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Fourteen governors belonging to the ruling All Progressives Congress [APC] are angry that they were deliberately not invited to two meetings organised by Kaduna State Governor Nasiru el-Rufa’i and Transport Minister Rotimi Amaechi all geared towards the 2019 elections, a top source in the ruling party told Daily Trust in Abuja yesterday. The affair has already ruffled feathers within APC and the 14 governors are demanding to know why they were left out of consultations, the source said. Daily Trust learned that two were held in October and December, this year at the Abuja residence of Amaechi, who hosted the…
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Danjuma Ibrahim the officer alleged to have given the order to shoot at sight the Apo six Igbo traders as a result of a disagreement over a woman, was among 15 new CPs recently promoted by the Police Service Commission on the recommendation of the IG. He had been suspended from duty on account of the alleged extrajudicial killing and was subsequently charged to court alongside Othman Abdulsalam, Nicholas Zakaria, Baba Emmanuel, Ezekiel Acheneje and Sadiq Salami as co-defendants for a felony. The trial Judge, Justice Ishaq Bello, of the FCT High Court found Danjuma, who was the first accused…
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The House of Representatives said on Wednesday that over $5 billion had been diverted by the Central Bank of Nigeria from the Federation Account. The House stated that part of the money was kept in “secret accounts” known only to the apex bank. In a resolution it passed in Abuja, the House set up an ad hoc committee to investigate several cases of non-remittances and under-remittances of revenue to the federation account by the apex bank. A member of the All Progressives Congress from Osun State, Mrs. Ayo Omidiran, had raised the issue in plenary under matters of urgent national…
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Barr. Victor Muruako, Acting Chairman, Fiscal Responsibility Commission, FRC, says the revenue projections contained in the 2018-2020 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP) are feasible. He told the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, on Tuesday in Abuja that the projections were in line with the realities on ground. According to him, the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan, ERGP, of the Federal Government has helped shape the 2018-2020 MTEF and formed the basis for the 2018 budget projections as outlined in the document. He commended the Federal Government for engaging Civil Society Organisations, CSOs, the media and…
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Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar was challenged yesterday to prove that he funded President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2015 campaign. Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai threw the challenge and stated why the forme vice president quit the All Progressives Congress (APC) — there was no room for him to run for president after governors endorsed Buhari for a second term. El-Rufai spoke on a Voice of America (VOA) Hausa Service Programme, “Democracy Today”, which was monitored in Kaduna. The former VP and former Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who has also plans to run for president, were…
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Imo governor, Rochas Okorocha has approved the payment of November and December salaries for civil servants in the state. According to a statement on Wednesday, Okorocha said the payment will ensure workers celebrate “seamless Christmas”. The statement read, “This is to announce that the Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, has approved the immediate payment of the November and December 2017 salaries of Imo workers. This is to enable our esteemed Imo workers to celebrate seamless Christmas. Payments have duly commenced. “Any worker encountering any difficulties with the approved payments should not hesitate to contact the Ministry of Happiness and…
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Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has released the Chairman of Nigeria’s automobile company, Innoson Motors, Innocent Chukwuma on bail. This was contained in a statement issued by the EFCC Head of Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren on Wednesday night, December 20. Oblong Media recalls that the Innoson Motors boss was arrested in his residence in Enugu, Nigeria, on Tuesday morning, December 19. Though the EFCC said the businessman who runs a local auto assembly plant was arrested following his refusal to respond to invitations by the Commission, after initially being granted administrative bail by the Commission,…
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The Anglican Archbishop, Enugu ecclesiastical province, Most. Rev. Dr Emmanuel Chukwuma has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently call Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha to order. Chukwuma, at a media briefing in Enugu on Wednesday, also asked Okorocha’s party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, to look into the governor’s leadership style and redirect his steps. The Church leader stated that it was saddening that while several Imo workers and pensioners were groaning over unpaid salaries and pension, Okorocha was busy wasting millions of naira on moulding statues. “I want to say that the condition of civil servants in Imo…
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Top former executives from oil giants Shell and Eni are to stand trial for an alleged $1.1 billion bribery scheme, an Italian court ruled on Wednesday. This is the biggest corporate bribery trial in history, and relates to alleged corruption in a deal done over a Nigerian oil block. The trial is due to begin in March. Shell and Eni denied any wrongdoing. An Italian judge has ordered former executives from oil giants Royal Dutch Shell and Eni to stand trial over an alleged $1.1 billion bribery scheme. Mrs Justice Barbara handed down the ruling on Wednesday, stating top executives…
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Group Managing Director, GMD of NNPC, Maikanti Baru (right), with Niger State Governor, Abubakar Bello, during a visit to NNPC, on Tuesday in Abuja. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation says it is planning to construct three power plants to generate about 4,600 megawatts in the northern part of the country. The power plants, to be located in Abuja, Kaduna and Kano, would rely on gas supplies from the proposed Ajaokuta-Abuja-Kaduna-Kano, AKK, Gas Pipeline project. The tender for the award of contract for the pipeline was two weeks ago presented to the Executive Council of the Federation, FEC, for approval. The…
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The PDP is completely unperturbed by the comical act of some individuals who make outlandish claims in the media regarding our party The fact is that we are happy with the efforts of the Governor Seriake Dickson-led Reconciliation Committee as well as the responses from all the respectable and responsible leaders of our party in that regard. We will however not be responsible or respond to any person or groups of individuals who decide for whatever reason to allow themselves to be used by another political party in a laughable and childish attempt to distract us The PDP under the…
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In an attempt to justify the dubious process by which $1 Billion was taken from the Excess Crude Account by the Federal Government ostensibly to fund an anti terror war with the same Boko Haram that the Buhari administration said was ‘finished’ and ‘technically defeated’, the Zamfara state Governor, Abdulaziz Yari, who is also the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum made some startling revelations which has exposed him to ridicule and further shown that his party, the All Progressive Congress, and its members, are a patently dishonest bunch with no credibility whatsoever. Speaking yesterday (Tuesday 19th December, 2017) at…
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To you all who abhor injustice and official tyranny, this is a golden opportunity to stand up to be counted. Stop speaking too many grammar over the humiliation and economic terrorism visited on Innoson by the uniformed rogues masquerading as the EFCC with their partner in corporate roquery, GTBANK. GET UP NOW AND WALK TO THE NEAREST GTBANK AND TRANSFER YOUR MONEY TO ANOTHER BANK. Is GTBank the only bank?? If you can’t fight EFCC since they are the govt, can’t you at least make GTBANK pay a very steep price for this act of state-sponsored corporate witch-craft. You have…
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Going by the chronology of facts available to it and the verifications of same so far made, the Lower Niger Congress (LNC) has reached a preliminary determination that the aggression unleashed against Innocent Chukwuma, CEO of Innoson Motors Ltd is an arm-twisting brigandage by the Guarantee Trust Bank (GTB) and its owners, using the EFCC and Police an instruments of Intimidation, in a straightforward matter of Commercial Dispute in which the embattled Innocent Chukwuma and his company, Innoson had recoursed to the painstakingly slow judicial process for remediation. This undisguised aggression, which is heavily laden with Regional and Ethnic connotations,…
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Oh, I do understand now: we need the money to mobilise for a street party ala carnival, for merriment and an owambe party and even to celebrate Nigeria’s liberation from the grip of insurgency, and to the lesser evil of kidnapping. Yes, we need the money to rejoice over a symbolic gesture of the release of some of the Chibok girls and for the impending success of sending PDP to permanent political oblivion in 2019… At the last National Economic Council meeting, Nigerian governors approved the withdrawal of one billion naira from the highly depleted Excess Crude Account for the…
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Innoson Nigeria Ltd operates a current account with GTB. At some point, Innoson discovered that GTB imposed excess and unlawful charges in its current account. Both parties agreed to invite an independent auditing firm that will be agreed by both parties, At the end, Multiwings Consulting Firm of Auditors was invited to properly audit Innoson Nigeria Ltd current account no 0043753636 domiciled with Nnewi Branch of GTB. The auditing covers a period from March 2004 to December 2011. After the account was audited, it was discovered that GTB has been illegally deducting excess bank charges on its overdraft facility to…
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My friends who are not from the East of Nigeria where Igbos come from often ask me why there is so much anger in the East and among Igbos. Some wonder why, despite the famed Igbo” wealth’ and enterprise all over Nigeria, the people still complain that Nigeria is unfair to them. Some insinuate that the anger comes from the loss of the 2015 election by Jonathan who the Igbos heavily backed. And why is it that the current generation of Igbos are so angry as to contemplate carrying arms against the country? With lots following Nnamdi Kanu of IPOB…
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Our attention has been drawn to a tweet by EFCC on its official twiiter handle claiming that the gestapo kind of arrest of Dr Innocent Chukwuma (OFR) today at his Enugu residence was because he didnt honour an invitation from the commission sent to him. This claim by the commission is not factual and it tends to mislead the public and bring the personality and character of Dr Innocent Chukwuma to disrepute. Hence we want to state the true position so as to inform the general public the truth about this matter. EFCC never at any time invited Dr Innocent…
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The huge sum of money found at a residence in Ikoyi, Lagos state, was taken from Nigeria’s joint venture (JV) cash call account at the American bank, JP Morgan Chase, according to the report of the auditor-general of the federation seen by TheCable. NNPC currently runs six JVs — with Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC), Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL), Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited (MPNU), Nigerian Agip Oil Company Limited (NAOC), Elf Petroleum Nigeria Limited (EPNL) and Texaco Overseas Petroleum Company of Nigeria Unlimited (TOPCON). Also, there was no documentation for the official release of $289,202,382 to the…
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Saif Gaddafi, the second son of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi will announce in coming days his intention to run for president of Libya, the family’s spokesman, Basem Hashimi Soul, told Sputnik Monday. On Wednesday, the Libyan Government of National Accord’s (GNA) foreign minister, Mohamed Siala, said that presidential election in Libya might be held in mid-2018. “Saif will soon announce the nomination [of his own candidacy] for the election in Libya, this is already a settled issue, no discussions about this are being conducted. “He will announce this on TV and all the media. He will decide on the…
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Ahead of the 2019 election, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Public Relations, Alhaji Garba Shehu has refused to disclose where his loyalty lies between President Muhammadu Buhari and his former boss Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Atiku who recently defected from the ruling APC to the PDP has expressed his intentions to run against the current president in 2019. Garba Shehu was asked the question of where his loyalty lies between his both bosses and he responded thus: “When the time comes you will ask the question.” In a video gone viral, Garba Shehu said he does not…
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There are good reasons why Nigerians should take more than a passing interest in the controversy generated by the actions of members of the Senate Committee on Customs, Excise and Tariffs and that of the Nigeria Ports Authority. If the reports in the media are true, the matter goes beyond the victimisation of one organ of government by another. It is a possibility that members of the National Assembly might be on a mission to crash the federal governments’ war against corruption using the power of ‘oversight’ as cover. Two recent incidents would serve to illustrate the danger. Sometime in…
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Ghost companies lift N1.1tr crude oil Some indigenous companies not registered by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) have lifted Nigerian crude oil grades valued at $3.5 billion (about N1.1 trillion) in the last 10 months, an investigation by Daily Trust on Sunday has shown. A four-month enquiry into Nigerian and global corporate registries by our reporter showed that the repeated failure by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to provide clear and accurate identity of some companies it awarded multi-million dollar oil lifting contracts this year is helping these companies to escape public scrutiny. This is even as the corporation…
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The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has endorsed the popular decision of brave Imo citizens to stage series of peaceful protests against current serial and gross misgovernance and alleged corruption by Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State. Besides, HURIWA has strongly condemned as primitive, retrogressive, unconstitutional and anti-people the plot by the Imo State Police Command to undermine the pro-democracy “Occupy Imo” campaign by completely peaceful Imo State citizens and supporters of genuine democracy and good governance. HURIWA stated that the right to peaceful assembly is constitutionally sacrosanct and inviolable and wondered why the police has imposed an…
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*Police attack anti-Okorocha protesters in Owerri. *Group petitions Buhari over Gov. Okorocha’s ‘brutal and repressive tactics *Three feared killed as Owerri residents protest demolition of market. *Traders protest extortion in Owerri Owerri market demolition controversy: 10-year-old killed, father blames soldiers The police in Imo State on Monday said its officials dispersed protesters on a peaceful march against Governor Rochas Okorocha’s administration because they did not get the permission of the police to carry out the march. The protesters were allegedly attacked along Wethral road, Owerri, the Imo State capital by a detachment of police officers as they commenced the march.…
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Your PDP is Your *Personal Development Plans. Your PDP must be a *Detailed, Well-Structured, Articulated and Written Plan* that will demand your *loyalty and commitment. Your PDP Guide must include the following: 1. *Building Spiritual Capacity* (Moving from Just *Relationship* to Quality *Fellowship* with Your *God*) 2. *Inspirational And Motivational Books* to *Read* in 2018 (weekly, monthly or quarterly) 3. *Professional And Career Development* Seminars, Conferences or Workshops to attend. (either *Paid or Free*) 4. *Mentors and Coaches* you must *connect* with in 2018, that will *add great value* to your life and work. 5. *Relevant/Additional Skills* to *Develop* or…
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“Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it” ― Frantz Fanon The‘Handshake Across the Niger’ project, that noble initiative of an Igbo sociocultural and professional organization, Nzuko Umunna, may turn out to be the missing link in binding Igbo and Yoruba relations in Nigeria. I understand it is aimed at remembering the late head of state, Major General JTU Uguiyi-Ironsi and his host killed along with him in the countercoup of July 29th 1966, the late Col. Francis Adekunle Fajuyi. History records it that Fajuyi opted to die with his guest, Ironsi, who…
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Ayodele Fayose, Ekiti state governor, has alleged that the federal government is deliberately hoarding premium motor spirit (PMS) popularly called fuel, in a plot to increase pump price from N145 to N185 per litre. In a statement by Lere Olayinka, his spokesman, Fayose accused the government of insensitivity to the plight of Nigerians. He asked why the government chose the yuletide season to make the product scarce, knowing fully well that many people will be travelling. “Petrol is scarce across the country because the federal government deliberately reduced supply since it is only the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that…
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We want to take the floor once again to inform the general public that Governor Rochas Okorocha or his Rescue Mission Administration does not have any opposition in the state. The few elite whose simple and compound interest is 2019 governorship in the State do not constitute any opposition in the proper sense of the word and so, they only operate in the social media. We want also to state clearly that no reasonable Imo man or woman can come out in protest against Governor Rochas Okorocha or his Administration because he has done for them what they never knew…
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*Unknown Faces Appear in Office, Private Homes *As Okorocha Drags Newspaper Owners to DSS *We Can’t Be Cowed by Threat, Intimidation-Management. Following the sudden presence of unknown persons at the private homes of publishers of Trumpeta newspapers, and strange movements noticed at the corporate office of the media organization, at the Ikenegbu area of Owerri, Imo State, the management and staff of the regional based tabloid with Owerri office has raised the alarm of threat to their life. The public notification of the threat to the life of the Trumpeta publishers is coming at the heels of a story carried…
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As the 2019 electioneering campaign draws closer, the Imo State Governor and his appointees week in, week out introduce a rash of gimmicks to curry favour from the unsuspecting public. They fired their first salvo a few weeks ago, with a hastily contrived fable which alleged that 16 out 27 APC LGA Chairmen in the state *”took an oath”* with one of aspirants to the office of the Governor of Imo State (in a veiled reference to Senator Ifeanyi Arararume, whose political star has steadily soared, and threatens to light up an otherwise pitch-black firmament in Imo State). It was…
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December 18, 2017 Press Statement. $1bn: PDP Replies APC, Insists ECA Withdrawal Is A Ruse The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says no amount of finger-pointing by the APC can justify the fraudulent attempt by the Federal Government to withdraw $1bn from the Excess Crude Account (ECA) to finance partisan activities, adding that APC’s arguments are diversionary and lame. The PDP also maintained that “the attempt to claim that 11 PDP governors were part of the approval in a meeting superintended and eminently directed by Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo was merely begging the question” and further underpins the manipulative proclivities…
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The general outing of Ohanaeze Ndigbo which held at the Practicing Pitch of the National Stadium Surulere on Thursday 14th December 2017 was important. The meeting was advertised as A town hall meeting though, but was actually an open air, market Square kind of meeting. The sense in it I guess was to get more people to attend. And many did attend. However, since the meeting came and passed, a lot of commentaries about the meeting and the speech by the President General, Chief Nnia Nwodo has been making the rounds. One thing, for sure is that most of the…
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Imo people woke up few days ago precisely monday 11th Dec to get reports from the Imo APGA Publicity Secretary Dr George Nkwoji accusing Gov Rochas Okorocha of spreading death, poverty in IMO. Ordinarily, I did not want to reply to this mischievous and frivolous claims knowing fully well that APGA has been on sick bed since 2011, but on a second thought, I decided to put down this piece only to remind Imo APGA that they were the original group that introduced this poverty and death in Imo and must remain quiet until this mistake is fully corrected by…
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It’s not elections that take the most from Nigerian politicians. Every blessed day, the average politician receives average of 100 – 300 requests for money, other forms of assistance. Such unlimited pressure and unnecessary phone calls contribute to why most politicians hardly take calls. This also pressures some politicians to find every means to steal or do all sorts of shady things just to be buoyant enough to meet up with most of these demands just so they are not labelled *Stingy* and denied the opportunity in the future by their party members and constituents. This also contributes to why…
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Nine states including Delta, Ogun and Adamawa are to wait for now before collecting their own share of the third tranche of the Paris Club refunds, The Nation leant last night. However, 27 other states have collected their dues in what promises to be a rosy Christmas and New Year seasons for public servants in the benefitting states. Much of the funds is expected to be utilized to offset arrears of workers’ salaries and pensions. The release of the refunds to the states is in keeping with the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari that the states should get the money…
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The British Government has again said it does not support the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, or any other secessionist group in Nigeria. The British Government said this while also stating that the issue of restructuring would be a major determinant in the 2019 general elections. It said it would not support anything that could disintegrate Nigeria. The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Paul Arkwright, said this when he visited the management team of Joy 101.9 FM in Jos. Arkwright said, “We are in favour of a united Nigeria; we do not support IPOB, we do not support secessionists. “Equally,…
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The Nigerian Prison Service (NPS) has said 66 per cent of inmates in prisons are awaiting trial. Jaafaru Ahmed, controller general of the service, said this at the quarterly meeting of the Penal Reform Media Network (PERMNET) in Lagos. Represented by Francis Enobore, NPS spokesperson, he said a total of 72,384 inmates are currently in prison across the country. “As of today, December 15, 2017, the current population of prisoners in Nigeria is put at 72,384 while 48,527 of the figure are the awaiting trial inmates,” he said. “The awaiting trial inmates therefore constitute about 66 percent of the prison…
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December 18, 2017 The Imo Peoples Action for Democracy (IPAD) wishes to inform the world that Imo State has unfortunately become a fascist state where freedom of expression and assembly is no longer guaranteed. We say this because of the ugly incident that happened this morning where the Imo State government used the police to brutally attack peaceful protesters. We peacefully commenced our protest this morning from Wethral Road Roundabout in Owerri, Imo State, and were accosted by heavily armed policemen who demanded we stop because the commissioner of police did not approve the rally. We insisted that we must…
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If Nigeria restructured into provinces – 1) Northern Province 2) Middle Belt Province 3) Oduduwa Province 4) Eastern Province 5) Niger Delta Province (Atlantic) Then Central Government at FCT. Here are 9 positive things that could happen within 5 years (primarily due to inter-province competition) 1. The first province to experience economic explosion would obviously be the Western Province. The Oduduwa Master plan will be revealed. There would be trans-regional 4g internet fiber connection/rail/subways/highways/power grids etc. Yoruba will become the 2nd official language. They are relatively united. They have oil. They own academia. They have mega corporations. The WP would…
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The federal government has made good its promise to release the balance of the Paris Club refund to states, as 27 states of the federation have so far benefitted from the latest refunds. The Director, Home Finance of the Federal Ministry of Finance, Mrs. Olubunmi Siyanbola, disclosed this in Abuja saturday while briefing journalists on the outcome of the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) meeting for the month of November. Siyanbola noted that 27 states had so far benefited from the new tranche of refunds, with nine others yet to receive their share of the Paris Club refund. She explained…
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The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) has distributed N609.95 billion from the federation Account to Federal, States and Local Government as revenue generated in November. This is N77.25 billion more than what they shared in October, Mr. Ahmed Idris, the Accountant-General of the Federation said. The distribution is also timely as it will enable states and local councils to pay workers ahead of Christmas, in the opinion of the Chairman, Commissioners of Finance Forum, Mr Mahmoud Yunusa. Idris said that after the cost of collection deductions by FIRS, Customs and DPR, the Federal Government received N248.2 billion, representing 52.68 per…
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The Leaders’ Conference and Inauguration of the New Executive Council of the Middle Belt Forum (MBF) was held on Tuesday, 12th December, 2017 at Ajuji Hotel, Abuja, FCT. The Conference was attended by leaders and delegates from the following states of the Middle Belt Forum: Adamawa, Bauchi, Benue, Southern Borno, FCT, Kogi, Kwara, Nasarawa, Niger, Plateau, Southern Kebbi, Kaduna, Gombe, Taraba and Southern Yobe. There was an opening remark by the outgoing President of the MBF, Prof. Jerry Gana; a presentation by Dr. Obadiah Mailafiya, former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank and development economist; as well as a lecture…
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Hon. Rotimi Amaechi, the Minister of Transportation, has expressed worries that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may oust the Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progress Congress (APC) government from power in 2019. Amaechi said unless relentless prayers are offered to God ahead of the next general elections, the APC may lose its grip on power at the poll. “If we (APC) don’t pray, 2019 will be very far from us. If we don’t win 2019, it would be your fault, not anybody else. We go to God because he answers. We pray, and then go home and work,” the minister said in…
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12th December, 2017 THE EUROPEAN UNION REPRESENTATIVE, 21 CRESCENT, OFF CONSTITUTION AVENUE, CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT, ABUJA. Your Excellency, Prolonged Detention And Unjust Denial Of Medical Attention For Benjamin Madubugwu We are solicitors engaged by BENJAMIN MADUBUGWU called “our client” on whose standing instruction we write this letter. Our client was arrested on 28th day of October, 2015 from his home town in Ubuisiuzor in Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State by the Operatives of the State Security Services in a Gestapo style operation and moved to Abuja, Nigeria Federal Capital Territory and consequently charged to court on a two…
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South East Buhari 198,248 Jonathan 2,464,906 South South Buhari 418,590 Jonathan 4,714,725 *South West* Buhari 2,433,193 Jonathan 1,821,416 *North Central* Buhari 2,411,013 Jonathan 1,715,818 *North East* Buhari 2,848,678 Jonathan 796,580 *North West* Buhari 7,115,199 Jonathan 1,339,709 As we prepare for another general election come 2019, it is important that we analyse the results of 2015 very carefully. Contrary to popular sentiment that the *South West* gave Buhari his victory, It was obviously not the South West at all. Their votes were very easily cancelled out by the votes of the South East alone, not to talk of the massive support…
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Chris Imafidon claims to be a genius and a professor at Oxford University and has been making the interview rounds in Nigeria, making sure to wear an Oxford keychain, which you can buy for 10 Pounds from any Oxford University souvenir store, on his neck. PUNCH interviewed him and ran a glowing headline and story on him afterwards. Then the University of Ilorin invited him to deliver its 2017 convocation lecture–the respected University of Ilorin! Turns out Imafidon is our latest high profile international academic scam artist, in the tradition of Philip Emeagwali and Gabriel Oyibo. An explosive investigative report…
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Prince Aminu Sanusi Lamido, the first son of His Highness Emir of Kano Muhammad Sanusi II and the grandson of the late Emir Ado Bayero, has become a police officer. Prince Aminu born in 1991 joined the Nigeria Police after he graduated from University of Buckingham united kingdom with Bsc accounting after which he left for Riyad the kingdom of Saudi Arabia where he studied Arabic before coming back to Nigeria and did his NYSC in Lagos. The prince then joined the service of the Nigeria Police, Plateau Academy where he passed out with the rank of Assistant Superintendent of…
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The federal government has released a State by State breakdown of another tranche of Paris Club refund of over-deductions on Paris Club, London Club Loans and Multilateral debts on the accounts of States and Local Governments from 1995-2002. A statement from the federal ministry of finance said these payments which totalled N243, 795,465,195.20 “were made to the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory upon the approval of the President on May 4, 2017.” Akwa-Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Kano and Rivers states received the largest disbursements of N10 billion each. S/N STATE AMOUNT PAYABLE (NGN) 1. ABIA 5,715,765,871.48 2. ADAMAWA 6,114,300,352.68…
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One billion dollars is about N365 billion, that is a whopping N1 billion everyday of one year. Is it world war 3? You see, boko haram has become quite a lucrative political and economic venture for the workers of change. In 2015 presidential elections, boko haram was a lethal weapon in their political arsenal and after assuming power, it has remained a sumpuous bait for pacification of the masses: each time the country is in a plight, if orphan loots are not discovered, boko haram will be defeated or Shekau’s flag and quran will be captured or chibok girls will…
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The Imo Peoples Action for Democracy (IPAD) has noted with dismay the plot by the Imo State government to use the Imo state command of the Nigerian police to scuttle our peaceful rally scheduled to commence on the 18th of December 2017 in Owerri. As a responsible organization we had earlier written to both the Nigerian Police and the Department of State Services to inform them of our rally and for them to carry out their constitutional obligation of providing protection for the rally. While the later saw no problem in a peaceful rally, the former could not conform to…
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NNPC faults an online publication linking Abba Kyari to the sum of N50bn kept away from the Treasury Single Account (TSA) – The Corporation describes that allegation as a misrepresentation the truth The group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru, has dismissed allegations that he ever stated that the chief of staff to the president, Mallam Abba Kyari, directed the corporation to keep the sum of N50billion away from the Treasury Single Account (TSA). Baru’s denial was contained in a statement by the NNPC’s spokesperson, Ndu Ughamadu, in a statement on Friday, December 15. The…
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has noted the feverish moves by the All Progressive Congress (APC) to create disaffection among our members, distract our great party, and divert the attention of Nigerians from the colossal failure of its government. Having woefully failed to stop the PDP elective National Convention, a desperate APC has again failed in another bid to plant seeds of discord within the ranks of our members in the Southwest, particularly on issues relating to the outcome of our hugely successful National Convention. The people of the South West have, however, seen through the antics of the APC…
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. Nigeria’s major opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, last weekend elected a new set of leaders who will run the affairs of the party for the next four years. The new party officials are mostly people with experience in local and state politics. These are their profiles: Uche Secondus (National Chairman) Mr. Secondus has been in politics for 39 years He joined politics in 1978 during the Second Republic as the youth leader, in Rivers, for the now-defunct National Party of Nigeria, NPN. He later became the state publicity secretary of another national party, the National Republican Convention,…
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There were revelations yesterday on why former Senate President, Senator David Mark, was arrested and quizzed by the Economic and Financial Crimes commission (EFCC). A source in Mark’s camp told our correspondent that the EFCC wanted the former Senate President to account for the campaign cash sent to Benue State by the campaign team of former President Goodluck Jonathan in the build-up to the 2015 presidential election. But the source said that EFCC was merely chasing shadows because Mark was never a part of ex-President Jonathan’s campaign team. “EFCC is chasing shadows, all the allegations border on sheer politics because…
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Politics is the only process to national development starting from school and if you stay out of it, you are far away from the reality that leads to development. The cost of garri is determined by politics, the school fees, the motor parts and even your salaries are all determined by what happens in politics. When the wrong people are in power and the right people are protesting, analysing, criticising and complaining, the status quo remains the same until those right people get involved. Anyone who feels too pure or clean to get involved in the game of politics, he…
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I never saw Tai Solarin till he died except in newspapers. I also did not meet the eccentric but brilliant British Finance broadcaster when he came to Nigeria a few months back – apparently to do a PR job to shore up the image of the country. But from what I’ve heard or read these two men say, they have some profound ideas about how we can turn around the power or energy sector in Nigeria. The advices these gentlemen are offering, are simple. Let’s start with Richard Quest: I am presently going through some videos on Youtube where he…
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Olufunke Abimbola-Akindolie has been awarded the Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, for her contribution to the diversification of the legal profession. According to http://www.financal-style, Funke is a senior lawyer and leader for the world’s largest biotech. She is currently the most senior black lawyer working within the UK pharmaceutical industry and one of the most senior globally. A multi-award winning solicitor and diversity campaigner, she has received national and European recognition for her legal and diversity work. In 2015 alone, she won the Gender Role Model award (National Diversity Awards),…
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As I lay on my bed in the early hours of today, the tears continued to pour steadily and uncontrollably. From the side of my eyes they found their way into my ears. I’d use my hands to wipe them, and they’d start pouring again. This has never happened to me. What is the matter? The more I tried to check what was happening to me, the more the tears kept pouring. Maybe I brought this upon myself. Who sent me to Jane Akwani’s Facebook wall to read her one-sentence analysis of each of Buhari’s ministers? What took me to…
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2017 offered a ray of hope for Nigeria as the country exited a recession. However, the feeling remains that Nigeria failed to make good use of the opportunity presented by the economic recession. Our economy remains non-diversified and heavily reliant on oil to all intents, Nigeria has wasted the crisis. In 2017, the Buhari Administration had a chance, with its second full year budget, to effect a change the budgeting process, and break a cycle which has kept the economy in the doldrums for a very long time. This did not happen, and with 2018, politicking is certain to take…
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The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has described the decision to withdraw $1 billion from the Excess Crude Account to fight Boko Haram insurgency as a means by the All Progressives Congress, APC-led federal government to fund President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election in 2019. “For posterity sake, I wish to place it on record that I was not among the governors who approved the withdrawal of almost half of our savings in the Excess Crude Account, which belongs to the three tiers of government to fight an already defeated insurgency,” he declared. In a press statement issued in Ado Ekiti on…
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The All Progressives Congress should address the growing disaffection among its members instead of attacking the Peoples Democratic Party, writes Shola Oyeyipo Since the advent of the All Progressives Congress (APC) national leadership under President Muhammadu Buhari, the government has had relative peace because the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was unable to give the government the kind of fight it got from the APC while it was in opposition. The reasons are not far-fetched. While most PDP members who held one public office or the other in the last administration are facing corruption allegations and charges, the leadership crisis…
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NNPC GMD, Baru says Abba Kyari instructed N50bn Oil Revenue be kept in private account outside the TSA • Buhari ordered me to instruct NNPC GMD on N50bn private saving~Abba Kyari The House of Representatives on Tuesday raised questions over a “purported ” presidential approval withholding some special Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation accounts from being transferred to the Treasury Single Account . The accounts, with funds worth N 50bn , are still being kept by commercial banks in breach of the TSA policy , which provides that all accounts belonging to Ministries , Departments and Agencies of government should be…
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After he was reportedly pelted with pure water sachets yesterday 13/12/2017 @ New market Owerri by traders who he ejected from their shops and source of livelihood, and asked them to leave before friday, i got a report that unidentified individuals have set the market on fire last night. In the middle of this festive period ? The Imo house of Assembly members on the other hand are busy waiting for crumbs that will fall from his table while our dear state has become a subject of mockery in the country. Enough is enough. This is pure wickedness. Copied.
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YOU ARE INVITED Dear Sir/Madam, Invitation to the Hand Shake Across The Niger Event. We write on behalf of the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) of the Nzuko Umunna (NU) for the Handshake across the Niger project. NU is facilitating Handshake across the Niger project under the auspices of Ohaneze Ndigbo and in conjunction with Afenifere, and wish to request your kind presence and participation at the forthcoming Hand Shake Across The Niger Event holding at Enugu as follows: Date: January 11, 2018 Theme: Handshake Across The Niger: A necessity for mutual growth and development. The raison d’etre for the event…
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The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, yesterday declared that Nigerian roads were not as bad as many people were claiming. He, however, stated that the roads needed to be adequately maintained. According to the former Lagos State Governor, some of the roads had outlived their design life, some still within their design life, while others were being built. The Minister said these in his keynote address at the United Nations-sponsored capacity building programme for the Federal Road Safety Corps. Fashola said, “They were built in the 1970s, and not only have they outlived their design life, they…
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Gentlemen of the press, it is our pleasure to welcome you to this press briefing. We have called you here today to inform the world through you that the Imo Peoples Action for Democracy (IPAD) will be holding a one week peaceful rally tagged OCCUPY IMO from Monday the 18th to Sunday the 24th December 2017 at Okigwe road opposite Rock view Hotel Owerri. This rally is a response of the people to the increasing height of bad governance in the state which is now attaining its peak such as: 1. Lack of due process and respect for rule of…
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But for this day, Dr. Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme would have become the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The day was Thursday, August 13 1998. The setting was a meeting of the nascent People’s Democratic Party, PDP, just metamorphosed from the activist G-34 in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city. The agenda was to decide on the policy of the emergent party, especially on power-sharing and rotation of the presidency. The buildup long started with Dr. Nelson Mandela of South Africa’s second visit to Nigeria to meet with Gen. Abacha, after his 1995 release from prison. He was here to advise…
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Nigeria is again in the throes of the annual rituals of national strikes by workers in public universities. As of now, the non-academic staffs have locked up the classrooms in almost all Federal universities. The yuletide session is not allowing many Nigerians to realise that like the harmattan haze, the strike session is with us. The culprit, according to the workers, is the Federal Government which has reneged on earlier agreements on staff welfare. After decades of continuous and almost yearly strikes, the Nigerian university system is now poorly rated among leading universities in the world. Yet there was a…
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The Ohanaeze Ndigbo has stated that the Igbo would back only political parties and candidates with the interest of Ndigbo in their agenda in the 2019 general elections. President General of the body, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, said that their support will only go to a presidential candidate with manifest programme that would address the multifarious interests and challenges confronting Ndigbo in Nigeria. Nwodo spoke last week, at a reception organized by the Enugu Chapter of the group in his honour on arrival at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, after a trip to the United States of America, where…
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Until Saturday December 9, 2017, the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) had a huge opportunity of deposing the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) in the 2019 Presidential elections. The APC government at the centre in Abuja, and even APC administrations in several states such as Imo, Jigawa, Osun, Oyo, Benue, Plateau, Nasarrawa, Kaduna and other places have dissipated significant goodwill from voters since 2015. In Imo state, the state government of Rochas Okorocha is now more-or-less a joke; Nasir El-Rufai’s administration in Kaduna has chosen to oppress significant portions of his state’s electorate; I’m told the governor of Jigawa appears…
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REASONS FOR HIS INVITATION 1. Hon Onyeagucha accused of opposing Rochas mindless and illegal destruction/demolition of private property without compensation. 2. DSS says that the Government of Rochas Okorocha is accusing Hon Onyeagucha of planning to lead a violent protest in Imo State soon. 3. DSS says Hon Onyeagucha is accused of organising oppressed groups such as: a. Displaced Orji Mechanic Village artisans b. Displaced Ekeukwu Owerri Market Traders c. Displaced Nekede Mechanic Village Artisans d. Now displaced New Market Owerri Traders e. Landlords of illegally usurped lands/properties in Owerri and environs e. Landlords of illegally demolished buildings for road…
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14th Dec 2017 PRESS RELEASE IMO PDP CONDEMN GOV OKOROCHA OVER THE FORCEFUL EVICTION OF TRADERS FROM NEW MARKET OWERRI. The Peoples Democratic Party, IMO State Chapter has condemned in its entirety the forceful eviction of New Market Traders by the Rescue Mission Government of Rochas Okorocha. The party described the eviction as unfortunate and ill-timed considering the Yuletide Season when the people are preparing for Christmas. It is now obvious that Gov Okorocha does not know or respect God. If he knows God, he will not be embarking on unnecessary eviction of traders at the New Market at a…
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The Nigerian Senate has passed the Electoral Act No. 6 2010 Amendment Bill 2017 into law. *Card Reader technology to be fully implemented henceforth *House of Reps aspirants to pay N1,000,000.00 *State Assembly aspirants to pay 500,000,00 1. There shall now be full biometric accreditation of voters with Smart Card Readers and/or other technological devices, as INEC may introduce for elections from time to time. 2. Presiding Officers must now instantly transmit accreditation data and results from Polling Units to various collation centers. Presiding officer who contravene this shall be imprisoned for at least 5 years (no option of fine).…
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) document is 69 years old this year and will mark 70 years next year. The theme for this year’s celebration as enunciated by the United Nations is “Let’s stand up for equality, justice and human dignity” Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December – the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. According to the statement from the UN, this year’s Human Rights Day kicks off a year-long campaign to mark the upcoming 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,…
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Know that Imo State Budget totals One hundred and Ninety Billion, Nine Hundred and Twenty One Million, Four Hundred and Sixty Four Thousand, Two Hundred and Nine Naira (N190, 921, 464, 290). Know too that the Imo House of Assembly is considering the Budget as presented by the Executive Governor of Imo State HERO on the 13th December 2017. Imo Must Be Better!
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Senator Osita Izunaso, the National Organizing Secretary of the All Progressives Congress and a former chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, has taken a jibe at his former party, saying it is no longer a national party. He spoke with Amby Uneze in Owerri. Excerpts: Q- What are the plans of the APC to capture more states in the South-east, considering that it is the party at the centre? A- In every political calculation, our party is doing well now in the South-east more than before. Recently we went to receive the former governor of Ebonyi state, Chief Martin Elechi…
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Former governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff has alleged that the governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima is behind the Boko Haram terrorists that have been unleashing mayhem on the people of the North East zone of the country describing him as “the Boko Haram boss and the keeper of Chibok Girls.” Sheriff made the allegations on Wednesday in a statement made available to The Daily Times and signed by his Special Assistant on Media Kolo Adams. The statement was in reaction to a purported video on the social media titled “SAS lynched in Maiduguri” allegedly aimed at discrediting…
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I have said it before and it bears repeating now, the day Ndigbo and the Yoruba decide to bury the very destructive but senseless rivalry between them and forge a common front on issues of common interest, that is the day the #TheChildrenOfTheSouth and indeed the whole of Nigeria will experience a new dawn. I have always waited for this day and as it would seem, 11th January, 2018, appers to be the day my long wait will take its last breathe for that is the day these two great peoples will gather in Enugu in celebration of their age…
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On January 11, 2018, sons and daughters of Igbo and Yoruba extractions from all walks of life would gather in Enugu as one people from the two divides of the Niger to not only celebrate their age long but greatly ignored brotherhood which historians have recently traced to a common ancestry, and symbolized by the rare acts of bravery and comradeship by the late Generel Aguiyi Ironsi, Nigeria’s former Head-of-State and his friend and former governor of former southwest region, late Col Adekunle Fajuyi, when both men were mowed down in cold blood in a counter coup by some disgruntled…
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The days of acrimony should be over, there is so much to give when the Igbo and Yoruba ethnic nationalities put aside the extraneous wedge between them. Our country cannot move forward in the face of rancour. Those of us who know history must not stand aloof and watch the younger generation degenerate to the vile language that has taken over the social media. It is like there is an undeclared war going on. Every comment is twisted to paint either the Igbo or the Yoruba in bad light. We cannot continue like this. Besides politics, there is so much…
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“My boy, may you live to your full potential, ascend to a dizzy height as is possible for anyone of your political description in your era to rise. May you be acknowledged world-wide as you rise as an eagle atop trees, float among the clouds, preside over the affairs of fellow men…. as leaders of all countries pour into Nigeria to breathe into her ear. But then, Chuba, if it is not the tradition of our people that elders are roundly insulted by young men of the world, as you have unjustly done to me, may your reign come to…
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* His government built the current Lagos State Secretariat which houses all the state ministries as well as the popular round house hitherto occupied by all subsequent governors of the state. * His government built the Lagos State House of Assembly complex. * His government built the Lagos State Television * His government built the Lagos Radio * His government built Lagos State University * His government established General Hospital in zones all over the state with assurance of free health care. * His government established Teacher Training College and the College of Education. * His government built low cost…
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has mandated all political parties in Nigeria to hold and conclude party primaries between 14 April to 15 May 2018. This directive is according to information made available to Oblong Media. The primaries will be used to select various candidates to run for elective positions in the upcoming 2019 general elections. More details of this development will be made available as more information becomes available.
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YOU ARE INVITED Dear Sir/Madam, Invitation to the Hand Shake Across The Niger Event. We write on behalf of the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) of the Nzuko Umunna (NU) for the Handshake across the Niger project. NU is facilitating Handshake across the Niger project under the auspices of Ohaneze Ndigbo and in conjunction with Afenifere, and wish to request your kind presence and participation at the forthcoming Hand Shake Across The Niger Event holding at Enugu as follows: Date: January 11, 2018 Theme: Handshake Across The Niger: A necessity for mutual growth and development. The raison d’etre for the event…
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National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has described as fake news a newspaper report that he is to pair President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 presidential ticket of the party. Tinubu, in a statement yesterday, said the report which envisaged that Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo was returning to full-time pastoral work was without empirical or logical basis. Affirming that he had full confidence in the pair of Buhari and Osinbajo continuing through 2019, Tinubu, in the statement issued by his media office, said the present administration was making progress despite challenges supposedly accumulated during what he…
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Tinubu may become Nigeria’s vice president in 2019 as Osinbajo prepares to go back to pastoral work.
– A report says Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is being considered as running mate to President Muhammadu Buhari ahead of 2019 – The report also claims Professor Yemi Osinbajo could be returning to the pulpit as a pastor – It states that series of meetings have been held between Tinubu and Buhari’s men The national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, may become President Muhammadu Buhari’s running mate, a report by Daily Sun has indicated. The report, which has not been independently verified, says while Tinubu could become the next vice president, Professor Yemi Osinbajo could…
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Sen. Shehu Sani (APC – Kaduna Central) has urged the northern region of the country to stand up to end Islamic fundamentalism and violent extremism and revive its manufacturing sector. He made this known as some of the positions he took at the just-concluded Northern Senators Forum retreat held in Katsina. In a statement published on his Facebook page, Sani said he equally urged the north to create a meeting point between major and minor ethnic groupings within its fold. Summarising his positions at the retreat, he said: “1. The north must stand up and end extremism and terrorism “2.…
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1. National Chairman – Prince Uche Secondus 2. National Deputy Chairman South – Elder Yemi Akinwonmi 3. National Deputy Chairman North – Sen. Gamawa Babawo Garba 4. National Secretary – Sen. Ibrahim Tsauri 5. Deputy National Secretary – Dr. Agbo Emmanuel 6. National Treasurer – Hon. Aribisala Adewale 7. Deputy National Treasurer – Alh. Wada Masu 8. Financial Secretary – Ibrahim Husseini Maibasira 9. Dep. Fin. Sec. – Hon. Irona Alphonsus 10. Nat. Org. Sec. – Col (Rtr) Austin Akobundu 11. Dep. Nat. Org. Sec. – Barr. Hassan Yakubu 12. Publicity Secretary – Kola Ologbondiyan 13. Dep. Nat. Pub. Sec.…
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The State Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, Imo State, Chief Barr. Charles Chukwudi Ezekwem, Ikemba Okigwe, has congratulated the brand new National Chairman of the PDP, Prince Ike Uche Secondus on his victory at the just concluded National Convention of the party held in Abuja between the 9th -10th of December, 2017, at Eagles square. He described Secondus as a man who has made sacrifices for the party in the time past even when He had the opportunity to hold on to power. According to the Okigwe born politician, Secondus is a man whose time has come and nothing…
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It is no longer news that the change mantra is a fraudulent transaction gone sour. Everywhere in Nigeria, people are yearning for a new direction. An immediate change to the evil change that has destroyed the foundation of the country. There is no single geo-political zone that is enjoying the dividends of good governance. Not even the President’s zone. Governance has taken the back seat while unbridled looting, blame trade, insecurity, fuel scarcity, unprecedented hunger, excruciating poverty, deadly division, collapsed infrastructure and poor education have become sad advertisement for the incumbent administration. Sadly, the APC Federal Government is doing nothing…
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British Nobel laureate Dorothy Hodgkin once noted that the University of Lagos was one of the world centres of expertise in her specialist field of chemical crystallography. Ahmadu Bello University Zaria had the first world class computer centre in Africa. The University of Ife had a notable pool of expertise in nuclear physics. Our premier University of Ibadan had an international reputation as a leading centre of excellence in tropical medicine, development economics and the historical sciences. The Saudi Royal family used to frequent UCH for medical treatment in the sixties. The engineering scientist Ayodele Awojobi, a graduate of ABU…
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No one conversant with the history of Nigeria in the I950s and 1960’s will miss the overwhelming impact of Dr M.I. Okpara on the nation. After all by 1964 he was fully in charge of the fastest growing and industrialising economy in the world- the Eastern Nigerian economy. Nothing illustrates the warped sense of history and the complete abandonment of the values of merit and excellence in our national affairs as this wilful omission. And now to the review. The life of Dr Michael Okpara will make a fascinating and historical story anytime. The surprise for me is that it…
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Former Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha has hailed the emergence of the National Executives of the Peoples Democratic Party, led by Prince Uche Secondus and members of National Executive at the just concluded Elective National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party held, weekend in Abuja. Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha described the smooth and transperant conduct of the elective convention as a deliberate signpost that PDP is poised to taking the reigns of government in 2019 and enjoined the newly elected officers to immediately hit the ground running with a view to consolidating on the achievements of…
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In this no-hold-barred interview at his residence in Owerri on Sunday 26 November, 2017, Chief Barr. Willie Amadi, former Zonal Vice Chairman of Imo State PDP and former Special Adviser to former Governor Ikedi Ohakim on Sanitation and Transport, makes hair-raising revelations about politics in Nigeria and Imo State as he clocks 55 years. He concludes that Nigerians have been misled by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), and that his party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has learnt its lessons and is poised for a comeback that will unseat APC at federal and state levels come 2019. Excerpts. Q –…
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The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties, CNPP, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to, without further delay, sack everyone involved in the recall and reinstatement of former Chairman of the Presidential Taskforce on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina. The CNPP said this rising from its consultative meeting with representatives of civil society groups drawn from the six geo-political zones of the country in Abuja on Tuesday. It issued a 14-day ultimatum to the Federal Government to order all its officials named in the scandalous reinstatement of fugitive Maina to the federal civil service to immediately step aside for proper probe of…
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Former Jigawa Governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido has pleaded with the President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki, Sokoto state governor, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal, Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, Aliyu Wammako, Kwara state governor Abdulfatah Ahmed, Attahiru Bafarawa to quickly come back to their former political party the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) so as to reclaim victory come 2019. Alhaji Sule Lamido also lambasted the All Progressives Congress (APC) for their inability to keep former vice President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in the fold despite claims of perfections that their party would perform better than the PDP. Alhaji Sule Lamido said this while…
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The Southeast Caucus in the Senate has reacted to the Amnesty International, AI, report, which painted a very chilling picture of the brutal killing of about 150 defenceless members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, allegedly by the Nigerian military, urging the Federal Government to immediately constitute a judicial panel of inquiry to investigate the alleged killing of the peaceful protesters. The Nigerian Army had faulted the claims by AI that its men killed over 150 pro-Biafran protesters, accusing the human rights organization of championing a campaign of calumny against Nigeria’s military, especially the Army But in a statement…
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(Being the Contextual Interpretation of some key terminologies in the raging debate over the inevitable Reconfiguration of the broken down Federation of Nigeria, issued by the LNC July 15, 2016). 1) RESTRUCTURING. “Restructuring”, as being canvassed in Nigeria, simply means a return to the Federal basis of Nigeria which was destroyed since 1966 by the abrogation of the 5 Constitutions that defined the Federation of Nigeria.(Four Regional and one Federal), thereby restoring the hijacked Sovereignty of the erstwhile Federating Units each of which also reworks its internal Constitutional Structures ahead of the consensual Reconstitution of the broken down Federation of…
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Thursday last week, former Lagos State governor and the self-proclaimed national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, claimed that former President Goodluck Jonathan won a gold medal in corruption. Tinubu made the remark at the Banquet Hall of the State House while delivering the keynote address at the launch of a book titled, ‘Making Steady Sustainable Progress for Nigeria’s Peace and Prosperity,’ a mid-term scorecard of this administration, authored by the trio of Femi Adesina, Garba Shehu and Laolu Akande, the media aides in the presidency. I wonder what had been listed in the book as…
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