Monday letter1 Ogun State government under the leadership of Prince Dapo Abiodun has announced that the state would hence forth have a zero tolerance for criminality, cultism, kidnappings and other unwholesome attitudes in the state. Not too long ago, precisely the 23rd and 24th of July and 1 August, 12 cases of kidnappings were reported […]
Rivers Guber: Tonye Princewill speaks on governorship election, relationship between Wike, Amaechi
Tonye Princewill, former governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State, has said the Governor, Nyesom Wike used the 2019 governorship election in the state to teach Rotimi Amaechi, Minister of Transportation a lesson. He said Wike and Amaechi’s enemies taught the Minister a lesson and the state paid for it. The […]
Nigerians will fight back one day —Bolaji Akinyemi » Politics » Tribune Online
AS an elder statesman, what is your assessment of the state of the nation? I don’t think that there is anything new that I can say. All the important voices in the land have spoken, the Sultan, Wole Soyinka, the churches, Sheikh Gumi, the newspapers, whether front page or their editorials. They have all drawn […]
Supreme Court on a Mission to Redeem Self
Tanko Muhammad With its recent landmark decision in the case of Abdulrauf Abdulkadir Modibbo vs Mustapha Usman, the Supreme Court may have corrected an error it made in its judgment installing Chibuike Amaechi whose name was not on the ballot for election as Governor of Rivers State as against Celestine Omehia, writes Davidson Iriekpen Twelve […]
Presidency educates Nigerians on the roles of Chief of Staff and SGF
By Nwafor Sunday Presidency has on Saturday reeled out the roles of the Chief of Staff to the President and Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF). Garba Shehu and Femi Adesina It stated that recent media and social media reports on the responsibilities of the Chief of Staff to the President have suggested […]
APC reacts to Wadume’s claims that ruling party gave him N13m for 2019 elections
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has insisted that it could never have allocated resources to a kidnapper or murderer. The ruling party stated this in reaction to a claim made by Hamisu Bala, a suspected kidnap kingpin popularly known as Wadume. He had alleged that the APC gave him N13million ahead of the February 23 […]
Shehu Sani speaks on his rumoured appointment as Tinubu’s presidential campaign coordinator
Senator Shehu Sani, the former lawmaker representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly, has denied that he has been appointed to coordinate the purported presidential campaign of APC leader, Bola Tinubu, in the Northwest. The activist made the remark in a post on his Facebook page on Saturday. He advised Nigerians to disregard […]
Shehu Sani reacts to Nnamdi Kanu’s threat to attack Buhari in Japan, tells IPOB what to do
A former lawmaker who represented Kaduna Central at the Senate, Shehu Sani has reacted to the threat by the Nnamdi Kanu-led Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, to attack and disgrace President Muhammadu Buhari in Japan. Buhari will depart Abuja Sunday for Japan to participate in the Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD7) holding […]
Smart Adeyemi is my ‘political wife’ – Dino Melaye boasts as tribunal orders fresh poll
Embattled lawmaker, Senator Dino Melaye, has described Senator Smart Adeyemi as his ‘political wife’. Melaye stated this in an interview with Channels Television on Friday, after the Kogi State National Assembly and State Assembly Elections Petitions Tribunal sacked him as the Senator representing Kogi West district. A three-man panel of the Tribunal led by Justice […]
Impeachment: Chief Judge raises panel to probe Kogi Deputy Governor, Simon Achuba
The Chief Judge of Kogi, Justice Nasir Ajanah has constituted a seven-man panel to investigate the allegations of gross misconduct levelled against Deputy Governor of the State, Simon Achuba by the state House of Assembly. Ajanah disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Lokoja. He said the constitution of the panel was in line […]
Thousands Welcome Ekweremadu to Enugu
Ike Ekweremadu Igbo youths trouped out in their thousands receive former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, to Enugu on Friday. The youths, under the aegis of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Worldwide comprising the seven Igbo speaking states, took over the road from the Akanu Ibiam international Airport, Enugu, all the way to Ekweremadu’s […]
Ekweremadu’s Attack: Vendetta or 2023 Politics?
Senator Ike Ekweremadu Law Mefor The proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) leader, Nnamdi Kanu, said that the recent assault on former Deputy Senate President, Chief ike Ekweremadu in Nuremberg days ago was in retaliation for his role in instigating, financing and defending a full-scale bloody military invasion of Biafra land – Operation Python Dance […]
APGA assures on moving governorship slot to Anambra South
The Anambra State Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Sir Norbert Obi, has assured that the party was ready to move Anambra governorship position to the southern zone of the state in 2021. Obi said the party would field a candidate from the southern senatorial zone of the state, and was assured of […]
Bayelsa guber: Protests as irregularities allegedly mar PDP ad-hoc delegates’ election
Pockets of protests and threats of violence on Friday marred the conduct of the ward congresses of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the ad-hoc delegate election in the 105 wards of Bayelsa State. The aggrieved PDP members were led by some PDP stakeholders loyal to the Timi Alaibe Campaign Organisation. Chief Tiwei Orunimighe, Hon. […]
RE: In Abia, Development Enters a Reverse Gear
Okezie Ikpeazu Onyebuchi Ememanka Emmanuel Ugwu’s piece which appeared at Pages 18 and 19 of THISDAY NEWSPAPERS of Monday, August 19, 2019 is a classical case of negative journalism. A cursory analysis of the write up shows manifest bias and a deliberate distortion of facts on ground designed to achieve a purpose best known to […]
Bayelsa PDP at War With Itself
By Alaye Elake War! That word alone summarises the situation in Bayelsa State as the governorship election approaches. Bayelsa is at war with itself. To put it more appropriately, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State is on the path of self-destruction. Both the party leadership and the government seem to have found a […]
PRESIDENT BUHARI AND HIS NEW CABINET
President Muhammadu Buhari (center) and the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo in a group photograph with the newly sworn –in Mminister at the Presidential Villa, Abuja Zayyad Muhammad writes that the ministers must prove that they have what it takes to impact lives President Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated his new cabinet and assigned portfolios to all […]
We’ll unlock Bayelsa’s rural economy — Igali
By Gabriel Ewepu ABUJA— ONE of the governorship aspirants on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Bayelsa State, Godknows Igali, has said unlocking Bayelsa’s rural economy will be prioritised if he was elected. Godknows Igali Igali, who spoke with Vanguard on his economic agenda for the state, said his economic plan would be […]
Just in: Sokoto lawmaker kidnapped
Aminu Magaji Bodai, member representing Denge/Shuni State Constituency at the Sokoto State House of Assembly, has been kidnapped by hoodlums. He was abducted around 1: 15am. His relation confirmed the story to Punch. The source said, “I can confirm to you that my brother was kidnapped by yet-to-be-identified persons. Just in: Osinbajo presides over NEC […]
APC speaks on former Ekiti governor’s emergence as minister
The All Progressives Congress, (APC) in Ekiti state has joined others to congratulate the former governor of Ekiti state, Otunba Niyi Adebayo, on his inauguration as minister. Chairman of the party, Barrister Paul Omotosho, in a statement signed by the Director of Media and Publicity of the party, Elder Sam Oluwalana, pointed out that Adebayo […]