NEWSFLASH Herdsmen raze down Catholic seminary, ASUU strike to continue, Catholic group wants 33 parties de-registered, We’ve been vindicated by Buhari’s refusal to participate in debate —IPOB, Obasanjo lambasts Buhari... 1. Gunmen, said to be in their hundreds, have attacked Bare, a community in Numan Local Government Area of Adamawa State, reportedly razing houses and structures, including a Catholic seminary there. Witnesses said the attackers were herdsmen, and that this latest incident would be a continuation of past similar attacks over grazing land that made many residents to leave the community. The Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Yola, Bishop Stephen Mamza said nothing of the identities of the attackers but confirmed the destruction of the Catholic Seminary, and said security agents did not respond on time to save the day. He said, “Our reverend father’s house was burnt and there’s no house around that area that is standing now. They have burnt all the houses. All my parishioners have left. Nobody can live there.” 2. Former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo says President Muhammadu Buhari has taken Nigeria back to the era of late General Sani Abacha.Obasanjo, speaking on Sunday in his state of the nation address, which he tagged “Points for Concern and Action”, said just like the Abacha era, state institutions are being used to fight perceived enemies of the head of state. 3. President Muhammadu Buhari, Sunday night, lambasted former President Olusegun Obasanjo for attacking his government. Buhari said all the former president needed was a good doctor for good treatment and to say to him, “Get well soon.” 4. The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, has advised Nigerians to collect the bribes offered by politicians during the 2019 general elections. He said the money had been stolen from them and that voters should not reject such offer. 5. President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday told Nigerians to look forward to greater prosperity and impactful leadership should he be reelected and return to power in the forthcoming election. He said from the personal accounts of testifiers, it was obvious that the administration had positively impacted on the people. 6. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) at the weekend revealed that the union can only suspend its ongoing industrial action when the federal government releases the sum of N50billion revitalisation fund. ASUU President, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi who stated this in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital, insisted that the federal government must pay the N50 billion revitalisation fund for the union to consider suspending the ongoing strike. 7. The Nigerian Navy has said that it has commenced the recruitment of interested applicants for the year 2019. Commodore Suleman Dahun, the Navy Director of Information, said interested members of the public are requested to apply online at www.joinnigeriannavy.com. 8. Two groups, the Biafra Government in Exile (BGIE) and the Biafra Shadow Government (BSG), have urged the people of the area not to participate in the 2019 general elections. The pro-Biafra groups said precedents showed that whether or not they voted, the administration that would emerge after the election would still not favour their course. 9. The Justice Development and Peace Initiative (JDPI) of the Catholic Diocese of Ekiti has written to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) demanding de-registration of 33 non-performing political parties. The JDPI said in the letter dated Jan. 12 that it was making the call based on the provisions of the 1999 constitution. It said that constitution provided that INEC had unfettered power to de-register a political party which participated in a governorship election and failed to win at least 25 per cent of the votes cast in one local government of the state in the said election. 10. IPOB Leader, Nnamdi Kanu made this known in a radio broadcast to his members yesterday. Kanu also blamed South-East governors whom he described as “stooges” of the northern establishment for allegedly orchestrating the labelling of his group as a terrorist organisation by the Federal Government, saying that the invasion of Igbo land by soldiers on Operation Python Dance 11’informed IPOB’s decision to boycott the forthcoming general elections in the country. Mezie Chimezie.