Category: Politics

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has accused the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, of not building the image of the state, as well as looting public treasury. The accusation comes days after he unveiled a huge statue in honor of South African President, Jacob Zuma. The decision has been widely criticized as endorsing the governance style of a president who is facing corruption charges in his country. More so, the honour was done Mr. Zuma few days after another Nigerian, Jelili Omoyele, a 35-year-old, was killed in South Africa. A…

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President Muhammadu Buhari Friday said that his government has been fair to the South East geo-political zone in terms of appointment which he said was evidenced in the allocation of four prominent ministerial positions to the zone. The President also assured leaders from the zone that his administration will benefit them more from roads and coastal rail projects, which he said were of critical importance to the economy. But the President of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Chief John Nnia Nwodo told the President that the South East had remained marginalized by successive…

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Chief Bisi Akande, former Interim National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, has declared that the party’s ticket for the 2019 presidential election remains open to contenders as President Muhammadu Buhari is yet to indicate interest in a second term. This came as leaders and governors of the party in the South-West zone began strategising on how the party would retain power in the zone. Chief Akande said this, yesterday, in Ibadan, after the South West leadership rose from a zonal meeting which had governors, ministers and members of the…

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The founder and Chairman of DAAR Communication who is also an aspirant to the position of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Chairman, High Chief Raymond Dokpesi has described Otunba Gbenga Daniel, OGD as a friend of longstanding with whom he shares deep understanding. Dokpesi made this disclosure on Tuesday during a consultative visit by Otunba Gbenga Daniel to DAAR communications headquarters with respect to the latter’s bid for the Chairmanship of PDP. He also said he will not only be present at OGD’s official declaration programme on the 18th of…

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President Muhammadu Buhari’s daughter, Zahra, has explained why her father may not be aware of the deteriorating state of the Aso Villa clinic. Just yesterday, Wife of the President, Aisha Buhari ”flamed” up over the state of the hospital which according to her is shameful. But before then, Zahra had on September 29th called out the permanent secretary of the state house over the poor condition of the hospital. Zahra asked why the hospital lacked basic items such as a syringe even when it has a N3. 2 billion budgetary…

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The Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode; the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa; and the member representing Agege State Constituency 2 in the state House of Assembly, Hon. Oluyinka Ogundimu; have been commended for their efforts in ensuring that the ongoing construction of the Pen Cinema Bridge becomes reality. This was the consensus of people at the Constituency Stakeholders’ Meetings organised by the Lagos State House of Assembly which took place in Agege. Leading the Agege people to the event, the Chairman of Agege…

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The Initiator and Chairman, Movement for Nigeria’s Total Transformation, Chief Areoye Oyebola, has decried the non-responsiveness of Nigerian federal lawmakers to the widespread call for the downward review of their “monumental salaries and allowances.” According to Oyebola, the recent criticism of the federal legislators by the Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), was just one of many criticisms that had trailed the lawmakers over the years but to which they had turned deaf ears. He recalled that he had raised the same issue in…

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Nigerian Police personnel of the Kaduna State Police Command are presently carrying out a peaceful protest against the non-payment of their August and September salaries. Eight Police commands namely: Kaduna, Kebbi Gombe, Nasarawa, Ekiti ,Bayelsa, Imo and Ogun are reportedly owing August and September salaries. The protest, which cuts across the rank and file of the command, has over 2000 protesters who are gathered in front of the Salaries Office inside the command headquarters. Cyril Abeh, the state commissioner of police, who said the delay in payment was from the…

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Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, one of the founders of the Peoples Democratic Party who is also a former Nigerian president, has thrown his weight behind the former Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel in his bid to become the National Chairman of the party describing him as the ‘breathe of fresh air’. IBB made this declaration at his Hilltop residence in Minna, Niger state on Wednesday when Daniel alongside his powerful delegation paid him a visit in furtherance to his nationwide consultation. Speaking during the visit, Daniel said he had…

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Those that signed the bail bond of separatist leader, Nnamdi Kanu appear to be biting their fingers as the United Kingdom returnee disappears into the thin air. Leader of Southeast caucus in the National Assembly, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, has explained that those who signed the bail bond for the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, from detention are now in trouble. Abaribe also stressed that as a result of agitations by the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra for a separate state of Biafra,…

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