A leading Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere has lambasted Muhammadu Buhari, describing the Nigerian President as an unrepentant tribalist Afenifere noted that Buhari’s interview on Arise Television on Thursday was full of lies, inconsistencies, contradictions and utter disrespect for other ethnic nationalities. The group’s Secretary General, Chief Sola Ebiseni said this in a statement in Akure,…
The South-East Governors’ Forum had on August 31, 2019, appointed Gen. Umahi as the chairman security committee. The committee was charged to draft a framework for the establishment of a South-East joint security outfit to cater to the security needs of the zone. Our correspondent gathered that infighting among the South-East governors delayed the launch…
President Muhammadu Buhari is in the process of declaring a state of emergency across the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Peoples Gazette can report based on a secret memo and official accounts, as the administration scrambles to waggle its way out of acute insecurity and the encumbrances of constitutional provisions. Attorney-General Abubakar Malami has already written…
The gunmen in a video shared by BarristerNG on Twitter revealed how the former judge was dragged out of his car by three assailants and shot three times. Justice Nnaji was a Judge of the Enugu State High Court until he was dismissed following his role in the removal of Governor Chris Ngige, the then…
The Northern Youth Council of Nigeria, NYCN, has called on Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State, to immediately bring the killer(s) of the ex-aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Ahmad Gulak, to justice. The youths threatened to declare Governor Uzodinma persona non grata in the entire northern soil. A statement from its National President, Isah…
– By Humphrey Onyima During his campaign round the local governments of Enugu State circa 2014, the man then known as Rt. Honourable Ugwuanyi, member representing Igboeze North and Udenu Federal Constituency, was about to enter a social contract with the people of Enugu. Many wrote him off, others liked his courage. He emerged his…
The House of Representatives ad hoc committee on investigation of recovered loots and assets of government, yesterday, heard how the Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, transferred N20 billion to the Ministry of Defence without due process. According to findings by the committee, which is chaired by Adesogun Adejoru, Idris also transferred another N20…
Until June 6, 2018 when the President Buhari-led administration declared June 12 as the new Democracy Day, Nigeria commemorated the restoration of Democracy on the 29th of May, every year. That day celebrates the solemn and remarkable rebirth of our participatory leadership, to honour the courageous heroes who altruistically championed and chaperoned the noble course…
The National Association of Seadogs, NAS, on Sunday in a statement has described the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami as “unfit to remain AGF” over his comment which compared selling of spare parts in northern Nigeria to open grazing of cattle in southern Nigeria. NAF also described the…
By Onuorah Ndubuisi Godwin In the sanctity of the sacred journey towards posterity, in the furnace of refinement to reshape and fine-tune societal political orientation towards egalitarian political society, there certainly must be true believers. In his book The True Believer, Eric Hoffer said: “the True Believer is the mortal enemy of things-as-they are and he insists…
