Kogi State Governor His Excellency Yahaya Bello has charged party members, stakeholders and executives to eschew politics of bitterness and embrace each other ahead of November 16 Gubernatorial election in the state. The governor gave the advice while receiving the Executive members and stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress from the Central Senatorial District on Sunday at the Glass House, Government House, Lokoja. According to the governor, ”Whatever your interest in the forthcoming primary election of our party and the general election, you should remember that peace is a pancea for good governance and development to take place. You have…
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Ekiti state government has reassured pregnant and nursing mothers of its efforts to ensure safe delivery in every government health facility. Ekiti State Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Dr. (Mrs.) Mojisola Yaya-Kolade, stated this while declaring open a Ten-day Modified Life Saving Skill Training Programme for Senior Health Extension Workers (CHEWs) in Ekiti State. Dr. Yaya-Kolade disclosed that various studies have shown that countries where skilled birth attendants are very low tend to have high rates of maternal complications and deaths. “It is my hope that at the end of this training, participants would have acquired needed skills to…
John Oyegun, former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says the ruling party will have issues in 2023 general election. In an interview with ARISE NEWS on Friday, he said the issues will arise because President Muhammadu Buhari, on whom the party had tailored its change agenda, will not be qualified to contest. Oyegun said the party has time to resolve its internal challenges in order to retain victory in the next general election. “When the APC was formed, all the predictions were that it will implode in another year or two, but the APC did not implode,”…
Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello has described the people of Igala nation as men and women of unparalleled integrity, unquestionable character and unmixed loyalty. The Governor made the statement on Sunday while receiving the All Progressives Congress Executives And Stakeholders From Ankpa/Olamaboro/Omala Federal Constituency at the Glass House, Government House, Lokoja. He thanked the people for electing their representatives namely; Senator Jibrin Isah Echocho, Hon Abdullahi Halims, And all House Of Assembly members from the Constituency in the last general elections. The Governor said he was greatly indebted to the people of Igala nation noting that he will reciprocate in…
Ocherome Nnanna of Vanguard went to bring news of April as Breaking News to counter and balance that of yesterday because people are trolling the Igbos…..imagine that level of journalistic scumness. Vanguard is everything a newspaper should never be. Everything about them from its Editorial Board chairman, Ocherome Nnanna, to their readers are overt and covert ethnic bigots.
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Employment, Labour & Productivity, Senator Benjamin Uwajumogu has commended the efforts of President Muhammadu Buhari in his economic development agenda which has led to the current rise of employment figures in the country. Reacting to the July 2019 Purchasing Index Report (PMI) report of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) which showed sustained rise in employment level index for the 27th consecutive month, Sen Uwajumogu stated that the economic policies of the Federal Govt was yielding sustainable development and dividends for citizens of the country. The CBN PMI report is a statistical tool used by…
1• Arrest of Nigeria’s most notorious Kidnap kingpin Billionaire Kidnapper Chukwudumeme Onwaumadike Aka Evans in Lagos State and his Gangmembers, 2• Arrest of the killers of former Chief of Defense Staff (CDS) Air Marshal Alex Badeh ‘rtd’ along Keffi-Gitata Kaduna Road, 3• Arrest of the most wanted Boko-Haram Commander Umar Abdulmalik and Eight (8) of his Terrorists gang members, 4• Arrest of Twenty-two (22) Boko-Haram Terrorist gang members responsible for the kidnap of the Chibok School Girls in 2014 and also responsible for series of suicide bombings/several attacks and ambush against Security Agents in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa States. 5•…
On a certain Sunday morning in the year 2012, I casually dialled Senator Dahiru Awaisu’s mobile and he picked up quickly, I spoke with him in our local dialect, realising it was his brother at other end of the phone, he listened calmly and carefully to me. I proposed something to him and he asked me to meet him at the Office – Senate wing of the National Assembly, the next day. I wanted Tuesday, so I could raise the TP fair between that Sunday and Monday evening. He told me there will be Senate sitting on Tuesday, so he…
1990 was repeatedly hyped by then Nigerian governments as year to achieve all that we ever dreamt about as a nation. Instead successive governments tilted govetnance policy directions, and decision making processes along ethinic, religious and other primordial sentiments. Therefore instead of socioeconomic, political and technological advancement, 30 years down the line, Nigeria has lost more grounds to insecurity, injustice and disunity. Come 20th September 2019 in Lagos Nigeria, and in celebration of the World Peace Day 2019, Community Agenda for Peace (Centre for Public Peace and Conflict Prevention) will host the 3rd National Conference on Public Peace and Conflict…
Alara The most prominent traditional rulers in Ekiti State, called the ‘Pelupelu Obas’, recently sued Governor Kayode Fayemi, challenging his appointment of the Alawe of Ilawe Ekiti, Oba Adebanji Alabi, as Chairman of the state traditional council. One of the state’s Pelupelu monarchs, Alara of Aramoko, Oba Olu Adeyemi, tells ABIODUN NEJO the position of the most prominent kings in the state What criteria do the Alademerindinlogun (most prominent kings, also called Pelupelu kings) want to be used for the selection of the traditional council chairman? What criteria should be used again for the choice of the chairman of the…
