This xenophobia is not only applied against the Hausa-Fulani northerners or the Yoruba south-westerns but also their closest cousins, the Niger-Deltans. This approach is based on three exclusionist strategies of Igbonomics. First, the market and product, and indeed the value-chain must strictly remain an Igbo affair. Second, other regions’ markets, their products and value-chains must be proportionately…
In a dramatic twist, the national leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Saturday gave official recognition to a group working for the candidature of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, to succeed President Muhammadu Bihari come 2023. The VP’s supporters, under the name, Progressives Consolidation Group, have received approval of the APC leadership, through…
The suit, which challenges the legality of the Executive Order 10 and the widely accepted norm that states are to fund their courts, comes for hearing today. The Attorneys-General of the 36 states of the federation have filed a suit at the Supreme Court to challenge the legality of the Presidential Executive Order 10 issued…
Saturday 25th September 2021, was a leap year day in Anambra state. It was the day APGA, the ruling party in the state formally flagged-off its governorship campaign for the formal CBN Governor, Prof. Charles Chukwuma Soludo. As expected for such occasion, speakers after speakers poured encomiums on the former CBN boss praising him to…
~ BROUGHT TO YOU BY COALITION OF ENUGU STATE YOUTHS MANDATE. It is one thing for the Economic & Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC) to be an anti-graft agency in Nigeria, but it is also another thing altogether for such an agency to carry out its operations within the limits of due process, intelligence gathering,…
A fresh presidential campaign poster of Yahaya Bello, Governor of Kogi State, has emerged online. The poster has Bello as president and Femi Fani-Kayode, former Aviation Minister as his running mate. It was observed that the campaign poster has the All Progressives Congress logo engraved on it. The poster carried the message: “Yahaya and Femi…
Court which awarded N20 billion in damages against the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and the Department of State Services (DSS). The AGF, Mr Abubakar Malami (SAN), announced the decision of the Federal Government to appeal the judgment while speaking on the development in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja…
~ BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE LEADERSHIP OF ODENGENE PEOPLES MOVEMENT (OPM) “Lives of great men all remind usWe can make our lives sublime,And departing, leave behind usFootprints on the sands of Time.“ Henry Wordsworth Just give a retrospective consideration of the people we have encountered in the past who are not good examples of…
This happens most times and is either the celebrants take it back or people from the floor end up making use of it. Senator Shehu Sani as why we should keep having beverages, assorted drinks, groundnuts cashew nuts, and Kola-nuts on the high tables when we know well enough that these big men we brought…
*Describes action of states as satanic against Fulani age-long tradition ABUJA–FULANI cattle breeders in the country have appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Assembly to do anything possible to frustrate anti-open grazing laws being passed by some states across the country, describing the laws as satanic against their age-long tradition. The cattle breeders…
