Victor Moses stunned the Nigerian football community by announcing his international retirement on Wednesday. The 27-year-old stated his desire to focus on his club career with his Premier League team, his young family, and encourage the progression of the next generation of Super Eagles players. “I would like to announce that after much thought I have made the decision to retire from playing international football. I have experienced some of the best moments of my life wearing the Super Eagles shirt and have memories with me that will last a lifetime. Nothing will ever compete to what it felt like…
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Lai Mohammed has stressed that President Muhammadu Buhari led government isn’t the type that shares money. He said, “people are complaining of no money and high cost of living, but I want to tell you that it would have been worse today but for the massive infrastructural development this government is investing on.’’ Continuing, Mohammed said, “We are not a government that will share money like what others did which put the country in a mess. “This government believes in investing in infrastructure because if you get this rightly, it will translate to wealth creation. “People complaining about lack of…
The Nigeria Police Force has denied compelling Samuel Ogundipe of Premium Times online publication to implicate the President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, before he could be released from custody. Ogundipe was arrested on Aug.14 by the police for the alleged publication of the Inspector-General of police report on the siege of the National Assembly by the Department of State Service. In a statement, the Spokesman for the Police, acting DCP Jimoh Moshood, on Friday in Abuja said that no investigator asked Ogundipe to implicate Saraki before he could be released. “There are video and audio records of the…
The police in Imo on Friday arrested some women protesting over the continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) for allegedly conducting an unlawful assembly. Some of the women, mostly of middle age and from the Southeast states, were half nude, while others dressed in black and marched through the streets of Owerri. They disrupted vehicular movement and other activities in some parts of the town. The protesters chanted war songs and displayed different placards with inscriptions asking the Federal Government to release Kanu. The women claimed that the security agencies knew the whereabouts…
Bukola Saraki on Friday paid a solidarity visit to Gov. Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom and commended him for his selfless leadership in the state. Saraki, who is now the national leader of the PDP and who recently also switched from APC to PDP, said he was in the state to show solidarity to Emmanuel. He assured the governor that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) representatives in the National Assembly would continue to support him to provide dividends of democracy to the people. “We have come here on a solidarity visit to show that we are strongly with you. We…
President Muhammadu Buhari has joined the business world and all boardroom gurus in Nigeria to rejoice with the founder and Chairman of Honeywell Group, Ayoola Oba Otudeko, who turns 75 years on Saturday. Buhari saluted the business magnate for his vision, wisdom and dexterity in setting up businesses that cut across the oil and gas industry, flour mills, hospitality and transportation. He noted that such businesses had been providing services and employment that strengthen the Nigerian economy. The President said he shared the joyful time with members of Oba Otudeko’s family, friends and community of business colleagues as he celebrates…
The Chairman Yobe State Executive Committee (SEC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Adamu Chilariye has accused the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) of illegally buying the permanent voter’s card ( PVC) of unsuspecting members of the public. He made the accusation on Thursday at a press briefing in Damaturu. He stated that the state EXCO of the APC was notified of the development. “The PDP political office holders in Yobe Zone B have been using surrogates to purchase voter’s cards within Potiskum town at the cost of N5000 per PVC” He said the APC has lodged complaints with the…
Muhammadu Buhari led government has been described as an administration filled with liars by ex-Vice-President Atiku Abubakar. “This government is a government of liars. They promised three million jobs per annum but Nigeria has been losing three million jobs every year,” he said. Atiku has continued to throw jibes at the All Progressive Congress-led government after he dumped the party in 2017. Continuing, he said, “This job loss has brought the worst form of insecurity in the country. We are facing challenging times in Nigeria. Today, economy is at its lowest ebb and the greatest challenge is unemployment.” The former…
Dino Melaye (Kogi West – PDP) has hailed former president, Goodluck Jonathan, as a better leader that current president, Muhammadu Buhari. While speaking during an interview on ARISE TV, published on Friday, August 17, 2018, the lawmaker said he has no regrets about antagonising Jonathan in the past, but hailed him as a better president than Buhari. He said, "At the time I was criticising President Jonathan, I have no regrets criticising him, like I have no regrets now criticising the Buhari administration, but I want to say if you carry out comparative analysis between the Jonathan admnistration and this…
Uche Secondus has appointed former Minister of Aviation and former Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Chief Osita Chidoka, as his Special Adviser on Strategy and External Engagements. A statement issued by PDP National Publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan on Friday in Abuja, said that the appointment was with immediate effect. “Chidoka, who is well reputed for his ingenuity and organisation skills in public office, is expected to bring to bear his analytical expertise and wealth of experience in political strategy development, coordination and implementation, as the PDP sets for the 2019 general elections,” he said.
Nasiru El-Rufai of Kaduna State on Friday tasked APC stakeholders and party loyalists on electing credible candidates. El-Rufai gave an assurance that he had no intention to support any candidate, hence the need for people to scrutinise and select the best out among aspirants vying for different positions in the party. “As a people, you know who is good and who is more credible among the aspirants; therefore, it is an opportunity for you to select the best out of them. “We are not going to interfer during the primaries, because we have no candidate and whatever you elect is…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it will, henceforth, resist any attempt to rig it out in future elections, beginning with the Osun governorship election scheduled for September 22. Ologbondiyan said that it had become manifest that the ruling party was interested in rigging elections, saying the PDP would henceforth contend with such in all ramifications and magnitude, to discomfit it in all coming elections. He said that the PDP had thoroughly reviewed all infractions and vowed to never again allow the use of foul means to usurp power as it was done in the past and merely ask the…
Sen. Godswill Akpabio (APC-Akwa Ibom) has said any move to declare his seat vacant in the Senate will prove abortive. According to him, if the excuse of those calling for his seat to be declared vacant is that there is no rancour in PDP to warrant his defection, they should also know there is no rancour in APC. “Any defection from APC to PDP, we will like to declare those seats vacant. “As you are looking at me, do I look perturbed? I have not heard the report. “I think that is a rumour because at the moment, there is…
The All Progressives’ Congress (APC) has raised alarm over an alleged plot by Senators of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to employ thugs to attack APC Senators over the ongoing plot to remove Bukola Saraki as Senate President. In a statement signed by the APC’s Acting National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena, on Tuesday, August 14, 2018, the party said Saraki has met with some senators and hatched a plot to harm APC lawmakers to prevent his impeachment. The party said several APC lawmakers will be lured to a meeting by PDP and then harmed with hired thugs to prevent them…
The North-West zone of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says it will “capture’’ that geopolitical zone in the 2019 general elections. Mr Joseph Gumbari, Secretary, North-West zone of the party, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Jos that the defections from the ruling APC to the PDP had strengthened the later to regain the zone it lost in the 2015 polls. “Sokoto is already in the kitty; Kano is within grasp while Kaduna and Jigawa are `practically’ back to the fold. “Zamfara people are feeling neglected. They have continued to express their disappointment and have vowed…
Dele Momodu has vowed to campaign against President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 presidential election, noting that Nigeria deserves someone better than the 75-year-old president. Momodu disclosed this on Monday, August 13, 2018, during a question and answer session on his Twitter account (@DeleMomodu). He further went on to state that even though he wishes Buhari well, Nigeria deserves a stronger president. He posted, “When the candidates emerge, I will proudly support one against APC, if BUHARI goes ahead to run… In a country of nearly 200m, I see and know a lot of vibrant candidates, young or old… If…
Bukola Saraki has disclosed that he won’t get down in the gutter to fight with the Adams Oshiomhole-led National Working Committee (NWC) of the ruling All Progressives’ Congress (APC) who recently accused him of committing treason. In a statement issued by the APC’s Acting National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena, on Tuesday, August 14, 2018, the party described Saraki’s failure to reconvene the National Assembly as an action bothering on high treason. In reaction to the statement, Saraki’s Special Adviser Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, said the senate president refuses to be dragged down to the dirty level of the APC’s…
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has approved the appointment of Mr Yekini Nabena as the Acting National Publicity Secretary of the party. The appointment was contained in a letter issued on Wednesday in Abuja and signed by the National Secretary of the party Mr Mai Mala Bunu. It said the appointment followed the resignation of the party’s National Publicity Secretary Malam Bolaji Abudullahi who defected to the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) earlier on Wednesday. “I write to convey the resolution of the National Working Committee reached at its 34th regular meeting of Aug. 1,…
Aminu Tambuwal has explained why he left the All Progressives Congress (APC). He is the third Governor from the APC to move to the PDP in recent times. The Governor of Benue state, Samuel Ortom and 13 Local Government chairmen dumped the ruling party last week. Also, on Tuesday, July 31, 2018, the Governor of Kwara state, Abdulfatah Ahmed announced his resignation from the APC immediately the Senate President, Bukola Saraki decamped. According to Daily Post, Tambuwal cited the lack of statesmanship in responding to national issues as one of the reasons he left the ruling party. “Politicians and political…
Alhaji Umar Imam, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate in the Aug. 11 by-election into Lokoja/Kogi Federal constituency has congratulated the winner of the election, Alhaji Haruna Isah of All Progressives Congress (APC). He said “My involvement in the by-election was to accentuate and defend our democracy. It shouldn’t matter whether I win or lose. My political philosophy is based on service to the people,’’ he said. He, however, said that the election “left us some bitter lessons and terrible experience, alien to our politics and dangerous to our democracy.” Imam commended his supporters for standing firm in the face…