Category: Politics

Rotimi Akeredolu, Ondo State governor, has denied asking workers to forgo the payment of two of the six months salary arrears owed them by the immediate past administration. This was contained in a statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Segun Ajiboye in Akure. Ajiboye said that the governor has consistently vowed to do everything possible to offset the salary arrears owed workers in the state. He said: “The governor has also matched words with action to make the welfare of workers in the state his priority…

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Former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Professor Chukwuma Soludo,​has observed that Nigeria as at “today has never been more divided than any time in our history.” The former CBN governor, who made the remark in Enugu, also noted that Nigeria is at the verge of breakup. He said only big ideas can save the country from an impending doom. He said: “‎Ideas rule the world. Ideas constitute about 60 or 70 percent of the input needed to get any project done. “Nigeria is a project, it is work…

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The Chairman of the committee, screening councillorship and chairmanship aspirants on the platform of All Progressive Congress, APC, in Lagos State, Prof. Tunde Samuel, is facing criticism from some party members. Ahead of  the councils primaries of APC in the state tentatively scheduled for Saturday and next Thursday, crisis looms in Agege and Orile-Agege chapters of the party as some stakeholders are alleging that Prof. Samuel, former SA on Education to ex-Lagos governor Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is colluding with some leaders of the party in the areas to perpetrate electoral fraud. Financial…

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The defection of Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, former Minister of State for Defence, to the All Progressives Congress, APC, has been described as saddening by former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode. Obanikoro and Fani-Kayode spent about a month together in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in October last year. While Obanikoro was under investigation for allegedly receiving N4.7bn from the Office of the National Security Adviser, Fani-Kayode was prosecuted for allegedly receiving over N800m when he was the spokesman for the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation. However, Fani-Kayode…

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After the scandal that brought out the dirty secrets of most French politicians, and the subsequent declaration of interest by Emmanuel Macron to become the President of France, the man who fell in love and married his high-school teacher, has won the French Presidential election. Three projections, issued within minutes of polling stations closing at 8 p.m, showed Macron beating his opponent, Le Pen by around 65 percent to 35 – a gap wider than the 20 or so percentage points that pre-election surveys had pointed to. Share on: WhatsApp

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President Muhammadu Buhari has confirmed the latest release of 82 Chibok girls by Islamic terrorist group, Boko Haram. According to a statement released by his special adviser Garba Shehu, the girls regained their freedom after “lengthy negotiations” with the dreaded militant group, adding that some of the group’s detained suspects were released in exchange for the girls. Shehu also pointed out that the girls would be received at the presidential villa on the 7th of May by President Buhari. In the full statement; “President Muhammadu Buhari is pleased to announce…

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Chief Edwin Clark, Ijaw leader, has berated former  President Olusegun Obasanjo over perceived disparaging comments against Ijaw nation, particularly former Presdent Goodluck Jonathan, in “Against the Run of Play,” a new book by former presidential spokesman, Olusegun Adeniyi. In an open letter to Obasanjo, Chief Clark also accused the book’s author of giving room to the former president to insult the Ijaw in perceived measure by Adeniyi to mend his strained relations with Obasanjo over “Some very unpalatable remarks about you (Obasanjo)” in the author’s earlier work, “Power, Politics and…

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Rotimi Amaechi, Nigeria’s transport minister, has said Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari “is fit enough” to stand for reelection, notwithstanding Ill-health and his limited activities. Amaechi, a former governor of Rivers State, one of the oil-rich states in the Niger Delta and currently of the two so-called super ministers in Buhari’s cabinet, believed the president’s infirmity was not serious enough to preclude him from putting in one more term. “If you look at the president since he came to the country, you will see there is a huge improvement,” Amaechi, who…

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In a book titled ‘Against the Run of Play,’ written by the Chairman, Editorial Board of ThisDay, Olusegun Adeniyi, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, one of the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, has alleged that Senate President Bukola Saraki and the Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, worked against the plan to make him President Muhammadu Buhari’s running mate in the 2015 presidential election. Tinubu stated that Saraki, El-Rufai and other stalwarts of the Peoples Democratic Party, who defected to the APC in the build-up to the 2015 elections, instigated…

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Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria former President, has said that former President Goodluck Jonathan from his first days as President showed he  was too small for the office, saying he, Obasanjo, acted more as an opponent of Jonathan than a supporter of Muhammadu Buhari ahead of the 2015 presidential poll. Obasanjo, who said Jonathan deceived him that he would not give Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke the petroleum portfolio in his cabinet was deceived into believing that he could use money to buy the 2015 presidential election. Obasanjo in the book, Against the Run…

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