*Obasanjo Denies👎 Receiving Pay at NOUN, Says🗣 Service is Pro Bono*

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has denied being paid N40,000 as a lecturer at the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). 
A national newspaper (not The Guardian) has reported that Obasanjo receives the said amount as monthly salaries for his service as a lecturer.

But a statement yesterday by his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, in Abeokuta, said: “Ordinarily, this will have been an unnecessary exercise if it has been the usual shenanigans of the media to sell their newspapers, but the very clear quotation of the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Abdalla Adam, on the headline made this clarification imperative and to set the records straight on His Excellency’s engagement with the university.

“In putting the records in right perspective, His Excellency wishes to draw the attention of the vice chancellor to his letter dated April 12, 2018, which was written to the university’s Registrar, Mr. Felix Edoka, when the Council offered him a part-time appointment as an Instructional/Tutorial Facilitator and Project Supervisor in the Faculty of Arts at the Abeokuta Study Centre.

“The former President affirmed that he has not received any dime either as salaries or otherwise from the university and not planning for such now or forever, as stated in his letter that the appointment was received with “pleasure and duty to give back to others out of what God and NOUN have given me.”

Emerhor Dismisses😒 Omo-Agege as APC Senator-Elect*

Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State, O’tega Emerhor, has declared that Senator Ovie Omo-Agege (APC, Delta Central) was at no time the candidate of the party, let alone senator-elect for the ninth National Assembly. 
Emerhor’s reaction yesterday was coming on the heels of several comments on the ruling that upheld the legitimacy of the Chief Cyril Ogodo-led executive as the authentic one in the state.

“The so-called consent judgement they keep building their hope on only dealt with the congress election of wards and council exco and not the primaries of candidates and, in any case, was dealt a deadly blow at the Appeal Court in Benin City and at the Asaba Federal High Court. Omo-Agege knows I’m now the senator-elect,” he said.

Emerhor, in a statement obtained by The Guardian, explained that the mainstream of the APC in Delta “produced the Ogodo-led executive and accommodates over 70 per cent of leaders and members of the party alongside over five governorship aspirants in the state. So, Omo-Agege, as a lawyer, cannot boast that the ruling is of no consequence.”

*I Have No❌ Plan to Leave PDP, Says Agbaje*

Lagos State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Jimi Agbaje, has said that he has no plan to quit the party that gave him ticket twice. 
He was speaking against the backdrop of rumours in the social media that he had dumped the party for the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Agbaje attributed the rumour to mischief-makers who are determined to soil his reputation, provoke crisis within the party and dampen the spirit of party members and his supporters.

He, however, disclosed that he lost the March 9 elections due to the intimidation of voters, which led to apathy that made Lagos record the lowest percentage of voters’ turnout in the country.

In a statement by his Director of Media and Publicity, Felix Oboagwina, he said: “I have never discussed with anyone any plan to dump PDP, neither has such a prospect crossed my mind. There is no reason for it. It is uncalled for.”

He vowed to remain in the party, despite the campaign of calumny against him in the media by a few leaders.

The PDP flag-bearer noted that he released a message on Monday encouraging members to rise above the questionable defeats suffered in the last election and keep faith with the party, and that it would be contradictory for him to suddenly turn tail and flee the same party.

*PDP NEC👥 Meeting: No Evil Doers Will Go🤔 Unpunished, Says Dogara*

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, in Abuja on Wednesday, said those who rigged during the 2019 general elections would not go unpunished.

He said the country was becoming “a bad reference point in bad behaviour” in the comity of nations.

Dogara spoke at the 85th Emergency National Executive Committee meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party at the national secretariat of the party.

The Speaker, who won his reelection into the House of Representatives, called on the Independent National Electoral Commission to conduct the Saturday’s supplementary elections with professionalism.

He said, “What has happened (the 2019 elections) is pure evil. Our consolation as members of this party is that no evil doer has ever escaped punishment.

💥 BREAKING: UK Parliament 🇬🇧 rejects call for second referendum

UK lawmakers rejected a move to support a second referendum on Brexit by 334 votes to 85. It’s a blow to campaigners for a so-called People’s Vote.

The cross-party proposal was the first time the House of Commons has held a formal vote on whether to endorse another referendum.

*Spurs Want to Sign Hull City's Bowen🔁*

Tottenham are trying to sign Jarrod Bowen in the January transfer window, as per reports.

Spurs are eager to sign a homegrown player this winter, and the 22-year-old Hull City forward would provide a strong option up top to provide support for Harry Kane.

Bowen has scored 26 goals in the Championship over the last season-and-a-half, with 11 of those goals coming in 26 matches this campaign.

Spurs have space for a homegrown player in their Premier League squad after the club submitted a team of fewer than 25 in the summer.

Tottenham currently have three forwards on the roster that are struggling to contribute to the first team as Vincent Janssen, Fernando Llorente and Georges-Kevin N'Koudou haven't truly provided much for the third-placed club.

It also seems likely that any move for Bowen would have to be preceeded by the sale of one of the aforementioned underperformers, which may not be easy.