BY GODWIN OBI Coalition of civil society groups, under the umbrella of Joint Action Front (JAF), yesterday, called on the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) to commence mobilisation for a general strike and mass protest over the protracted industrial action by academic and non-academic staff ofContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Socio-political commentator, Reno Omokiri, has knocked Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, for jettisoning his primary assignment as labour and employment minister to become spokesman for the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Omokiri, who featured on television show, yesterday, claimedContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has, again, decried the dearth of effective political leadership in Nigeria. He said such effective leadership, when identified, should place service above self and work to secure enduring development for the people and the country. Wike made the observation at the inaugurationContinue Reading
BY EFE MODESTUS There were strong indications, yesterday, that the peace moves between the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, may have crumbled. This is as Wike supporters have accused Atiku of not showing good faith in the reconciliation process. AtikuContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Few months after the senator representing President Muhammadu Buhari’s Katsina North Senatorial District, popularly known as Daura Zone, Ahmed Baba-Kaita dumped the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to the major opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the House of Representatives member representing Daura-Sandamu-Mai’adua Federal Constituency, Fatuhu Muhammad hasContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The statements by the Minister of State for Labour, Festus Keyamo, that security challenge rocking Nigeria is a global phenomenon and not peculiar to Nigeria and that parents should plead with members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), who have been on strike for overContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI All roads leading to Apapa area of Lagos state will be widely open on August 24, 2022, as the Peoples Forum Plus Magazine will hold its 13th year anniversaryThe one-day grand event which will hold at Rockview Hotel, Apapa, will also Feature lecture and honours to notableContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The vacation judge of Federal High Court Abuja, Justice Ahmed Mohammed has fixed September 7, 2022 for hearing of the suit seeking disqualification of former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu as 2023 Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC for allegedly forgery of certificate. TheContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Former Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has expressed sadness at the current economic and security situation in Nigeria, insisting that the country is in a deeper mess now, than it was in 2015. Sanusi who spoke at the Akinjide Adeosun Foundation, AAF’s, Leadership Colloquium and Awards,Continue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Police in the Federal Capital Territory have commenced raids on untended bushes and abandoned structures within the city centres and suburbs. Police spokesperson Josephine Adeh disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday. While debunking reports about the existence of kidnappers’ hideout within the FCT, she said residentsContinue Reading