Newspaper Review May 15 2015

In today's newspaper review, See what Abia People Say About Their Governor, Abia: May this type never come again, Unpaid salaries: NLC threatens to shut down airports,
Oshiomhole Marries Cape Verde Model Today and many others, join us as we take you to our national daily newspaper that make up the headlines.

• I’ll return stronger to rebuild PDP, Jonathan tells party leadership

President Goodluck Jonathan has told the National Working committee, 
 NWC, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that he would return stronger to help rebuild the party after taking a short break outside the country with his family. The President urged the leadership, stakeholders, leaders, elders and members of the PDP to put behind them the defeat the party suffered during the March 28 presidential election where it lost to the All Progressives Congress, APC, after 16 years in power and build the party for future elections. Read More From Vanguard

• Nigeria loses N7bn, as Shell shuts Trans Niger Pipeline

Barring other arrangements, Nigeria has lost a minimum of $35.139 million (N7.029 billion) over the last three days, as Shell Nigeria, yesterday, said it had shut down the 180,000 barrels of crude oil per day Trans Niger Pipeline. According to a statement by Shell, the company shut down the pipeline May 12, but failed to state the reasons for the action and when it would be reopened. The Trans Niger Pipeline is critical to Nigeria’s crude export as it carries Nigeria’s crude oil, Bonny Light, to an export  Read More From Vanguard

• Group kicks against Orji’s son as Abia speaker

A group, Concerned Citizens of Abia, has accused the out-going governor of Abia State, Theodore Orji, of deliberate ploy to impose his son, Chinedum, as the next speaker of the state House of Assembly.The group in statement by the Secretary, Mr. Kalu Kalu, said the move was already receiving hushed disapproval from the people of Abia, who thought it was yet another ploy by the out-going governor to continue to perpetuate his rulership on the people of Abia, in spite of eight years of under-development and lack of progress. Read  More From Vanguard

• Senate approves N299bn NDDC budget

The Senate on Thursday passed the 2015 budget of the Niger Delta Development Commission totalling N299.5bn The budget comprised N271bn project (development) expenditure; N16.1bn personnel expenditure; N10.4bn overhead expenditure; and N1.8bn as capital expenditure.
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Niger Delta, Senator James Manager, told his colleagues at the plenary that the budget would be financed from projected revenue of N300bn, part of which will be drawn from N160bn contribution from oil companies. Read More From Punch

• Unpaid salaries: NLC threatens to shut down airports

The leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress has threatened to shut down airports across the country if governors owing civil servants salaries do not pay the salaries immediately.The National Vice- President of the NLC, Mrs. Lucy Offiong, stated this in Jos on Thursday while leading a protest of the Plateau State chapter of the union over non-payment of salaries of members by the state government. She said such a drastic measure had become imperative in order to compel governors to pay workers’ salaries in the affected states and alleviate their plight. According to her, shutting down the airports would deprive the governors the luxury of travelling by air while their workers suffered. Read More From Punch

• Police refuse to reopen Enugu assembly, invite speaker

The Enugu State Police Command has invited the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Eugene Odoh, over some allegations raised against Governor Sullivan Chime by a group of lawmakers who are seeking to remove him from office. It was gathered that the invitation followed a petition sent to the police by the governor, who had denied the allegations. Our correspondent learnt that the police specifically want Odoh to defend the allegation that the governor forged a N12bn supplementary budget in 2012. Continue From Punch

• Oshiomhole Marries Cape Verde Model Today

Former heads of state, General Yakubu Gowon, General Ibrahim Babangida, General Abdulsalami Abubakar and President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari are expected among other top dignitaries at the marriage ceremony of Edo State governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole to his new bride, Miss Lara Forte. The marriage is to take place in Auchi, Etsako West local government area of the state followed by reception for guests at his Iyamho country home. More From Leadership

• Police Arrest Highly Placed Cult Leaders, 56 Members

Following the deployment of a crack team of operatives to Edo State to end the reign of cultists in the state, the team yesterday arrested 11 highly placed persons from the state, as well as 54 other suspected cultists. The force spokesman, acting CP, Emmanuel Ojukwu, made this known yesterday in a statement made available to LEADERSHIP Friday in which he said the cultists were linked to recent cult related killings in the state. Read More From Leadership

• APC denies rejecting Nwobodo, Nnaji

The leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Enugu State has denied media report that the party refused moves by former Governor, Jim Nwobodo, and Prof. Barth Nnaji to join the party. The leaders of the party told Daily Sun yesterday in Abuja that the report attributed to the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the party in the state, Mrs. Kate Offor, was misleading and wrong. In their various reactions, the state party Chairman, Dr. Ben Nwoye, the BoT member of the party, General J. O. J. Okoloagu and the party governorship candidate in the last month’s election, Chief Okey Ezea, all said the report did not reflect the position of the party. More From Sun

• Tinubu, Amaechi architects of hope, says Soyinka

Nobel Laureate Prof Wole Soyinka has described the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the outgoing Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi as architects of change and hope. Soyinka spoke yesterday at the launch of a book authored by Dr. Chidi Amuta and Dr. Yomi Ogunbiyi and titled: “Dynamics of Change: The Amaechi Years,” held at the Civic Centre, Lagos.
According to Soyinka, the duo played significant roles in what they tagged: ‘Common sense revolution in Nigeria’, just as he commended Amaechi for challenging President Goodluck Read More From Sun

•  Abia: May this type never come again

On May 29, the administration of Governor Theodore Ahamefule Orji of Abia State will run its full course. For the majority of people in the state, it will be a time to heave a sigh of relief and celebrate the exit of an inept and clueless leadership that left them groaning in pain and anguish. It will be time to say Never Again to an administration that shocked all lovers of democracy with its brazen bastardisation of the concept, as it made no pretence at working in the best interest of the larger number of the people. The dawn of May 29 will offer the people a chance to shoo Orji out of Abia State Government House, Umuahia, and earnestly pray that the shadow of such a pretended democrat never darkens its hallways again. More From Sun