Minister Reveals When Npower Batch A And B Beneficiaries Will Receive Unpaid Stipends,Tribunal sacks Douye Diri as Bayelsa gov, orders fresh election

Minister Reveals When Npower Batch A And B Beneficiaries Will Receive Unpaid Stipends

This online news platform understands that the Minister who made this known in a series tweets on Sunday night, August 16, assured beneficiaries of the social intervention scheme that “efforts are in high gear to clear the stipends.”

The Minister tweeted: “The N-Power Batch C application portal closed on Sunday, August 9, 2020, after receiving over 5m applications.

“As we embark on the review process, efforts are in high gear to clear the stipends for Batch A and B before onboarding the new set of beneficiaries,” the tweet added.

7. Tribunal sacks Douye Diri as Bayelsa gov, orders fresh election

The Bayelsa State Governorship Petition Tribunal has nullified the election that produced Duoye Diri, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as governor of Bayelsa State.

The Tribunal gave the order while ruling on a petition by the Advanced Nigeria Democratic Party (ANDP), which argued that it was unlawfully excluded from participating in the election.

The tribunal ruling can, however, still be challenged at the Appeal Court.

This came just two days after the tribunal had earlier dismissed three other petitions against the election of Diri.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had disqualified the ANDP from participating in the election because its deputy governorship candidate was 34 years old as at the time of nomination.

While arguing that it was unlawfully excluded from the election, the ANDP in its petition told Justice Yunusa Musa, who delivered the lead judgment on the matter, that its initial deputy governorship candidate, David Esinkuma was duly substituted by the party within the allowed time frame, following the notification from INEC that he was under-aged.

In his ruling, Justice Musa said that INEC lacked the power to disqualify any candidate.