APC Registers 15.6million Members – Oshiomhole - Politics -

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.The All Progressives Congress(APC) now has 15.6million members nationwide, according to party chairman Mr Adams Oshiomhole.

He disclosed this on Wednesday when he presented President Muhammadu Buhari with a new party membership card.


Oshiomhole told the president that the APC under his leadership, took advantage of modern technology to come up with a new membership data base, saying that the party currently has 15.6 million registered members.

“Today to talk about the size of our party, the largest party in the world and in Africa, we need to have evidence that can be verified by a third party or by members.

“We have taken advantage of technology to produce what I believed is the best or the first in Nigeria.

“We now have as at last week when they started printing of membership register, about 15.6 million registered APC members across the country,” he said.

Fact checking however showed that while APC may have registered 15.6m members, it is not the world’s largest. The Chinese Communist Party has 89million registered members, while India’s ruling party, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has a membership of 110 million as at 2015. In Africa, South Africa’s African National Congress had 769,000 members as at 2015. The PDP membership strength is unknown.

The APC national chairman added that the party membership data base was designed to ensure that the membership status of anyone could easily be verified at the touch of a bottom.

Oshiomhole further added that with the development, the party had credible and verifiable persons to conduct direct primaries on the basis of its membership register.

However, he said the party would not in any way nullify or change the decisions of its National Executive Committee (NEC) at its sixth meeting, which allowed for indirect primaries, for logistics reasons

He said the APC will strive to give practical expression to its decision as transparently as possible.

This, he added, would ensure that the APC would not only be the largest, but the smartest, most democratic and most cohesive party in the country.

Amaechi Speaks On CCECC Scholarships Scandal, Says Nigerians Shouldn’t Complain - Politics -

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The minister of transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, who is accused of manipulating foreign scholarships offered by a government contractor, has defended the selection process that benefited only people nominated by him and other senior officials.


In his first public comments on the matter since PREMIUM TIMES exposed the scandal in July , Mr Amaechi dismissed widespread criticisms that trailed the process, saying what mattered was that Nigerians were given the opportunity to be trained in China, not how they were selected.


The scholarships were offered by a Chinese construction firm, China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation. The government has been criticised for accepting favours from a contractor.


The scholarship involved the sponsorship of over 40 Nigerian undergraduate students in Chinese universities to study railway engineering. The company said it was part of its social corporate responsibilities.


Rather than make the scholarship available to all eligible Nigerian youth, the scholarship slots were shared among wards of select government ministers and other top public officials.



The top officials, who benefitted were identified in a document used by the construction firm, CCECC, to permit selected candidates to participate in the scholarship interview.



At a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday, Mr Amaechi said Nigerians should not question the selection of candidates, but should be happy to have people trained to take over from CCECC.



The minister initially declined to comment on the controversy, but after answering other questions journalists asked him, he said “the answer to this thing is simple, CCECC has granted us scholarship, how they got their candidates, ask them. I’ve seen the first batch in China. Instead of asking how we chose the candidates, they should ask us about the policy”.



“The policy is that when they come they build roads. Rivers state government house is still being maintained by Julius Berger, is that good? It’s something that any Nigerian should be able to maintain.


“To maintain that place, Julius Berger comes every day and they are paid every month. The month you don’t pay them, you won’t see them.


“If you allow the railway people go without them providing scholarship, when they finish and they go, when the train breaks down you will see that the workers would be sweating but we are very sure that at the end of the day before the Chinese leaves they must have trained our men to take over this thing and that is what is critical not how we chose the candidates,” he said.


“I think the CCECC complied with the law, they did not break any law.”


Protest


On June 21, scores of young Nigerians, who travelled long distances from all over the country, stormed the CCECC headquarters to participate in the scholarship interview after being told the previous day at the Ministry of Transport that no such opportunities exist .


The Chinese firm was conducting interviews for about 42 shortlisted applicants in the scholarship scheme that would see successful candidates train as railway engineers in China.



On getting there, the applicants found that without a signed letter by a minister or permanent secretary, they were not be allowed to participate in the interview.
Only candidates who had been nominated by top officials were allowed for the interview.


In July, PREMIUM TIMES learnt that Independent Corruption Practices Commission (ICPC) commenced investigations into the allegations.


The CCECC also told the investigators that the names of students finally selected had been submitted to the Chinese Embassy for processing, sources in the ICPC told PREMIUM TIMES.


They also told the investigators they had concluded the selection process from the list which they claimed they got from the transport ministry.



Last week, PREMIUM TIMES reported how President Muhammadu Buhari visited the first batch of the railway scholarship recipients in China in the course of the 7th Summit of the Forum on China — Africa Cooperation (FOCAC 2018).


Although this newspaper could not establish that the youth currently on scholarship in China were the same ‘connected youth’ who got their scholarships through the controversial process, the ICPC was told by CCECC officials that only the candidates nominated by ministers and other top officials of the Buhari administration were allowed to take part in the selection interview and made the final list.


The controversial railway scholarship is, however, not the only one being provided by the CCECC.



Shortly after the scandal, the CCECC and Chinese government offered more scholarships on railway transportation to university students in the country.


One of such was the award of scholarships to 30 students from the Ahmadu Bello University.


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Bobrisky To Nina: I Spent N700k On T-shirts And Recharge Cards For You - Celebrities -

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Brother and sister had 4 children together following years of incest

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A brother and a sister had four kids together and are at the centre of an incestual Australian family-of-40 where most of the kids are born by parents who are related.

Martha and Charlie Colt were among the eight relatives arrested when they were found living on a filthy plot which "smelt of urine in faeces" in April.

Genetic tests found 11 of the 12 kids, who slept in squalid tents without running water or electricity, were born to parents who were related. The children, aged between five and 12, could not speak properly and had deformities associated with inbreeding, The Sun reports.

It has now emerged that sick siblings Martha, 38, and Charlie, 45, shared a "marital bed" when they were arrested in New South Wales.

Martha, a pseudonym to protect the identity of child victims, and brother Charlie were living in the town of Griffith at the time, a court heard. Martha was charged with perjury while Charlie is accused of more than a dozens offences including six counts of sexual intercourse with a child under 10.

Cops said four of Martha's five kids, aged between 11 and 20, were born as a result of intercourse with a direct parent or more likely her sibling, Charlie.

When the home was raised on April 15, stunned detectives and welfare authorities found 38 members living on the filthy property which had no running water, electricity or proper sanitation. The children did not know how to use toilet paper, a toothbrush or shower, and had bed-wetting and hearing problems. They were years behind at school (if they had attended at all), tortured animals and had sex with their cousins, uncles and aunts.

Martha's alleged offences are fewer than some of her co-accused siblings and nephews who face charges of sexual intercourse with children, indecent assault and incest.

Derek Colt, 29, faces two charges of incest with a person under the age of 16 while Raylene Colt, 34, and 50-year-old Betty face perjury charges.

The charges were brought 5 years after police raided the Colt family incest bolthole hidden in the hills behind the rural town of Boorowa in 2012.

At Martha Colt’s second bail application on Wednesday, September 12, 2018, Magistrate Alison Viney heard that the accused had high blood pressure and had suffered chest pains and migraines in prison. She had also fallen from an upper prison bunk and suffered soft tissue damage, and was finding her first time in custody “overwhelming”.

If released, she would have to rely on Centrelink welfare payments for her rent, and intended returning to Griffith to live.

Martha Colt was refused bail at yesterday's bail hearing and will remain in prison.

Fake doctor arrested for allegedly carrying out unauthorized medical diagnosis and treatment on patients in Ondo (Photos)

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A fake doctor has been arrested for allegedly carrying out unauthorized medical diagnosis and treatment on patients in Akure, the Ondo State capital.

The suspect, Ifetayo Olowolayemo was arrested by the task force officials of the Ondo State Ministry of Health during a monitoring exercise in the state.

He was alleged to have been admitting patients under the guise of operating a patent medicine store called, “Olowolayemo Excel Patent Medicine Store,” in Akure.

Some of his activities were carrying out unauthorized medical activities, such as administering drips, transfusion of blood, injecting unsuspecting patients with banned injections as well as disposal of medical wastes without following proper procedure, among others.

The State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Wahab Adegbenro told journalists while parading the suspect that controlled and banned drugs, and injections as Enagin were found in his possession.

Adegbenro said the state would not relent but to ensure that residents are safe from quacks and fake drugs dealers who operate under the cloak of patent medicine dealer.

He also added that vowed to deal decisively with quarks, fake and counterfeit drug dealers operating hospitals under the guise of Patient Medicine Store and endangering the lives of residents in the state.
 

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