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APC Weighs in on US Controversy, Asks Trump to Emulate Buhari

10Jan

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Elections, News, Nigeria, United States of America

APC Weighs in on US Controversy, Asks Trump to Emulate Buhari

The All Progressive Congress has asked US President Donald Trump to emulate his Nigerian counterpart, President Muhammadu Buhari after losing an election. This was contained in a statement issued by the Secretary of the party’s Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee, John Akpanudoedehe. Akpanudoedehe in the statement titled “The integrity of a leader is as important as strong institutions,” condemned the invasion of the Capitol Hill by pro-Trump protesters and faulted Trump’s refusal to concede defeat in the presidential poll. The party said President Buhari contested and lost elections a couple of times and followed the process through to the Supreme Court on all accounts, lauding his example as ‘an outstanding credential of a true democrat’. The statement ...

Nigeria’s Sovereignty is in the Hands of Murdering Herdsmen – Soyinka

10Jan

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security

Nigeria’s Sovereignty is in the Hands of Murdering Herdsmen – Soyinka

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has berated President Muhammadu Buhari’s stance that Nigeria’s sovereignty cannot be challenged, alleging that the country’s sovereignty has been taken over by rampaging herdsmen, Boko Haram and other elements with absolutely no respect for national integrity. Soyinka advocated for national mobilization as a solution to curb the menace of insecurity that the country is facing. He said President Buhari could not tackle the insecurity challenge in the country while sitting down in Aso Rock. Soyinka disclosed this on Saturday when he appeared on an Arise TV programme. He said, “I am very glad that the northern elite are now speaking up, boldly and practically, (and are also) now taking measures which they should have taken years ago. They’ve mov...

Buhari, Osinbajo, SGF to Receive COVID-19 Vaccine on Live Broadcast

8Jan

By Obiajulu Joel Nwolu1 Comment

Covid-19, News, Nigeria

Buhari, Osinbajo, SGF to Receive COVID-19 Vaccine on Live Broadcast

Faisal Shuaib, the Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency, has disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari; Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo; the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha; and other distinguished Nigerians will be among the first set of people to be given the COVID-19 vaccine on live television to help create awareness on the importance of the vaccine. Shuaib said this on Thursday during the weekly press briefing by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja. He said, “On Tuesday, I mentioned that we will like to see a situation where Mr President, the Vice President, the SGF, critical leaders come and take the vaccine in full glare of the public to demonstrate that this vaccine is safe. “So, we have to make provisio...

COVID-19 and the Professors – Femi Adesina

8Jan

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Covid-19, Education, News, Nigeria, Safety

COVID-19 and the Professors – Femi Adesina

I hate to see professors die. And in recent days, we have lost three of them to the strange ailment called COVID-19, currently ravaging the world. Within two weeks, we lost three professors in quick succession. Habu Galadima, Director-General, National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS). Femi Odekunle, renowned criminologist and member of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC). And Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe, former Vice-Chancellor, University of Lagos. Each time a professor dies, I say to myself: what a waste! All the learning, gone. All the intellect perished. The research, the knowledge, and quest for more knowledge, kaput. Sheer waste! I have firsthand experience in losing a Professor. My elder sister was one. She was a Professor of Dramatic Art...

2021: Year to Calm Down, and Wail Less – Femi Adesina

1Jan

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria

2021: Year to Calm Down, and Wail Less – Femi Adesina

When the year 2020 popped out of the womb of time, nobody knew that it was going to be what Yoruba people call Ogbologbo. Rough and tough. Unpredictable. Hungry and angry, consuming anything and everything it could lay its jaws on. Across America, Europe, Asia, Africa, indeed, all continents, time, like an ever-rolling stream, has been bearing its sons and daughters away. They fly forgotten as a dream dies at the opening day. And who or what is the Grim Reaper? It is called a pandemic. COVID-19. Like President Muhammadu Buhari often says, “you can’t see it, you can’t hear it, you can’t smell or touch it, yet it is there, wreaking havoc all over the world.” COVID-19 is a Great Leveler. It has removed dichotomies between the First World and the Third World. Every country, no matter ...

Full Text of President Buhari’s 2021 New Year Address to Nigerians

1Jan

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria

Full Text of President Buhari’s 2021 New Year Address to Nigerians

My fellow countrymen and women, First, I would like to thank and praise the Almighty who saw us through the year 2020 and has given us the opportunity to witness the start of another new year. We especially thank God because the year 2020 was one of the most trying years since our existence as a Nation. This can also be said about all other nations around the world, due to the challenges posed on our collective humanity by the novel COVID-19 pandemic. While acknowledging that 2020 was a very tough year, we saw this year put to test our national resilience and ability to survive these tough times and also gave renewed hope that we will again brave any storms that lay ahead in 2021 and beyond. As we celebrate the opportunity before us in this New Year 2021, we must also acknowl...

Nigerians Don’t Trust Buhari – Cardinal Onaiyekan

29Dec

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Religion

Nigerians Don’t Trust Buhari – Cardinal Onaiyekan

Emeritus Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Abuja, Cardinal John Onaiyekan, has said that Nigerians are desirous of a government to trust. This was contained in the cardinal’s reaction to President Buhari’s Christmas message when he appeared on a Channels Television programme, Sahara Reporters reports. The clergyman blamed the rising distrust I Buhari’s administration to numerous instances of deceit peddled by government officials. He said, "It is positive that President Buhari recognises that his government has a heavy liability of trust deficits and it is not good for a nation that the citizens cannot trust their government so that even when the government is trying to do the right thing, there is always the feeling, 'let us wait and see, maybe it's one of those things again', ou...

Oshiomhole can’t Overturn People’s Will Through Judiciary Says Shaibu

28Dec

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Elections, Judiciary, News, Nigeria

Oshiomhole can’t Overturn People’s Will Through Judiciary Says Shaibu

Philip Shaibu, Deputy Governor of Edo State has asked a former Governor of the State, Adams Oshiomhole, not to attempt overturning the mandate of the people by contesting the victory of Governor Godwin Obaseki at the September 2020 governorship poll at the court. The deputy governor disclosed this during an empowerment programme for Afemai Youths in Ogbona and Jattu respectively at the weekend, noting his utmost confidence in the judiciary and President Muhammadu Buhari to protect the country’s democracy and the mandate of the Edo people. Shaibu alleged that Oshiomhole played a key role in the Supreme Court victory of Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State and claimed he was set to replicate same in Edo State to pervert the popular victory of Obaseki. “The Nigeria Judiciary is known to...

Christmas Not a Time to Stoke the Embers of Hatred, Lai Mohammed Replies Kukah

26Dec

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Religion, Security

Christmas Not a Time to Stoke the Embers of Hatred, Lai Mohammed Replies Kukah

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, on Saturday, cautioned the Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Mathew Kukah, that it was “graceless and impious for any religious leader to use the period of Christmas, which is a season of peace, to stoke the embers of hatred, sectarian strife and national disunity”. He disclosed this in a statement titled, ‘FG Urges Religious Leaders To Eschew Message of Disharmony’. also warned religious leaders in the country to “refrain from stoking the embers of hatred and disunity” which could “trigger unintended consequences,” Punch reports. The Minister spoke in reaction to Bishop Kukah’s Christmas message where he accused President Muhammadu Buhari of nepotism. Kukah had said, “Every honest Nigerian knows that there is no way any non-Nor...

Buhari Deliberately Sacrificing Dreams of Nigerians to Stratify Northern Dominance – Bishop Kukah

26Dec

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Religion, Safety, Security

Buhari Deliberately Sacrificing Dreams of Nigerians to Stratify Northern Dominance – Bishop Kukah

Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Rev Mathew Kukah has said President Muhammadu Buhari has deliberately sacrificed the dreams of Nigerians for what seemed like an agenda to institutionalise northern hegemony. Kukah said appeared to be retrogressing under President Buhari’s administration, insisting that the must explain the mystery behind the endless bloodbath in the country occasioned by insecurity. The Bishop said these in his Christmas message titled, ‘A Nation in Search of Vindication,’ on Friday. Kukah said, “This government owes the nation an explanation as to where it is headed as we seem to journey into darkness. The spilling of blood must be related to a more sinister plot that is beyond our comprehension. Are we going to remain hogtied by these evil men or are they grad...