Atiku Abubakar’s 2023 presidential campaign adviser Daniel Bwala has criticized the Federal Government for the recent increase in gas prices. Bwala complained that Nigerians are going through’shege’ again due to the unexpected increase in the price of gasoline. He questioned the logic behind making Nigerians pay the international market price for fuel but failing to pay them the international minimum wage. Bwala tweeted that when former President Muhammadu Buhari was spotted hiking near Daura, Katsina State, he issued a warning to the people of Nigeria. If Bwala is to be believed, then, “Are our workers paid the international minimum wage…
Author: Ifeanyi Nwagboso
Musa Salihu Mubarak was the NNPP’s gubernatorial candidate for Kogi State in the upcoming election on November 11, however he was disqualified by the Federal High Court in Abuja for unlawful replacement. Mubarak was disqualified from running for governor of Kogi by Justice James Kolawole Omotosho on the grounds that his name had been falsely submitted to INEC as a candidate for the NNPP. On Tuesday, Justice Omotoso ruled that Hon. Hassan Abdullahi should once again serve as the party’s candidate for governor of Kogi State because he legitimately prevailed in the party’s primary election held on April 16, 2023,…
Bola Tinubu, the current president, met with his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan, in the State House on Tuesday. The purpose of Jonathan’s visit, as Head of the ECOWAS Mediation Team to Mali, was to update the president on several continental problems, he told reporters following the meeting. ‘I came to brief the president on various continental and subcontinental entities,’ he explained. In addition to my role as chair of the West African Elders Forum, I also serve as an ECOWAS mediator for Mali. So, I talk to different presidents about issues that span both the continent and the subregion. On June…
Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf, governor of Kano State, has authorized the appointments of fifteen additional Special Advisers. The governor’s chief press secretary, Sanusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, announced the nominations in a statement released on Tuesday. Review the complete set: The Special Adviser for Disaster Management is Retired Colonel Abubakar Usman Garin Malam Religious Affairs Special Advisor Malam Usamatu Salga Investment and Public-Private Partnership Advisor, Hon. Abduljabbar Muhammad Umar Solid Minerals Special Advisor, Hon. Aminu Abba Ibrahim Engineer Nura Hussain, Commercial Advisor Special Adviser on Cooperative Groups, Hon. Jamilu Abbas Public Relations Advisor for National and International Affairs, Hon. Muhammad Jamu…
In a matter of days, Governor Dapo Abiodun is expected to submit his list of commissioner nominees to the Ogun State House of Assembly, at which point he will presumably form his second government. The governor must submit the list to the legislature for approval by July 27 in order to formally swear in the new commissioners. The law now requires the President and governors to do this within 60 days of their inauguration, whereas in 2019 the governor waited almost seven months to have the luxury of time needed to scrutinize the nominations. On his last day in office,…
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has returned to Abuja after spending the weekend in Kenya for the African Union’s 5th Mid-Year Coordination Meeting. At 4:20 on Monday afternoon, his plane landed at the Presidential Wing of Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator George Akume, was among the crowd of government officials waiting to greet him at the airport. Femi Gbajabiamila, the President’s Chief of Staff, Hope Uzodinnma, the Governor of Imo, and Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, the former Governor of Kano State, were the others. At the meeting, President Tinubu represented ECOWAS in his role…
Adamawa State Governor Ahmadu Fintiri has honored a notable native son and former minister by naming a major roadway in Yola after Dr. Mahmud Tukur. Fintiri has decided to honor Mahmud Tukur, the brother of Bamangar Tukur, a former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), by changing the name of Abuja Road in the Yola South Local Government Area to Dr. Mahmud Tukur Street. Dr. Mahmud Tukur, a renowned scholar and philanthropist, served as the first Vice Chancellor of Bayero University in Kano and as Minister of Commerce and Industry under former President Muhammadu Buhari’s military regime in…
Ademola Adeleke, the governor of Osun State, said he went into self-imposed exile in 2018 after being unfairly denied reelection. Adeleke complained that his mandate had been stolen through a rigged legal system, prompting him to go into self-imposed exile. The event took place on Sunday at Adeleke University in Ede, Osun State. The governor, according to a statement released by his spokesman Mallam Olawale Rasheed, said that going into self-imposed exile allowed him to avoid capture by his opponents. The governor also encouraged young people to prioritize their aspirations, saying that the single most important ingredient in realizing one’s…
Reno Omokri, a former advisor to former President Goodluck Jonathan, has spoken out against President Bola Tinubu’s plans to establish a state of emergency in the southeast. Omokri insisted that declaring a state of emergency would do more harm than good, and that it would be a huge PR win for IPOB (the Indigenous People of Biafra). He suggested that Tinubu establish a Southeast Development Commission and use the funds intended for sending troops into the area to instead fund the region’s rapid infrastructural development. On Monday, the social critic issued a message via his verified Twitter account, urging people…
According to a US official familiar with the matter, as reported by NBC News on Tuesday, a US soldier is said to have been captured by North Korea after crossing the border from South Korea. According to US officials, the incident is still “fluid,” and tensions are rising over North Korea’s nuclear programme as they gather information. Unauthorised US national who was on an orientation tour crossed the Military Demarcation Line into the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), according to the American-led UN Command. They claimed in a tweet that they think the person is now being held in…
Alhaji Inuwa Bakari, the state’s ousted interim PDP chairman, must be immediately reinstated, according to an order from the Taraba State High Court in the state’s capital of Jalingo. The reinstated acting party chairman’s requests were all granted in the judgement that Justice Nuhu Adi presided over. Former state governor Arc. Darius Dickson Ishaku fired Bakari, and Alhaji Abubakar Bawa, who had served as Ishaku’s special adviser, took his position. Bakari sought the court to invalidate Bawa’s appointment since the party’s constitution’s due processes were not followed, as he did not agree with the previous governor’s choice. The judge ordered…
All Progressives Congress (APC) leader Barrister Sani Mohammed Takori bemoaned that internal disputes were to blame for the party’s Zamfara State chapter losing the governorship race. He insisted that the party was seriously fractured because things had gone wrong and the centre could no longer support it. Takori attributed the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,’s victory over the party to a power struggle between previous governors Bello Mohammed Matawalle and Abdulaziz Yari. He claimed that the party’s National Secretariat made every effort to reconcile the two groups in order to help the party win all of the State’s elective seats. He…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) proceeded to call witnesses when the governorship election petition tribunal met in the state capital of Abeokuta on Monday. Several parallels and contradictions in the witnesses’ testimony have followed the proceedings. During cross-examination by the counsel for INEC, a witness from Ota named Mrs. Mulikat Yemi acknowledged similarities in her statement with that of another witness, Balogun Olanrewaju, including the same error and omission in paragraph 6 of their statements, and requested that the tribunal question her attorney for the repetition. Another witness, Thomas Abiodun, a photographer from Iyesi-Ota in Ado Odo Ota Local Government,…
According to the Labour Party (LP), if President Bola Tinubu is dismissed from office by the court, there won’t be anarchy in Nigeria. On the basis that he did not receive 25% of the votes cast in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Tinubu had urged the presidential election tribunal to reject the challenge filed by LP trying to overturn his victory in the general elections of 2023. In a closing written statement to the tribunal, Tinubu asserted that the FCT is the 37th state for election reasons through his attorney, Wole Olanipekun. Any other reading, in the president’s words, “would…
Upon Abdullahi Adamu’s resignation as National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), veteran lawmaker Shehu Sani criticised Buhari’s camp. According to Infostride News, former APC chairman Adamu submitted his resignation letter on Sunday evening. As a result, APC Deputy National Chairman (North) Senator Abubakar Kyari is now in charge of party operations. According to rumours, Adamu is a huge fan of the ex-president. Before and after President Bola Tinubu emerged as the party’s candidate, Adamu was said to have actively lobbied against his success. On Monday, when news of Adamu’s resignation was confirmed, Sani published a post on his…
Abdullahi Adamu, the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, is rumoured to have resigned. Since Sunday night, Adamu’s purported resignation has dominated conversation, although neither the party nor the Progressive Governors Forum have confirmed it. However, Daily Trust claims that Adamu submitted his letter of resignation on Sunday evening. According to a source cited in the story, the party chairman handed his letter of resignation to the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Around 4 o’clock on Sunday, the president’s chief of staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, reportedly received the resignation letter. The APC’s National Caucus and National Executive Committee meetings are…
Political activist Deji Adeyanju has demanded the resignation of the Peoples Democratic Party’s National Working Committee (NWC). Adeyanju argued that if the country were to avoid becoming a one-party state, those who were prepared to do the task of the opposition should be elected. The public affairs analyst was responding to the announcement of Abdullahi Adamu’s and Iyiola Omisore’s resignations as National Chairman and National Secretary of the APC. In a series of tweets, Adeyanju argued that, after the departure of several prominent figures from the APC’s leadership, the PDP’s National Working Committee (NWC) should also be dismissed. If the…
One of Atiku Abubakar’s media advisers, Daniel Bwala, has claimed that President Bola Tinubu and the Yoruba don’t engage in “politics of bitterness.” Abubakar is the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the upcoming 2023 election. In response to Abdullahi Adamu’s departure as national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bwala made the following statement. On Twitter, Bwala said, “Life is to be taken easily, ohh. The APC chairman who was quoted as saying, “I could write demand letters that filled his office and still not get my professional fees for what I worked for, simply…
Ogun State’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) claims the state police command is withholding information on an investigation into allegations that the All Progressives Congress (APC) engaged in vote buying during the 2014 governorship election. This was announced on Monday at a press conference held in Abeokuta by PDP Ogun Chairman Sikirulahi Ogundele. Ogundele instructed Abiodun Alamutu, the Commissioner of Police in Ogun, a 72-hour deadline to release the findings on the vote-buying allegation made against the incumbent party. Adebutu’s attorney had petitioned the Inspector General of Police in June, claiming that during the governorship election, his opponent had engaged in…
Shamina Singh, a successful Indian-American businesswoman, has been nominated by President Joe Biden to join the President’s Export Council, the highest-ranking federal advisory body on international commerce. Singh, the President and Founder of the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, has expressed her gratitude for the opportunity to serve on the President’s Export Council, calling its members “eminent leaders in their fields.” On July 14, the White House released a statement saying that President Biden would be appointing Singh to the position. Singh said, “I am deeply honored to be invited to serve on the President’s Export Council alongside so many…