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“Men no longer ‘play’ with us at night due excess heat,” says protesting Port Harcourt women
Women who blocked some streets in Port Harcourt Tuesday said they were aggrieved over poor electric supply in River state, adding that the heat in the city making their male spouses to shy away from ‘playing with them’ in the night.
The protesting women marched through Dim, Wokoma, Wokoma lane, Obaziolu, Dim lane, Egbuagu, Azikiwe, Ojoto Streets before heading to the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution (PHED) in Mile 1 Diobu where they alleged that there was total blackout in the Mile 2 and Mile 3 axis in Port Harcourt.
They were sighted with different placards with inscriptions such as ‘No light, no bill’. ‘Dim Street no light’. ‘No light, no payment’. ‘The Heat is too much’, among others.
The women lamented what they described as untold hardship brought upon them by the electricity distribution company, accusing PHED of serving them with darkness instead of light.
They stated that they were counting losses in their businesses because of the alleged poor power supply.
However, the Managing Director of the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution (PHED) PLC, Dr. Benson Uwheru, has sympathised with customers within their coverage over the challenge of blackouts that ran into days, as a result of the recent national electricity power grid collapse.
Reacting on the development while speaking with journalists at a programme tagged: ‘2024 Goal Zero: Accident Prevention and Handing Over of PPEs’, held at the PHED headquarters in Port Harcourt, Uwheru attributed the frequent blackout witnessed in parts of Rivers State to the collapse of national grid and shortage of gas supply to the discos.
Uwheru expressed the need for alternative ways of generating powers outside the national grid.
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Breaking: Court of Appeal rules in favour of Turaki -led PDP candidate for Osun governorship election
The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, on Thursday, ruled that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Gubernatorial Candidate in Osun State was validly nominated by the Tanimu Turaki-led National Working Committee.
The court also ordered INEC to list the PDP logo on the ballot ahead of Saturday’s gubernatorial election.
The Court held that access code is neither a creation of the Constitution nor the Electoral Act; rather, a creation of INEC’s guidelines and cannot, in any way, override the provisions of the Constitution.
Section 288 of the Constitution does not specify the method for nominating candidates; it only states that the names of candidates should be forwarded to the Commission.
The court further held that the defendant (INEC) should take steps to include the name of the appellant on the ballot paper.
Additionally, the court ruled that the primary election conducted by the Tanimu Turaki-led National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP was a valid primary election in law.
The three-man panel of justices—Justice Mahmud, Justice Jaro, and Justice Ankawere, was unanimous in its judgment.
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Breaking: NHRC sets up situation room to monitor and document hate speech, intimidation, threat to life ahead 2027
The national Human Rights Commission, NHRC, has set up a situation room to monitor and document all incidences of hate speech, intimidation and threat to life by politicians and other actors ahead of the 2027 general election.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has expressed concerns over rising incidences of hate speech, intimidation and outright threat to life by highly placed individuals, especially politicians and religious leaders.
The Executive Secretary of the Commission, Chef Tony Ojukwu, SAN, revealed this on Thursday in Abuja at a press conference.
He said the situation room would enable the Commission harvest data, analysis and document persons, agencies and others involved in the negative statements in order to ensure they are properly tracked and brought to book by relevant agencies.
Ojukwu also took journalists on a tour of the newly set up situation room.
Details later…..
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Breaking: NHRC expresses concern over rising incidences of hate speech, threat to life ahead 2027 elections
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has expressed concerns over rising incidences of hate speech, intimidation and outright threat to life by highly placed individuals, especially politicians and religious leaders.
At a press conference in Abuja Thursday, the Executive Secretary of the Commission, Chef Tony Ojukwu, SAN, recalled statements credited to Senator Francis Fadahunsi and Sheikh Yahya Jingir and described the das dangerous with capacity to set the nation ablaze.
He called on politicians, religious and traditional rulers, among other stakeholders to call their supporters and faithful to orders.
He urged government to act before rhetorics turn to violence, saying the forthcoming election in Osun State should serve as example of Nigeria’s capacity to conduct political contest in compliance with international best practices.
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