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Tuesday, 13 December 2022 05:53

Who; me, Senate? Never! - El- Rufai

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has explained why he would never contest election to the Senate to become a lawmaker like some of his colleagues in the country. He said he does not have the patience to function in that capacity, adding that a lawmaker requires hard work, unlike the executive where decisions could be taken with the right to hire and fire. El-Rufai spoke at the Distinguished Parliamentarians Lecture 2022 organised by the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS) in Abuja on Monday. He was the Chairman of the event. “The legislature is one I know…

Tuesday, 13 December 2022 05:51

Southwest group calls for parley with presidential candidates

PRESS RELEASE South West Development Stakeholders Forum, comprising civil society organisations, professionals, and religious leaders met on Thursday, 8th December 2022. The Forum called for a parley with presidential candidates of major political parties as soon as possible, in Ibadan, Oyo State. The Southwest is the industrial and commercial engine room of Nigeria. All indexes clearly show that the Nigerian economy is driven by economic activities in the Southwest of Nigeria. Given its growing population of more than 50 million residents, its historical trajectory as the commercial nerve centre of Nigeria, its strategic political importance, and huge potential in driving…

Saturday, 10 December 2022 05:57

Emefiele using CBN’s cashless policy to punish politicians in retaliation for failed political moves - Adamawa gov

Governor of Adamawa State, Ahmadu Fintiri, has accused Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele, of targeting the political class with the cash withdrawal limit policy unveiled by the apex bank on Tuesday. Controversies have continued to trail the planned policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria to limit daily cash withdrawal for individuals to N20,000 daily and N100,000 and N500,000 per week for individuals and corporate bodies respectively. But Governor Fintiri, who was reacting to the new CBN policy during a campaign engagement in Kala’a, Hong Local Government Area, said it was evident that the policy by Emefiele was targeted at…

Wednesday, 07 December 2022 04:15

2023: ‘We’ll not allow anyone to use money and thugs to intimidate the people’ - Buhari

Federal government will not allow intimidation to gain votes in next February's presidential election, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Tuesday. Nigerians will head to the polls on Feb. 25 to select a successor to Buhari, who cannot run because the constitution does not permit him to serve more than two consecutive terms. Bola Tinubu from Buhari's ruling All Progressives Congress party, main opposition People's Democratic Party's Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi from the smaller Labour Party are the main contenders. Past elections have been marred by deadly violence and intimidation, ballot snatching, vote buying and allegations of rigging, which have…

Tuesday, 06 December 2022 05:40

Tinubu asks El-Rufai, others to answer questions posed to him at Chatham House

The electioneering of the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, took an intriguing twist on Monday at the Chatham House in London as he delegated some members of the party to respond to questions posed to him. Tinubu was in Chatham House to speak to Nigerians in the Diaspora on why he should be elected in 2023. After his presentation which was livestreamed on Arise TV, some members of the audience asked him some questions bordering on insecurity, oil theft, education and economy and how he planned to address crises in those areas if he became…

Saturday, 03 December 2022 05:56

INEC announces dates, locations for collection of PVCs

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed dates for prospective voters to collect their permanent voter cards (PVC). In a statement on Friday, Festus Okoye, INEC’s national commissioner and chairman, information and voter education committee, said the commission met on Thursday and deliberated on a number of issues, including the dates for PVC collection. Okoye said the commission has fixed December 12, 2022 to January 22, 2023 as the dates for the collection of PVCs in all the 774 LGAs. He added that all valid registrants can collect their PVCs from 9am to 3pm daily — including Saturdays and Sundays.…

Thursday, 01 December 2022 06:09

Saudi palace coup: Inside details of how Crown Prince MBS rose to power

The Saudi prince was detained all night. As daylight broke, he staggered out of the king’s palace in Mecca. His personal bodyguards, who tailed him everywhere, were missing. The prince was led to a waiting car. He was free to leave – but he would soon discover that freedom was not very different from detention. As his car pulled out of the palace gates, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef fired off a series of panicked text messages. “Be very careful! Don’t come back!” he wrote to his most trusted adviser, who had quietly slipped out of the kingdom just weeks earlier.…

Tuesday, 29 November 2022 06:03

Osun Assembly pushes back against Adeleke, says new gov can’t change state’s name

Osun state house of assembly says the state will continue to be referred to as ‘state of Osun’ as against ‘Osun state’. The development was announced on Monday in a statement by Kunle Akande, the house committee chairman on media and publicity. In his inauguration speech on Sunday, Ademola Adeleke, the Osun governor, ordered an immediate reversal to ‘Osun state’ instead of ‘state of Osun’, which was adopted during the Rauf Aregbesola administration. Speaking on the development, the Osun assembly said the adoption of ‘state of Osun’ is “a matter of law”. “The usage of the state anthem, crest and…

Tuesday, 29 November 2022 06:02

Senate president Lawan remains out of 2023 Yobe senatorial contest as Appeal Court affirms Machina

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has affirmed the nomination of Bashir Sheriff Machina as the authentic candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Yobe North Senatorial District. A three-member panel led by Monica Dagban-Mensah on Monday upheld the judgment of the Federal High Court in Damaturu, which had earlier upheld Machina’s nomination. The appellate court observed that the APC argued its case and that of Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, in its brief, but failed to make him a co-appellant, instead of being the 2nd respondent. Lawan, who lost the APC presidential primary to a former Lagos governor, Bola…

Tuesday, 29 November 2022 06:01

Appeal Court reinstates Adebutu, others as Ogun PDP candidates for 2023 elections

The Court of Appeal in Ibadan, Oyo State has reinstated Oladipupo Adebutu as the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State. The court also reinstated the three senatorial candidates, nine House of Representatives and 26 House of Assembly candidates, who all emerged from the party’s primaries. It would be recalled that O. O. Oguntoyinbo of the Federal High Court Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, had on September 27, declared the primaries that produced Adebutu and other PDP candidates invalid. The court ordered the party to conduct fresh primaries within 14 days. Adebutu and the PDP, however,…

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Monday, 28 November 2022 06:12

Reversal of state’s name, freezing of accounts, first appointments - these are the first acts of Ademola Adeleke as Osun gov

The newly inaugurated Governor of Osun State, Ademola Adeleke, has frozen all government accounts in the state. Adeleke directed this in his first executive order upon inauguration on Sunday. Adeleke, in his speech delivered at the inauguration, alleged that the erstwhile governor of the state, Adegboyega Oyetola, carried out some actions “maliciously” after he (Adeleke) won the July 16 governorship election, including “hurried” employments without provisions to sustain them. He claimed these actions were roadblocks channeled at making things difficult for his administration. Adeleke also reversed the state name from ‘State of Osun’ to ‘Osun State’, saying the former was…

Monday, 28 November 2022 06:11

Despite not borrowing a dime, I left N14bn cash for the new Osun govt - Oyetola

Immediate past Governor of Osun State, Adegboyega Oyetola has disclosed that his administration is leaving behind for the incoming government a total sum of N14billion cash in the State’s coffers. Oyetola also revealed that his government had successfully paid N97billion from the total debt inherited in 2018 when he assumed office. He disclosed that his administration didn’t borrow a dime anywhere in the world to finance the economy of the State, saying he successfully kept faith and maintained fidelity with his electoral promises since the assumption of office. The former Governor made the disclosure in his farewell statement to the…

Friday, 25 November 2022 06:12

Oyetola appoints 30 permanent secretaries 3 days to handover

Governor Adegboyega Oyetola of Osun State on Thursday approved the appointment of Permanent Secretaries to fill existing vacancies in the State Civil Service. The top government officials have occupied the positions of Coordinating Directors of their various ministries awaiting their appointment into the position of PS. Head of Service, Festus Olowogboyega Oyebade, in a memo announced the appointment of the new Permanent Secretary on behalf of the state government. But the Governor-elect, Ademola Adeleke, threatened to sack them when he takes over two days from now. Adeleke, who spoke through his media aide, Olawale Rasheed, warned the officials that they…

Tuesday, 22 November 2022 10:56

Who’ll win 2023 presidential election? The survey reported here gives you a hint

A policy think tank, Nextier, has revealed in a survey that the South-West has been recognised as the battleground for major presidential contenders from various parties in the 2023 presidential election. The independent survey was carried out among registered voters in rural communities across the country. The study, which our correspondent saw on Monday, was a face-to-face poll of registered voters in rural communities across 12 Nigerian states. Rural communities were characterised in the study as local government areas with no tertiary educational institutions. The survey team conducted the polls in two states in each of the six geopolitical zones…

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