By Gbolahan Gbadamosi It is like hoping Donald Trump would attend CNN interview. It has to be his corpse. If they practiced journalism a little more professionally, people would mount pressure on Tinubu to attend. But they are so biased even Tinubu-haters agree he has a point not to attend. They will just roast him and use puddings and ice cream as deserts They need to at least try to be fairer and neutral and talk about all candidates on their programme instead of talking about only Tinubu and his vices. The simple way they need to have done it is…
Author: Spade Nigeria
By ABEL JOHNGOLD ORHERUATA The University of Ibadan Alumni Association (UIAA), has congratulated Chief (Dr.) Kemi Emina, over his emergence as Vice-chairman of Conference of Alumni Associations of Nigeria Universities (CAANU), South-West zone. The felicitation was contained in a congratulatory message signed by Prof. Saawua Nyityo, President, UIAA Worldwide and made available to newsmen on Saturday, December 3, 2022. Prof. Nyityo said Dr. Emina’s epochal emergence has already engendered fond memories that would not only linger in the hearts of many, but would serve as a bold statement of the commitment and determination by CAANU, to consolidate on the uncommon…
Land owners on the 2nd Niger Bridge project within the Right of Way, has called on the federal government of Nigeria to pay them their compensation. The spokesperson of the group, Chief Bamidele Imona while speaking with Journalists, said the proceeds from Abacha’s loot which was meant for the purpose of the total completion of the second Niger bridge be used to settle the issue of the outstanding compensations. Imona said an assurance of compensation for the damages done to their properties was earlier made, which till date had not been fulfilled. According to him the properties which fell within…
Deputy Senate President and the APC Delta State governorship candidate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, says his administration will establish a Security Trust Fund to proactively tackle security challenges in the state. The Delta Central lawmaker, who decried the alarming rate of kidnapping, armed robbery and other associated crimes in the state, noted that the worsening security situation is of great concern to him and that if elected in 2023 as governor his administration would tackle insecurity headlong. Omo-Agege stated this during the party’s ward-to-ward campaign rally at Ike South LGA of the state, stressing that he will improve security as it…
The national Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Felix Morka, has accused the Delta State Governor and Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa of engaging in political vendetta against the people of Agbor and other parts of Ika South Local Government Area of the State. Morka said the people of Agbor and other parts of Ika South have been thrown into poverty and underdevelopment under the Governor Ifeanyi Okowa-led PDP administration. The APC spokesman stated this on Friday during the APC ward -to- ward campaign to Ika South Local Government Area…
A Civil Society Organisation, Coalition Against Malpractices and Corruption (COMAC), has called on the Federel Government to make punishment more stringent for person who peddle false and unverified allegations. COMAC’s Executive Secretary, Mr. Babatunde Kolawole, in a chat with newsmen in Lagos, said several unscrupulous elements and racketeers have infiltrated the Civil Society Space and thus reducing the poise of anti-corruption. Babatunde said, his statement was following calls by group of legal practitioners, Lawyers For Justice Reform for the sack of Hon. Stella Okotete, the Executive Director, Nigeria Export Import Bank (NEXIM) on grounds which he described as non-existent. The…
A group of of legal practitioners interested in human rights and public interest litigations, has advised the senate, to disregard the strident and selfish comments from persons and groups, challenging Lauretta Onochie’s nomination as the Chairman of NDDC governing board. In a release authored by Yusuf Dankofa, a professor at law and addressed to the Nigerian senate president, the group declared the call as auspiciously necessary in order to deflate the campaign of calumny and hatred against Lauretta Onochie, on her recent nomination by President Muhammadu Buhari as the Chairman of the NDDC. He posited that the purveyors of falsehood…
Towards 2023, there have been clamours by the Isoko ethnic nationality for the seat of the Senate in Delta South senatorial district to get a balance in the political affairs of the zone. This made one of their sons, supported by the leadership vie for the senatorial ticket of one of the political parties but met a brick wall. Though the first shot fired missed the target, the Isoko people came prepared with a double-edged sword because their agitation for the senatorial seat is not out of place but genuine. The job must be completed because for the Isoko people…
The All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, has called on the people of Bayelsa State to vote for him in the 2023 general elections, saying he knows the way to the prosperity of the country. Tinubu spoke on Thursday at the APC presidential rally held at the Ox-Bow Lake Pavilion, Yenagoa, amidst tight security and torrential rainfall, with about five gunboats patrolling the Ekoli River in front of the facility. The rally was preceded by a visit to the Bayelsa State Traditional Rulers Council, headed by the monarch of Ekpetiama Kingdom, King Bubaraye Dakolo. The APC standard bearer, while…
All Progressives Congress Presidential Candidate Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has promised to make Bayelsa State what it truly should be: one of the nation’s largest producers of oil, if he becomes president. Tinubu said: “This state is home to proud and vibrant people. Although this is a small land mass, Bayelsa has been blessed with abundant human and natural resources. “With that blessing, your state has been asked to carry a great and long national duty. You all have given so much to the development of this nation. Nigeria would not be Nigeria without your human and material contribution. “On…