Femi Fani-Kayode, former Aviation Minister, has mocked President Muhammadu Buhari over an incident with pigeons during the Armed Forces Remembrance Day ceremony on Friday. As a sign of peace, the president usually releases some white pigeons from a cage and immediately they fly away. But, this year, the birds refused flying on Friday with most of them sticking to the cage. The incident was greeted with mixed reactions with many Nigerians, attributing the birds’ behaviour to bad luck and the absence of peace and unity in the country. Reacting to the incident, Fani-Kayode, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party,…
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Deaconess Emerald Udeakaji, the Special Adviser to Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State has resigned to save her marriage. The SA in a letter to the Governor dated December 30, stated that 100% loyalty to the government is tearing her family apart, and, therefore, resolved to resign to save her family. Udeakaji noted that she had gone back to study her bible which states that “Woman be submissive to your husband.” The letter reads: “I sincerely want to thank His Excellency and her Excellency and the entire Umahi family for the opportunity they gave to me to serve in this…
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to change Nigeria’s Service Chiefs. Wike said it was high time new strategies were deployed to tackle internal insecurity threats. The governor spoke on Friday at the 2021 Armed Forces Remembrance Day in Port Harcourt. He said the military chiefs had done their best and should go. Wike noted that terrorists, bandits, and killer herdsmen were still causing havoc. “The inability to defeat the Boko Haram insurgency despite years of full military engagement shows that all is not well with our approaches and commitments to the battle against the internal…
A chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP), Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has expressed discomfort at the continued lamentations of the Peoples Democratic Party over the recent movement of Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to the All Progressives Congress, APC. In a statement made available to DAILY POST on Friday, Eze restated that it remains within the exclusive reserve of every member of a political party to pitch tent with another political association where his genuine grievances, especially those…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, on Thursday, opened up on the chances of Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, emerging as its presidential candidate in 2023. Ex-Deputy National Publicity Secretary of APC, Yekini Nabena, said Tinubu’s chances are dependent on his alliances with party stakeholders from other zones in the country. Speaking with DAILY POST, Nabena said: “I don’t know or tell how strong Tinubu’s chances are because politics is all about alliance. “It depends on who he is aligning with and his alibi. A tree cannot make a forest, you can be strong in a…
Joe Biden, the President-elect of the United States of America, has appointed Nigerian-born Funmi Olorunnipa Badejo into his cabinet. The President-elect made announcement when he named additional 20 members of the office of the White House counsel. Badejo is a lawyer and an alumna of Berkeley Law College in the US, and served as ethics counsel in the same office toward the end of the President Barrack Obama administration. She, alongside other lawyers of the Office of White House Counsel will be advising the President, the executive office of the president, and the White House staff on legal issues pertaining…
The Court of Appeal, Abuja has dismissed the appeal brought before it by Michael Elokun and two others challenging the election of Yahaya Bello as the Governor of Kogi State. In a unanimous judgment by a three-member panel of Justices of the Court of Appeal, presided over by Justice Steven Adah, on Thursday, the appellate court agreed with the judgment the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho. Justice Adah held in the judgment that the Kogi State governorship election been challenged by the appellants was held in 2015 and the plaintiffs, at the lower court filed…
The Senator representing Ondo South Senatorial District in the Upper Chamber of the National Assembly, Senator Nicholas Tofowomo, has attributed the rift between Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State and former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose as mere individual interest that will soon be over. Tofowomo on Thursday emphasized that what is currently being perceived as a political feud between the two leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was just a clash of interests ahead of the convention of the party in February. Tofowomo further stated that by virtue of being a sitting governor, Makinde is the leader of…
Barely two years to the next general elections, the Speaker, Kogi State House of Assembly, Prince Mathew Kolawole is wooing legislators across the country to support Governor Yahaya Bello’s ambition to be Nigeria’s President come 2023. The Speaker also said they as lawmakers in the state have found Governor Bello to be suitable “as he has performed creditably well”. Kolawole, accompanied by his Deputy and other Kogi lawmakers were in Jos on Thursday, to solicit the support of Plateau Speaker, Abok Ayuba and his colleagues. According to him, “Our mission to Plateau is to congratulate the Speaker, Plateau House of…
The former secretary to the government of the federation Senator Anyim Pius Anyim on Thursday denied being the mastermind of the 2023 presidential campaign poster bearing his picture and currently in wide circulation in the social media. Anyim, who was a former President of the Senate, disassociated himself from the campaign poster, stressing that such campaign poster is capable of distracting President Mohammadu Buhari who had just spent only one year and seven months in his second tenure. Anyim made the assertions in a press statement signed and forwarded to newsmen in Abakaliki, the capital of Ebonyi State. He said…
President Muhammadu Buhari has said his government was doing its best on insecurity in Nigeria. Buhari called on citizens to be fair in their criticism of his administration. He spoke on Thursday in Abuja when he received Reverend Yakubu Pam, Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Christian Pilgrims Commission (NCPC). On killings, abductions and other challenges, especially in the Northeast, the President reminded Nigerians of the previous state. “What was the situation when we came? Try and ask people from Borno or from Adamawa for that matter and Yobe.” Buhari admitted there are still “occasional Boko Haram problems”. He, however, stressed…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, on Thursday disclosed how its zoning formula, ahead of the 2023 presidential election will be decided. Yekini Nabena, former National Publicity Secretary of APC said the party would decide on its zoning formula for 2023 elections after critical stakeholders meet. Nabena, in an exclusive chat with DAILY POST, said: “Definitely there is going to be zoning, but the critical stakeholders will meet in every zone before the final decision will be taken. Mind you some people are just heating up the polity because of what they stand to benefit. “I know that before anything will…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ebonyi State chapter on Thursday petitioned the new commissioner of police, Department of State Security, DSS, and other security outfits in the State to investigate the threats and attack meted on its chairman, Elder Fred Udeogu by thugs purportedly loyal to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. The party, in six paragraph petition signed by Fred Udeogu and forwarded to the state police command, DSS office, and other security outfits in the state, and obtained by DAILY POST, in Abakaliki, capital of Ebonyi state, tasked the police to immediately arrest and prosecutes the said thugs…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kwara State, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to save the Party’s state chapter from destruction. The Party was reacting to the removal of the state’s Chairman, Bashir Omoloja Bolarinwa. Bolarinwa was said to have been removed, following a complaint from the state Governor, Abdulrahaman Abdulrazaka who alleged he can’t work with him. However, a faction of APC said the Party was on the pathway of destruction. The party stated this in a statement signed by Sunday Oyebiyi, Oyoola Oyedepo and others. The statement reads in part: “We have resolved to reject the verdict of…
The United States House of Representatives has impeached President Trump for incitement of insurrection. The resolution followed the debate on the article of impeachment. Democrats in the House moved the article of impeachment following the invasion of the Capitol hill during the certification of 2020 presidential election on January 6th. Prior to the invasion, Trump who is yet to concede the Nov 3rd election which Joe Biden won, addressed a rally of his supporters to “take their country back.” According to reports on US media, several Republicans vowed to vote in favour of the impeachment. Wyoming Representative, Liz Cheney, the…
Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has described ex-Military Administrator of Lagos State, Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu as a rare breed for his singular consistency and unwavering commitment to social justice, democracy and federalism in Nigeria. Tinubu lamented that Kanu who so “loved this country and its many people” passed from us on Wednesday in Lagos State at 77. He stated this in a statement signed by his Media Aide, Tunde Rahman. Tinubu said: “I’m deeply saddened by the passing of former military administrator of Lagos and Imo states, Real Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu. “He was my…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Reconciliation Committee in Southwest is in Ogun State. The committee met with former Governor Gbenga Daniel and some PDP leaders on Tuesday. It met other party chieftains in Abeokuta, the state capital, on Wednesday. The body is chaired by former Osun State Governor, Olagunsoye Oyinlola. Members are ex-Lagos Deputy Governor, Koforola Akerele -Bucknor; ex-Nigerian High Commissioner to Uganda, Omolade Oluwateru; top stalwart, Saka Balogun; and Monsuru Kukoyi, the secretary. The stakeholders, drawn from the three senatorial districts, urged the committee to do its job without fear or favour. They told the PDP national leadership to…
The Benue State Government has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on Ukum and Katsina-Ala Local Government Areas. The curfew was imposed as part of measures to address insecurity there. The north-central state’s Deputy Governor, Mr Benson Abounu, who disclosed this at the end of a security council meeting on Wednesday said the curfew will be from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. daily. ”It is part of our efforts to tackle banditry, kidnapping, armed robbery and general insecurity in the two local government areas,” Abounu told newsmen after the meeting. He added that the Security Council also resolved to ban the use…
National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Umar Tsauri, has described All Progressives Congress, APC, as a political club that has nothing to offer heavyweights such as Yakubu Dogara and Dave Umahi. The PDP scribe made the description in an interview with Vanguard, where he expressed optimism that, ahead of the 2023 polls, Umahi (Ebonyi State governor) and Dogara (ex-Speaker, House of Representatives), and others who quit the party for APC, will return “in the interest of Nigeria”. Tsauri told Vanguard that Umahi and Dogara needed to join the PDP in its quest to salvage Nigeria and reposition…
Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi says the All Progressives Congress (APC) will triple its membership ahead of the 2023 general elections. Bello, who is the chairman of the newly inaugurated APC Women and Youth Sensitisation and Mobilisation Committee for the membership registration and revalidation exercise, stated this on Tuesday in Abuja. Bello assured that the committee would move to the field immediately, adding that it would liaise with every stakeholder within the party and across its lines. He said the committee would create the desired awareness to ensure that it tripped the party’s present membership. The Kogi governor said the…