DAILY NEWSWATCH: Investors lose 674 billion naira in three days Rumble as Amaechi voids Jang`s meeting, say stop impersonating me Wamakko, Rivers governor`s suspension costly mistake - Lamido Encomiums as Tinubu`s mother goes home. VANGUARD: Govs go begging for revenue allocation — Uduaghan Two get life imprisonment for raping Pastor’s daughter ACN faults Fayose’s assassination attempt claim Anambra market inferno: Rep wants NEMA, SEMA to assist victims. PUNCH: Police stole our joy – Father of slain boy Why we oppose use of condom – Catholic church My Port Harcourt visit not to unseat Amaechi — Patience Why PDP is always in crises – Special Duties minister. THISDAY: Balat, PDP Chieftain Berates Buhari, El-Rufai over Comments on Southern Kaduna Nyako’s Supporters Summoned for Discipline in Adamawa PDP Stop Impersonating Me, Amaechi Warns Jang Presidency Clarifies First Lady’s Visit to Rivers. DAILY TRUST: Saudi: Postpone Hajj 2013 if you can Amaechi to Jang: stop impersonating as NGF Chair Jonathan asks governors to enforce death penalty Nigeria is a sinking ship, Ribadu insists. LEADERSHIP: Galaxy Backbone wins UN public Service Award Gov Suntai discharged from US Hospital Another Ukranian cargo detained in Kano Stop impersonating me, Amaechi warns Jang; cancels NGF meeting today Meeting will still hold, Jang insists. NATIONAL MIRROR: Rotarians tackle Portuguese embassy over 38 million naira visa fees NGF crisis: Amaechi warns Jang against impersonating "I`m the authentic chairman," says Plateau state governor President`s wife visits Rivers; shuns cars, lodge provided No date yet for Suntai`s return - Acting governor FG owes 10 states 442.6billion naira for road repairs - Investigation Inflation rate drops to 9% in May. NIGERIAN TRIBUNE: PDP NEC, not Tukur, must address crises – Govs Gunmen attack 4 churches in Borno •Kill pastor, 2 others Jonathan wants govs to sign death warrants •Congratulates Iranian president Lagos stands still for Abibatu Mogaji; Jonathan, Mark, govs, others mourn. GUARDIAN: Fresh crack in govs’ forum U.S. police hunt for suspected killers of Nigerian President advocates capital punishment Father hands over suspected Boko Haram member son to JTF. THE NATION: Amaechi warns Jang: Don’t impersonate NGF chair Dignitaries honour Tinubu’s mum Jonathan urges governors to okay capital punishment Anxiety as youths attack Imo Governor Okorocha’s convoy. PUNCH NEWSPAPER: PDP MAY EXPEL AMAECHI, WAMAKKO: There are strong indications that Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi and his Sokoto State counterpart, Alhaji Aliyu Wamako, may be in for tougher times. A Punch correspondent gathered in Abuja on Sunday that hardliners within the National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party were pushing for their expulsion from the PDP on the grounds that they had remained recalcitrant. A source in the NWC, who confided in our correspondent, said that the party was prepared to go the “all the way” to instil discipline in its ranks. However, the National Publicity Secretary of the Party, Chief Olisa Metuh, denied knowledge of any such a move. MEANWHILE, NGF CRISIS: STOP IMPERSONATING ME, AMAECHI WARNS JANG; Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi on Sunday warned his Plateau State counterpart, Mr. Jonah Jang, against impersonating him as the chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum. Amaechi was reacting to media reports on Saturday that Jang had invited the NGF members to a meeting scheduled for Monday (today) in Abuja. Jang, who lost out to the Rivers State Governor during the May 24 governors’ election, had in a statement said that the NGF forum meeting would hold at 6pm. In the statement in which he addressed himself as the NGF chairman, Jang stated that after their meeting, the governors would meet with President Goodluck Jonathan at 9pm in the Presidential Villa. He explained that the governors would meet “in view of the impasse arising from the Federal Allocation Accounts Committee meeting.” State commissioners for Finance had on Thursday stormed out of the FAAC meeting in Abuja because of N60bn unpaid arrears. But on Sunday, Amaechi distanced himself from the meeting announced by Jang, saying the he (Jang) should not tarnish the integrity of governors. The Guardian reports that the Rivers State Governor on Sunday declared that the group would not meet Sunday. He said that there was only one chairman of the forum, duly elected by a vote tally of 19: 16 on May 23, 2013. Amaechi said he wished to remind Jang that there is a legal action that has been instituted against him by Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State from parading himself as the chairman of NGF. According to him, as leaders elected by the people, Nigerians are closely watching them. GOVS MUST SIGN CONVICTS’ DEATH WARRANTS – JONATHAN: President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday urged state governors to stop refraining from signing death warrants of criminals condemned to death by courts of competent jurisdiction. He said the governors ought to know that the job they were elected to do had both the sweet and the ugly parts. The President added that the state’s chief executives must be willing to carry out all their responsibilities according to the law, no matter how painful such might appear. Jonathan made his remarks at the special Fathers’ Day service, organised by the Aso Villa Chapel. MY PH VISIT NOT TO UNSEAT AMAECHI — PATIENCE: Wife of the President, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, on Sunday said her current visit to Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, is not meant to unseat Governor Rotimi Amaechi as being insinuated in a section of the media (The PUNCH not included). Mrs. Jonathan, an indigene of the state, had been in the news for allegedly backing the anti-Amaechi members of the state House of Assembly, with a view to removing the factional chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum, an allegation she has denied. In a statement by her spokesman, Ayo Osinlu, the President’s wife said none of the purposes of her latest visit to the state had to do with politics. She said apart from the fact that the entire country was her constituency, she had the liberty to visit any part of the state. POLICE STOLE OUR JOY – FATHER OF SLAIN BOY: When on June 13, 2013, the Ebun family went to pick up their son, Jide, from the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, everybody was happy because the 17-year-old boy had been in Canada where he was schooling and had not seen his family for two years. The family comprising the father, Olusegun, the mother, Funke, the first son, Jide, the only daughter, Damilola, and the last child, nine-year- old Timilehin, were in a Sports Utility Vehicle, a Nissan Pathfinder, with registration number HD844EKY. Timilehin sat in the centre of the back seat with his two siblings where he was playing a hand-held game. The nine-year-old boy and his father were engaged in an argument as regards his future ambition. While the little boy said he wanted to be a footballer, his father advised him to go to the university to study medicine after which he could go ahead to become a footballer. The reunion was however short-lived. On getting to Mile 12 end of Ikorodu Expressway, a police stray bullet pierced through the windscreen of the vehicle and killed Timilehin on the spot. VANGUARD NEWSPAPER: LAGOS STANDS STILL AS TINUBU’S MOTHER, ABIBATU MOGAJI IS BURIED: Lagos literally stood still, yesterday, as the President-General, Association of Nigerian Market Women and Men, Alhaja Abibatu Mogaji, who died last Saturday aged 96, was buried at the Vaults and Garden Cemetery, Ikoyi, amidst eulogies. Late Alhaja Mogaji was the mother of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, former Lagos State governor and national leader of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN. GOVS GO BEGGING FOR REVENUE ALLOCATION — UDUAGHAN: DELTA State governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has reiterated the need to revisit the issue of fiscal federalism in the country, noting that it was absurd that state governors, each time, virtually go on their knees, begging for their share of revenue allocation due their respective states in Abuja. He equally faulted the management of the Sovereign Wealth Fund and suggested that states should be allowed to decide what they want to save and do with their savings in that direction since they are not appendages of the Federal Government. Uduaghan spoke over the weekend in Asaba at a lecture to mark the 2nd anniversary of the fifth Assembly of Delta State House of Assembly, tagged ‘Legislative Issues in Fiscal Federalism in Nigeria.’ EAGLES GO FOR TAHITI’S JUGULAR: Today in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte, African champions, the Super Eagles will begin their Confederations Cup chase with a Group B match against Tahiti, who are the champions of Oceania. Sixty three years ago, the Brazilian city was the location for one of the biggest upsets in footballing history, USA’s win over England during the 1950 FIFA World Cup. Should Tahiti emulate that result, shock-waves will be felt across world football. GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER: FATHER HANDS OVER SUSPECTED BOKO HARAM MEMBER SON TO JTF: A 60-year old businessman (name withheld) who alleged that his son was inducted into the Boko Haram sect and has killed several people in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, has handed over the child to men of the Joint Task Force (JTF) in Hausari ward, requesting that he be killed. The Guardian also learnt Sunday that the son, before leaving his parents’ house in April, had threatened to kill his father. Neighbours of the businessman and other residents of the area were said to have been baffled with the return of the son to the house to plead with his father to allow him refuge from soldiers and members of the Youth Vigilance Group that are massively hunting for fleeing sect members from Kirenoa and Sambisa Games Reserves Forests destroyed training camps. U.S. POLICE HUNT FOR SUSPECTED KILLERS OF NIGERIAN: Outraged at the gruesome murder of a Nigerian in the Brownsville area of Brooklyn, the police in New York have begun a move to unravel the suspected attackers. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday quoted sources as saying that the victim of the attack, Uro Ama Orji, 54, a cab driver in the area, was stabbed in the eye with an umbrella on Thursday. After he had been wounded, his vehicle crashed into two parked sports utility vehicles at Lott Avenue and Boyland Street at about 5.30 p.m. Orji, who resided in Queens, was taken to Brookdale Hospital where he was pronounced dead. Following the development, a $5,000 reward was offered for information that could lead to the arrest of the suspects. The New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers offered a $3,000 reward, while the group of 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care offered another $2,000. Police said they were looking for a man and woman who were passengers in the cab and seen running from the scene. A video showed the man getting out of the cab, opening the front door of the vehicle and stabbing Orji with an umbrella. AGAIN, PIPELINE EXPLOSION ROCKS OYO COMMUNITY: FOR the second time in two weeks, activities of pipeline vandals on Saturday night led to heavy explosion at Alapata community area in Ido Local Council of Oyo State. The community is located along Apete-Akufo road. And worried by the consequences of the explosion, the National Emergency Management Authority (NEMA), according to its zonal spokesman, Alhaji Ibrahim Farinloye urged the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to shut down supplies so as to curb the intensity of the fire. About a fortnight ago, activities of vandals who operated at Elebu community of Apata had led to similar explosion. Though no life was lost in the explosion, various farmlands were however destroyed while men of the anti-vandalisation squad of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), the Police, NNPC team and SSS were seen ensuring security at the scene. MEANWHILE, UN CHIEF TASKS NIGERIA ON DISASTER MANAGEMENT: BUILDING on the position of experts on the need to step up early warning systems in Nigeria, the United Nations (UN)’d Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordination, Baroness Valerie Amos, says there is urgent need for more support for Nigeria’s disaster management commitment. Addressing stakeholders on conflict and disaster management during her working visit to Nigeria at the weekend, the UN chief also solicited stronger political will by the Nigerian government in strengthening the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in Nigeria’s disaster containment and management index. The UN chief’s comments came as Nigeria was at the weekend elected President of the Regional Committee for Disaster Management in West Africa.
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