Professor Natufe led National Executive Council of the Okpe Union has asked the Corporate Affairs Commission and any other organization to stop forthwith any dealings with some persons led by one Prof. Emurobome Idolor on any matter that concerns Okpe UnionThis was contained in a statement that was signed by the President General and the General Secretary, professor Igho Natufe and Akpederin Kingsley E. respectively.The statement reads,”The attention of the Okpe Union NEC has been drawn to the alleged dealing by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) with some persons led by one Prof. Emurobome Idolor who are unknown to and…
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We have always put out our views on the issue of the debate about zoning propagated by some persons who are scared of contesting in a free and fair election. Our position has always been that there is no binding and valid agreement on zoning implemented at any election period in the history of Bayelsa West. Our views are out there in the public domain and we know that have majority of the people in alignment with us. Only a tiny minority who are either afraid of contesting elections are supporting these mischief makers screaming zoning for their selfish political…
A leading aspirant for the position of National Youth Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Hon. Blessing Agbomhere, has promised to mobilise 30 million youths for the ruling party at the 2023 general elections if elected at the forthcoming national convention. Agbomhere also expressed optimism that the APC would not make the same mistake the PDP made in electing an inexperienced person as their national youth leader. Hon. Agbomhere, who had contested APC ticket for Edo state governorship and House of Representatives, told newsmen during his official declaration Thursday in Abuja, that his intention to run for the office…
The Managing Director of Assets Management Company of Nigeria, Mr Ahmed Kuru is cooling his heels at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) custody following his arrest.It was gathered that the anti-graft agency apprehended him on Wednesday based on allegations ofdiversion and sales of seized assets to cronies at below value prices by businessmen accused of loan default with banks. The arrest is sequel to last minute arrangements by the AMCON to release list of Bank loan defaulters which the debtors have been put on notice severally. But some Bank defaulters were said to have petitioned the Economic and…
By Daniel Abogonye, Lafia The Nasarawa State chapter of the National Youth Council of Nigeria, (NYCN), is currently facing leadership crisis following the removal of its chairman, Comrade Idris Ojoko and his deputy, Muhammed Atose from office. The NYCN state executive council at its meeting in Lafia, passed a vote of no confidence on the embattled chairman for gross misconduct, while his deputy, Atose, was relieved of his position to enable him face the responsibilities of his new place of work. In a communique issued at the end of a state management committee meeting of the Youth Council, the group…
For violating the rights of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nndi Kanu a High Court in Umuahia, Abia State, on Wednesday ordered the Nigeria Government to pay him the sum of N1 billion The presiding Judge Benson Anya described the invasion of Kanu’s Afaraukwu residence as notorious and brazen. He also ordered the Nigerian Government to issue a public apology to the IPOB leader in three national dailies and advised that a political resolution be adopted in resolving Kanu’s case. Kanu in a suit filed through his counsel, Aloy Ejimakorm accused the government and Abubakar Malami,…
By Tunde Olusunle If I were to encounter Tunde Ipinmisho, retired general manager in-charge of public communication at the Federal Housing Authority, (FHA) or Hakeem Bello, longserving media adviser to Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, former governor of Lagos State and incumbent minister of works and housing, in your presence, I would most certainly be hailed by them with the same alias they have both known me with, for almost four decades now. We all worked as journalists, colleagues, good friends and brothers in the primordial Daily Times of Nigeria Plc, (DTN). Those were good old days, when the profession was…
Renowned journalist and respected columnist, Mahmud Jega deviated from the norm in his write up titled, “In Zamfara, everyone is a bandit sponsor?” which appeared in a very promising online newspaper, 21st Century Chronicle recently. In the article which was no doubt a veiled reply to the recent briefing by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Zamfara State, the veteran journalist stepped down from the high pedestal his many years of handiwork placed him when he opted to take sides in the political imbroglio in the sate. The press conference was a reaction to an earlier one organised by the…
Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has commiserated with his Sokoto State counterpart, Aminu Tambuwal over the death of his elder brother, Mohammed Bello. According to the family, the octogenarian died on Tuesday evening and was buried according to Islamic rites on Wednesday morning. The Kogi Governor, however, described the death of Bello, who held the Waziri Tambuwal title until his death, as painful, noting that the people of Sokoto and humanity at large will miss his wise counsel. Being the eldest in the family, Bello succeeded their late father, Alhaji Umaru Waziri Usman, as Waziri 37 years ago. “It…
We at the Zamfara state office of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are highly surprised over the claim by some certain group that there exist two factions of our great party in the state with each aligning itself to the two former political leaders of ex-governor Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar and former Senator Kabiru Garba Marafa. Most worrisome is when these claimants begin to assert frivolities against the party leadership and government in the state, especially over the contradictory alleged attack on one Shamsu Kasida whose said attack came under two versions. That he was attacked as the victim and that he…