LATEST: PRESIDENT BUHARI HAS CANCER

News Express reports that President Muhammadu Buhari has been diagnosed with cancer, claiming to get their information from sources at the London hospital where he reportedly underwent medical check-up.

The Nigerian leader arrived in London on Monday, June 6, 2016 on a 10-day vacation, his spokesman, Femi Adesina announcing a day in advance: “During the holiday, he will see an E.N.T. specialist for a persistent ear infection. The president was examined by his Personal Physician and an E.N.T Specialist in Abuja and was treated. Both Nigerian doctors recommended further evaluation purely as a precaution.”

A source told News Express this morning, “President Buhari went for check-up hours after he arrived in London. The hospital has discovered the cause of Mr President’s illness to be cancer of the ear and brain. Let us start praying.”

The source, who is well connected in government circles, gave the name of the hospital as Royal Hospital London. He said he was given the information by medical sources at the hospital who have been his longtime friends.

Just yesterday the news filtered in that Buhari has also been battling “a terrible cough” and may need to spend more than 10 days in London to enable him seek adequate medical treatment.

Mr. Adesina, however, continues to insist that the President “is fit as a fiddle.”

Culled from www.newsexpressngr.com

SACKED 13 YEARS AGO: ITA AWAK STILL USES AKSG CAR LICENSE PLATE NUMBER

Engr Awak drives a Peugeot 504

The Akwa Ibom State Chapter of the PDP has called on the publicity secretary of the APC Mr Ita Awak to desist from fraudulently evading taxation, by using a state government plate number on his car more than 13 years after leaving office as commissioner.

Publicity Secretary of the PDP Comrade Ini Ememobong in an interview in Uyo, faulted the claims by Mr Awak that the government of Mr Udom Emmanuel was not fair in the distribution of political powers to the sections in the State.

On the contrary, Mr Ememobong said that the PDP had allotted the positions across the three different senatorial districts in the State, quite unlike the APC at the national level that left virtually all sensitive and top positions for a particular section of the country.

On the issue of salary, Ememobong said that Akwa Ibom state remains one of the few states where salaries are paid as at when due, whereas the APC –led federal government has been owing federal workers in the past few months.

“Even when the APC led federal government cannot pay full salary, the PDP led government in Akwa Ibom State is paying full salaries to her workforce. APC should applaud our Governor, Mr Udom Emmanuel for this”

He urged Ita Awak to desist from using tribal sentiments to divide the peaceful and cordial relationship among Akwa Ibom people, adding that the people of the state.

He argured that, "If he says that the Speaker Onofiok Luke is from Nsit Ubium, and as such the PDP chairman should not come from Etinan, was the Speaker not from Etinan when the PDP chairman was from Etinan, why then did he support his aspirant Mr Umana Umana who was then in PDP and hails from Nsit Ubium?"

“So all his allegations smack hypocrisy and are geared towards maligning the common ancestry that we all share in this state.”

The PDP spokesman urged the APC publicity scribe to convene a meeting of ethnic groups and discuss ethnicity on a different platform with traditional rulers rather than attempt to use ethnic lines to score political points