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The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan was in Katsina earlier today in connection with his bid to be the APC flag bearer for the 2023 presidential election. Lawan had long started his consultation while in Abuja but this was his first outing outside the capital city. He was accompanied by the former Governor of Abia State and the Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, Senator Mohammed Sani Musa, Senator Bello Mandiya and former Senator Tafida Umar. His first port of call was the Katsina state government house where he met the State Governor, Aminu Bello Masari after which…

Senate President, Ahmed Lawan alongside the Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, today visited Katsina State as part of consultations ahead of the 2023 presidential election. The visit is coming ahead of the APC National convention scheduled to hold on May 29, 2022. Kalu in a chat with journalists said, “if there is any zone that understands the pains of South Eastern Nigeria for being shut out of the presidential seat, it is its counterpart, the North East. “The two zones remain the only zones that are yet to produce a president despite having the most capable…

Mr. Kelvin Jombo Onuma is one of the leading House of Representatives aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party in Arochukwu-Ohafia Federal Constituency of Abia State. In this interview with journalists in Lagos, Onuma, a renowned philanthropist, speaks on his sojourn in politics, how the youths involvement in politics will bring positive change and his exploits in business. Excerpts: Recently, we have seen a lot youths taking part in politics. What is your opinion about youth involvement in politics? The youths have a part to play in politics. I know we should be in the forefront of politics…

The Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN) has been urged to support the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) in its drive towards full digitalisation of tax administrative processes. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo SAN made this call in his speech at the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria’s (CITN) 24th Annual Tax Conference held at the International Conference Centre, Abuja. The Vice President was represented at the event by the Executive Chairman of the FIRS, Muhammad Nami who delivered the address on his behalf. Professor Osinbajo noted that the theme for the tax conference, “Global Disruption, Taxation and Digitalisation: Implication…

To sustain the balance of forces between North and South Nigeria, it is expedient and pragmatic for Southern Nigeria to speak now with one voice in support of South East’s aspiration to produce Nigeria’s president in 2023; Likewise, the two major political parties, the PDP and APC should zone the presidential ticket to the SE, states a group of professionals from the South East, SE geo-political zone living in Europe and the Americas. The group under the aegis of South East People of Nigeria in Diaspora (SEPNID), rising from a meeting held in Newcastle, United Kingdom on Tuesday, in a…

Former Presidential spokesperson and TV anchor, Reuben Abati, clashed with Dr. Victor Oye, the National Chairman of APGA, on National TV this morning. Trouble started when Abati asked Mr. Oye to take full responsibility for the defamatory statements he made about another politician during the program. Abati accused Mr. Oye of telling him to shut up. An angry Abati immediately expressed his displeasure, arguing that Mr. Oye has no right to talk to him like that. Oye however denied telling Abati to shut up. Watch a clip showing the faceoff below…

Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja has refused to admit the leader of the Indigenous People's of Biafran, Nnamdi Kanu to bail. The Judge held that Mr Kanu must account for his whereabouts over the years when he was first granted bail but refused to attend his trial. The court disagreed with the defendant that he escaped out of the country when Nigerian armed soldiers allegedly invaded his ancestral home in Abia State. On the amended charges, Justice Binta Nyako, held that the prosecution can not at every opportunity decide to amend the charges of the…

Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed group, IPOB, and his lawyer, Mike Ozekhome at the Federal High Court, Abuja. The Federal Government is set to re-arraign the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, on an amended six-count treasonable felony charge. The amendment came on a day the trial Judge, Justice Binta Nyako fixed to hear an application Kanu filed to be released on bail, pending the determination of the charge against him. A member of Kanu’s legal team, who craved anonymity, says the FG had in the amended charge, listed some lawyers representing the embattled…

In a suit marked  FHC/ABJ/CS/676/2020, popular Facebook influencer and blogger, Ogechi Njaka, has sued the Nigeria Police Force, The Assistant Inspector General of Police incharge of Interpol in Nigeria, Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami and one Maryam Shehu Ifa separately for the sum of N100 billion each for violating her consitutional right to freedom of speech, expression, and for publishing and declaring her wanted vide a special gazzeted police bulletin and by placing her name and picture at the FCID notice board without a valid court order backing same from from the 1st August, 2021 to 29th September…

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has asked Facebook and other social media platforms to stop allowing the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to use their platforms to incite violence and instigate ethnic hatred in Nigeria. The Minister made the demand in Abuja on Tuesday at a meeting with a team from Facebook. He said since IPOB had been proscribed and classified as a terrorist organization, Facebook has no justification for yielding its platform to the organization to further its campaign of hate and destabilization of the country. “I have called this meeting to enable us…