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Ohanaeze Youths Berate Gov Bala Mohammed For Anti-Zoning Comments

Ohanaeze Youths Berate Gov Bala Mohammed For Anti-Zoning Comments

By Jonathan Okpanachi The Ohanaeze Youth Council has described Gov Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State as 'a poor student of history' for canvassing that th presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party ahead of the 2023 elections, should not be zoned to the South-East geopolitical zone. Gov Bala was allegedly quoted to have stated that agitations that power must shift to the southern part of the country in 2023 "is meant for the All Progressives Congress, and not the Peoples Democratic Party." According to him, the North still has four years left, 'based on the arrangement of the PDP'. The…
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Marafa, Keyamo lose out As APC inaugurates state Excos

Marafa, Keyamo lose out As APC inaugurates state Excos

Factions of the All Progressives Congress in several states that are loyal to some ministers and senators are set to lose out as the APC has perfected plans to inaugurate state chairmen loyal to the governors at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja today. Some of the losers include the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola; the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo; and the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed. Others who lost out include former Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State, Senator Kabiru Marafa and a former Governor of Zamfara State, Abdul’Aziz Yari’. Several…
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Dr. Chidia Maduekwe makes case for Abia Good Governance at BMO outing, Abuja

Dr. Chidia Maduekwe makes case for Abia Good Governance at BMO outing, Abuja

THE URGENCY OF NOW - FULL SPEACH Nkaa G’eme – Kanyi Kesandu Our present situation in Abia State demands immediate response. There is no room for margin of error, or trial and error. The principles of fresh esoteric management theories have no place in the present governance need of Abia state. The solution lies with known and workable principles that can guarantee the urgent emancipation and migration of Abia people who are currently locked up within the enclave of decrepit deplorable despondency into self-assured dependency born out of certainty embedded or encapsulated within the single affirmative and assertiveness in the principles…
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Why 2022 Budget won’t fail – Buhari

Why 2022 Budget won’t fail – Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the 2022 budget won’t fail but will accomplish the purpose for which it was passed because the National Assembly is led by trusted members of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Buhari, who said this while speaking on Channels Television on Wednesday, expressed confidence that this year’s budget will succeed. Recall that following the President’s assent to the 2022 budget, there were reports of friction between the presidency and the parliament. Buhari had expressed strong reservations on the “worrisome changes” made by the National Assembly to the 2022 Executive Budget proposal. When asked if he…
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High cost of cement will render most Nigerians homeless – Group

High cost of cement will render most Nigerians homeless – Group

A group, Coalition of South East Youth Leaders, COSEYL, an umbrella body of all the youth groups in the South-East has said that the high cost of cement would render most Nigerian families homeless if not checked. The group said it is totally condemnable to sell a bag of cement at the rate of N5,000 per bag in a country where so many families go to bed hungry. In a press release signed by the President-General of the group, Goodluck Ibem, he said the high cost of cement would make landlords increase their house rent which would be above the…
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Terrorism: I will emerge victorious – Nnamdi Kanu vows to defeat Buhari govt

Terrorism: I will emerge victorious – Nnamdi Kanu vows to defeat Buhari govt

Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Friday expressed optimism that he would emerge victorious over the terrorism charges leveled against him by the Nigerian Government. Kanu expressed hope that his current trial at the Abuja Federal High Court would end soon. The pro-Biafra agitator is facing terrorism charges before Justice Binta Nyako-led Federal High Court in Abuja. The Nigerian Government leveled the charges against Kanu following his re-arrest and repatriation from Kenya. He was nabbed in Kenya over his agitation for the actualization of Biafra and Nigeria’s breakup by extension. However, the IPOB leader stated that his…
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Yoruba leader, Olufemi Adegoke is dead

Yoruba leader, Olufemi Adegoke is dead

The Chairman of pan-Yoruba intelligentsia group, Voice of Reason (VOR), Dr. Olufemi Adegoke is dead. The medical veteran hailed from Ondo Town in Ondo West Local Government Area. Adegoke was the father of a Nigerian-born member of the British Parliament, Olukemi Olufunto Badenoch. The lawmaker, a Conservative Party member, served in Boris Johnson’s government as Minister of State for Levelling Up Communities and Minister of State for Equalities. A statement on Friday by Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide described Adegoke as a man of unquestionable character. Director of Communication, Maxwell Adeleye said he was resolute and committed towards the decommissioning of…
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Ekiti 2022: Bamidele, others lied, all aspirants participated – APC’s Badaru

Ekiti 2022: Bamidele, others lied, all aspirants participated – APC’s Badaru

The Chairman of the Ekiti State Governorship Primary Election Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abubakar Badaru has revealed that all the governorship aspirants participated in the just concluded primary election in the state. Badaru insisted that media reports alleging that the exercise was boycotted were untrue. There had been reports that seven aspirants expected to participate in Thursday’s governorship primary election of the party, boycotted the race over allegations of fraud and manipulation of the process in favour of the immediate past Secretary to the State Government, Biodun Oyebanji. Oyebanji who eventually won the primary election in Ekiti…
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