**Politicians have lost conscience, no place for fairness, equity says Okwadike The Nigerian electorate must assume responsibilities in their quest for good governance by transforming to be the change they want to see, director of Information and strategy, Citizens International Accountability Network (CIAN) Dr. Cadyfidel Onwuraokoye has charged. He spoke during a keynote address presented at the unveiling of the book, ‘Nigeria’s Next President’ on Friday in Abuja at the Nicon Luxury Hotel. He said to achieve the desired participatory change in the polity, Nigerian electorates must first see themselves as critical partners in reordering the faulty leadership recruitment process;…
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*** ‘We will shock those who take us for granted’ National chairman, New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) Professor Rufai Ahmad Alkali has distanced the party from the zoning controversy that has been rocking the two foremost political Parties. Speaking on Saturday during a press conference held at the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja he said, “This party is going beyond the issue of zoning, we want to carry everybody along so what we are going to have, we will have inclusive Government” He said they have inaugurated a committee two days earlier to fashion out the mechanisms that will make…
Senator representing Ondo North Senatorial district, Robert Ajayi Boroffice has promised to tackle the scourge of insurgency head on with the deployment of high technology for security operations. Speaking on Saturday when he formally declared his ambition to contest the 2023 presidential election at the Nicon Luxury Hotel in Abuja he said will sponsor specialised training for counter-insurgency units in security agencies in order to hunt and destroy terrorists in the country. Addressing a mammoth crowd of supporters in Abuja he said, the scourge of kidnapping will be tackled by the special unit by tracking, hunting and destroying kidnapping rings. …
From Naseer Mijinyawa Minna For openly declaring support for Governor Abubakar Sani Bello’s senatorial ambition, aspirants seeking various political positions under the platform of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) have called on the party chairman Alhaji Haliru Zakari Jikantoro to resign. They have expressed doubt over the chairman’s ability to preside over a free, fair and credible primary elections of the party.The fear of the Aspirants who are now calling for his immediate resignation, followed h His open support for the state Governor’s senatorial ambition was captured in a trending video on social media.The Chairman had in the trending…
**As party resort to witch hunt through proxy allegations against council chairmen In an attempt to take control over party’s delegates at the Local Government level ahead of the forthcoming convention by the Governor Muhammad Badaru led Government, some Local Council chairmen in Jigawa State have been accused of Financial Misconduct. The House of Assembly it was gathered has become a pawn in the political chess game of the APC led Government in the State.Opposition is already mounting ahead of the primary election against some of the strange decisions The Chairman of Yankwashi Local Government council, Mubarak Ahmad, is on…
Apparently piqued by the endorsement of Nasiru Gawuna and Murtala Sule Garo for governor and deputy governor respectively by the All Progressive Congress (APC), former aide to President Muhammadu Buhari on National Assembly matters, Abdurrahman Kawu Sumaila, has dumped the party Kawu Sumaila, who is also a former member of the House of Representatives for Sumaila/Takai Constituency in Kano state, said he has done his best for the party and that it was time for him to leave. On a Facebook post on Thursday, he said, “All praises are due to Almighty God. My stay in the All Progressive Congress…
***Buhari summons Shekarau, Ganduje Senator Ibrahim Shekara has become a beautiful bride with many suitors besieging her house to woo her.Moments after Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State stormed the house of Shekarau who has been engaged in a bitter tussle for the soul of the APC with Ganduje, another political gladiator and national leader of the NNPP Rabiu Kwankwaso also came calling through a delegationKwankwaso, who has been waiting with bathed breadth hoping to welcome Shekarau into NNPP on Saturday However, Ganduje will not take that lying despite his rivalry with Shekarau, hence he visited the Mundubawa Kano…
Governor Umar Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has visited former Governor of the State, Ibrahim Shekarau to dissuade him from dumping the All Progressive Congress (APC) The visit is coming against the backdrop of speculation in some quarters that Senator Shekarau was planning to join the New Nigeria People’s Party, (NNPP).Aggrieved Shekarau recently lost out in the legal tussle with Ganduje over the leadership of the APC in the State.The Kano Governor is said to be panic stricken over the new possibility of a political understanding between Kwankwaso and Shekarau two former Governors of the State.Shekarau was said to have…
The Federal Government has appointed ex-Team Nigeria Captain and national long jump record holder Yusuf Ali as the Coordinator of Team Nigeria to the 2022 Commonwealth Games in BirminghamUnited Kingdom, scheduled to hold from July 28 to August 8, 2022 The appointment of Ali who is also the Chairman of the Edo State Sports Commission, was announced by the Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Mr. Sunday Dare on Friday in his office at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja.Director Press and Public Relations Mohammed Manga quoted the minister to have described the choice of Ali as being borne out…
Having come to terms with the enormity of the bottlenecks in the power sector, Senate committee on Power has asked the Federal Government to reverse its decision to withdraw subsidy intervention for the power sector This was coming just as the Federal Government was looking forward to ending tariff shortfall, averaging N200 billion yearly, in the power sector by the end of the year. Between 2015 and 2020, the shortfall reportedly stood at about N2.4 trillion, averaging N200 billion yearly. The shortfall accrued from suppressed charges for electricity consumption. However the committee chairman of Senator Gabriel Suswam during an interface…