Category: Politics

The U.S. Secretary has been taking a dig at China and its investment in Africa in the past few days, although he had been roundly condemned by Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, who is also visiting Zimbabwe on Thursday. The U.S. diplomat is also believed to be seeking smooth relations with African countries after President Donald Trump reportedly dismissed some African nations as “Shithole countries” in January, a comment he later denied. The Chinese government has pumped billions into infrastructure projects across the continent, although critics say there is often…

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Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayo Fayose, has once again said he will become the President when Nigerians select a new leader for another four years in 2019. He said this on Thursday in Ado Ekiti, the state capital while addressing hundreds of women at an event to commemorate the 2018 International Women’s Day. “I want them to here in the Villa, I will be president of Nigeria Tomorrow, Fayose told his supporters at the gathering. “Sometimes, it is difficult for people to believe but when it happens, I want you…

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Former Senate President, Senator David Mark, has pleaded that enough of the killings in Benue State and other parts of the country against the backdrop that life is sacred. In a statement, yesterday, by his Media Assistant, Paul Mumeh, Mark described as sad and frustrating, the unabating killings in parts of Benue State despite repeated peace moves between the indigenes and the herdsmen in the state. Only on Monday, about 26 indigenes of Omusu community in Okpokwu Local Government Area of the state were murdered in cold blood by assailants…

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A former Governor of Jigawa State and PDP presidential aspirant, Alhaji Sule Lamido, yesterday in Calabar, alleged that Nigeria has been hijacked and is being ruled by men who lack ideas. Lamido said the ruling APC was only implementing what the former ruling party, the PDP, drew. He stated this when he paid a consultative visit to Governor Ben Ayade on his presidential aspiration. Lamido alleged that whereas PDP was accused of spending about N6tn on some national projects in 16 years, the APC had wasted more than N20tn in…

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by Mohammmed  Yaba Bologi Nearly all the laudable policies of the Federal Government since 1999 to present day, emanated either from the bills sponsored by the extra-ordinary lawmaker (Hon. Ned Nwoko) or are motions moved by the Prince of Idumuje-Ugboko, Aniocha North LGA of Delta State during his tenure in the National Assembly. It is on record that Hon. Ned Munir Nwoko who represented Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency between 1999-2003 sponsored twenty-two (22) bills that have direct bearing on the people and equally moved the all-important motion for the National Conference. The…

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The leader of the Latter Rain Assembly (LRA), Pastor Tunde Bakare, has said that he cannot understand what President Muhammadu Buhari and other governors were doing at the wedding Fatiha of Idris Abiola Ajimobi son of Governors Isiaka Ajimobi and Fatima Umar Ganduje daughter of Abdullahi Umar Ganduje in Kano on Saturday when when other peoples’ daughters are in captivity. Recall that on Feb. 19, 110 students of Government Girls’ Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe, were abducted by the suspected insurgents. Pastor Bakare speaking at on Sunday service in…

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) fact-finding team on alleged underage voting in the last Kano council poll said it has not received any evidence of underage voting. The Chairman of the committee, Abubakar Nahuce, on Friday, said that from his team’s interaction with civil society organisations and media, no evidence of underage voting has emerged. INEC set up the committee following public outcry that greeted videos and photos of underage voting believed to have been shot during the Kano election. “From all what we have seen and discussed with…

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  A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, has asked the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the state, Felix Obuah, to honour the invitation of the state Police Command for interrogation over killings in parts of the state. The ruling of the court followed a petition which fingered Obuah in the killings recorded in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of the state before, during and after the 2015 general election. The All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state had petitioned the police over the killings recorded…

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There was excitement in Enugu on Wednesday as Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi formally handed over N5 million cheque each to 118 autonomous communities that have so far fulfilled the requirements for the release of the fund, as the first tranche of the N10 million earmarked for every community in the state to execute development projects of their choice. The 118 autonomous communities that received their cheques, according to the Commissioner for Rural Development, Hon. Gab Onuzulike, were among the 450 communities approved by the Enugu State Executive Council (EXCO) that have…

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