Some state chairmen of the People’s Democratic Party within the South-West have berated Governor Seyi Makinde for issuing a delicate risk in opposition to them over the forthcoming Southwest congress of the party. The party has mounted April 10 for the congress to carry in Ibadan, Oyo State capital. The governor, nevertheless, in an announcement issued by his media aide, …
The Governor of Borno State, Babagana Zulum, has lent his voice to the call for power to shift to the South in 2023. The Governor spoke at the presentation of a book by Dakuku Perterside, former director-general of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Security Agency (NIMASA), on Thursday. According to him, with the situation of things in the nation at …
The Northern Elders Forum, NEF, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of being too slow in tackling insecurity in the nation. Spokesman of the NEF, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, lamented that Nigeria is currently falling apart due to insecurity challenges. He pointed out that banditry and kidnapping, which didn’t exist two, three years ago, has now become a menace. Appearing on Arise Television, …
Ondo State Governor Rotimi Akeredolu on Tuesday charged the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu and the service chiefs to discover a lasting solution to insecurity. Akeredolu, while appearing Politics Today, urged them to behave swiftly and decisively to deal with the situation. Read Also: Blame Babangida SAP For Nigeria’s Insecurity – VON DG, Okechukwu He stated: “They must take necessary steps now, …
Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed has said there’s evidence that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) defeated President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the 2019 presidential election. APC candidate for the presidential election and incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari was declared the winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Buhari defeated his closest challenger and former Vice …
A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, has revealed why the opposition party keeps losing elections in Lagos State. Talking on Thursday when he obtained the South-West zonal chairmanship aspirant of thewhy, Taofeek Arapaja, in his residence, the former NPA boss accused some Lagos PDP members of sabotaging the efforts of the party …
A combined workforce of security operatives has arrested some members of the African Alliance Congress who arrived at the headquarters of the Unbiased National Electoral Commission to protest the commission’s alleged interference and the imposition of the expelled member, Leonard Ezenwa, on the party. SaharaReporters learnt that armed security operatives together with the police, operatives of the Division of State …
In spite of the mass movement of politicians into the All Progressives Congress (APC), a popular cleric in Ogun State, Prophet Sunday Dare Iyunade, has warned that the party could disintegrate if it fails to correct errors and fulfil campaign promises to Nigerians. Iyunade, the President of Pentecostal Sanctuary Bible Ministries with headquarters in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, insisted that for …
A don, Augustine Ikelegbe has faulted the presidential order of shoot-at-sight and the imposition of no-flying-zones as a solution to the insecurity within the nation, describing it as a belated choice. Ikelegbe, who’s a Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at the University of Benin (UNIBEN) stated if such measures had been taken years earlier, it …
The President of the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Melvin Pinnick, Friday afternoon emerged winner of one of the six FIFA Council seats allotted to Africa. The election, which held during the forty-third General Meeting of CAF in Rabat, Morocco, saw the Delta-born football administrator polling forty-three of the accessible fifty-one votes to become the third Nigerian ever to occupy …
Popular comedian, Debo Adebayo, known as Mr. Macaroni, has called on youths within the nation to get their PVCs and take voting seriously in 2023. The comedian in a post on his verified Twitter page stated all politicians within the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, are identical and united in corruption. The comedian told youths …
Women from Umuleri in Anambra East Local Government Area of Anambra State, yesterday, of their numbers, protested half-naked over what they described as grabbing their land by the state authorities under the pretext of building an airport within the state. The women accused the state governor, Willie Obiano, and top authorities officials of partitioning their land for private use. They …
In a statement issued on Wednesday, his Special Assistant (Media), Kevin Ebiri, quoted the governor as saying despite Amaechi’s opposition to his political ambition, he has been able to get elected twice as governor. “They said we will not be Governor, we taught them a lesson in politics. In 2015, they said over their dead body will we be Governor, …
The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Wednesday stated the state would start the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine at the weekend. Sanwo-Olu, who stated this when he received the country representative of the World Health Organisation, Dr Walter Mulombo, on the State House, Alausa, noted that the committee arranges for the vaccine administration was within the final stage of …
The House of Representatives on Wednesday urged President Muhamadu Buhari to get foreign mercenaries to help in the fight against insurgents. The House on Wednesday made the decision following a motion moved by Abdulkadir Rahis from Borno State on the recent spike in Boko Haram’s assaults on Maiduguri. A modification by Mansur Sorro from Bauchi State urged the federal government …
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the deployment of additional 6,000 soldiers to Zamfara in an effort to bring lasting peace to the state. The state governor, Bello Matawalle, made the disclosure on Tuesday in a statewide broadcast on the current security challenges within the state. The governor additionally said the federal government had given an ultimatum of two months within …
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday decorated the new Service Chiefs with their new ranks. The ceremony held on the Council Chambers of the State House, Abuja. In their new ranks, the Service Chiefs are now General Fortunate Irabor, Chief of Defense Staff; Lieutenant-General Ibrahim Attahiru, Chief of Army Staff; Vice Admiral Awwal Zubairu, Chief of Naval Staff; and Air Marshal …
Chief Olusegun Matthew Okikiola Aremu Obasanjo, GCFR (born 5 March 1937) is a Nigerian politician and army leader who served as President of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007. He was a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from 1999 to 2015 and again from 2018 onwards, and he is a Nigerian nationalist by ideology. Obasanjo was educated primarily in …
About 700 women from the All Progressive Congress, APC, and the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in Ndume Ibeku, Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State, Thursday, defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The defected women had been led into the ruling PDP within the state by former Umuahia East constituency APC Woman Chief, Woman Charity Ekeleme. Talking …
Kaduna State Government has confirmed the killing of one ‘Rufai Maikaji’, a deadly bandit terrorising the state, in an aerial interdiction conducted by the Nigerian troops. Maikaji’ and dozens of his fighters were neutralized around the fringes of Malul Forest in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna Central Senatorial District. The state commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel …
