Category: Politics

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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Senator Isiaka Adeleke, the first civilian governor of Osun State, is dead. The Osun State House of Assembly has declared Monday to Wednesday as mourning period in his honour. The Speaker, Mr Najeem Salaam gave the directive on Monday morning. Protesters on rampage cause traffic gridlock over ex-Gov Isiaka Adeleke’s death, yesterday, in Osogbo, Osun State. A statement by the Chairman House Committee on Information and Strategy, Olatunbosun Oyintiloye said, the flag would be flown half-staff in the Assembly during the period while all legislative activities would be suspended. It…

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