The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike was conspicuously absent on Wednesday as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) inaugurated its campaign council for the July 16 Osun State governorship election.This development occurs at a time there are suggestions Wike may not be on good terms with the party leadership after losing out on the 2023 PDP presidential ticket to Atiku Abubakar and…
Vladimir Putin has been running the table on Donald Trump and the US. Ultimately, however, it is Trump’s own aberrant – and increasingly abhorrent – presidency that is generating the most danger, not least by offering Putin more opportunities to engage in adventurism and degrade US power. NEW YORK – At a summit with US…
THE NIGERIAN IDEAL My Fellow Citizens, I stand before you honoured to assume the sacred mandate you have given me. My love for this nation is abiding. My confidence in its people, unwavering. And my faith in God Almighty, absolute. I know that His hand shall provide the needed moral strength and clarity of purpose…
The team from Morehouse College comprising students who are Black Americans and their teachers, led by the Public Affairs Officer, US Consulate General, Lagos, Stephen Ibelli, was in Enugu State during the weekend for the concert, where they separately and jointly staged captivating, nostalgic, thrilling and heartwarming renditions in American, African and Igbo languages, with…
I heard the APC governorship candidate Senator Ovie Omo-Agege made former minister Orubebe his campaign Council Director General. The APC in Delta just added to their existing failure by making someone who is not a grassroot politician Director General of their campaign council. You can imagine a situation where a product is not sellable and…
In a shocking and unprecedented move, Nigerian Justice Boloukuoromo M. Ugo has resigned from the bench, citing demands from the executive branch that he believes would destroy the country’s democracy. In a statement, Justice Ugo said that siding with the government on this matter would be the ‘death of Nigeria’s democracy’, and that he…
By Humphrey Onyima Long before the expiration of his eight-year tenure in office, opinions about the successor of Governor Tanko Al-Makura have set the polity abuzz with calculations and postulations. While politicians in the state are gearing for the tough duel ahead and getting set to own huge swaths of the state, indicators have emerged…
One of the criminals that escaped from the Kuje Medium Security Centre has met his waterloo in Ogun State. Recall that the Kuje correctional centre in Abuja was attacked last week Tuesday by terrorists suspected to be members of the dreaded Boko Haram/ISWAP group. The terrorists are said to have escaped with their members while they also…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that it is yet to zone its presidential ticket for the 2023 general elections. The PDP in a statement yesterday signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, described claims by certain persons that the presidential ticket has been zoned to a particular section of the country as misleading….
The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Enugu State, Dr. Peter Ndubuishi Mbah, has been commended for his dynamic, robust and progressive programmes and agenda for the people of Enugu State in 2023 if elected governor. This was even as the gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state,…
