Elder statesman and convener of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Edwin Clark, has reacted to the resolutions between Rivers governor Sininalayi Fubara and FCT minister Nyesom Wike after a meeting with President Bola Tinubu. Fubara and Wike have been at loggerheads over the political control of Rivers State. Earlier, President Tinubu had intervened in…
An Abuja-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), Initiative for Leadership Development and Change (ILDC), has called on politicians to rally support for President Bola Tinubu to rebuild Nigeria. Ugochukwu Nnam, president of the group, made the call in an interview with journalists in Abuja on Saturday. Mr Nnam advised politicians to close ranks and support Mr Tinubu…
APC governorship candidate, Timipre Sylva, has replied to former president, Goodluck Jonathan over his comment on the outcome of the Bayelsa election Sylva said Jonathan’s statement is unfortunate but wants to believe the former president was misquoted. Jonathan during a visit to Governor Duoye Diri said he would have relocated his mother to Abuja had…
NOVEMBER 17, 2023 MY FELLOW LIBERIANS, DISTINGUISHED LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: I stand before you tonight with a grateful heart, but with the utmost respect for the democratic process that has defined our nation. As your President and the leader of the Coalition for Democratic Change, I want to address you on the outcome of the…
_The Strategist 30.08.23_ These days when I hear that popular chant around churches that “the devil and his agents” have planned this or planned that, I find myself wondering why devil and his cronies are not directing their evil at the west (Europe, North America, etc) Upon all the generational atrocities committed by the west…
The Presidency has slammed the former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar noting that it was his “inordinate ambition” to be President that is doomed, and not Nigeria. The presidency in a release on Monday noted that it advised Atiku that after over three decades of his “elusive bid for the Presidency of Nigeria, he must now…
The Ijaw National Congress (INC) has slammed the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, over his claim that he owns the political structure in Rivers State. In a statement signed on Friday by its President, Prof. Benjamin Ogele Okaba, the group posited that the political structure in Rivers should not and cannot…
The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos has upturned the unanimous decision of the tribunal and affirmed Amobi Godwin Ogah as Reps member representing Isuikwuato/Umunneochi Federal Constituency. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on February 27, declared Labour Party’s Ogah winner with 11769 votes against former Deputy Chief Whip who was gunning for a fifth…
The chamber of Rivers State House of Assembly has been set ablaze. The development comes amid rumour of the plan to impeach Governor Similanayi Fubara of Rivers State. From strong indications, SIM is tired of being controlled by Nyesom Wike. He has sacked Wike’s handpicked chief of staff and CSO. There was also a plot…
Kenneth Okonkwo, a Nigerian Actor, Lawyer, Columnist and Politician has replied to the purported petition written by the National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Ajibola Basiru, to the NBA against him for disagreeing with the judgement of the Supreme Court on the petition appeal of HE Peter Obi and the Labour Party. In…
