Twenty four hours after former President Olusegun Obasanjo resigned his membership of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the pioneer National Chairman of the Labour Party, Dan Iwuanyanwu, has resigned from the LP, albeit, in a less dramatic fashion as the former. Iwanyanwu announced his resignation in a letter dated February 13 to his successor, Abdulkadir Salam, alleging misappropriation of party funds by the incumbent. He did not however say if he was joining another political party as he was silent on his political future. Mr. Nwanyanwu stepped down as the party’s national chairman last year after 10 years in…
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The Labour Party on Tuesday said it had been vindicated by the resignation of Chief Dan Iwanyanwu, both as a member of the party and as its chairman, Board of Trustees. The party also said it had launched investigation into the crisis which greeted the botched elections of the Nigeria Labour Congress, during its delegates conference last week in Abuja. National Chairman, Caretaker Committee of LP, Alhaji Salisu Mohammed, told journalists in Abuja that more issues would come up soon because of the activities of people he said “have decided to be running the party for their economic interests”. Caretaker…
There were explosions and multiple gunfire, Tuesday, at Okrika, home town of First Lady Patience Jonathan today as the All Progressives Congress (APC) held its governorship rally, Rivers State governor Rotimi Amaechi, who was not at the scene told Reuters by telephone. The blasts at the rally, which held at the playing ground of the National School, at the island town, was witnessed by Daily Post reporter, Victor Azubuike. According to him, about 20 minutes after the explosions, scores of unknown gunmen invaded the venue through the creeks in gunboats. They reportedly shot sporadically at the crowd, but the number…
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The Police on Monday arraigned three men in an Ogudu Chief Magistrates’ Court for conspiring to commit burglary and stealing of N796, 700. The defendants are Ajala Oshinowo, 22, Patrick Nwauzo, 30, and Owoduni Oshinowo, 36, all of Adebayo Street, Alapere in Lagos State. They are facing a three-count charge of conspiracy, house breaking and stealing. The Prosecutor, Sgt. Lucky Ihiehie, told the court that the complainant, Mr Ifeanyi Nshiaou, came to Alapere Police Station to report the case on Feb. 7. He said that the defendants had sometime in Dec. 27, 2014 conspired to break into the complainant’s house…
The wife of the President, Dame Patience Jonathan, on Monday paid a condolence visit to the bereaved families of 11 female politicians from Bayelsa State who died Saturday in a motor accident along East-West Road in Rivers State. The women were political associates of the First Lady, and died while returning from a two-day visit to her in Okirika, Rivers State. Dressed in black, and accompanied by prominent members of her Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), Women for Change Initiative, Mrs. Jonathan met with respective families of the lost women. On her entourage were the wife of the state’s former governor, Margaret…
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) says it has not ordered the withdrawal of its personnel from the border stations in Sokoto and Kebbi states. This is contained in a statement signed by its Public Relations Officer, Mr Wale Adeniyi, and made available to journalists in Sokoto on Monday. “The directive withdrawing the officers was said to have been given verbally by an un-named official of the Federal Government, raising fears about security of our borders. “In view of the security implication of this development and its sensitivity, it becomes necessary for the Service to clarify the situation as follows: “There…
The Nigerian Air Force says six weeks is more than enough to crush the Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East. The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adesola Amosu, who gave the assurance during the inauguration of training operations in Lagos on Sunday, said the Air Force had commenced a 24-hour operation and would complement the Nigerian Army by engaging in a series of air strikes on insurgents’ locations. On the possibility of elections holding on March 28, Amosu said terrorism was already coming to an end. He said, “The operation in the North-East is a complex one. Fighting insurgency…
The governorship campaign organization of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Borno State, has reacted to the destruction of several campaign offices and posters of the party on Monday by supporters of the All Progressives Congress, APC, during the latter’s presidential campaign rally in the state. The APC supporters, who took to the streets of Maiduguri, the Borno capital in their thousands, chanted pro-Muhammadu Buhari campaign slogans while carrying a mock coffin of the PDP. While soldiers were battling to control the mammoth crowd at the venue of the campaign rally, some of the irate youth were seen bringing down…
President Goodluck Jonathan’s purported dismal performance in the last six years has brightened the chances of his main rival, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), in next month presidential poll, the New York Times newspaper said. The US-based international publication in its editorial Monday entitled “Nigeria’s miserable choices”, said that Jonathan’s poor record has helped a lot in soaring Buhari’s appeal among Nigerians. The March 28 presidential election “presented voters with the dispiriting choice of keeping a lousy incumbent or returning to power a former autocratic leader”, the newspaper said. The newspaper editorial noted that Buhari “has emerged as potential winner is more…
Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has accused the Peoples Democratic Party-led Federal Government of stealing N800 million for a water project that was never executed in Okpella, Etsako East Local Government Area of the state. Speaking on Monday at the inauguration of the construction of 24-km Ogiriga-Afokpella-Okugbe-Imiekuri-Ohu road project with a spur to Awuyemi in Okpella, the second road project to be so flagged-off in the state within a week, Oshiomhole said records at the Federal Ministry of Water Resources, Abuja, shows that the project has been completed, yet no single water pipe was laid in the locality. According…
The ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has expressed sadness over former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s decision, Monday, to dump the party. Obasanjo yesterday announced his exit from the party at a dramatic meeting where he ordered that his party membership card be torn to shreds. In its official statement in reaction to the ex-president’s resignation of his membership of the party, the PDP spokesman, Olisa Metuh, said the party was “saddened” by Mr. Obasanjo’s departure, and lamented that all efforts to pacify the elder statesman was rebuffed. Read full Statement below: The leadership Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has received the news…
Governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has described the exit of former President Olusegun Obasanjo from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a good omen to the party, saying; “Obasanjo’s exit is good riddance to bad rubbish. His departure is inglorious, we will never miss him”. Governor Fayose, who said Obasanjo’s tearing of his PDP membership card was a vindication of his stand that the former president should have been shown a red card by the PDP a long time ago, noted that; “Now the PDP can sleep with two eyes closed because the lion among our brethren, the…
Muhammadu Buhari and Goodluck Jonathan Nobel Laureate Prof Wole Soyinka has called on Nigerians to be prepared to deal return to the trenches if a wrong choice is made in the March 28 Presidential elecection. “All I know is that if a wrong choice is made, we must all be prepared and we should start preparing to go back to the trenches whatever it takes,” Soyinka told BBC’s Will Ross in an interview. Asked about his view of the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari, who he wrote about in his memoir, Soyinka said his regime as head…
Five members of a suspected cult group in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital has killed two people, reports have said. According to the Nigerian Tribune, one of the victims, Mallam Abu, was killed around Tupex Mini Mart area of Ibrahim Taiwo Road, Ilorin, while the other victim was killed by same cultists at Gambari area. An eyewitness told the Nigerian Tribune that the assailants, numbering about five, came on a motorcycle to Mallam Abu’s residence at about 8.00 p.m, shot sporadically into the air, before dragging Abu out and killing him with a matchete. The assailants were said to have…
The House of Representatives has advised President Goodluck Jonathan to ensure prudence ahead of the passage of 2015 Appropriation Bill. Chairman of the House Committee on Rules and Business, Albert Sam-Tsokwa, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Taraba, gave the advice in a chat with House correspondents yesterday. According to him, any reckless expenditure would lead to a deficit that the country had never witnessed before. Although the constitution empowers the President to spend before budgets were approved, the country would be plunged into financial crisis, if the President failed to exercise restraint. “I am aware that the constitution allows Mr. President…
Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole has called on the Police and other security agencies in the state to investigate and arrest some desperate politicians, who he accused of purchasing Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) from eligible voters. Oshiomole made the call, Monday, when he received the new Commissioner of Police for the state, Samuel Damilola Adegbuyi, who visited him in his office. “Everyday, I hear reports about some desperate politicians buying PVCs from people, particularly villagers and even non-villagers, sometimes for as much as N5,000,” the governor said. “I am trying to understand what anybody can do with this, it is…
The Emir of Wase, Alhaji Sambo Haruna, Monday, accused politicians of sowing seeds of discord in the society and pitching the masses against one another. The monarch said this against the backdrop of unending crises in the area, as a result of difference in political inclinations. He lamented the incessant burning of villages and sacking of innocent people in his locality. He therefore appealed to politicians, irrespective of party and religious affiliations, to join in the ongoing efforts at reconciling the people. Speaking at his palace, while receiving the All Progressives Congress (APC) campaign organization led by its governorship candidate,…
Mercy Johnson and her husband,Odianosen Okojie share their amazing love story ,how they met..The tell it all in this new interview with Punch When Asked On How they meet each other? Odi: I met Mercy for the first time in 2008 on a flight from France. We both flew Business Class and I asked for her number but she refused. She was very down-to-earth even as a celebrity. I know how a lot of them behave but she is different. Being very focused and a go-getter, I did everything I could just to have her including her number after…
Top Ghanaian female hip pop singer, Mzbel has surprised everyone! The ‘I be 16years’ crooner in an interview on a Ghanian television show disclosed how she no longer believe in the existence of Jesus Christ. The beautiful singer while making the the totally awkward revelation said: ‘I don’t want to offend anybody, I use to believe in him, but according to my own research I think he was made up, I might be wrong but I think he was made up, I don’t know if Jesus is the messiah.’ Mzbel, whose real name is Belinda Ekua Amoah, did not say…