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A group under the aegis of  Northeast Vanguard for Good Governance has tackled the North East Development Commission for promoting nepotism and financial recklessness rather than developing the region. The stated this on Tuesday in a press statement jointly signed its National Coordinator, Pwasato Aaron and Goni Umar Muazu, National Secretary. Read statement below; "It was with unwavering patriotic zeal that we brought to the notice of Nigerians the worrying cases of financial sleaze and nepotism that has become a common norm at the Northeast Development Commission, which scandalously assumed a monumental dimension. "As critical stakeholders and democrats of conscience…

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday said that the former Finance Minister, Mrs Kemi Adeosun did not need the National Youth Service Scheme (NYSC) discharge certificate to take up any ministerial appointment or before standing for any elective office in the country. The court held that Adeosun who graduated in a London University in 1989 was already 36 years of age, therefore, exempted from participating in the NYSC scheme. Delivering judgment in a suit, Justice Taiwo Oladipupo Taiwo, held that Adeosun from available facts was a United Kingdom citizen having been born in the UK in 1967 and…

Southwest Governors on Tuesday evening met with Senators and House of Representatives members from the zone in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory. The meeting was well attended by all the six Southwest Governors and the National Assembly members from the zone. Ondo State Governor and Chairman of the Southwest Governors’ Forum, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, who briefed reporters shortly after the closed door meeting, said the meeting discussed so many areas of interest, particularly, constitutional amendments. He said the Governors and the National Assembly members have agreed to present a common position as regards the constitutional amendments. Governor Akeredolu also…

President Muhammadu Buhari has commended the collaboration between security agencies on the operations against Nnamdi Kanu and Sunday Igboho. His spokesman, Garba Shehu, said they executed with great synchronization with arrests of individuals who had inflicted pain and hardships on fellow citizens. Shehu, in a statement, noted that Kanu and the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leaders are known for murderous actions and virulent messaging. He confirmed the “international operation” against Kanu resulted in his hand over to the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and then repatriation. The aid said the violence inspired by IPOB has led to hundreds of fatalities,…

PRESS RELEASE Ignorance in Industrial Scale can Mess Up any Man Our attention has been drawn to a press release by the two time defeated APGA governorship candidate in Abia State, Mr Alex Otti, who has since abandoned the party that made him to join APC, on the management of Paris Club Refund to the state wherein he tried very hard but vainly to drag the Governor Okezie Ikpeazu-led administration into what he clearly knows nothing about. For the sake of public information, we wish to state as follows: 1. In the first instance, Mr Otti who copiously cited the…

Former Anambra Governor, Peter Obi was mobbed by worshippers at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Karu in Abuja. The vice presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 election attended the 25th ordination anniversary of Rev. Fr. Uche Umechikelu. According to Daily Post, Obi had sneaked into the worship centre, regarded as the biggest Catholic church in Abuja Archdiocese, for the mass. In attendance were Emeritus Archbishop, Cardinal John Oneyekan, Auxiliary Bishop, Rev. Dr. Anselm Umoren, and over two dozen priests. Obi refused the entreaties to move to the front row, noting that he was in a church…

...Urges National Assembly to review provision for peace to reign What has been meted out to Niger Delta region in this PIB is gross injustice and peace can only thrive where there is justice. Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Comrade Timi Frank, on Tuesday, rejected the three per cent and five per cent of operating expenditure of oil companies approved for the development of host communities in the Petroleum Industry Bill by the Senate and House of Representatives respectively. Frank in a statement in Abuja, called on the National Assembly for an urgent upward review…

Governors of the 17 southern states have unanimously agreed that the next President of Nigeria should emerge from their region, puncturing the ambition of prominent politicians from the North. The governors under the aegis of the Southern Governors Forum (SGF) made their stance known on Monday after a closed-door meeting which lasted for about five hours in Lagos. Even though the governors spoke on insecurity in their region and also chided the federal government for not consulting them before security operatives carried out some recent offensives, they were short of mentioning the names of those fomenting trouble in the South…

Sani Yabagi, the national chairman of Action Democratic Party (ADP) has said that governors of southern extraction are behaving like Sunday Igboho and Nnamdi Kanu in their gang up against President Muhammadu Buhari and entire northerners. Messrs Igboho and Kanu are the respective leaders of agitations for Yoruba Nation and Biafra Republic. Mr Igboho has been declared wanted after a raid on his home by State Security Service agents who killed two persons in the process last Thursday, while Mr Kanu has been remanded after he was repatriated back to Nigeria to face trial. In a communiqué signed by Oluwarotimi…