BY EFE MODESTUS Captain David Mbamara is a retired military officer. He is aspiring to be the next governor of Imo State under the platform of the Labour Party(LP). He is a founding commandant of the Imo State Orientation Agency, and a former governorship candidate of the Social Democratic PartyContinue Reading
…Sack me and face the consequences • As G-5 governors meet in Rivers, say Nigeria is in turmoil • Group renews demand for equity, fairness, justice BY GODDY OBINWA Aggrieved Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors known as the Integrity Governors (G-5 Governors) have declared that Nigeria is in turmoil andContinue Reading
■ Vigilantes, police to fight bandits, kidnappers BY JAMES AKINOLA A retired commissioner of police, Fatai Owoseni, who is the Special Adviser on Security Matters to Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, has said the collaboration between Oyo and Ogun States towards checking insecurity on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway has been yieldingContinue Reading
BY GODDY OBINWA The presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi, has stressed that the cost of governance in Nigeria, criminality and corruption within government space has reached an unacceptable level. He said there was need to take drastic measures to reduce the trends. Obi stated this inContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Nigerian Government in collaboration with the People’s Republic of China has inaugurated the Contemporary World Nigeria Magazine to develop the Africa-Based policies and practical solutions to tackling insecurity in West Africa. Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, said during a meeting in Abuja on FridayContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Officers of the Nigerian Customs Service have been asked to rededicate themselves to combating smuggling and other criminal activities for national development. Kanwan Katsina, District Head of Ketare, Alhaji Usman Bello Kankara who retired as Comptroller of Customs stated this when a team of officers from theContinue Reading
EFE MODESTUS The Federal Government, through the National Bureau of Statistics, on Thursday said 130 million Nigerians are poor. In its 2022 Multidimensional Poverty Index Survey released in Abuja on Thursday, the NBS said the figure represents 63 per cent of the nation’s population. It added that the poverty indexContinue Reading
Many Jos residents, majorly youths, who are supporters of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday, trooped to the Rwang Pam stadium, venue of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign flag-off to engage in cleansing exercise. The APC had flagged off its presidential campaign in the state capital onContinue Reading
BY GODDY OBINWA The Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Organisation says a “belaboured treatise of an article” written by Anambra State Governor, Charles Soludo on one of his predecessors, Peter Obi, is full of fallacies and personal vendetta. Soludo had in a lengthy opinion piece on Monday tackled the Labour Party presidentialContinue Reading
BY EFE MODESTUS Nigerians took to twitter on Monday to express displeasure over irregularities found in the voter register released online by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Social media users pointed out that there were many cases of multiple registrations and the registration of under-aged looking voters. For instance,Continue Reading