Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that Nigeria cannot survive another four years under the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Chairman of the PDP Governors Forum and Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, said this Tuesday at the opening ceremony of a two-day PDP National Retreat 2021 themed “It’s Time to Rescue and Rebuild Nigeria”. He also said Nigeria must embrace restructuring to survive. He said: “It must restructure its polity, economy, security and ways of doing things. It must embrace relative autonomy and decentralisation of power. This will unleash the energies of our people, especially, the young. It is…
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All Progressives Congress (APC) National Reconciliation Committee has received 35 petitions from aggrieved members across the country. The chairman of the nine-member committee, Senator Abudulahi Adamu, disclosed this to newsmen yesterday in Abuja. Adamu said, “At this point in time, we have something in the region of plus or minus 35 petitions, and as you do know, you may wish to ponder on the fact that the petitions cannot have the same weight. “So, where we believe that the problems are deep rooted, we intend to go and unravel what the problems are, and how best we can proffer solutions…
Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has been arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over allegation of forgery and manipulation of documents. He was arrested on Tuesday to answer questions on possible forgery of hospital documents to hoodwink the court handling the case against him on money laundering with a view to stalling hearing. The former minister is currently being grilled at the Lagos office of the commission. EFCC’s spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, confirmed the arrest of the former minister to The Guardian. The anti-graft agency had charged Fani-Kayode alongside a former Minister of State for…
The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), Malam Mele Kyari has told Nigerians to brace up for hike in price of Petroleum Motor Spirit (PMS), saying it may sell between N320 and N340 in 2022. It said this was because the law does not provide for a subsidy, hence its removal in the coming year. Kyari during his presentation at the World Bank Nigeria Development Update, November 2021 edition titled “Time for Business Unusual” in Abuja on Tuesday said the increment is imminent because the law does not provide for a subsidy, hence its removal in…
Auzubillah Minashaitan Nirajeem. I seek refuge in Allah from being misguided by Satan the accursed. Dear Ummah, the social media platforms have been awashed with overwhelming vituperations over purported removal of niqob from a Muslim Sister in the Department of Nursing by a Professor in the Faculty of Nursing LAUTECH, Ogbomoso. Over the past few days that the news have been circulated and outpour of vehement reactions have rented the media space over what was considered an outright and intolerable infringement on the right of the Muslim sister who by right of being a student reserves the right to dress…
“To the youths and teenagers out there, please note that the devil is out there trying to mess with our minds and paralyze our dreams; we must not give up and remember only God’s mercy can make us scale through. Your mental health comes first! Do not let anything tamper with it. Do not give the devil a chance and don’t stop, till your dreams becomes reality.” The above statement was made by award winning, teen-gospel singer, Elizabeth Ayomide-Babalola at a press conference in Ibadan today. Treasured Lizzy as she is popular known by her fans, is a celebrated artist…
The Chairman of Progressive Governors, Alhaji Atiku Bagudu has disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari has approved February 2022 for the conduct of the national convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC). President Buhari, on Monday, met with some of the governors of the party led by Chairman of APC national caretaker committee and Yobe State governor, Mai Mala Buni. Also present at the meeting were governors Atiku Bagudu and Abubakar Badaru. Speaking to correspondents after the meeting which took place in the president’s office, Bagudu disclosed that the meeting was to convey the decision of Sunday night meeting of the…
The Nigeria Union of Journalists Oyo State council on Thursday dissociated itself from the purported disqualification of some Members of the Union in the ongoing election into the offices of the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ), State chapter. This clarification becomes imperative following the members’ outcry laced with several petitions by NAWOJ members concerning the alleged irregularities in all the processes adopted by the 3-man Credentials committee and the external forces that is attempting to foist chaos ‘on our peaceful council.’ ”We have been inundated with complaints by NAWOJ members over the secrecy and cult-like approach so far adopted…
At No 9, Rumuibekwe Road in Port Harcourt on November 10, 1995, the devil sat in a corner, having a saturnalia. No one could see him. He wore dark goggles, donning the uniform of a five-star Army General, wrapped up in a huge celebratory mood. His arch-enemy, Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni activists had just been hanged at the Port Harcourt Prison. Inside No 9, Rumuibekwe, family members sat on the hood of parked disused cars, weeping profusely, others holding their heads in anguish. By that instant the most recently widowed woman in the world, Hauwa Saro-Wiwa, was…
A group known has the Southern Nigeria Movement for Justice, has warned, that it would resist further attack on the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr Godwin Emefiele. The group said it is determined, to henceforth challenge what it called the series of orchestrated campaign of calumny, against the CBN Governor, Mr Emefiele, and by extension, the management of the nation’s apex bank, under his leadership. In a joint statement by its leaders and signed by Comrade Uche Osadebe, Olu Akindele and Ebede Benedict, the group said it has noticed the persistent call by those it described as…