By abiodun KOMOLAFE To start with, election candidacy ought not to be an impromptu decision. For inspiration, we may have to turn to the Western civilization for succour. After all, our social structures and institutions are patterned after theirs. In the United Kingdom, as in other saner climes, young men and women who participate in school politics – and are interested in running governments – are provided with the ample chance to express themselves in an enabling environment; and they follow through till they graduate from these schools. It’s like a recruitment centre; and they eventually form the bulk of…
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By ABEL JOHNGOLD Senator Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), is expected to commission the Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje Auditorium in University of Ibadan (UI), on Tuesday, 7th February, 2023. The governor of Kano State, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, Ph:D, OFR, an alumnus of the University of Ibadan, has invited his Party presidential flag-bearer, to commission the auditorium he built through the influence of the University of Ibadan Alumni Association (UIAA). The event is expected to be chaired by the Federal Minister of Special Duties and former Governor of Benue State, His Excellency…
Executive Assistant on Communications to the Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Governor of Delta State, Fred Latimore Oghenesivbe Esq, has described the incoming first lady of Delta State, Chief Mrs Tobore Oborevwori, as a woman of substance and a strong pillar of support to her life partner and hearthrob, Rt Hon Sheriff Francis Oborevwori, JP., the incoming governor of Delta State. Oghenesivbe in a goodwill message on the occasion of her birthday anniversary celebration on Sunday, 5th February, and made available to newsmen said, Delta will soon have another caring, humble, accommodating and prayerful mother…
By Wole Olujobi After a week of a busy schedule on campaign trails across the nation selling their development agenda to Nigerians ahead of the February 25, 2023 presidential election, the convoy of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and vice presidential candidate, Kashim Shettima, rolled into Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State capital, on Friday 3, 2023 in a blaze of pomp and glory, as members of APC and general public lined the streets to welcome the team they see as the solution to the myriads of problems that Nigerians sleep and wake up with…
Except for those with verifiable constraints such as lacking supplies from the Central Bank of Nigeria, Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum has directed that any bank which refuses to dispense new naira notes via Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) and banking halls should have its land revoked by the state government. Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum issued the directive on Friday afternoon in Maiduguri after visiting branches of banks to assess problems being faced by residents in trying to access new naira notes via long queues at ATMs amid acute scarcity and hopelessness. “Any bank in Borno State that is…
Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon Ndudi Elumelu, has been adopted as Sole Candidate by communities in the Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency ahead of the February 25 National Assembly elections. Elumelu, who represents Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency, was adopted as sole candidate for re-election into the House of Representatives at a Town Hall meeting with stakeholders and constituents from six communities in Oko in Oshimili North Local Government Area, Delta State on Thursday. The communities have expressed their determination to re-elect him given his impressive performance in the area of quality representation, constituency projects and citizen empowerment. Oko communities…
By Suyi Ayodele There are two insects in Yoruba cosmology that are similar. But they are very distinct. One is oyin (bee). The other is agbon (wasp). Both equally sting in their unique ways. Oyin, for instance, is less aggressive and stings only when it is threatened. On the other hand, agbon is very aggressive, territorial, domineering and controls its space. While oyin and agbon live in almost similar nests (with oyin’s own a bit concealed), agbon openly displays its abode, daring anyone to come near it. Now, when these two insects set out to fight, oyin stings and leaves marks of the attack on its victims.…
The people of this country have been compelled to live under excruciating pains occasioned, mainly, by the contrived crisis in the petroleum sector. Nigerians have been at the mercy of the unscrupulous elements in the distribution chain who have sustained the artificial scarcity of the product since late last year. The unsavoury sight of the past has not only resurfaced in all the major cities of the country. It is also eroding the goodwill enjoyed by the Federal Government for the stability achieved in the past seven years. Nigerians have been living with scarcity of petroleum products for some time…
Eligible votes in Nigeria have been advised to vote out the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, on February 25, so as to pave way for good governance from May 29 under the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Spokesperson of Delta State Campaign Council of PDP, Latimore Oghenesivbe, in a statement on Friday noted that Nigerians cannot afford to ignore the unnecessary excruciating financial hardship, Naira notes scarcity and acute poverty imposed on them by the ruling APC, adding that the only alternative to end the escalating mass suffering is to stay united against APC bad governance by giving block vote to…
PRESS RELEASE AN OPEN LETTER TO GOVERNOR IFEANYI OKOWA ON THE STATE OF AFFAIRS IN DELTA STATE BY CHIEF (DR.) E.K. CLARK OFR, CON ON THURSDAY 2ND JANUARY, 2023 His Excellency, Senator (Dr.) Ifeanyi Okowa, Governor of Delta State, Government House, Asaba. YOUR DICTATORIAL GOVERNMENT AND THE REIGN OF UNACCOUNTABILITY IN DELTA STATE Your Excellency, my letter will definitely come to you as a surprise because of my unusual silence over your nearly eight years of governance in Delta State. But my unusual silence does not mean I have kept a blind eye to some of your corrupt and misuse…