President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has directed security agencies to fish out the masterminds of what he called “dastardly acts” of killings in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State and parts of Benue State. The president, in a statement on Tuesday by his spokesman, Dele Alake, condemned the most recent internecine killings. Tinubu, who expressed … [Read more…]
By Oseloka H. Obaze Democratic consolidation requires holding periodic elections that allow for peaceful transfer of power. Yet some elections held outside of consolidated democracies have been identified as sources of conflict. So far, Nigeria has managed to skirt around its various electoral crises, thus avoiding ensuing conflicts. But all is still not well. As long … [Read more…]
The Federal Government is set to harmonise all revenue-collecting agencies in Nigeria. The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Revenue, Zach Adedeji made this known on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Monday. Adedeji said the government will double the country’s total annual revenue which is currently below N15trn by deepening the nation’s revenue … [Read more…]
Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has forwarded a letter of extension on medical leave to the State House of Assembly. This notice came after his doctors advised him on the need to take adquate rest after recuperating. Receiving the letter on behalf of other lawmakers, the Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Olamide … [Read more…]
Justice Donatus Okorowo of a Federal High Court in Abuja, has stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from prosecuting the suspended Adamawa Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Hudu Yunusa-Ari, over his declaration of Aisha ‘Binani’ Dahiru, the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, as winner of the March 18 Adamawa State governorship poll. The court … [Read more…]
The Department of State Services (DSS) has stated that former Zamfara State governor, Senator Abdulaziz Yari was not arrested for allegedly refusing to pick the president’s phone call as was reported in some online publications. This is even as the DSS denied reports of storming the offices of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related … [Read more…]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) postponed its meetings of the party’s highest decision-making bodies, national caucus and National Executive Committee (NEC) to July 18 and 19 respectively. According to a statement by the party’s national secretary, Senator Iyiola Omisore, on Monday, the national caucus and NEC meetings, which were earlier slated for July 10 and … [Read more…]
…We won’t take orders from Murderers, Rogues, Gov. Mbah fumes …Urges combined action against scaremongering, fake news …Says sit-at-home enforcers not after Nnamdi Kanu’s freedom Enugu State Governor, Dr. Peter Mbah, has declared that the state was wining the war against sit-a-at-home enforcers and would never take orders from people he described as murderers and … [Read more…]
By Oseloka H. Obaze Well before the 25 February date arrived, it was predicted that the 2023 general elections will be another milestone in Nigeria’s political journey: if effected with transparency and fairness, it will launch Nigeria on the path of democratic consolidation, and if poorly managed; degrade the democratic process further. Beyond imponderables, the … [Read more…]
Count Us Out of This Media Rascality Against Gov Mbah Enugu professional online media practitioners, condemns in its strongest term, the futile effort by some faceless group using fictitious online medium to change the agenda and what transpired at our meeting with the Governor of Enugu State, Barr. Peter Mbah, on Friday 8th July, 2023. … [Read more…]
President of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been chosen to lead the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) as its next chairman. The choice was made on Sunday in Bissau, the capital of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, at the group’s 63rd Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the … [Read more…]
The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged President Bola Tinubu to dismiss alleged maneuvers by external influencers aiming to impose former governor Nyesom Wike as the party leader in the state. In an open letter dated July 6 addressed to President Tinubu, the state branch of the APC urged the … [Read more…]