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The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has said those from the Northern part of the country don’t need candidates from the South during the 2023 elections. Atiku stated this while responding to a question posed to him by the spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, during an Interactive Session With Arewa Joint Committee held on Saturday in Kaduna State. According to him, Northerners need to vote for him rather than a Yoruba or Igbo candidate because he’s a Pan-Nigerian with a northern extraction. When Baba-Ahmed asked Atiku why Northerners should vote for…
The former Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has warmed Nigerians not to vote for any politician who claims that everything will be easy once elected. Speaking on Saturday at the closing ceremony of the 7th edition of the Kaduna Economic and Investment Summit, the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said politicians must prepare the minds of citizens for tough decisions. “Please let me request from our politicians. You must prepare the minds of Nigerians for difficult decisions,” he said. “Anybody who tells you that it is going to be easy, please don’t vote for him.…
•Opposition Party Vows to Upturn Outcome Mixed reactions greeted Osun State Local Government election on Saturday as the ruling Governor and the opposition party shared opposing views over the exercise. While Governor Gboyega Oyetola who voted in his Iragbiji home town described the exercise as rancor-free, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party said the election is a sham. The PDP said it will overturn the result and remove whoever emerge as council officials from the election. The PDP and other parties had stayed away from the process on Saturday leaving only members of the All Progressive Congress going to the polling…
By Olawale Rasheed History is replete with judges who shaped their days and nations, judicial officials who imprinted their footprints in front pages of national archives. In uncertain times, the nation needs an activist reformer, a man ready to crusade for a transformative judiciary, issuing federalist corrective landmark rulings, focussing on unanimity in apex court decisions and deploying the bench as a weapon of national restructuring. Is Justice Olukayode Emmanuel Ariwoola that man to remake the judiciary for this sacred national tasks? Bernard Schwartzt in his “Supreme Court Superstars: The Ten”, listed John Marshall, Joseph Story, Roger Brooke Taney ,…
Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 39 year-old man, identified as Mfon Jeremiah for impregnating his 13 year-old daughter in Mowe area of Ogun state. The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi revealed in a statement that Jeremiah who is a resident of FIRRO Estate, Off Adesan Mowe was arrested following a report lodged by the mother of the victim at the Mowe Police Divisional Headquarters Oyeyemi stated, that the victim’s mother said she discovered that her daughter was pregnant and when she confronted the teenage girl to reveal the man responsible for…
Nigeria’s Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige Says Striking Varsity Teachers Pushed Government to the Wall, forcing it to Seek Protection Under the Trade Dispute Law by Dragging the Union Before Industrial Court A day after the Academic Staff Union of Universities ended their eight month old strike, the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chris Ngige has said that the union pushed the government to invoke the Trade Dispute Act by dragging it to the National Industrial Court. This was just as he thanked Speaker of the House of Representatives Femi Gbajabiamila, Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, the former…
The Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed has on Friday, pardoned 153 inmates with minor offences, serving various jail terms at different correctional facilities in the state. Speaking at the executive pardon ceremony, the governor said this was carried out after due consultations with the state Council on the Prerogative of Mercy. Mohammed said that each of the 153 inmates would be given the sum of N50,000, amounting to N7.6 million as capital which he stated will aid them start up small businesses at their various communities. “We are providing each and every freed inmate the sum of N50,000 to start…
Trapped in its own internal war, the PDP Moves to Placate those forces within that make its 2023 ambitions almost doomed The Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has asked the party’s National Chairman, Sen. Iyorchia Ayu to assure members that he would resign his position after the 2023 general elections. The BoT acting Chairman, Sen. Adophus Wabara, disclosed this in a communiqué after the board’s reconciliation committee submitted its report to the BOT members on Friday in Abuja. Wabara, who read the communique, called on the Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar, to review his appointments of…
Liz Truss is facing a backlash from Conservative MPs after firing her chancellor and announcing a second U-turn on a major economic policy. One former minister told the BBC, “we cannot go on like this indefinitely”. Another Tory MP said the party was in a “state of despair” after the PM’s Downing Street news conference. Truss supporter Christopher Chope said “time will tell” if she had done enough to secure her position, calling those plotting to remove her “hyenas”. Sir Christopher said: “We can’t possibly force another prime minister out of office, we’ve just got to calm down and try…
At least 28 people have died and dozens remain trapped underground after an explosion in a coal mine in northern Turkey’s Bartin province. Around 110 people were in the mine at the time of the blast on Friday, almost half of them at over 300 metres deep. Turkey’s health minister Fahrettin Koca said 11 people had been rescued and were being treated. Emergency crews worked through the night, digging through rock to try to reach more survivors. Video footage shows miners emerging blackened and bleary-eyed accompanied by rescuers at the facility in Amasra, on the Black Sea coast. The family…