I have had the privilege of high office and can state without equivocation that the office of the Nigerian president is one of the most powerful presidencies in the world with enormous powers, coercive and otherwise. The President is the Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces. He has ultimate control of the activities of the armed…
A Royal Court in Jersey, United States, ordered the return of looted funds totaling $8.9 million to Nigeria. Government officials diverted the funds that were earmarked for the purchase of arms for the military to prosecute the fight against Boko Haram insurgents during ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration in 2014. Ex-President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration prosecuted former…
The Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has said he regrets pleading with the former Chairman of the PDP in Rivers State, Felix Obuah and other governorship aspirants of the party to step down for Governor Siminalayi Fubara. Thisday reports that the former governor, who made this disclosure at a thanksgiving service organized…
President Bola Tinubu, on Monday, met with former President Olusegun Obasanjo, in Owerri, Imo State capital during the second-term inauguration of the state governor, Hope Uzodimma. Tinubu and Obasanjo were invited to grace the inauguration which was held at the Dan Anyiam Stadium, Owerri. That was the first public meeting of the two leaders after…
By Jake Clifford Led by Nyesom Wike, who is now the FCT Minister, the G5 had previously supported Tinubu’s candidacy in the 2023 election. G5 regroup in Port Harcourt, unveils plan to throw PDP under the bus again. The G5 group, a group of rebellious former governors from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has once…
Ortom made this known on Sunday at a luncheon hosted by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. The G5, a group of five then-governors within the PDP, rejected Atiku Abubakar as the party’s presidential candidate before the 2023 poll last February. The G5 include…
The camp of Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate in the 2023 election, has slammed the federal government’s suspension of degree certificate evaluation and accreditation from Benin Republic and Togo, calling it a “deceptive” move that ignores a bigger problem. Reacting to the suspension announced on Tuesday, January 2nd, Atiku’s spokesperson, Abdul…
Former Senator, Shehu Sani, has described President Bola Tinubu’s New Year speech as a native doctor’s words of hope to a sick person. Addressing the nation on Monday, Tinubu among other things, announced plans to ensure a constant supply of affordable food to Nigerians. According to him, his administration is working hard to alleviate the…
When one read the statement from the so-called Coalition of South East Youth Leaders, COSEYL, demanding Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, the governor of Anambra State, to step down due to his purported incapacity to address security concerns in the state, one was taken aback. The call was ostensibly in response to Thursday night’s vicious attack in…
By Ochogwu Sunday Amid the prolonged face-off with the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, the Rivers State governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has expressed readiness to give peace a chance. Recall that the governor and other stakeholders entered into an eight-point agreement in Abuja on Monday in a bid to end the political crisis…
