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Nigeria Finally Gets it Right with Yilwatda as Humanitarian Affairs Minister – Group

NewsDeskNgOct 29, 2024October 29, 20240

Professor Nentawe Yilwatda’s appointment as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation has been hailed as a significant step towards addressing Nigeria’s humanitarian challenges. The Coalition of Lawyers for Truth and Justice (CLTJ) hailed President Bola Tinubu for Yilwatda’s nomination as strategic to uplift Nigeria’s most vulnerable citizens. In a...

APC suspends ex-Osun governor, Aregbesola

NewsDeskNgOct 29, 2024October 29, 20240

The Osun State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has suspended former Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, over alleged anti-party activities. In a resolution submitted to the APC National Secretariat and addressed to National Chairman Dr. Umar Ganduje, the Osun APC accused Aregbesola of creating divisions within the...

Timi Frank – Tinubu govt prioritize lavish spending over meaningful reforms

NewsDeskNgOct 29, 2024October 29, 20240

A former National Deputy Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Timi Frank, has accused President Bola Tinubu’s administration of prioritizing lavish spending over meaningful reforms. Frank highlighted the purchase of a new presidential jet, approval of a 300 per cent as salary increment for judicial officers, planned building...

Ondo Polls: Show respect to Tinubu, vote APC

NewsDeskNgOct 29, 2024October 29, 20240

Ahead of the Ondo State gubernatorial election, the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Abdullahi Ganduje, has called on the people of the state to vote massively for the party. Ganduje, who spoke on Monday while inaugurating a 305-member national campaign council for the November 16 governorship election,...

Observers Condemn Kano LG Elections As Sham, Comedy Taken Too Far

NewsDeskNgOct 28, 2024October 28, 20240

The National Patriotic Coalition (NPC) has strongly condemned the recently conducted local government elections in Kano State, labelling it as a sham and a blatant disregard for democracy. Despite a Federal High Court ruling that sacked the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) candidates, the group of observers said Governor Abba...

Recruitment of 4000 teachers Obaseki’s trap for Okpebholo

NewsDeskNgOct 28, 2024October 28, 20240

Less than 20 days to the end of Godwin Obaseki’s tenure as governor of Edo State, the transition committee of the All Progressives Congress has accused the government of laying booby traps for the incoming administration of Monday Okpebholo with the recruitment of 4000 teachers. According to reports, Prince Kassim...

Kano Under Gov Abba Yusuf, NNPP on Dangerous Retrogression – Group

NewsDeskNgOct 26, 2024October 26, 20240

The Kano Good Governance Vanguard (KGGV) has expressed deep concern over the state’s alarming rate of retrogression under Governor Abba Yusuf and the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP). Since taking office, the group said the administration has failed to address pressing issues such as poverty, unemployment, and infrastructure decay. In...

Former Cross River PDP campaign DG dumps party for APC

NewsDeskNgOct 25, 2024October 25, 20240

A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain in Cross River, Mr Asuquo Ada, has defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Ada’s defection followed several other defections that have hit the opposition party in the state in recent times. Ada told newsmen in Calabar on Friday that he had decided...

APC youths, CSO tackle NNPCL over failure to revive Port Harcourt, Kaduna refineries

NewsDeskNgOct 25, 2024October 25, 20240

The Energy Reforms Advocates of Nigeria, in collaboration with the All Progressives Congress, APC, Youth Vanguard for Change, have condemned the persistent failure of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited, NNPCL to restore the Port Harcourt and Kaduna refineries, despite massive investments. The groups, at a press conference in Abuja...

Rivers Crisis: Eze reacts to Okocha’s claims 27 lawmakers did not defect to APC

NewsDeskNgOct 24, 2024October 24, 20240

Erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New People’s Democratic Party, nPDP, Eze Chukwuemeka Eze has reacted to Tony Okocha’s claim that the 27 embattled Rivers lawmakers never defected to the All Progressives Congress. Okocha had in a recent interview in Abuja said he was trying to lure the lawmakers...