From Jude Chinedu, Enugu A former member of Enugu State House of Assembly, Chief Obinna Okenwa, alongside 3,000 of his supporters have dumped the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC). Among the decamping PDP members who complained of injustices within the party was a former chairman of Enugu South Local Government…
Shehu Sani Speaks Shehu Sani, former senator representing Kaduna central, says the solution to the crisis between farmers and herders in the south-west is the setting up of grazing reserves and agro-allied industries in the north. Speaking on Arise Television on Friday, Sani said it is not possible for herders to move around with cattle…
Buhari Cries Out Again President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday placed the country on notice over what he described as a plan to launch a smear campaign against him in the media. President Buhari, who gave the heads-up in a statement in Abuja by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, alleged that people stoking ethnic…
Police REFORM: Force devolves power to CPs, DPOs to take directives from govs, LG chairmen as Decentralisation of Police Tactical Operations Begin. Commissioners of Police (CPs) in state commands and divisional police officers (DPOs) have been invested with more powers in discharging their responsibilities, the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Adamu, announced yesterday. Adamu, during…
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 on sacrificing…
It was the philosophical Soren Kokegarde who said “an individual is the substance in a human person”. Suffice it to say that the term ‘personality’ can actually be defined as the characteristic sets of behaviours, cognitions and emotional patterns that evolve from biological and environmental factors. Even psychology, as a discipline, has boldly attempted…
Upon his assumption of office for the second term, Dr. Kayode Fayemi directed the abolition of education levies in public and private schools which was put in place by the Fayose administration. Besides this, Fayemi ensured the resuscitation of Gossi water which had been left unattended to by the previous administration. Not only that, the…
He was not the governor they wanted, they said; they would give anything to have Ambode back, they said. But the people of Lagos have come to fall in love with the soft-spoken Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who promised to “love the people the way they want to be loved and not the way you want…
Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has made agriculture a priority for the state he administers. His administration’s agricultural agenda centres around six (6) key strategic pillars – food security and support to small-holder farmers, job creation through agricultural value chain opportunities, nutrition and food safety through the promotion of cultivation, consumption and business in…
Following its clinching of a second term mandate, the administration of Ondo State governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, embarked on a number of moves, as if to show gratitude to the people of the state for bestowing so much trust in his administration. Besides embarking on a mission to renew the allure in the state’s cities,…
