Chairman of Southern Governors’ Forum and Ondo State governor, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu, on Thursday, threw his weight behind the Abubakar Sani Bello-led caretaker/extraordinary convention planning committee of the party, saying the All Progressives Congress (APC) is back on its track to greatness. Akeredolu, in a press statement he personally signed, frowned on the happenings in the party in the last few months under the immediate past leadership of Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State, describing it as huge embarrassment to the party and members. He used the words of the former Director-General of Progressive Governors’ Forum, Lukman Salihu, to…
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Governor Seyi Makinde’s appointee, Mr. Mukaila Lamidi Auxiliary and his gang stormed Mapo Hall, venue of the coronation of Oba Lekan Balogun as 42nd Olubadan of Ibadanland. The State Affairs NG reports that Auxiliary boys allegedly killed an innocent citizen at Isale Ijebu on their way to Mapo. Details To Follow…
The crisis in the All Progressives Congress (APC) has deepened following a letter by Governor Mai Mala Buni, which faulted Governor Nasir el-Rufai’s narratives on his purported removal as the chairman of the Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC). The letter dismissed el-Rufai’s claims that Buni was sacked as the party’s chairman. Buni’s camp claimed that the embattled APC caretaker committee legally handed over the affairs of the party to Governor Abubakar Sani Bello before travelling out. In the letter, dated February 28th, Buni directed Governor Bello to act in his absence as the chairman of CECPC because he will…
Niger State Governor, Sani Bello, has said he is the acting National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC). There are reports that President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked the Chairman of the APC Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Governor Mai Mala Buni, and appointed Bello as the new chairman of the interim committee. In an interview with newsmen at the end of a meeting with the Caretaker Committee and another with states’ chairmen, Bello, who presided over the meeting, said, “The states’ chairmen took their oath of office today.” He added, “We discussed the progress made so far on convention and…
Niger State Governor, Abubakar Sani-Bello, has arrived the National Headquarters of the APC, a move The News Carrier NG described a takeover from Governor Mai Mala Buni as Chairman of CECPC. His arrival now signals the end of the leadership of Yobe State Governor. The State Affairs NG reports that Governor Bello will be meeting with State Chairmen of the party ahead of the much-anticipated Earlier before his arrival at the Buhari House, CECPC Secretary, Senator James Akpan Udohedehe, had dismissed the removal of Governor Buni as fake news. The statement reads in full: Our attention has been drawn to…
In what appears a major step to containing the crisis plaguing the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), President Muhammadu Buhari, has allegedly approved the removal of the Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni, as the Chairman, Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the party and in his stead, appointed his Niger State counterpart, Abubakar Sani Bello. A faction of the APC governors was alleged to have complained bitterly to the president that Buni was not inclined to holding the convention as rescheduled, because there were no preparations on the ground to indicate so. Apparently miffed by the…
Visa and Mastercard have disconnected Russian financial institutions from their payment networks in order to comply with federal sanctions placed on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach said in a statement on the company’s website that “our Cyber & Intelligence and Corporate Security teams are working with governments and partners around the world to assure the stability, integrity, and resiliency of our systems, which are operating as usual.” Reports say Ukraine National Bank Governor Kyrylo Shevchenko wanted the move to put further pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin and his administration. One of the most crucial…
The Economic Financial and Crime Commission (EFCC) has arrested the Oyo State Accountant-General, Alhaji Gafar Bello, over alleged N9billion money laundering, SaharaReporters has learnt. A source close to the office of the AG confirmed the development to SaharaReporters on Monday. SaharaReporters learnt that the money was deducted from the local government funds which the governor of the state, Seyi Makinde, allegedly planned to use to finance his 2023 re-election. According to the source, the money was siphoned through the Director of Treasury in the office of the Accountant General, Mr. Michael Ayanniyi, who is now at large. The source said…
A lot has been said and written about how a suspended deputy commissioner of police, Abba Kyari, arrived at this disgraceful waterloo juncture of his life. Some have blamed a Nigerian society that is everything but rigorous in the process of arriving at who their heroes are. Many others have also blamed the shock of Kyari’s unraveling at the overall absence of heroes here. Kyari was a highly decorated police officer who society looked forward to. He received so many garlands for his alleged bravery, incorruptibility and patriotism, especially a standing ovation from Nigeria’s legislature. It was so bad that,…
Chinua Achebe’s Tortoise folktale in his highly celebrated Things Fall Apart, among other motifs, excoriates an act of betrayal as evil. In having Ekwefi, one of his characters, narrate the proverbial cunning and treachery of the Tortoise to her daughter Ezinma, Achebe attempted to paint a moral canvass suggestive of the fact that traitors always take fatal leaps that eventually lead to their unraveling. Like the tortoise, they break their shell carapace.