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“The Caliphate Operated Unitary Nigeria under the Rogue 1999 Constitution, is an adverse Suzerainty and Occupation, forcefully suppressing the Sovereignty of the Indigenous Peoples of Nigeria, just as the British Suzerainty did, during the nearly 100 Years of British Colonization between the 1860s and 1960” – LNC, July 4, 2011. As the distressed Constituent Component Nationalities of Nigeria, Entrapped in a Union of Death and Attrition, struggle to extricate their Peoples and Territories from the failed Lugardian Experiment of 1914 that goes codename “Nigeria”, it is pertinent to beam the searchlight into the true nature of the monster they are…
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• “Aku ruo uno principle – Come Let’s Build Our Home” By a stroke of luck, you Igbos barely escaped being drowned by the Oba of Lagos in 2015. It was by the special mercy of God that all of you in Lagos survived that ‘near miss’ incident. Immediately after the 2015 elections and as soon as Buhari was ‘elected’, in their phone chat leaked to the public, Alhaji Faruk and Kunle told you Igbos everything they will do to you and how they will build a super powerful north-west and south-west co-economy, to the exclusion of you Igbos. Earlier,…
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The presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, Bukola Saraki, on Tuesday, said Nigerians who voted President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 had been shortchanged because instead of the President, a few people who constituted themselves as a cabal had been ruling them. Saraki, who is also the Senate President, spoke while addressing PDP delegates in Oyo State during a meeting where he solicited their votes. He argued that a few influential world Presidents who had visited Nigeria under the present administration did not stay beyond a few hours because they were convinced that their host did not understand their mission…
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Twenty-one senators currently receiving pensions from government as ex-governors and deputy governors. The current senators who once served as governors are Bukola Saraki of Kwara, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of Kano, Kabiru Gaya of Kano, Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom, Theodore Orji of Abia, Abdullahi Adamu of Nasarawa, Sam Egwu of Ebonyi, Shaaba Lafiagi of Kwara, Joshua Dariye of Plateau Jonah Jang of Plateau, Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko of Sokoto, Ahmed Sani Yarima of Zamfara, Danjuma Goje of Gombe, Bukar Abba Ibrahim of Yobe, Adamu Aliero of Kebbi, George Akume of Benue and Isiaka Adeleke of Osun. The former deputy governors in…
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Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State says that Nigeria is sitting on a keg of gunpowder, as the country has become more divided due to leadership failure that has polarised the citizens along ethnic, religious and political lines. Dickson made the assertion while speaking on the 58th independence of Nigeria and the 22nd anniversary of the creation of the state in a media chat at the Government House in Yenagoa on Monday evening. The governor, who described the current state of affairs in the country as unfortunate, expressed regret that Nigeria was still contending with basic issues of unity, justice…
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Senator Dino Melaye was on Tuesday affirmed as the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, flagbearer for Kogi West senatorial district for the 2019 general election. There was a twist in the primary as four other contenders in the race were not cleared by the party screening committee while two others stepped down for the Senator who just returned from the APC to the party. Those who stepped down for Melaye were former commissioner of local government and chieftaincy affairs, Tolorunjuwon Faniyi and the current Reps member representing Kabba/bunu/ ijumu federal constituency, Hon. Tajudeen Yusuf. Those not cleared for the primary included…
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Senator Hope Uzodinma has defeated Governor Rochas Okorocha’s son in-law, Uche Nwosu to win the All Progressive Party’s gubernatorial ticket for next year’s election. Senator Uzodinma polled 423,895 votes to pick the party’s ticket in the election conducted on Tuesday. Nwosu came seventh with just 10, 329 votes. The result was signed by the returning officer, Ahmed Ali Gulak. Meanwhile, It was widely reported that Gulak has disappeared after declaring the winner of the primary election in the state. This was after he had addressed newsmen about 11.30 Monday night, where he announced the postponement of the election to Tuesday.…
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Nigerian Christians in Diaspora, under the umbrella of Coalition for Godly Change (CGC), have said they will no longer standby and do nothing to stop Nigeria from degenerating into a banana republic. They said this on Monday while briefing the press at the end of a meeting with leaders of various local Christian groups in Abuja. According to Prof. Adeniyi Ojitiku, Convener of CGC, Nigeria has experienced setbacks in its state of internal security and cannot afford to continue doing ‘business as usual.’ He also said ethnic partisanship and sycophancy in the distribution of political power and in the observance…
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What is the point of being richer than a State if you have not used your wealth to eradicate extreme poverty around you. Bill Gates is “richer” than Nigeria, he is paying for vaccines and polio eradication in Nigeria. Show me the free school you have built for the poor masses of Lagos State? Show me any research into any life killing menace like Malaria or Tuberculosis you Tinubu is funding? Yet you boost, you are richer than Osun State. ….you should see these, A. Stanford University was built by Laland Stanford, a railroad magnate, U.S. Senator & former California…
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•Insists on his Declared Result Chairman of APC Governorship Primary Election Committee, Ahmed Ali Gulak has said it was inappropriate to suspend an election whose results have been declared and a wimner declared. Reacting to the decision of the National Working Committee of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abuja on Tuesday to suspend the election, Gulak said the only option available in the circumstance was for anyone who is aggrieved with the result he announced channel such grievances through appeals and the party’s internal mechanism. Gulak insists that elections held in Imo State and having collated the results,…
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•DIRECT CULT BOYS TO SHOOT UZODINMA, MADUMERE, IMO VOTERS ON SIGHT. The last may not have been heared as violence was said to have erupted in various Wards in the state over the conduct of APC governorship primary. This followed a matching order issued by Governor Rochas Okorocha and his son-in-law, Uche Nwosu respectively to kill, maim and destroy any person that will vote against them in the ongoing exercise. In a telephone chatt with a former Commissioner in the state, who is a factional APC state Organizing Secretary (names withheld), he regretted that Governor Okorocha crossed bounds by ordering…
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In a shocking development, the distinguished Senator Samuel Anyanwu has rejected the outcome of the PDP governorship primaries which held on Monday. Addressing his supporters, Anyanwu alleged the issue of over voting. A statement signed by the Senator Anyanwu reads: “Thank you immensely for your unflinching support before and during the just concluded Governorship primary election. Though the election may have come and gone, but my reservation about the issue of over voting which made it impossible for your vote to count will remain in the front bunner of my political steps. I therefore, urge you all to remain calm…
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When will Lagos State be free of one man’s messianic mentality? Who will liberate the state from Bola Tinubu’s suffocating grip? Who will free Lagos, our dear Lagos, and its people from this modern-day slavery by one individual who is playing God? Is there no man courageous enough to fight the fight of his life to free Lagos from this imprisonment? Is every Lagosian a frightened coward, or just an impotent enabler of Tinubu’s overreach? Is there no one man enough to tell Tinubu that enough is enough? Why are Lagosians sheepishly following this man whose moral standing and character…
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With the presidential primary of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) a few days away, signs are beginning to emerge about the chances of the 12 aspirants locked in the race for the ticket. The front runners appear to be Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Senate President Bukola Saraki. Also in the race are Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, Alhaji Sule Lamido, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, Gombe State Governor Ibrahim Dankwambo, Alhaji Kabiru Turaki (SAN), Senator David Mark, Senator Jonah Jang and Dr. Datti Baba Ahmed. Atiku Abubakar Atiku who has assembled a formidable campaign team, …
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Dear Delegates, I write to you at this auspicious time in the history of our great party and dear State with a heart full of thanks to Almighty God. History has provided us with an opportunity to be agents of change in bringing our State back back on track after a horrible and excruciating experience in the hands of the present APC led government. I have traversed the nooks and crannies of the State to meet with you and other party members, leaders and stakeholders on my desire and commitment to present myself for the service of our great party…
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You are a Nigerian with a university exposure. You read how Muhammadu Buhari executed a military coup against a democratically elected govt on 31st December 1983, locked up the Christian-Igbo born vice president, late Dr Alex Ekwueme in Kirikiri prison but left the main President, Shehu Shagari, a Fulani Muslim like himself, in a palatial apartment in the name of house arrest. You’ve heard and read how the same Buhari jailed journalists back then simply for publishing stories his govt considered embarrassing, made life a living hell to the point that Nigerians had to que to buy ordinary bread and…
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The announcement by INEC,that the Osun state election conducted on Saturday, 22nd September 2018, was inconclusive and the fixing of 27th of September for a so called rerun, is a dangerous subversion and travesty of the electoral process, a blow to our hard earned constitutional democracy and an ominous sign of the farce to expect in 2019-subversion of the people’s will. INEC has earned for itself the inglorious reputation of holding inconclusive elections (Kogi, Bayelsa,et al); and working in cahoot with the ruling APC party, always eager to do its dirty electoral bidding, to commit daylight robbery of votes. This…
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The tinge of drama characterizing the political hemisphere in Imo State took another shape on Tuesday when the much awaited judgment to decide the fate of the embattled Deputy Governor of Imo State, Prince Eze Madumere was delivered. After hearing parties involved in the case, two weeks ago, the judge reserved date for the judgment. Recall that few months ago, after a battle to survive impeachment failed, Madumere was removed by the members of the Imo State House of Assembly. His position was about to be taken over by Callistus Ekenze, who until his nomination as the Deputy Governor designate,…
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Afro Beat Maestro and Music Legend, our own FELA (Abami Eda), in one of his numerous classics dropped a song titled “Double Wahala for Dead Body”. In the song, he said that when a dead body is being conveyed for burial and on the way the Ambulance had an accident, it is “Double Wahala” for that Dead Body “and the owner of Dead Body”. In Imo State, what could be said to be “Double Wahala” hit the Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha within Forty Eight hours. For his insistence to foist his son in-law, Chief Uche Nwosu as his…
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Every year, 3 million young Nigerians are thrown into the labour market, without any tangible plan or enterprise platform to absorb them or keep them productively employed. Imo state, as one of the leading states that churn out employable graduates contributes about 6% (180,000) of this number of young Nigerians annually pushed into the employment market. Over 113million Nigerians (69% of Nigeria’s population) live in abject poverty. In Imo state, the poverty rate is 20% of her 3.9m population (780,000 Imolites). The current economic outlook of Nigeria is not looking bright. The GDP growth of Nigeria has declined from a…
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Ohaneze Ndigbo has left a destructive trail of blood, betrayal and sabotage of wider Igbo interest, to the extent that nobody in Nigeria has regard for the honour and dignity of a once proud race. Only those born with a deep sense of betrayal, Lagos-Abuja domiciled traitors and fellow collaborators will have respect for Ohaneze as presently constituted. To date we are yet to come across one person who can confidently point to one tangible achievement of Ohanaeze Ndigbo that benefited the entire people. The truth is, there is none. They work for their pockets and well-being of their children…
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While the 2018 Osun governorship poll subjects the Nigeria’s fledging democracy to another critical test, its inherent lessons are abound as preparations for nomination of candidates gather momentum in the ranks of competing political parties. The lessons are indeed useful to states with transiting governors as well as opposition parties that are democratically disposed to grab power relying on popular and acceptable candidates. It is no longer a news that the exiting governor of the State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbeshola, through his performance, offered a good example of how a leader and custodian of people’s mandate can assume notoriety…
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Intersociety Warns INEC. Intersociety: 26th September 2018 The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) must not repeat the armada of electoral roguery and brigandage that characterized the recently held Ekiti and Osun States’ staggered governorship elections during which the scared electoral wishes of the People of Ekiti and Osun States were threatened, undermined and truncated. The Prof Mahmood Yakubu led INEC risks plunging the entire country into short term and long term crises of intractable and disastrous magnitude, if such armada of electoral fraud and pen-violence are repeated in the 2019 general elections in Nigeria. The present leadership of INEC must…
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THE erstwhile main opposition party, the All Progressives Party (APC), actually plotted to form a parallel government in 2015, if it was not declared winner of the then presidential election. The National Peace Committee led by former military head of state, General Abdulsalam Abubakar made the startling revelation in its report unveiled yesterday in Abuja. According to the 51 page report, 2015 General Elections: The Untold Story, the immediate past president and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), presidential candidate, Dr Goodluck Jonathan got wind of the alleged sinister motive of the key actors in the erstwhile main opposition party prior to…
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A leading Igbo socio-cultural group, Igbo Bu Igbo, IBI, has urged people of the southeast to elect only those with the track record of defending and promoting the Igbo cause without fear or favour if they must have a better deal in the socio-political and economic future of Nigeria. In a statement signed by Dr Law Mefor and Mr Chidi Omeje, Chancellor and Publicity Secretary respectively of the Group, IBI warned that unless the champions of the region across party lines are elected into strategic offices of national importance, their future in Nigeria remains precarious and may even get worse.…
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2019 PRESIDENTIAL TICKET: RESTRUCTURING CAMPAIGN BY SOME PDP ASPIRANTS MERE LIP SERVICE – GOV. WIKE.
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has said that some of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, presidential aspirants do not have the interests of the people of the state and Niger Delta at heart. Wike said this while reacting to the alleged opposition of some of the aspirants to the October 5 and 6 national Convention in Port Harcourt. The Governor, who addressed reporters in Port Harcourt on Monday, said the aspirants are, by their actions, showing they are against the economic interest of the state and Niger Delta. He said such aspirants are also not living up to their campaign…
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“A weapon is defensive or offensive depending on which end is pointing at you.” Premier Aristide Briande, 1862-1932. By Dele Sobowale The recent invasion of the National Assembly, NASS, by officers of the Department of State Service, DSS, under Director General, Lawal Daura, was not the first since 1999. In 2014, under former President Jonathan, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, it was the Nigeria Police which assaulted the second arm of government in order to foster GEJ’s and PDP’s interests. Lawmakers of the PDP wanting to decamp to the All Progressives Congress, APC, had to scale the walls to…
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By Dele Sobowale “There are no desperate situations only desperate men.” Joseph Goebbels, 1897-1945. Hitler’s Chief of Propaganda knew a thing or two about desperate people. He made that statement when it was clear that Germany was facing defeat during World War II. The question was: what were extremely exposed people like himself supposed to do with their lives? Goebbels took the courageous or cowardly way out (depending on how you view suicide). He killed himself instead of being captured and disgraced. But, he came from a tradition of honourable public officials where integrity counted. It is becoming increasingly difficult…
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From every indication, most politicians in our country develop deaf ears to the masses voice and become unreachable after being elected into various offices. This has gone a long way to make the electorates lose hope and feel reluctant in participating actively in electoral processes, taking the campaign promises of prospective and sitting politicians to the bank, and consequently, larger percentage of the masses resort to either staying aloof or exchanging their votes for campaign peanuts and monetary incentives. However, among the crop of corrupt politicians are few who truly see politics as a call to service and not a…
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The relationship between God and man has always presented some intriguing and almost inexplicable dimensions beyond human understanding. Everyday, God uses some clear and demonstrable signs and events to teach humanity of His supremacy above all things, and directs even the movement of the cosmos the way He pleases. The wonders of creation alone, underscores the awesomeness of God. Certain stories of some individuals epitomize same in the most unique and profound manner. The life of Distinguished Senator Samuel Nnaemeka Anyanwu (Sam Daddy), the leading PDP governorship aspirant in Imo State and the serving Senator representing Imo East in the…
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In 1960, John Kennedy exhorted his fellow Americans on his inauguration as president of the United States to: “ask not what your country can do for you: ask what you can do for your country.” Can you imagine a Nigerian leader asking the same question of Nigerians? He would be laughed out of court. The answer is likely to be a curt: “What has Nigeria done for me lately?” Nigerians are more likely to wax lyrical about what Nigeria has done against them than what Nigeria has done for them. Many Nigerians currently lying in our graveyards were roundly defeated…
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I suffered heartburn watching the presidential media chat. I missed the live transmission but decided to watch the chat on YouTube following a friend’s glowing review that President Muhammadu Buhari shone like a thousand stars. After watching excerpts, I fell numb with fear. I was traumatised and completely flabbergasted by his responses to questions. His lack of knowledge about his environment and events around the world in the past 30 years and his understanding of issues were frighteningly telling. His dictatorial visage was on full display as well as his ironclad contempt for the rule of law and the niceties…
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Mr President, I say no! The rule of law is not subordinate to national security. President Muhammadu Buhari’s insistence at the conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) or should I say at the public presentation of his change manifesto that the rule of law must be subject to the supremacy of national security was an alarming preposition from a man who rode to power on the strength of the ballot box. Buhari’s assertion was a throwback to his infamous Decrees No. 2 and 4 of 1984. That he delivered such a repugnant speech at the NBA conference, without a…
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INEC says the Osun Governorship election is inconclusive because the difference in votes is less than the number of cancelled votes. They are probably relying on their 2015 guidelines which appears contrary to Constitutional provisions on this matter. It may make sense if the votes involved are in relation to centers were elections were not held due to no fault of the voters. However, were elections were held and votes are cancelled, they remain cancelled. They ought not to form part of the counting process and should not influence the outcome of the elections for any reason whatsoever. In Oshiomhole…
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“Lies never last, History never dies and the Truth is always constant.” – Author. Every political philosophy has a purpose. Or if you like, a vision that it fosters through governance. And one believes that we all agreed or is it just assumed, that the main purpose of any political group or philosophy is to advance the welfare of the governed through a selected method entirely unique to the group. It is a method that the group is known for and identified with. Critically examining the politics of the Jaggaban of Borgu, the man who claimed to be richer than…
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The much awaited governorship primary election of the People’s Democratic Party in Imo State is just days away. As a result, political aficionados and analysts are busy with calculations and permutations in attempts to ascertain where the pendulum will eventually swing. To this end, all eyes are on the delegates whose votes and voting pattern will surely determine the party’s governorship flag bearer for the 2019 polls. With the expectations of Imo people high on PDP to provide the formidable force needed to halt a disastrous 8 years of APC administration in the state, the party’s delegates must play a…
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The emergence of Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki and his predecessor, Senator David Mark, in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential primaries contest has reshaped the permutations on the ticket as their separate bids cause divisions in their strongholds in the National Assembly and North-Central geopolitical zone. The campaign of the third aspirant from the North-Central, Senator Jonah Jang, who is also a serving senator, has, however, failed to pick momentum. Senator Rabiu Kwankwanso from Kano State is the fourth member of the National Assembly involved in the PDP presidential contest, but he is from the North West geopolitical zone.…
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Identical twins who grew up in a tough south London neighbourhood became multi-millionaires by designing one of the world’s leading cryptocurrencies in their mother’s kitchen. Steve and Sam Williams, 39, whose parents emigrated from Nigeria in the early Seventies, spent four years working on the software behind their Populous PPT currency in the family home in Brockley. It helps small and medium-sized businesses with cash flow. Within the first five days of launching in June last year, demand was so strong that the initial batch of tokens was worth more than £8 million. Populous is now rated as the 51st…
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In a bid to ensure a free, fair and successful election in the forthcoming Osun state gubernatorial election, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Monday warned electorate not to come with any electronic device that is capable of recording sounds and images inside the polling booths. Disclosing this in Osogbo at the stakeholders’ forum, Yakubu opined that the new development would help to reduce vote-buying and selling which politicians have adopted. Recall that during the Ekiti state election in July, Yakubu promised Nigerians that the commission would not allow vote-buying and selling to take place. Details…
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The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has attributed lack of experience by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal executive council (FEC) to the crisis rocking the Nigerian Senate. Saraki made this known on Thursday at the Banquet Hall of Ebonyi State Government House in Abakaliki where he was received by the state governor, Engr. David Umahi and stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He said the division under President Buhari-led government has never been witnessed in the country since independence. He appealed to the state PDP’s delegates to vote for him to enable him fly the party’s presidential flag in…
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Senate President Bukola Saraki has pledged to protect all Nigerians and be fair to all sections of the country if elected as the next president of Nigeria. Saraki also said it is North Central zone’s turn to produce the next president of Nigeria. Saraki made the pledge at the secretariat of the Plateau state Chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during a consultative tour to seek the support of the state’s delegates for the forthcoming party’s presidential primary. He said, “This is our chance in the north central to produce president. We need somebody that is courageous and can stand…
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Political campaigns precede elections. The Lexicon Webster Dictionary (1981:143) defines a political campaign as “any course of aggressive action… intended to influence voters in an election”. It is an organized effort which seeks to influence the decision making process within a specific group. In democracies, political campaigns often refer to electoral campaigns, by which representatives are chosen or referendums are decided. Generally, campaigns begin many months or even years before the election. To launch and operate a successful campaign, candidates first organize a network of committed campaign workers, both volunteer and professional. They also establish a fund-raising apparatus to finance…
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•Former military ruler, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, says there can be no better candidate for president than Bukola Saraki •He urges the Senate president to stick to his objective for the good of the country. •Bukola Saraki says he is not afraid of impeachment threats. Former military ruler, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, has backed the presidential ambition of Senate president, Bukola Saraki. Babangida on Sunday, September 16, said that Saraki was well prepared to be the president of Nigeria, the Nation reports. The former military ruler made the statement at his residence in Minna, Niger state, when Saraki paid him a courtesy…
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Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki has boasted that he can never be impeached as the Senate President hinging his stand on the fact that the All Progressives Congress, (APC) championing the cause are minorities at upper chambers and therefore don’t have the powers to carry out the impeachment threat. Besides that, Saraki also made it clear that he can never step down as Senate President as being demanded by the APC pointing out that succumbing to such calls will only amount to sacrificing the national interest of the country for personal interest. The Senate President who made these clarifications while…
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Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has reiterated that his government has not committed the State to any debt and challenged the Debt Management Office (DMO), any financial institution or any other relevant agency with contrary fact to publish same. Governor Fayose, who spoke in Ado Ekiti on Sunday, denied that his government had borrowed N117billion, insisting that his government was not owing either by taking a bond or borrowing from any financial institution since he assumed office for a second term on October 16, 2014. He said he challenged those accusing him of borrowing the amount, the All Progressive…
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The leading Peoples Democratic Party governorship aspirant in Imo State, Senator Samuel Anyanwu has congratulated the party’s ad-hoc delegates that emerged across the State in the delegates elections. He also frowned at the attack by some thugs on the Okigwe road secretariat of the party. Senator Anyanwu said the emergence of the delegates in the keenly contested election has proved that they have the confidence of the party members in their various wards and therefore can be trusted to make popular decisions in the forthcoming primaries of the party. In a statement signed by his media aide, Kelechi Eke, the…
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First it was the Econonist of London that wrote off Buhari and the Buharimaniacs said they were bribed Then came the Financial Times of London that said Buhari was a disaster and the Buharimaniacs said they were being influenced Then the Biggest bank in Europe and perhaps top 5 in the WORLD HSBC took out an opinion on Buhari and his Government and they warned their investors that a second term of Buhari would be a calamity for Nigeria. In other words putting their investors on notice to pull out of Nigerua should Buhari win a second term Then came…
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Nigerian President Muhummadu Buhari writes of building an economic bridge to Nigeria’s future (“The Three Changes Nigeria Needs,” op-ed, June 14). It’s hard to see how his administration’s inflexibility, lack of vision and reactive approach will achieve this. Mr. Buhari notes that building trust is a priority for Nigeria. But an anticorruption drive that is selective and focused on senior members of the opposition party creates deep political divisions. Meanwhile, members of Mr. Buhari’s own cabinet, accused of large-scale corruption, walk free. Seventy percent of the national treasury is spent on the salaries and benefits of government officials, who make…
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Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, has reportedly resigned from the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. Details later…
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A few weeks ago, the out-going Governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha while speaking to Journalists said that Imo people will miss him a lot when he hands-over power to his successor in May next year. He added that to reduce the level of nostalgic feeling about him among the Imo populace, he would love to leave behind his son-in-law, Chief Uche Nwosu to fill the void and reduce the tears of Imo people who would be weeping profusely every day for the absence of Okorocha, who has changed the lives of the citizens like no other Governor in…
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I have always been defined by my instinctive integrity, my methodical altruism, my consistent loyalty and my steadfastness in protecting and defending the PDP and the truth. It is in all these characterizations that I have personally lived my life. It is in all these summative portraits that I have pursued my personal and political engagements, strengthened in the resolve that truth, sincerity of purpose, fearlessness, equity, ethical balance are the basic ingredients of purposeful service. I have gone through many travails in my life. I have climbed the highest hills. and I have been through the lowest valleys. But…
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There are indications that recently sacked Director General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Mr Lawal Daura may be recalled to his duty post following new developments within the presidency. A top security source close to the presidency and conversant with the new development told PRNigeria that plans are afoot to reverse the various reorganisations embarked upon by the new Acting DSS boss, Mathew Seiyefa. The sources said: “The presidency is not happy with some recent deployment by the acting Director General of DSS, Mathew Seiyefa especially the redeployment of Director of DSS in Kano, Alhassan Muhammad to the…
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The attention of the Southern and middle Belt Leaders Forum has been drawn to a clandestine plot to remove the Acting Director General of the Department of State Security(DSS), Mr Matthew Seiyefa from office by a cabal in the Buhari presidency. We ordinarily would have ignored this report but for the clannishness,sectional proclivity and exclusive handling of the security architecture of the country by President Buhari in the last three years. He had defied all protestations from all well-meaning Nigerians in making appointments into all key and sensitive security positions in sectional and kith and kin affairs in a very…
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Fellow Nigerians, these are interesting times in our dear beloved country. High-wired politics is here again and there are many gladiators already queueing up for the biggest prize of all, the Presidency. The latest political figure to throw his hat into the ring is the President of the Nigerian Senate, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki, who declared his interest in dramatic fashion, two days ago, whilst addressing a gathering of some selected Nigerian youths. As always, I have continued to follow developments on this latest declaration on social media. While many were jolted by Saraki’s decision, I was not surprised at…
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I don’t mind being called illiterate in jest. Nothing wrong with njakiri. They call me Gwongwolo because I am a big jester myself and I don’t believe that people should take themselves too seriously. But iko onu ka nwanyi is a different thing altogether. It speaks in strong ways to pathologic defects in certain brain circuits such as the amygdala and frontal lobe and when combined with difficulties segregating fact from fiction, it builds a certain psychiatric profile. As my fellow Anambrarians would say, onwelo kwanu ploblem. After thunderclaps and pouring rain comes sunshine. The times may be hard for…
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Warning! Warning! Warning! This is what will happen if Buhari returns in 2019. He will ensure that his stooges emerge as Senate President and the Speaker of The House of Representatives. President Buhari and the cabal will rather see National Assembly go up in flames and ashes than watch Senator Bukola Saraki and Hon. Yakubu Dogara return as Senate President and Speaker, respectively. If National Assembly is “conquered”, the process of erasing whatever that will be left of Nigeria’s democratic principles, as captured by the rule of law will begin in earnest. Then, the battle shifts to the Judiciary. You…
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Senate President Bukola Saraki has declared his intention to run for presidency in the 2019 general elections. He made the declaration on Thursday while delivering a keynote address at a dialogue for youths and young aspirants in Abuja. The Senate President listed several challenges which he believes have clogged the wheels of progress in the nation. He highlighted extreme poverty, hunger, lack of education and mass unemployment as some of the things that have paved way for more crime and insecurity in the nation, adding that it is now time for Nigerians to rebuild the nation with new leadership. Also,…
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Adolf Hitler was a sick man. He was not just physically, sick; a circumstance, which underwrote his addiction to cocaine and opiates. He was also a raving lunatic, who was elected to the German chancellorship through the ballot box. But ended up ripping German democracy asunder; and morphing into a full-blown dictator, that he was all along. He was a tyrannical virus, that afflicted a bubonic plague-grade pestilence on German democracy. He shook the foundations of Western civilization, plunged the world into a conflagration that incinerated 50 Million lives, and convoked an abomination that was the Holocaust. That is exactly…
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For the first three years of the APC administration at the center, former president Goodluck Jonathan was blamed for all the ills, failures and blunders of President Buhari’s government. Jonathan was “responsible” for Buhari’s seemingly confusion and protracted delay in choosing his cabinet members—ministerial appointees. It took President Buhari six consecutive months to make up his mind on who would be part of Federal Executive Council (FEC), headed by him. This is the same man who had contested for the president for 12 years before luck smiled on him in 2015. Yet Jonathan was blamed for lack of Buhari’s preparedness…
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The Federal Government has refuted a recent statement credited to the governors of south-eastern states, that the region has been shortchanged in the implementation of infrastructural projects by the President Muhammadi Buhari government. Contrary to their claim, the Federal government said there were 69 ongoing projects in the region alone. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, issued the rebuttal in Ilorin on Thursday, at a lecture by Mr. Festus Keyamo, spokesman for the President Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organization. ”While this claim may have made headlines, it is totally untrue. His Excellencies were either misquoted or they were quoted…
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The Nigeria Police Force has invited a former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, for alleged conspiracy, criminal and inciting publication. In a letter dated August 20, 2018 with Ref. No CR/3000/IGP.SEC/MU/T.G/ABJ Vol.54/226, the police asked the former minister to appear before SP Usman Garba latest by August 28, 2018. In the letter titled, ‘Conspiracy, criminal defamation, inciting publication, injurious falsehood and conduct likely to cause breach of peace’, the police noted that the invitation was based purely on a fact-finding mission. The letter, which was signed by Commissioner of Police in charge of the IG Monitoring Unit, Force Headquarters,…
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I have a wish. I wish some of our corporate guys in the South, who are well-travelled, still defending Buhari could have an opportunity to sit down with their man to discuss development and strategic policy issues with him. I mean something like a brainstorming session where facts and figures are put on the table with special focus on Countries Peer Review Mechanism. God, I pray You make this happen one way or the other and let these supporters: * Ask him about plans for five-year rolling plan. * Take him on on Africa Millennium Goals launched in 1999 and…
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The siege, penultimate Tuesday, to the National Assembly, which eventually cost a former Director General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Lawal Daura his job, has been told from different angles with different accounts often in bits and pieces. There has not been a sequential details of what truly transpired. However, THISDAY was able to break through some senators, who offered detailed information on what happened the night preceding the siege and the Tuesday turmoil. They also provided insight on the planned impeachment of the President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, explaining why…
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As promised, part two of this topic will dwell on three other prominent aspirants who cannot be easily written off from the ticket race of PDP after a preview of the chances of the two forerunners; Chukwuemeka Nkem Ihedioha and Samuel Nnaemeka Anyanwu, ( SamDaddy) was done in last week’s edition. If previous stories of how governors who ruled Imo State in the past are to be considered, it would be risky dismissing the aspirations of Jude Njoku, a renowned Professor and former Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, FUTO, as well as that of a seasoned…
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Our Organization-Int’l Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law is calling on the central Government of Nigeria and the Government of Imo State, as a matter of uttermost immediacy and importance, to discontinue, withdraw and discharge all the 10-count spurious charges of “treasonable felony”, “conspiracy to commit treasonable felony”, “terrorism”, etc, slammed on the incarcerated Mothers of the Igbo Nation, numbering 114; with their ages between 22 and 64 as well as others likely to be in their 70s. We also demand for their immediate and unconditional release from the Owerri Prison custody and discontinuation of further harassment…
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Senator Samuel Anyanwu has expressed deep concerns over the spate of infrastructure especially bad roads in Owerri the State capital, while promising a sustainable solution when he is inauguration as the governor of Imo State in 2019. Senator Anyanwu who represents Owerri Senatorial Zone in the Senate made his feelings known while addressing some PDP delegates who paid him a solidarity visit in his Owerri residence. He regretted the sufferings the people of the State are going through as a result of bad roads in Owerri. Senator Anyanwu who is also a leading PDP governorship aspirant in the State told…
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 Chairman, Senate Committee on Navy, Senator Isah Hamma Misau and his counterpart in the Committee on Banking, Finance and other Financial Insitutions, Senator Rafiu Adebayo Ibrahim have advised the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its leaders to desist from looking for scapegoats for the failure to fulfill their promises to the electorate by constantly blaming Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki. Misau and Rafiu, in a statement on Sunday, stated that APC leaders have continued to whine about what Saraki did or did not do to ensure the Buhari government failed without caring whether it was reasonable to believe that…
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The battle to displace President Muhammadu Buhari in next year’s election has intensified in the last few weeks given the gale of defections in both the ruling and opposition parties, which has ratcheted up the political temperature in the country. Although there is the belief that the increasing jostle for the nation’s plum job may have been stoked by the perceived ineptitude of the Buhari administration, the president’s men have latched on to the integrity narrative, which remains one of the defining indices in the 2019 presidential election. Apart from selling Buhari from the point of view of integrity, which…
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Let’s go down Memory Lane on what really happened A lie told repeatedly will start sounding like a truth to the ear of people. Ordinarily we should have waved this issue aside but when you continuously lie against someone who did nothing to you other than show you love then it becomes something to worry about, what really happened in the 2015 general elections should have been in the past but you cannot talk about the future without treating the past. Now to the trending issue at hand, we read with dismay yesterday an online publication made by our own…
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It is sad, shameful and pathetic, that distinguished APC Senators of the federal republic of Nigeria elected by us the people, have allowed themselves to be used by the presidency and their party leadership to rubbish our exalted hallowed senate institution. There’s all sorts of talk bandied around internationally on the internet about senators collecting or have collected money to break the rules of the senate and attempt to unlawfully and forcefully remove the no 3 man in the country, the senate president. In the bid to rubbish the senate president, senators allowed the executive using the police to falsely…
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In about two months from now, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) will be going into the primaries to elect their Presidential, Governorship, National Assembly and State Assembly candidates ahead next years general elections. Move around the length and breadth of the state, from Ideator North to Ngor-Okpalla, Onuimo to Ohaji-Egbema, Owerri Municipal to Obowo and Orsu to Ikeduru, and you will see the desire and enthusiasm of the people to have PDP back in power in the State and everywhere. This desire is not without base, as the people have suffered untold hardship in the hands of the outgoing government…
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The Arabian Peninsula has a very rich history dating 6000BC. The peninsula was occupied by Bedouins…the modern day Arabs. The peninsula is mostly sandy desert, hard rocky mountains, and wetlands around the coastal areas. To say this is one of the most uninhabitable places on earth is an understatement! Summer temperatures are so high that you’d be convinced your brains were being melted within your cranium; winter temperatures are so low you’d pray for global warming day and night! The desert is filled with sand boas, cobras, scorpions, goats and camels! It is a most uninhabitable peninsula! The area was…
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Fellow Nigerians, the die is cast! President Muhammadu Buhari has declared his intention to seek re-election in 2019 against the well-considered advice of many well-meaning Nigerians that doing so would not be in the best interest of our country. I had hoped against hope that the greater love of country would persuade him to retire after his very poor performance in his first term. Apparently, other sentimental and selfish considerations weighed heavily in his decision to run again which unfortunately he claimed was a response to the “clamour by Nigerians for him to re-contest in 2019”. Contrary to what the…
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My article published a fortnight ago titled: ‘Oshiomhole as Buhari’s Enforcer’, provided the background to the current political troubles. In the said article, I had stated inter alia: “The truth well-spoken by him (Oshiomhole) is that ministers, heads of parastatals and security chiefs owe their allegiance to these competing power cells. You see, Buhari runs a centrifugal government with no strong centripetal authority; he hardly knows what is going on in his government but appears to always be content when told certain actions have been taken in furtherance of his ethno-religious and re-election interests.” I must state here that I…
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When last February President Muhammadu Buhari saddled the former Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu, with the task of reconciling all aggrieved members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) across the country, I scoffed at the idea and stated then that it was a futile exercise. The reasons were not far-fetched: Buhari by his actions had no genuine desire at reconciling the party members; with Tinubu as the chief aggrieved member, leading such efforts was a misnomer because he needed to be reconciled with some of the party members. I predicted that by the end of his brief, the party would…
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Last week, Adams Oshiomhole told us loud and clear what we all knew but which many people were either reluctant to admit, or say publicly. If it was a Freudian slip from the new garrison commander and chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), then it was an important one that confirmed our worst fears about the capacity and competence of President Muhammadu Buhari to govern the country. Things were happening at such a dizzying speed that one could hardly keep pace. Clouded by the mad hysteria of defections that had hit the ruling party and was largely overlooked by…
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•Decreased desire •Reduced enjoyment •Unhappiness •Loss of appetite for food Reality star Kim Kardashian was once cautioned by her doctors to stop having too much sex following revelations about the star’s daily multiple sex routine in effort to get pregnant. Kim, who was 34 at that time, had revealed in the Season 10 of their family reality show “Keeping Up With The Kardashians” that she and husband, Kanye West, were having “the best sex of their lives” and were going at it about 15 times a day in the effort to give their daughter North West a brother or sister.…
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I find that some unenlightened APC Supporters have been trying to portray Senator Bukola Saraki’s retirement of his father from the Leadership of Kwara Politics as irresponsible and a betrayal. What I want them to know is that that singular act of Saraki is the most responsible thing a son that has come of age can do. It is most unfortunate that a child that has, even through the grace of his father, become the leader of a state as governor, would after eight years in office queue behind his father in charting the course of the State. A child…
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Four years after 2015 election, there are strong indications that the Governorship ticket of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, for Imo State, will no longer be an all comers affairs if the number of aspirants wishing to grab it for 2019 election is considered This time four years ago, the political firmament in Imo State was on fire largely ignited by the avalanche of persons who wanted the party’s ticket for the 2015 election. Despite the whopping N10m price tag placed for the governorship form and other attendant expenses that pushed the amount to about #15m, not less than 10…
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PDP Delegates of the 33 wards of Owerri federal constituency, we the “Hazie Owerri Campaign organization”, hereby introduce to you our Brother, friend, uncle and acquaintance, Duruebube Chimazuru “Oblong” Nnadi who has put himself forward to join hands with other like minded progressives to reorder the pace of social, infrastructural and economic development of Owerri federal constituency, Imo state and Nigeria in general at the Green Chambers of the National Assembly via the HAZIE OWERRI 2019 campaign organization. Duruebube Chimazuru “Oblong” Nnadi is from the prominent Nnadi-Oforgu family of Umuadamoche, Umuelem, Ihiagwa in Owerri west LGA of IMO state. His…
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Senator Godswill Akpabio’s deputy while he was Akwa Ibom State governor, Mr. Patrick Ekpotu has said the defection of his former boss from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is a bad omen for the ruling party. Ekpotu, who also served alongside Akpabio as commissioners under former governor Victor Attah’s administration, said the Senator’s defection signals destruction for the ruling party. He added that the defection showed that the senator was incapable of operating as an opposition outside the state power apparatus. In a strong worded statement issued yesterday, the former deputy governor said Akpabio’s move…
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Junaid Mohammed, Second Republic lawmaker, on Tuesday, lambasted President Muhammadu Buhari over the tensed political atmosphere in the country. Mohammed, in a chat with DAILY POST, described Buhari as a political and an economic illiterate, who lacks the capacity to manage the affairs of the country. While claiming that Buhari was sick, incompetent and dishonest, he warned that the country was on the verge of implosion. The staunch critic of the APC-led Federal Government also warned that Nigeria was in a “dire situation.” According to him, “The situation Nigeria finds itself now is critical, we are in a very dire…
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Electricity generation in Nigeria on Monday dropped to 2,684 megawatts, as there was decline in output from the hydropower plants and some gas-fired stations, including Egbin in Lagos. According to reports from the Ministry of Power, Words and Housing, the total generation capacity of 4,463.3MW was unavailable as of 6am on Monday, compared to 3,631.4MW on Friday. Gas constraints and frequency management occasioned by electricity distribution companies’ load demand left 2,365.5MW and 2,087MW, respectively idle. Total electricity generation, which stood at 3,462MW as of 6am on Sunday, fell to 2,684.20MW on Monday. The nation generates most of its electricity from…
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 Maverick entertainer and activist, Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charlyboy, has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari has destroyed Nigeria beyond imagination in just three years. Charlyboy, who is the leader of the ‘OurMumuDonDo’ movement stated this while reacting to the recent complaint by soldiers about their welfare. Some aggrieved soldiers had posted a video online complaining about the conditions they were being subjected to in the North-East. Reacting to the video, CharlyBoy, using his verified Twitter handle, tweeted: “President Buhari has destroyed this nation beyond imagination in just 3yrs, close to 300 soldiers have been killed in about 5weeks.…
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We have now had three-and-a-half years of APC rule. We have now seen what APC’s ‘change’ actually entails. We are no longer under any illusions. Even though the APC has spent the last few years re-litigating what was wrong with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), it should now be clear that the PDP is far better than the APC; at least ten times better. I have said time and again that I am not a member of the PDP. I am saying it again. I have never been and will never be a member of any political party in Nigeria.…
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A few months ago, the popular American preacher TD Jakes came to the church I attend in London. Preaching on leadership and wealth, he said prayer is not leadership and won’t make anyone rich. “If prayers were enough”, he said, “Nigeria would be one of the richest countries in the world”. Most people in the congregation clapped in agreement. Several weeks later, The Times of London wrote an editorial on the relationship between religion and wealth, in which it said: “A period of increasing religiosity in Nigeria heralded a period of falling wealth”. So, Nigeria has become a global case…
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A former assistant to the sacked director general of State Security Service, Lawal Daura, has accused his former principal of extensive corruption, and has portrayed him as a man who serially betrayed his boss, President Muhammadu Buhari, for money. The assistant, Abdulwahab Abdulrahman, a retired senior SSS official, said he left the agency because of the scale of corruption and abuse there. “I didn’t want my children to see news of my eventual arrest on TV,” he told PREMIUM TIMES. Mr Daura, who led Nigeria’s domestic spy agency since 2015, was abruptly fired on Tuesday by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo…
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August 11, 2018 The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) challenges the Buhari Presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to end its silence and speak out on their evident complicity in the corrupt amassing of the N21bn, guns and thousands of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) allegedly found in the residence of President Muhammadu Buhari’s ally, the sacked Director General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Lawan Daura. The party said the discovery has not only exposed the shameless hypocrisy of the Buhari Presidency, but also stripped it of all integrity and brought its deceptive saintly posturing to a disgraceful end.…
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The Federalism of the First Republic, of the 1963 Constitution, is being demanded by some as the solution to Nigeria’s problems. The proponents of this view seem to think that once Nigeria returns to that constitution, with possibly some slight modifications, they and their interests will be protected, and their cherished “One Nigeria” can go on. But they are mistaken, I think. They haven’t considered why that constitution failed them. If it failed them before, can’t it fail them again? Like the 1963 constitution, the 1960 Constitution limited the powers of the Federal Government to Defence, Foreign Affairs, and a…
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We have read with dismay the claim by governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State that two governors of the South East extraction elected on the platform of People’s Democratic Party would join APC before the 2019 elections. Raising from zonal emergency meeting of zonal working committee of PDP in South East held in Enugu,Enugu state on Friday, we react as follows (1) The latest claim by the mouthy governor of Imo state that two PDP governors from the south East zone will join the disillusioned APC who has inflicted pains and agony on the people of Nigeria is a statement…
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Chances for the survival and advancement of democracy and rule of law in Nigeria are steadily fading, threatened and endangered by the country’s anti democratic forces or the authors of tyranny and totalitarianism. As a matter of fact, Nigeria’s democratic process has known no peace, stability and advancement especially since mid 2015 when Retired Major Gen Muhammadu Buhari became the sixth civilian president of Nigeria. Nigeria, unarguably, is unstoppably being matched back to its inglorious epoch of tyranny, dictatorship, authoritarianism and totalitarianism. Democratic conventions or principles have almost given way for rule by dictation and might in the country. Tyranny…
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Ahead of the September governorship primary election of the People’s Democratic Party in Imo State, a staunch member of the party, Chief Okey Udeagu, has urged the PDP delegates in Okigwe local government to cast their votes for Sen. Samuel Anyanwu (Samdaddy), to become the party’s governorship flag bearer in the state for the 2019 polls. Speaking last Saturday during the Senator’s consultation of members of the party in the LGA, including statutory delegates, Chief Udeagu, who hails from Ihube Autonomous Community of the local government, said that with Sen. Anyanwu as Imo PDP’s governorship flag bearer, the party in…
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Light Amuntions 200,000 PVCs #21Bn Cash A Threat To Our Democracy Amidst Fight Against Corruption Perhaps the most ignored of the three items purported to have been found in Daura’s home are the PVCs. The cash and the arms may be explained by stretches of imagination and guided narratives. The PVCs on the other hand cannot be for himself or for DSS qua DSS. The PVCs are for the benefit of APC, PMB and his govt. A forensic investigation of the PVCs if not the Cash will drag in INEC, perharps CBN and the banks. PVCs either from INEC or…
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‘…Kindly permit me to be as brutally frank as possible. As a stakeholder who made his modest contribution to your emergence as President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, I owe you nothing but the truth. I was not a member of your party when I volunteered to support your mission and ambition in 2015. I was elated when Nigerians succeeded in chasing away the profligate and reckless government of the PDP, led by President Goodluck Jonathan. I was one of those who unleashed terror on that government and I subsequently presented you with a compilation of my articles in…
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Global body in charge of security, United Nations Security Council, says it is worried over what it described as continued tensions linked to disputed electoral processes, social and economic difficulties, and conflicts between farmers and herders in the Lake Chad Basin. Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad are members of the Lake Chad Basin on which the UN body also said it remained concerned at their security and humanitarian situation caused by Boko Haram and other armed groups. The body spoke in a Presidential Statement released, yesterday, on the heels of last Tuesday’s siege on the National Assembly by Nigeria’s secret police,…
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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who has officially declared his intention to contest the presidency in 2019 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in this exclusive interview lays out his plan to reposition the country to realise its full potential. Atiku speaks on a wide variety of issues, including youth unemployment, the troubled education system, insecurity, and restructuring. Furthermore, for the first time, he committed himself to doing just one term of four years. Excerpts: You officially joined the race for the PDP ticket ahead of the 2019 presidential election two weeks ago. What exactly is your…
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Bode Thomas, yes, the same Bode Thomas, whom the Surulere street was named after, died on Nov 23, 1953 in a most mysterious manner. Bode Thomas was born to a wealthy trader, John thomas in 1918. Himself, FRA Williams and Remi Fani-Kayode (Father of Femi Fani-Kayode) attended Law School in London, and they established the first law firm in Nigeria, called “Thomas, Williams and Kayode”. The law firm was established in Jankara, Lagos. Bode Thomas was an excellent lawyer, but he was also very arrogant. Because of his education, he was made chairman of the Oyo Divisional Council at one…
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Those were the days when peace of mind could be bought with hypocritical acts of philanthropy. But that just won’t do any more. It is karma time. Many years ago, as a member of the Nigerian delegation to the Nonaligned Conference, I engaged a Nigerian vice-president in discussion on Nigerian politics. I cannot recall now the exact subject-matter, but I remember saying at some juncture: “Nigerians won’t stand for that, Sir.” The vice-president became visibly irritated: “What are they going to do?” he asked pointedly. “What can they do about it?” Powerless Nigerians What indeed can Nigerians do about the…
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It is tempting for APC and it’s Chairman (of the Senate blockade fame) to get very excited about AKPABIO’s defection. The matter is much more than gathering crowd across the south-south geo political zone at Ikot Ekpene. Let’s give you a few tips; Many think that Akpabio only defected in other to protect himself from prosecution by EFCC for embezzling over 200 Billion Naira of public funds. That is only one of the reasons for defection. Even that is forlorn hope. As soon as the 2019 elections are over, the appropriate pressure would be brought to bear on EFCC to…
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(1) Tinubu had schemed to make Oshiomhole the APC Chairman. They happily kicked Oyegun out and put him there. (2) Oshiomhole took to the job aggressively with the aim of establishing party supremacy over everybody in government except the President. It was clear that he was going to attempt to use his position as party Chairman to grab governmental power. He began fighting everyone in sight while pictured repeatedly with Buhari to indicate he has a blank cheque from Aso Rock. (3) He started by attacking Dr Chris Ngige and Hadi Sirika over some boards’ appointments in their ministries, declaring…
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