Ethnicity and religious biases have been blamed for the growing insecurity in the country. According to the Director General of National Assembly’s National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS), Professor Abubakar Suleiman, the distrust among the various ethnic and religious groups as well as refusal to have a common position on issues about security … [Read more…]
In a split decision of four to three, the Supreme Court on Thursday struck out the appeals filed by Senator Stephen Odey and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the dispute over who, between Senator Stephen Adi Odey and Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe, is the authentic candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the December … [Read more…]
Hundreds of youths under the umbrella of Nigerian Youth Union (NYU), and others have shut down the headquarters of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) in protest. The Youths in their large numbers barricaded the NGF office located at Lake Chad Crescent, Maitama, Abuja, as early as 9am denying staff and guests opportunities … [Read more…]
Sustainable economic developments have continued to elude Anambra State in critical areas, owing to inequitable and nonstrategic allocation of its resources by succeeding administrations, Reverend Godwin Chukwuma Okonkwo has said. Okonkwo, who retired from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) as the Managing Director, NNPC Capital, argued that the state would have been better … [Read more…]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday, demanded the sack of the Minister of Defence, Bashir Magashi, for asking Nigerians to defend themselves against armed aggression by bandits and terrorists. The PDP, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, described the minister’s statement as reckless and confirmation that the President Muhammadu Buhari … [Read more…]
The International Monetary Fund has called for caution in the use of cryptocurrencies, describing it as a concern. It disclosed this during a virtual briefing on the recently published 2020 Article IV IMF Staff Report for Nigeria. The Resident Representative of IMF for Nigeria, Ari Aisen, said the concern on the use … [Read more…]
When a place called Nigeria continues to exhibit endless lines of conflicted management security controls and poor information security controls everywhere, everything and everyone remain unsafe. In what appears to be a functional tribal and religion-oriented democracy where tilted type “leadership” mannerisms prevail, system disorders will manifest across our institutions and the … [Read more…]
BETWEEN SILAS JOSEPH ONU AND PDP, WHO IS CAUSING VIOLENCE IN PARTS OF EBONYI STATE. RE: ATTEMPT TO Incite THE PUBLIC AND RE-CREATE THE EFFIUM CRISIS IN ISHIAGU 1. The attention of the media aides of the Commissioner for Information and State Orientation, Ebonyi State, Barr. Orji Uchenna Orji has been drawn … [Read more…]
Ebonyi Crises: Government Officials Alleged to Instigate Crises in their Communities. As State Government assures of calm. By Arizona James. Since the controversial defection of Ebonyi State Governor from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress, Ebonyi State has not known real peace. Many people’s opinion about the Governor portray … [Read more…]
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, yesterday urged the National Assembly to listen to the calls for the restructuring of Nigeria and take responsibility towards the effect. His call is in consonance with the Presidency which had repeatedly asked agitators for restructuring to channel their clamour to the National Assembly, being the representatives of the … [Read more…]
Ahead of 2023 polls, Kogi State lawmakers paid a visit to Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, on Wednesday, to lobby All Progressives Congress (APC) House members on behalf of Governor Yahaya Bello to emerge as the party’s presidential candidate. The lawmakers said that it was time states in the North Central unite and … [Read more…]
An operative with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Bello Hamma-Adama, has told Justice Inyang Ekwo, of a Federal High Court in Abuja that a sum of N75m was recovered from Halima Turaki, wife of a former Minister for Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs. Tanimu Turaki was a former Minister for Special Duties and … [Read more…]