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Apr

2024

State Policing: Shettima, Jonathan, Abubakar, Others Attend Dialogue

Abuja, Columns/Opinions/Letters, News Flash, Security

Shettima, Jonathan, Abubakar, Others Attend Dialogue On State Police Many political and traditional leaders across the country have converged on Abuja to deliberate on state policing. Some of the leaders in attendance at the Continental Hotels in Abuja include; Vice President Kashim Shattima, who represented President Bola Tinubu; Former President Goodluck Jonathan; former military ruler Abdulsalami Abubakar; Sultan of Sokoto Sa’ad Abubakar; Ooni of Ife Enitan Adewusi; Governor of Kwara State and Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, AbdulFatah Ahmed; the Minister of Police, Ibrahim Gaidam and others. The dialogue, organised by the House of Representatives Committee on Constitutional Review…

Apr

2024

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Akintoye, Igboho Write President Tinubu, Demand Yoruba Exit From Nigeria

Columns/Opinions/Letters, FGN, News Flash

Akintoye, Igboho Write President Tinubu, Demand Yoruba Exit From Nigeria The Yoruba Self-Determination Movement, led by Prof Banji Akintoye and Chief Sunday Adeyemo, alias Sunday Igboho, has written an open letter to President Bola Tinubu, seeking a peaceful breakaway of Yoruba people from Nigeria. The open letter, dated April 17, 2024, was signed by both Akintoye, Igboho and one Ola Ademola. They called on the President to within the next two months set up a negotiation team to negotiate the exit of the Yoruba people from Nigeria. The letter by the Yoruba Nation arrowheads came about a week after some…

Apr

2024

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Lagos-Calabar Coastal Super Highway Project, A Misplaced Priority -Peter Obi

Columns/Opinions/Letters, Infrastructure, News Flash, Politics

Lagos-Calabar Coastal Super Highway Project, A Misplaced Priority — Peter Obi The Presidential flag bearer of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, has described the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Super Highway project as a misplacement of priority. Obi said the project which was being given attention at this time does not deserve the attention it was getting because of the humongous cost, the time it would take to complete and the fact that there were more deserving but delapidated roads littered across Nigeria which require immediate attention. He equally said the timing of the Coastal road project by…

Apr

2024

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Wike Is Truly Powerful, Controlling PDP And APC Same Time – Victor Chigozie Ene(AIF)

Columns/Opinions/Letters, News Flash, Personality, Politics

This Man is really and truly Powerful. He is out to destroy PDP for losing the party's Presidential ticket in 2023. He told NWC then, that he would destroy PDP if they fail to give him the Presidential ticket. Wike is now controlling PDP and APC at the same time. He is in charge of PDP and APC structures in Rivers state. As a serving minister in the APC led national govt who has openly boasted that President Tinubu would return in 2027, he is still attending PDP's Caucus and NEC meeting. The PDP national chairman is his boy and…

Apr

2024

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I Recommended Peter Obi To Atiku As Running Mate – Reno Omokri

Abuja, Columns/Opinions/Letters, News Flash, Politics

I Recommended Peter Obi To Atiku As Running Mate – Reno Omokri Reno Omokri, a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, says he recommended Peter Obi to be Atiku Abubakar’s running mate during the 2019 elections because he was the best at the time. Speaking in an interview on the “Mic On podcast” hosted by Seun Okinbaloye, a journalist with Channels Television, Omokri said he consulted former President Jonathan before the recommendation. “…Peter Obi cannot deny that I was the one who recommended him to Waziri Atiku Abubakar. Waziri Atiku Abubakar asked me to help him to choose a running…

Apr

2024

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May 1: Labour Lists Seven Demands Ahead Of Worker’s Day

Columns/Opinions/Letters, Labour, News Flash

MAY 1: Labour Lists Seven Demands Ahead Of Worker’s Day The Nigeria Labour Congress has listed seven demands from the Federal Government ahead of the May 1, 2024 Workers’ Day. Aside from demanding for a new minimum wage, the NLC is also asking for the creation of state and local government police to tackle insecurity in the country. The congress also stressed that states and local governments, as well as the organised private sector, must pay the new minimum wage when it is eventually approved. International Workers’ Day, also known as Labour Day in some countries and often called May…

Apr

2024

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Arrest Okezie Ikpeazu Without Further Delay – Dr. Engr. Odo Ijere

Abia State, Columns/Opinions/Letters, Economy, Good Governance, News Flash

ARREST OKEZIE VICTOR IKPEAZU NOW. The social media, mainstream media, the rumor mills, propaganda mills etcetera are inundated with Dr. Alex Otti's testament in far away John Hopkins lecture in the USA where he jolted the listening world with shock over another made in Nigeria leadership dystopia. Governor Alex Otti made mind blowing revelations of Victor Ikpeazu heists that made OUK and TAO regimes look like kindergarten era in corruption. A whopping N107 Billion was discovered by forensic auditors to have been paid to non existent contractors, bogus contractors and at times phoney contractors with no modicum of value to…

Apr

2024

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Nuhu Ribadu Drops Bombshell, Made Shocking Revelations

Columns/Opinions/Letters, News Flash, Security

Nuhu Ribadu Drops Bombshell National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu has made shocking revelations. He said, “At the time President Tinubu was forming this government, he said the North was very dear to his heart that he would do everything to address its challenges. “This is why he appointed northerners into key offices. He handed over security and Defence to the North. He gave us both ministers for Agriculture and Education. He also gave us the Minister of Health and Foreign Affairs in his quest to turn around the fortune of the region. “He gave us a chance. Now the rest…

Apr

2024

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EFCC, Yahaya Bello War Latest

Crime, Columns/Opinions/Letters, News Flash, Politics

EFCC, Yahaya Bello War Latest Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, (SAN) has bared his mind on the immediate-past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello who is the run from EFCC. He said , “The bizarre drama confronting the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in the course of its efforts to perform its statutory duty has come to my notice (Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice) as a matter of very grave concern. “It is now beyond doubt that the EFCC is given power by the law to invite any person…

Apr

2024

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Lux Mundi University Grants Scholarship To 27 Candidates, Commends Gov Otti For Providing Conducive Environment

Abia State, Columns/Opinions/Letters, Education, News Flash

LUX MUNDI UNIVERSITY GRANTS SCHOLARSHIP TO 27 CANDIDATES, COMMENDS OTTI FOR PROVIDING CONDUCIVE ENVIRONMENT LUX MUNDI UNIVERSITY, the first university on the soil of Umuahia has granted tuition free education to 27 prospective students from its host communities of Umuahia and Oboro. The Registrar of LUX MUNDI UNIVERSITY, Mrs. Blessing Ibebunjo disclosed this in an interview with news men at the school premises in Ndagbo, Isiama Afaraukwu, Umuahia North LGA. Mrs. Ibebunjo disclosed that the beneficiaries would be studying in the 12 departments across the 3 faculties of Law, Management Sciences and Arts & Social Sciences of the LUX MUNDI…