Month: June 2022

BREAKING: Wike emerges Atiku Abubakar’s running mate

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Rivers State Governor Barr Nyesom Wike has defeated his Delta State Counterpart Governor Ifeanyi Okowa to emerge the running mate to the Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Alhaji Atiku Abubakar .   Sources at the National Headquarters of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) confirmed that the committee set up by the PDP to pick Atiku Abubakar’s running mate picked Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike, over Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State   Governor Wike won by a whopping 16-3 votes and Governor Ifeanyi Okowa got only got…

Malabu: Nigeria loses $1.7 billion JP Morgan case

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Nigeria on Tuesday lost its $1.7 billion claim against JP Morgan Chase Bank over the transfer of proceeds from the sale of OPL 245 in the controversial Malabu oil deal.   Judge Sara Cockerill ruled Tuesday that the Nigerian government couldn’t show that it had been defrauded in the case.   In the suit, Nigeria is claiming more than $1.7 billion for the bank’s role in the controversial deal. Nigeria also alleges that JP Morgan was “grossly negligent” in its decision to transfer funds paid by oil giants Shell and…

APC loses two Senators to opposition party, PDP … As Abaribe set to resign as Minority Leader Wednesday

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Two prominent members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senate Majority Leader, Yahaya Abdullahi, and Adamu Aliero, have officially defected to the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP). Also to defect formally tomorrow, Wednesday, is the Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, whose defection to the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and exit as Minority Leader was deferred as a result of the inability of the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, to come with his defection and resignation letter to plenary. Although an announcement to that effect was made by Senate President Lawan, it…

Nigeria’s ICT Industry Growing in Leaps and Bounds,says Pantami ….. As active mobile lines cross 200 million mark ….. Broadband penetration hits 42.79%

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The Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, has told the global digital community that Nigeria has been witnessing phenomenal growth in its Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry, thus enabling socio-economic development in Nigeria and across the African continent.   Pantami stated this at a tea break hosted by Nigeria on the sideline of the 2022 International Telecommunication Union’s World Telecommunications Development Conference (ITU-WTDC) which started in Kigali Rwanda on Wednesday, June 8, 2022. The tea break was attended by senior officials of the…

THE REAL REASON APC NORTH WANT MUSLIM-MUSLIM TICKET By Law Mefor

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It was Mallam Nasir El Rufai who once observed that the real problem with Nigeria is impunity, not corruption. Of course, he was right that the brazen corruption and primitive accumulation rocking the nation today, which require psychiatric evaluation, is borne out of impunity and callous disregard for civilised conduct and integrity.   What is more, the said impunity is breeding and transmogrifying into other worse conditions in Nigeria, and one of them is trampling on the religious rights of Nigerians, manifest in the idea of the Muslim-Muslim ticket, which…

With a northern Christian, Tinubu can win election! By Haruspice

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So, as a northern Muslim, before you vote for a candidate, he must be a Muslim? I don’t understand! When has being a Muslim become a criterion for good governance? Being religious does not equal credible leadership; it only oils your relationship with the Almighty God and not necessarily a determinant of your political or economic decision. If you love Asiwaju Tinubu, your love should be enough to be blind to other assumed shortcomings- be more Islamic by being fair to other feelings, that is the creed upon which Islam…

One Year of Transformational Leadership of Imaan Suleiman-ibrahim At Refugees Commission. By ABUBAKAR YUSUF.

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.Honourable Federal Commissioner HFC National Commission for Refugees Migrants and internally Displaced Persons NCFRMI, Hajiya Imaan- Suleiman-ibrahim was appointed in June last year precisely in 2021, after her redeployment from National Agency for the Prohibitions of Trafficking in Persons NAPTIP after six months stint in the organization.   Imaan known as ‘Mrs Reformer’ for few months carried out a wholistic template on her intention to repositioned the moribund agency before his redeployment to NCFRMI.   Even at that, few months at the mantle of leadership in NAPTIP, aside her passion…

33 Nigerian players set to sign professional contracts with European clubs

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As the five-Day Ejike Ugboaja FC scouting programme ended in Abuja over the weekend, 33 young Nigerian players have been selected by the Scouts to earn professional contracts from their respective clubs in Europe.   The 33 players with 19 from Ejike Ugboaja FC were selected after a five-day intensive screening programme which attracted five European Scouts.   The players selected after the five-Day programme include; Gabriel Abu Gaiya (EUFC) , Philip Segun, (EUFC) Eke Victor Elvis, (EUFC) Joseph Lelachukwu, (EUFC) Joel Ezra (EUFC) Ibrahim Hussaini,.(EUFC) , Shauibu Garba (EUFC)…

JUNE 12:- Nigerian Airways Hijacked By Teenagers. by Alphonsus Oshiole

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This piece is Dedicated To The Unsung Heroes Of June 12. This is a History that deserves to live with us forever and what democracy meant to young Nigerians then. On October 25, 1993. Four dissatisfied Nigerian teenagers hijacked a Nigerian Airways airbus A310 that was flying from Lagos to Abuja and diverted the plane to Niamey, Niger Republic. They were dissatisfied by the annulment of June 12 elections by the military Head of States, Gen Ibrahim Babangida. The young Nigerians, Richard Ogunderu was 19, Kabir Adenuga was 18, Benneth…

The Jungle and the Roaring, Silent Lion By Ibraheem Alli

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It was a sunny weekend at my father`s farm in Olori. It was in 2005 with my brother. We were working at the yam land. Suddenly, we saw a lying Isan snake. Our knowledge of farming informed us of distinctions among snakes. We knew it`s only Isan snake that sleeps anyhow. At the time, we were still under 20. We don’t have the temerity to kill the snake. We left and sought the assistance of our farm neighbor who killed “Ejo Isan”. This peculiar attribute account for why Yoruba called…