Politics

Assessing Vice Admiral AZ Gambo’s first year in office

Written by 31 January, 2022
2021 was indeed a busy year, on many fronts, for the Nigerian Navy. The year kicked off with a change of guard at the helm of the Service; the appointment of the then Rear Admiral Awwal Zubairu Gambo, at the time the Director, Procurement at Defence Space Administration (DSA), as the 21st Chief of the Naval Staff.

Senate President, Lawan, Buni, othere’s meet Atiku, set to decamp to PDP

Written by 31 January, 2022
As the race towards 2023 general election begins to take a decisive shape, Senate President of Nigeria, Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan, Governor of Yobe State and APC’s National Chairman, Interim Caretaker Committee/Convention Planning Committee, Mai Mala Buni and Mohammed Badaru Abubakar (MON) the Governor of Jigawa State, are all set to decamp to the opposition's Peoples Democratic Party.

2023: We are organizing to negotiate a better deal for young Nigerians

Written by 31 January, 2022
Progressives youths in the All Progressives Congress (APC) met in Lagos at a parley between young business stakeholders, political aspirants from the 6 Southwest states and Kwara and their counterparts in government.

Why Tinubu Should Not Fight Two Battles By Victor Ganzallo

Written by 30 January, 2022
For the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, this period in his political career appears to be the watershed to everything he has ever been and aspires to be.

2023: Lagos GAC Suppots Gov. Sanwo-Olu for 2nd term

Written by 30 January, 2022
The attention of the Governance Advisory Council (GAC) has been drawn to a vexatious post circulating on WhatsApp purporting that the GAC, party leaders and stakeholders have settled for a replacement for Governor Babajide Sanwo-olu.

Glitz And Glamour As ABAT Inaugurates Foot Soldiers

Written by 28 January, 2022
The Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (ABAT) Movement has officially inaugurate its Working Committees ahead of the forthcoming 2023 general elections.

Dr Bukola Saraki Declares For Presidency

Written by 28 January, 2022
Former Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, has declared his intention to contest the 2023 presidential election. The former Kwara State governor is the latest to announce intention to seek the office under the main opposition, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Others who have already signified their interest in the party are another former Senate President, Ayim Pius Ayim; publisher, Dele Momodu and a renowned pharmacist, Sam Ohuanbunwa. Saraki gave the hint in a Facebook post on Wednesday with the hashtag #GrowNigeria. He said: “Earlier today, I replied to a follower of mine on Twitter who like thousands of you has been clamouring for a united front to #RescueNigeria. “As we prepare for the journey ahead, I hope we can all join hands to get the ticket of our great party, PDP, and build a nation that works for all of us. “Join me to make our communities safer and provide real…

N1.5bn fraud: EFCC re-arraigns Fani-kayode, Usman, others on amended 17-count charges

Written by 25 January, 2022
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, January 24, 2022, re-arraigned Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation and Nenadi Esther Usman, a former Minister of Finance on a 17-count charge bordering on conspiracy and unlawful retention to the tune of N1.5 billion. Others in the suit brought before Justice Daniel Osiagor of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos were Yusuf Danjuma, a former National Chairman of the Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON) and a company, Joint-Trust Dimensions Nigeria Limited. One of the count reads: “ That you, Nnenadi Esther Usman, Femi Fani-Kayode, Danjuma Yusuf and Jointrust Dimensions Nigeria Ltd., on or about the 8th day of January, 2015, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court in Lagos, conspired amongst yourselves to indirectly retain the sum of N1,500, 000,000.00 (One Billion, Five Hundred Million Naira), which sum you reasonably ought to have known forms…