Project One Nigeria, an advocacy group said it has concluded arrangements to embark on sensitisation and enlightenment campaign for electorate to elect competent president that understand peculiarities of the nation ahead of 2023 general election. National Convener of ‘Project One Nigeria (PON), Nkem Anyata on Wednesday urged citizens irrespective of political and cultural differences to believe in one Nigeria, saying that unity was sacrosanct in achieving national visions. Anyata who was flanked by other national executives at the conference stated that the group held a national dialogue to discuss the future of Nigeria, particularly the 2023 general election.He said Nigerians…
Author: National Update
Governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on the platform of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) has joined the Kaduna state governor Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, to celebrate his 62nd birthday anniversary. In a statement signed Wednesday in Abuja by the Forum’s Chairman and Kebbi state governor Abubakar Atiku Bagudu, acknowledged and commended governor El-Rufai’s leadership, vision and commitment to a united prosperous Nigeria, under the leadership of APC. The APC governors, however reaffirmed their collective commitment to implement programmes that would strengthen the capacities of their progressive states to create jobs, reduce inequality and diminish poverty in Nigeria. The statement…
By Abel Daniel, Lafia The Sophisticated High-Networth & Excellent (SHE) Awards Global said it has concluded plans to celebrate business women to mark the 2022 women’s day celebration. This was disclosed in a statement issued to journalists by the Executive Director of the SHE, Ambassador Adeshola Onadipe, in Lafia. Onadipe in the statement added that SHE, therefore, deemed it fit to celebrate the amazing ladies and women in order to spur them to do more. The business women penciled down for the award on 12th March, 2022 in Dubai included Her Excellency Jewel Howard Taylor, Vice-President of the Republic of…
A presidential aspirant seeking to run on the platform of a unified coalition in 2023 Prince Adewole Adebayo, has narrated what a former military junta Ibrahim Babangida told him to include ensure Nigeria remains one indivisible entity. The aspirant who visited former military President in his hilltop country home in Minna on Tuesday said the man Nigerians loves to call maradona of Nigerian politics told him to ensure Nigeria’s democracy gets better after every election Speaking to newsmen after a closed door meeting with the former Nigerian leader, Adebayo said he got useful advice on his ambition how he must…
The Governorship candidate under the platform of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the 2019 gubernatorial election in Kogi State, Natasha Akpoti is ready to tie the nuptial knot with Alema of Warri Kingdom, Chief Emmanuel Uduaghan. The wedding which is billed to hold at her late father’s residence in Ihima is scheduled to take place on March 5, 2022.Akpoti a single mother of three also contested for the Kogi Central Senatorial election on the platform of SDP in 2019 but lost to Senator Yakubu Oseni of APC before later throwing her hat in the ring for the November 16,…
The Nigerian Police Force has uncovered the Identities of Two Drug kingpins working with Abba Kyari, the shamed police officer It was reported that the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, declared Kyari and 4 others wanted for bribing an officer of the agency with $61,000 to facilitate the release of seized cocaine for him to sell on the black market. The agency’s spokesperson Femi Babafemi, disclosed that Kyari was also caught on tape offering the bribe. “DCP Kyari is a member of a drug cartel that operates the Brazil-Ethiopia-Nigeria illicit drug pipeline” “The saga started on Friday, January 21, 2022, when…
Former Governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola has openly tackled his former leader, Ahmed Bola Tinubu, over who becomes the next governor of the state.Aregbesola, who is the current Minister of Interior, let out his bottled up anger in Ijebu Ijesa while addressing the All Progressives Congress, (APC) faithful and stakeholders ahead of the party’s governorship primary.Aregbesola, in his address described the incumbent Governor and his successor, Gboyega Oyetola, as the most “useless and corrupt governor in the history of the state.”The minister specifically declared that Oyetola would not be allowed to return for a second term in office in…
President Muhammadu Buhari has requested the senate for an additional provision for N2.557 trillion naira be appropriated by the National Assembly to fund the petrol subsidy in the 2022 Budget Framework which was revised to provide fully for PMS subsidy. The Federal Government had soft-pedal on its initial plan to remove subsidy on petroleum products saying it was clear to even the blind and audible to the deaf that the situation of the country does not allow for that at the moment.In seeking for a soft landing based on the outcry from Nigerians the minister of Petroleum Resources Timipre Sylva and his counterpart in…
A Judge of the High Court of Kogi State, Justice Alaba Omolaye-Ajileye, has called on Heads of Courts in Nigeria to amend the rules of their courts to give room for the inclusion of electronic discovery (e-discovery).Omolaye-Ajileye made the call in a paper delivered at a specialized training for prosecutors of environmental offences jointly organized by the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS) and the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA).In his paper captioned: “Digital Evidence and E-Discovery in Prosecuting Environmental Cases”, Justice Omolaye-Ajileye stressed the importance of electronic discovery in litigations involving electronically-stored information (ESI) in…
By Olubunmi OmoogunSome Senators in the 9th Nigerian Senate are making great and outstanding marks. They are leaving indelible legislative imprints. Some of them are continuously and genuinely using legislative instruments such as Bills to reverse the socio-economic problems and challenges in their Senatorial Districts.One of the upwardly mobile Senators championing the good causes for their people is a first-time Senator representing Ogun West Senatorial District, Sen. Tolu Odebiyi.Interestingly and sadly, Nigeria has been serially let down by leaders who do not work for the common good of their people. They lack the prowess to do so.Sen. Tolu Odebiyi like…