always brings success.

But we haven’t always lived that way. In fact, the first time I ever saw Kenneth Copeland, he was about as far from a preacher as I figured you could get. He flew planes and sang in nightclubs. As for me, I was a college girl who said she would never marry a preacher and who had never even heard about the new birth.