National publicity secretary of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Chiedozie Alex Ogbonnia, in the early hours of Monday, asked a former Lagos State governor, Senator Bola Tinubu, to shelve his touted 2023 presidential bid to preserve Nigeria’s corporate existence. In an open letter to Tinubu, he counsel Tinubu to key into the Igbo presidency in 2023 cause, stressing that posterity would be kind of him if he toed the “path of reason, conscience and equity” on the matter. Describing the All Progressives Congress (APC) leader as a strategic thinker with a formidable frontier spirit, Ogbonnia noted in the document titled: Open …
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The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has tasked the Nigerian Army to find Bello Turji, a notorious bandit leader, dead or alive. The group believes that he is the key to the defeat of banditry in Sokoto and Zamfara states. MURIC threw the challenge in a press release issued by its director and founder, Professor Ishaq Akintola, on Monday, 13th December, 2021. The statement reads : “Sources close to the Sokoto branch of MURIC have reported the strong nexus between one Bello Turji, a notorious bandit, and insecurity in Sokoto and Zamfara states. He coordinates almost all attacks and he was…
As the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) prepares for its 2022 National Convention, the party National Headquarters has released the list of APC States Chairmen that have been recognized as authentic as seen in the image below. Recall that some months ago, when the party conducted the states congress across the country, the majority of the states had parallel congresses, leading to two states chairmen. The most worrisome part is that the chairmen in each of the states claim to be the authentic chairman. Now that the party has released a list of the chairmen they recognized, what now becomes…
The Bada Balogun of Ibadanland, Chief Adegboyega Adegoke has commiserate with the people of Ogbomoso land, royal house and Oyo state over the death of Soun of Ogbomoso, Oba (Dr) Oladunni Oyewumi Ajagungbade IIl, who died on Sunday at the age of 95 after 48 years on the throne. Oba Oyewumi was born on May 27, 1926 in Ogbomoso to Oba Bello Afolabi Oyewumi Ajagungbade IIl and he ascended the throne of his father on October 24, 1973. While extoling the virtue of the Monarch during his reign, Adegoke said the late monarch stood for unity, equity, fairness and justice.…
As former governor of Osun State and pioneer Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, got ready to launch his autobiography in Lagos last Friday, a day before the launch, one very unAfrican event occurred in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso. Christophe Joseph-Marie Dabiré, the West African country’s Prime Minister, presented his letter of resignation to the country’s president, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré. It was accepted. Dabiré threw in the towel on the heels of persistent demonstrations against his government’s inability to stop the bloodletting Burkinabe faced from ceaseless jihadist attacks. With the PM’s resignation, according to…
The Saudi Arabia Government has suspended Nigerians from entering into the kingdom in its bid to prevent further spread of Omicron variant of coronavirus after six reported cases in Nigeria. The government said that the move, which would come into force immediately was coming as part of the kingdom’s precautionary measures to prevent the spread of the variant designated as virus of concern by the World Health Organistaion (WHO). A source from the kingdom noted that the Saudi government suspension of flights from Nigeria into the country was in order to check the spread of omicron in the holy land.…
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has successfully carried out a mock session for the 3.5 gigahertz (GHz) spectrum auction for the deployment of the Fifth Generation (5G) network in the country. The simulated auction, which took place on Friday, December 10, 2021 at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, was preparatory to the main auction scheduled to take place on Monday, December 13, 2021 at same venue. The conduct of the simulation exercise was in line with the requirements stipulated in the Information Memorandum (IM) for 3.5 GHz spectrum auction. The IM is a document that defines the process for the…
The Federal High Court sitting in Gusau has dismissed the suit filed by 10 former Local Government chairmen of the All Progressives Congress (APC) loyal to a former Zamfara State Governor, Abdul’Aziz Yari. One Abdulaziz Danmaliki and nine others had instituted the suit in July to challenge the dissolution of the state’s caretaker committee of the party by the Gov Mai Mala Buni-led APC National Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC). Ruling on the case on Friday, Justice Aminu Bappa said the Federal High Court has no jurisdiction over the internal affairs of a political party. He added that the…
The permanent secretary of the state Ministry of Local Government, Chieftaincy Matters and Rural Development, has been suspended over the delay in payment of the November salary of local government workers. This is contained in a statement by the secretary to the state government, Kenneth Igwe, issued on Friday. “The governor has noticed with dismay the delay in the payment of local government staff salary for November. “In view of this, the governor has directed the immediate suspension of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Local Government, Chieftaincy Matters and Rural Development and the Accountant, JAAC, for one month without salary.…
The pan Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, on Friday bemoaned the rising act of cultism and hooliganism amongst secondary school students across the country. This was contained in a statement issued on Friday by the Afenifere National Publicity Secretary, Mr Jare Ajayi, in the aftermath of the recent rampage by students of Idogbo Secondary School in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo state, because they did not want to sit for the first-term examination. He decried the students’ attack on the policemen who were called in by the school authority as well as beating up of teachers and setting the school…