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Bakare Blames Country’s Woes on Corrupt Leaders

4Jun

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security

Bakare Blames Country’s Woes on Corrupt Leaders

To Citadel Global Community Church Senior Pastor Tunde Bakare, corrupt leaders have steered the country to its current state. Bakare, who contested with President Muhammadu Buhari as running mate in the 2011 claimed the President never listened to his ideas on how to move the country forward. The cleric, who spoke with BBC Yoruba, recalled how Nigerians voted for Buhari because they believed thought that he would understand Nigeria’s complexities and lead it on the right path being a former military leader. He said the same set of people who laid faulty foundation for the nation as youths have refused to quit the state as adults. They brought us here before they grew old in the job and refused to leave”, he said, warning that “Nigeria will continue to deteriorate unless we turn...

Femi Adesina: I Suddenly Remembered Why I Fell in Love With President Buhari

4Jun

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security

Femi Adesina: I Suddenly Remembered Why I Fell in Love With President Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari spoke on Tuesday, warning troublemakers in the country that the picnic was over, and the next day, I saw this comment online from a Buharist, as lovers and admirers of the President are known: “I just finished watching the President on TV reading the riot act to troublemakers, and I couldn’t be prouder of the President. I suddenly remembered why I fell in love with the President.” That respondent sure spoke the minds of millions of Buharists in Nigeria and the Diaspora. The man we fell in love with is of iron and steel, one ready and willing to knock sense into contumacious heads, whipping everyone into line. And being kind to us in the process. A kind bully, if you like the oxymoron. How did things unfold that Tuesday afternoon, that led President Buhar...

Nnamdi Kanu Replies AGF Malami’s Alleged Comments Against IPOB, Ighoho

3Jun

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Biafra, News, Nigeria, Security

Nnamdi Kanu Replies AGF Malami’s Alleged Comments Against IPOB, Ighoho

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has expressed resolve to never relent in the struggle for Biafra independence. This was contained in his tweet on Thursday while reacting to a report that alleged the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, indicted him and Yoruba agitator, Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Igboho, for heightening the tension in the country. Kanu tweeted, “In the document, Mr Malami blamed Nnamdi Kanu & Sunday Igboho for fuelling the protracted crisis that has enveloped the country and aggravated the social and economic conditions of Nigerians’. Anyway, your Martial Law won’t stop #Biafra & #Oduduwa.” Peoples Gazette in a report had stated that the Attorney General, Abubakar Malami advised President Muhammadu Buhari to move ...

No Single Right-thinking Nigerian Will Support Igbo Presidency – Buhari’s Ex-aide

3Jun

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Elections, News, Nigeria, Security

No Single Right-thinking Nigerian Will Support Igbo Presidency – Buhari’s Ex-aide

A former Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Assembly Matters, Abdurrahman Sumaila, has asserted that not a single right-thinking Nigerian will endanger his life to support a candidate from the South-East region contesting for the 2023 presidency. He disclosed this in a statement released on Thursday in Kano. Sumaila said the attacks in the southeast are testament that the region cannot be entrusted to lead the country. He said, “With these atrocities committed by the South-East people on record, how can Nigerians entrust them to govern us? I am sure not a single right-thinking Nigerian will endanger his life to support the candidature of any South-East politician contesting for presidency come 2023 general elections.” Sumaila also stated that it has now become c...

I Don’t Believe in Zoning, Nigerians Should be Allowed to Decide – Sen Bulkachuwa

3Jun

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Elections, News, Nigeria, Security

I Don’t Believe in Zoning, Nigerians Should be Allowed to Decide – Sen Bulkachuwa

The Chairman Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Senator Adamu Bulkachuwa, has said that he does not believe any political party in Nigeria should zone its presidential ticket to any particular region in the country ahead of the 2023 general elections. His comment comes on the heels of the recent agitation by the South-East region to produce the president come 2023. The senator said its best the right candidates are fielded by all the parties while Nigerians elect the best among the options. He also said the Nigerian Government will not be cowed by the demands if elements he described as “insurgents in the South-East. Bulkachuwa noted that the South-East had tried in the past to separate the country which resulted in a civil war. He warned that the Nigerian government would ...

Insecurity: Govt Does Not Operate in Secrecy, Malami Says as he Reacts to Reports he Advised Buhari To Suspend Constitution

3Jun

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Science

Insecurity: Govt Does Not Operate in Secrecy, Malami Says as he Reacts to Reports he Advised Buhari To Suspend Constitution

The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN) has debunked speculation that he advised President Muhammadu Buhari to suspend Nigeria’s Constitution and enforce and enforce martial law. Malami discredited the report in its entirety, asking Nigerians to disregard the speculation. The AGN in a statement issued by the Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations, Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Umar Gwandu said the Minister never asked President Buhari to suspend the Nigerian constitution as a solution to worsening insecurity in the country. According to Malami, the media report should be disregarded as fabrications of anti-constitutional democratic stability in Nigeria. He described himself as a t...

Robbers Attack Commercial Banks, Police Station in Osun State

3Jun

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Crime, News, Nigeria, Security

Robbers Attack Commercial Banks, Police Station in Osun State

Two commercial banks and police stations were on Wednesday attacked by armed robbers in Apomu and Ikire towns in Osun state. During the attack, it was learnt many people were shot dead by the robbers, even though the state police command said the number of casualty was not available. The robbers were said to have entered Apomu and Ikire through Ikoyi town, and divided themselves into different groups before they launched attacks on the police stations and the affected banks. An eyewitness living in Apomu, who declined to be named, said he heard sporadic shootings around 5.30pm near the premises of a commercial bank located in Oke-Ola Area. According to another resident of Ikire, identified simply as Oloruntoyin, the robbers attacked a bank near Akire’s palace, as well as the Ay...

Lead front the Front, PDP Tells Buhari as FG Again Talks Tough

2Jun

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Elections, News, Nigeria, Security

Lead front the Front, PDP Tells Buhari as FG Again Talks Tough

The main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has reacted to the warning issued by President Muhammadu Buhari against sponsors of insecurity in the country, urging the president to match his words with actions Buhari in the statement issued on Tuesday also vowed to respond to the provocations of secessionists, noting that agitators were too young to know the loss of lives and other tragedies that attended the Nigerian civil war of 1967 to 1970. He made these remarks at the Presidential Villa, Abuja after being briefed by the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, on series of attacks on facilities of the electoral body across the country. These were contained in a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Pu...

Insecurity: Attackers of Critical National Infrastructure Want me to Fail – Buhari

2Jun

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Elections, News, Nigeria, Security

Insecurity: Attackers of Critical National Infrastructure Want me to Fail – Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that sponsors and perpetrators of attacks on national infrastructure in some parts of the country are doing so in a bid to bring down his government, vowing to give them the shock of their lives by rising to the occasion. This was contained in a statement issued on his verified Twitter handle, on Tuesday after being briefed by the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Mahmood Yakubu, and other electoral commissioners. Buhari said the assailants destroying public property in the country are doing so because they want his administration to fail. The President also said those agitating for secession are ignorant of the destruction and loss of lives that trailed the Nigerian Civil War, promising to deal with them in the “l...

How NECO Registrar Died – Exam Body Clarifies

1Jun

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria, Security

How NECO Registrar Died – Exam Body Clarifies

Contrary to speculations, the National Examination Council, NECO, has clarified that its registrar, Godswill Obioma, died of heart failure. This was contained in a statement issued by the Director, Human resources of NECO, Abdul Mustapha, who debunked reports that the NECO Chief was assassinated but rather died in his sleep as a result of heart failure, Vanguard reports. Mustapha forwarded communication from Obioma’s second son, Prince Godswill Obioma, informing him of the death of his father thus: “Mustapha K. Abdul (Director Human Resource Management, NECO). “Dear sir, this is to formally inform you that my father, Prof. Godswill Obioma, the Registrar/Chief Executive of NECO, passed to eternal glory yesterday, 31/5/2021, after a brief illness. “We request that you kindly n...