2023: Convention beginning of our rescue mission – PDP The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that its 2021 convention is the beginning of its quest to rescue the country. The chairman of the PDPNational Convention Organizing Committee, Ahmadu Fintiri, started this,on Saturday, while declaring open the PDP 2021 National Convention, holding at the Eagle … [Read more…]
I’ll leave office in May 2023, Buhari assures President Muhammadu Buhari has warned those campaigning for tenure elongation on his behalf, stressing that he would leave office in May 2023. According to a statement by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, Buhari gave the warning at a meeting in … [Read more…]
Convention: PDP working towards consensus, says Tambuwal The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party Governors’ Forum and Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwual, has said he and his colleagues were working towards ensuring that all members of the new National Working Committee emerge via consensus. He said this after a meeting of the PDP-GF in Abuja, … [Read more…]
Dele Momodu joins PDP, gives reasons – Dele Momodu A former presidential candidate, publisher, and journalist, Dele Momodu, has joined Nigeria’s main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party. Momodu announced this in a statement on Friday. He explained that his decision was to contribute meaningfully to the development of the country. The former presidential candidate … [Read more…]
10 Years of Marriage: The Stunning Journey of Rt. Hon. Kizito Awalu’s Beautiful Marriage By Prince Ejeh Josh, Esq In the undying words of Burton Howards, President of Madrid Spain Temple and an all times General Authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “If you want something to last forever, you treat … [Read more…]
A trigger-happy police officer attached to the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), Benin, yesterday, allegedly shot a 400-level student of the University of Benin, UNIBEN, at the gate of the oil firm. The student of the Department of Mass Communication, Miss Juliana Martins, is a participant in the ongoing workshop of the Petroleum … [Read more…]
Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has decried the difficult state of Nigeria’s international travel portal. This followed his failure to obtain a COVID-19 travel permit during a recent trip from France to Nigeria. Soyinka, who addressed reporters yesterday at Esther’s Revenge of Freedom Park in Lagos, recounted how he was to stay … [Read more…]
The Central Bank of Nigeria has said its newly launched e-Naira project is secure and dependable. The Director of Corporate Communications, Mr Osita Nwanisobi, stated this while speaking at the ongoing CBN-Fair in Abakaliki on Thursday. According to the apex bank, the security and dependability of the e-Naira stem from the fact … [Read more…]
The lead counsel for Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indeginous People of Biafra, Ifeanyi Ejiofor,has lampooned the Department of State Services for denying the duo of Chukwuemeka Ezeife and British Consul access to Kanu. In a statement he personally signed on Thursday night, he accused the DSS of also not allowing Kanu’s … [Read more…]
The Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Loans on Tuesday kicked against the proposal by the Federal Ministry of Health to borrow $200m under the Malaria Programme to buy mosquito nets in the 2022 budget. The committee’s condemnation was in response to the Ministry of Health’s submission about its intention to borrow the … [Read more…]
Former Senate president, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has said despite the fact that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has zoned its national chairmanship to the North Central, it did not prevent any qualified aspirant from any zone from contesting the presidency in 2023. Speaking on a national television programme monitored in Lagos, yesterday, the … [Read more…]
The trial of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has received the attention of the international community following the issuance of “Urgent Appeals” by the United Nations to both the Nigerian and Kenyan governments, demanding immediate stoppage of any torture or violation of his rights. The decision … [Read more…]