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Akeredolu distances self from online scams, vows to prosecute perpetrators The All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised an alarm over a purported national membership registration website on trending on social media. In a statement by its Acting National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena, it said the website: apcregistration.com was unauthorized, describing it as a scam aimed at defrauding millions of its supporters in the country. It declared that the fake website was sponsored by one of the opposition political parties in its desperate plot to harvest APC’s members ahead of the 2019 general elections. Read More: More intrigues as election budget contends with legislative processes Urging its supporters to take advantage of the ongoing continuous nationwide membership registration exercise in the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, the party urged security agencies to urgently investigate those behind the website and its sponsors. ...

$1=N72 in 1999 when PDP got to power. They left it at N234. •50kg of rice was N800 in 1999. They left at 8,000/50kg. Nitel, Nepa, Nigerian Airways, NRC, Nigerian Shipping, NMT, OSTM, Ajaokuta steel, Nipost, & National Oil ...Dunlop, Nitex, Nascon, Dicon, Volkswagen, NEPA, Nigerchin, Michelin, Nichemtex and NIC were all alive in 1999. They killed and buried them all before leaving in 2015. The assets they stripped and shared amongst themselves. Think deep before you copy and paste online. Deep within your mind, you know your poverty started decades back. Buhari/Osinbajo government is not the genesis of your woes. theirs' is to fix the broken bones. And putting broken bones together comes with a lot of initial pains. Look at the kind of financial discipline Nigerians have now, Northern Nigerian almost lost it completely to insurgency but look at today. What's our treasury saying? We want to just enjoy without suffering the consequences of the idiot...

1) How many tithes and offerings are being dropped in churches and mosques these days? Please verify. 2) How many Pastors or Imams are still flying their private jets or buying new ones?  I am sure most of them can't even pay for the parking space. No more awuf money! 3) Call your bureau de change Mallam and ask how market? You would like to know how much has been laundered to Dubai recently. 4) Visit  Sheraton hotels or Transcorp on weekends. Wao! Where are the big boys? Where are the easy-going girls? No more market for easy money! 5) If you know any MDA, Head of agencies, check out whether their children are still in the UK or USA studying. The ghost workers are gone for good. 6) Go to NPA, the cargo section, how many Senators with waivers whose containers have arrived?  They will say,  oga you de joke?  Call Atiku about his INTEL,  am sure he will bang phone on you. 7)Take time to walk around, are you still seeing abandoned projects? Try to ...

I have read the recent transmissions by Senator Bukola Saraki directed at my Igbo tribe. I have deliberately kept mum on this as I had earlier resolved to speak less on Igbos as regards the 2019 Elections and 2023 Presidency having said quite a bit. However seeing as some of my brethren have swallowed the cheap bait, I will chip this in just to keep the reality before us, at least for posterity sake. Truth is bitter but it's still the best medicine. My people say; 'He who does not remember where the rain started beating him, will not remember where it stopped'. REWIND TO 2014. A new National Party was being conceived. Political Parties, political players, and Regions were being wooed to the new alliance. 'We' Igbos (read South East) vehemently refused to touch it even with a long pole. We packaged, sold to ourselves and bought the baseless propaganda that it was an Islamic alliance that would birth an "Islamic" and "Hausa" Party. Simply ...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has again called on Dr Bukola Saraki to resign his position as the President of the Senate. In a statement on Wednesday by the party’s Acting National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena, the APC claimed that the Senate President lacked the moral ground to retain the position after defecting to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). “We reiterate our call for the Senate President to resign from the position immediately as he no longer has the moral and legitimate ground to occupy that position as a member of the minority PDP. “Going by the popular axiom, the majority will have their way, but the minority will have their say,” the ruling party said. They also reacted to the  invasion of the National Assembly complex  in Abuja by security operatives who prevented lawmakers from entering the complex on Tuesday. The APC noted that while they have some contention with the leadership of the National Assembly as currently constituted, t...

Security reports indicates that DG DSS was used by saraki to block the entrance of the National Assembly to tarnish the name of the government, so as to look like Nigeria was drifting into dictatorship. After watching from far away in London and got briefings from the DG NIA who was planted to spy on lawal daura, PMB  has directed the immediate sack of lawal daura as director general of the department of state service. He has been on the watch list of Pmb for sometime because, he is a mole in government and sympathetic to bukola saraki.

- EFCC freezes Adamawa State Accounts. (20/06/2014). - Adamawa Legislative arm moved sitting venue to Abuja (Akwa Ibom Lodge). (June-July, 2014). - Governor Nyako Impeached (15/07/2014). - Governor Nyako on Exile. - Governor Rotimi Amaechi private jet impounded at Kano airport (19/06/2014). - Governor Rotimi Amaechi aircraft grounded at Akure airport (June, 2014). - Soldiers hold Amaechi hostage in Akure. - National Assembly under lock and key by Police/DSS (20/11/2014). - Sanusi Lamido Sanusi sacked for raising flag on unremitted ($12 billion), (20/02/2014). - GEJ pardoned Ex-convict Diepreye Alamieyeseigha (March, 2013). - Jos bombings 118 dead over 56 injured (20/05/2014). - Nyanya bombing 88 killed, over 200 injured. - Kano attack 185+ killed (08/04/2012). - Terror attack in Kano 162 killed - Kawuri Massacre, Konduga LGA 85 killed (11/02/2014) - Baga Massacre 228+ killed (19-20/04/2014). - Madalla Catholic church bombing 41+ killed over 73 injured. - Gamboru attack...

"It is still amazing to me that a longtime friend & a colleague of mine that participated fully in all meetings & plans to have us in PDP has cemented plans to defect to APC, my former party just to ridicule me. I never knew he had eyes on this seat(senate president's seat). It is shocking and surprising to me that a man who danced more than others to welcome us few days ago can be this cunning.  He excused himself from PDP NEC meeting & lied to PDP leaders and I that he was traveling abroad but ended up in a meeting with VP and Asiwaju BAT the same day we had the NEC meeting". "Even those who promised me the automatic presidential ticket are now scared of me simply because the kwara state PDP boss has decamped to APC. Politics is indeed local"

FG releases a new salary scale for it's workers, now the minimum wages of N45,000 before the end of September. The Federal Government of Nigeria has finally released a New Minimum Wages of N45,000 in replaced of the N18,000 paid previously. Details Later… Thank you Baba Buhari

The best news. There must be a Brutus and a close friend of Macbeth to kill Macbeth, so is DG DSS to Buhari Joseph Odok #buharistsHangOut

Today has been another round of drama by PDP legislators and DSS. The drama was so poorly scripted. The writers of the drama must be Saraki and the DSS. To quote the PDP Senators, and I quote: "the APC senators were gathered to impeach Saraki, a back door have been created for them and they are meeting to impeach Saraki while other legislators from other political parties are denied entry into the Senate Chamber". This well cooked story is truly a rape of democracy and was capable of staining the Democratic credentials of President Buhari, it could have destroyed the trust of international community on Nigerians democracy. You see their target? A Ben Bruce recently known for lies wailed and blew the alarm. It is still the Ben Bruce that that blew the alarm of the abduction of the police a van jumber and a tree climbing Senator. Ben Bruce became the security agency to report the abduction of a brother who was so afraid of going to appear before the court.  Hmmmm it was suc...

If it make sense to you that it was a mere coincidence for the PDP senators to be at the gate of the NASS as early as 6:00 am complete with "activists" chanting war songs and Channels TV crew to record the drama while their APC counterparts were at home sleeping and snoring, it will hardly make sense to you that the drama was scripted and acted to embarrass President Buhari from the highest imaginable quarters. The plot not to impeach Saraki. It couldn't be. It was concocted to rubbish the administration, embarrass President Buhari and tar him with the brush of a despot to harvest the gains in 2019. Even a kindergarten class would know that you can't impeach a Senate President by mere locking of the gates of the NASS or even sillier, by the absence of the group trying to wrestle power from the Senate President. At least, there's a consensus no member of senator of the APC was sighted at the gate. Unless if APC planned to impeach Saraki by online voting, the inc...

The difference between COMPLETE and FINISHED is now simplified, APC is complete and PDP is finished .

SahararReporters understands that Daura was arrested by a combined team of the Police and the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) for “breaching national security”. BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORK AUG 07, 2018 Lawan Daura, the sacked Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), has been arrested. SahararReporters understands that Daura was arrested by a combined team of the Police and the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) for “breaching national security”. News of the arrest sparked wild jubilations at the DSS headquarters, SaharaReporters confirmed. Daura is currently being detained at the SARS headquarters.

Rally women in preparation for elections – Aisha Buhari to APC Women Leaders Wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Muhammadu Buhari has called on women leaders of the APC to rally all women including new members and dissenting voices within the party and unite them into one family in preparation for future elections. She made the call while receiving women leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the State House, Abuja on Tuesday, 7th August, 2018. “Women make up the larger part of voters, as such they determine the outcome of any elections, women must therefore take responsibility of the success or otherwise of the party at all levels” she said, commending the party’s unique tradition of uniting through dialogue and calling on them to sustain the tempo and eschew fractionalization. Mrs. Buhari turned on young women and charged them to take over the political space in order to play their part in national development, urging them to vie for offices at the lowest levels...

PDP lawmakers who claimed they were defending democracy  drinking themselves  to stupor inside the National Assembly......

1. Victor Antai - Commissioner for Culture and Tourism 2. Chief Michael Afangideh - Political Leader, Essien Udim 3. Don Etim - Former Commissioner for Works 4. Godwin Afangideh - Deputy Chairman, PDP Akwa Ibom State Chapter 5. Ibanga Akpabio - Commissioner for Labour and Manpower 6. Nse Ntuen - House of Assembly Member Representing Essien Udim 7. Gabriel Tobby - House of Assembly Member Representing Etim Ekpo/Ika 8. Raphael Isobara - LG Chairman, Essien Udim 9. Unyime Etim - LG Chairman, Ikot Ekpene 10. Emmanuel Akpan - House of Reps Member, Ikot Ekpene Federal Constituency 11. Emmanuel Ekon - House of Reps Member, Etim Ekpo/Ika/Abak Federal Constituency We will publish more names as they arrive our desk.

In his desperation for soft landing Fayose and Eleka went to Asiwaju's house on Sunday evening now he paid a surprise visit to the Governor Elect Dr Kayode Fayemi... I know in politics,nothing is impossible but Fayose will be the last person on earth I Ganiyu Oladimeji will promote on my wall even if he defects to progressive camp tomorrow. Every righteousness of hypocrite is an hypocrisy itself...

NOTE THAT :- 1. The Presidency wrote to the leadership of the Senate on the need to reconvene for important national issues. 2. Senate President called for meeting of NASS leadership (not all senators). 3. It was clear that he didn't like the meeting to hold because he didn't want the Senate to reconvene (for fear of impeachment). 4. As such there's a need for him to stage a drama so that the meeting will be postponed. 5. He called over to DG DSS, Lawal Daura for being him a a usual accomplice. 6. In the morning, as early as 5am, Saraki's boys woke up and went to the Senate to perfect the play. 7. As part of the play, Lawal Daura sent his boys to barricade them. 8. The earlier insinuations showed that PDP senators were denied entrance into the Chamber. 9. It was later widely reported that APC senators were not seeing there at all. They weren't part of the script. 10. When all the Dailies already reported the incident, with activists calling for t...

Without Lawal Daura, Saraki is like, 'naked'. It is suspected Daura use to leak some insider informations  to Saraki and also coverup Saraki's financial scandals. I bet you, nobody would be happier than Magu. Daura was fond of interfering in the works of the EFCC. Daura gave himself the mandate of investigating financial crimes. Hopefully the inter-agency rivalry between the DSS and EFCC will now die a natural death. There was some kind of connection between the foursome of Saraki, Daura, Okoi Obono-Obla and the AGF. On the other hand the Acting President, Itse Sagay and Magu always work on the same page.

When the Acting President called the Fmr. DG Lawan Daura as requested by the President to know what was happening in National Assembly this morning, but Lawan Daura had refused to answer the Acting President‘s call. Osinbajo was left with no option than to report back to the President what he got from Daura. There and then, the President ordered him to remove him immediately.

Senate President, Bukola Saraki and the House of Representatives Speaker, Yakubu Dogara will meet on Thursday. The meeting scheduled for 12 noon will discus “national issues”. Expected to be in attendance are other officers of the National Assembly. Bamikole Omisore, Saraki’s Special Assistant on International Relations confirmed this on Monday. Omisore tweeted: “NASS leadership will tomorrow meet at noon to consider some national issues. ‬The National Assembly leadership comprises both @NGRSenate and @HouseNGR .‬ ‪”It will be followed by another meeting with the leadership of @inecnigeria led by its chairman, Prof Mahmud Yakubu.” There is an allegation that lawmakers loyal to President Muhammadu Buhari are plotting to re-open both chambers of the assembly. The meeting is coming at a time the presidency urged the National Assembly to cut short its ongoing vacation in order to attend to pending matters that required urgent attention. The Senior Special Adviser to Presiden...

One of the main gist in town has been the anticipated defection of Godswill Akpabio, former governor of Akwa Ibom state, from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Many didn’t see it coming. He has met with President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo ahead of a reported rally to formally welcome him into the party’s fold. The interesting thing, however, is that he is leaving the opposition party not long after the PDP welcomed political heavyweights and is close to regaining the majority at the senate. Why is Akpabio’s defection beginning to look like the transfer of the season? Below are key factors that best offer insight: CONSOLATORY VICTORY FOR APC? Akpabio’s defection is coming at a time the ruling party has suffered severe loss, both at the national assembly and at the various states. In what began like a purge, the party first lost 15 senators before 37 members of the house of representatives followed suit and then governor...

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has described the defection of Senate Minority Leader, Obong Godswill Akpabio, from the main opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling APC, as the beginning of the end of PDP. He noted that the two-term Governor of Akwa Ibom State (Akapbio) deserved commendation for acting wisely and jumping out of the crashing PDP train, before it would finally crash. Eze said: “Knowing Akapbio very well, he is a one-man Tsunami and with him in the progressive train, PDP’s end is only a matter of time. What is more, with Akpabio now in APC, the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, who recently made the mistake of defecting to the PDP, can be sure that his Presidency of the Senate is only a matter of weeks. “The present sorry state of PDP, under the control of Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and Prince Uche Secondus, is most unfortunate. Wike, who was a mere local government chairman...

\ The police in Chicago say at least 44 people were shot within a space of 14 hours in the city on Sunday. Police records showed that five people were killed in the disturbing incident which began at 1:30am. Fred Waller, chief, Bureau of Patrol, Chicago police department, said: “As you may be aware, the city of Chicago experienced a violent night. “Incidents of either random or targeted shooting on our streets are totally unacceptable. “Far too often, we continue to see the devastating effects that illegal guns have in some of our communities. “They underscore the real problem of violent criminals who use illegal guns in some of our communities without the fear of consequences of their actions. “Some of these instances were targeted and were related to gang conflicts in those areas.” According to Waller, in at least one incident, shooters opened fire into a crowded street party, adding the shootings occurred between midnight and 2 pm. Of the wounded who reported an age, th...

Source: New Telegraph The planned defection of former governor of Akwa Ibom State and Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio, from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has unsettled his successor, Governor Udom Emmanuel and the leadership of the opposition party. Akpabio, a two-term governor of the oil-rich state on the platform of the PDP and senator representing Akwa Ibom North West, met with President Muhammadu Buhari in London yesterday and he is billed to officially declare for APC on Thursday. The president is on a 10-day vacation in London, but his Special Assistant on Prosecution, Okoi Obono- Obla, had disclosed in a Facebook post on Saturday, that Akpabio would be received into APC by Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo and other top leaders of the party at a rally in Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State. Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang, also confirmed Akpabio’s def...

Source: NAN •Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo Acting President Yemi Osinbajo will on Tuesday inaugurate the Lagos edition of the National Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Clinic. Mrs Olayinka Oladunjoye, the state Commissioner for Commerce, Industry and Cooperatives, disclosed this on Sunday in a statement signed by Babasola Ogunmosunle, Public Relations Manager in the ministry. Oladunjoye said that the two-day MSME Clinic would hold on Aug. 6 and Aug.7 at Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the MSME Clinic is an initiative of the Office of the Vice President in partnership with the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, as well as 11 other federal agencies. Oladunjoye said that the event would further complement the state’s efforts at developing MSMEs in the state. She gave an assurance the state that government would continue to implement policies that would boost growth of the sector. “As it is evident ...

Source: Daily Trust News Kano state Governor, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje also expressed dismay over allegation of non-payment of entitlements by the former deputy governor, Prof. Hafiz Abubakar. Ganduje, in a statement signed by the Commissioner for Information, Mallam Muhammad Garba, said based on available records, in 2017 alone, the sum of over N120, 000, 000.00 was paid to him as travelling allowance both within and outside the country, while in 2018, over N30, 000, 000.00 was paid to him for various travelling allowances. “Of recent, in July, to be precise, the sum of N7, 409, 575.00 was released to the former deputy governor to travel to the United Kingdom to receive an Honorary Degree from the University of Reading; the sum of N7, 800, 000.00 was also paid as his travelling allowance to Khartoum, Sudan for the convocation ceremony of the University of Africa; for a trip to the United Kingdom for the World Education Forum, the sum of N8, 509, 000.00 was paid to him; while his...

Source: New Telegraph The 650,000 barrels of crude oil per day Dangote Refinery is expected to help Nigeria save over $7.5 billion through import substitution when the refinery comes on stream. Also, Nigeria is to expected to generate additional $5.5 billion per annum through exports of the refined petroleum products, fertilizer and petrochemicals from the world’s largest single line refinery and petrochemical complex. About 4,000 direct and 145,000 indirect jobs are expected to be created through the refinery. Group Executive Director of the refinery, Devakumar Edwin, who declared these at the weekend, maintained that the project would put Nigeria on the global map as major oil and gas hub in Africa. His words: “We will be adding value to our economy as all these projects will be creating about 4,000 direct and 145,000 indirect jobs. We will also save over $7.5 billion for Nigeria annually, through import substitution and generate an additional $5.5 billion per annum through expo...

Source: The Punch News The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board said on Sunday that an indigene of Biu, Borno State, Israel Zakari, got the highest score of 364 in the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. According to the board, Zakari, who sat for the UTME in Ogun State, beat Adekunle Jesufemi from Ogun State to the second position with 358 score, and Alikah Oseghale from Edo State, to the third position with 357 score. Our correspondent learnt that apart from the top three candidates, Ademola Adetola, who hails from Ogun State and sat for the examination in Lagos State, came fourth with 355. Meanwhile, the fifth position was shared among three candidates who got 354;  Akinyemi Paul from Ogun State, who wrote his examination in Lagos, Terhemba Moses from Benue State, who wrote the examination in Makurdi and Obi-Obuoha Abiamamela from Rivers State,  who wrote the examination in Port Harcourt. The JAMB Head of Public Affairs, Dr Fabian Benjamin, who ...

August 6, 2018, Uyo The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has discovered 19 illegal polling units in Akwa Ibom. The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Mr Mike Igini made the disclosure at Enlarged Stakeholders’ Forum in Uyo in Monday. The REC said that the illegal polling units were in Obot Akara and Uyo Local Government Areas, adding that that some of the polling units were located in hotels, church, mosques among others. He said that INEC found that the polling units concerned were located in violation of its guidelines; therefore there was the need to relocate and rename some polling units in the state. Igini, however, urged the people not to see the relocation of the polling units as a creation of new polling units, stressing that that no new polling units had been created. He said the essence of the forum was “to enable us see face to face and interact freely. “ “We are here to present the commission electoral plan and strategic implement...

The Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Ado Ekiti on Monday granted the prayers of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to inspect election materials and results of the July 14 governorship election in the state. The APC was represented at the tribunal by Yomi Ariyo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, who led six other counsel. Justice Suleiman Belgore, while granting the prayers, explained that council had sought the order of the court to access the election materials, and to use forensic equipment to view the handwriting of the election result and the fingerprints of the election materials. He also said the request was to obtain and photocopy all the election materials which were also in custody of the first respondent, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The tribunal chairman granted the application, saying this was also approved for the PDP.

My attention has been drawn to a news report in social media purporting that I, Mr Kufre inima has resigned my appointment as a legislative aide to the Senate minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio due to his rumoured defection from the PDP to APC. I wish to state here categorically, that this is fake news as the soul aim of this concocted news is to cause disaffection among members of this great family. I hereby disassociate my self from such report, as I never thought of and has never resigned my appointment abinitio. In this light, I advise the General public to disregard the said news. My loyalty to the Senate minority leader remains unshakable. By Kufre Okure.

A retired Deputy Inspector General of Police, DIG, Mr. Udom Ekpoudom dumps PDP, set to declare for APC tomorrow in Etim Ekpo LGA which is in Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District of Akwa Ibom State.

Information pieced together from the EFCC has revealed  that the Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for Finance, Mr Linus Nkan has been nabbed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over some fraudulent transactions by the Government of Akwa Ibom State. According to sources at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Headquarters in Abuja, Mr Nkan was asked to report in the anti-graft agency office on Monday by 10 am. He is believed to have been accompanied by the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Barrister Uwemedimo Nwoko. We gathered that many officials of the Akwa Ibom State government have been under investigation of the anti-graft agency for fraudulent transactions of the state government.  Among those being investigated are the Commissioner for Works, Mr Ephraim Inyangeyen, the Commissioner for Housing and Special Duties, Mr Akan Okon and the Commissioner for Finance, Mr Linus Nkan. Spokesman of the EFCC Mr Wilson Uwujaren confirmed the ...

The Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has directed the termination of the appointment of the Director-General, State Security Service (SSS), Lawal Musa Daura. The termination of appointment according to a statement signed on Tuesday by Senior Special Assistant to Osinbajo on Media and Publicity is with immediate effect. Daura has since been directed to hand over to the most senior officer of the State Security Service until further notice. Daura is however in a  closed-door meeting with  the Acting President, currently holding at the presidential villa in Abuja. The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris is also in the closed-door meeting. The termination of Daura’s appointment comes few hours after security officials  stormed the premises  of the National Assembly barricading the entrance. The masked security operatives and officials of the Department of State Services (DSS) arrived at the National Assembly very early on Tuesday morning and p...

 * They accuse you of False Asset Declaration, U summoned the judge. * EFCC Chairman asked you to explain ur roles in some corruption allegations, you declare him not fit for office. * They impounded your Range Rover for Fake Duty Documents, U summoned the Customs Boss, declare him non fit for office. * They challenged you failure to implement Mokwa-Jebba road contract, you castigated,blackmailed and eventually summoned the Works Minister. * Ur colleague distanced himself from your alleged atrocities, you suspended him. * Another colleague distanced himself from your anti-people resolutions, you suspended him again * A Criminal alleged you of been their gang's godfather, you declared the IGP enemy of democracy. * Now, the President said he can't interfere in Police investigations, you are threatening him with Impeachment...Hmmmmm It can only happen in Nigeria That's the consequence of I belong to everybody, And I belong to Nobody!!!.  That is to say yo...

I totally disagree. We can't make such mistake again by giving him the senate President most especially being a very new decampee and member of the party. It will dampen the morale of the old members of the party in the senate. Secondly, if I remember, he is a first timer. However, he is very much qualified to become the majority leader but Senate President has to go to Lawal while either Andy Ubah or Ben Uwajumogu will have to be the DSP. This will placate any or envisaged uproar from Ndi Igbo concerning the Deputy Senate Presidency which they have occupied but unfortunately through Ekweremadu. APC must not give room for the Igbos to begin to doubt them again as this will be counter productive going into the next year elections.... When PDP's Ekweremadu from South East is impeached, its politically expedient that another Igbo man replaces him till 2019 when an Igbo man takes the Senate presidency as originally planned from beginning but for their failure or blind refusal...

Chieftain Eze •Tells OBJ, Atiku & others to beware of Wike A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has described the defection of Senate Minority Leader, Chief Godswill Obot Akpabio, to the ruling party as the beginning of the end of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Eze, an early member of PDP and one of those who dumped the party in 2014 to become foundation members of APC, said in a statement issued on Monday in Port Harcourt that Senator Akapbio deserves commendation “for acting wisely and jumping out of the crashing PDP train before it finally crashes.” “Knowing Akapbio very well, he is a one-man Tsunami and with him in the progressives train, PDP’s end is only a matter of time. What is more, with Akpabio now in APC, Dr. Bukola Saraki, who recently made the mistake of defecting to PDP, can be sure that his Presidency of the Senate is only a matter of weeks,” Eze said. The former National Publicity Secr...

Source: The Punch News Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola Nigeria’s current power generation has reached 7000 Mega Watts, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, has said. Fashola said this on Friday in Calabar at the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing 4th Edition Retreat for top directors, heads of units and chief executives of agencies and parastatals. He said that although there was still more to be done, the ministry had moved forward from where it was three years ago. “Three years ago, the story was that power generation was the main problem of Nigeria. The story was that the distribution companies were complaining that they did not have enough energy to distribute to Nigerians. “We were distributing averagely 2,690 mega watts of electricity to Nigerians, but today, that story has changed, distribution has risen to 5,222 mega watts, an all time national high. “Transmission has reached 7,000 while generation has re...

Source: The Nation News National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has told the Peoples Democratic Party that he would rather be an attack dog than be a mushroom eater. Oshiomhole explained that the reason he opted for the tactics he is deploying as National Chairman of the APC was because of the party’s commitment to the Nigeria people. Oshiomhole who spoke to reporters at the Bénin Airport while en route to Sapele in Delta State said the APC would continue to engage and pro-attack whether the opposition called him attack dog or not. The former Edo Governor stated that the APC would deploy the labour tactics to humble the PDP in Kwara, Benue and Sokoto State. According to him, “I asked you to understand that what is at stake is beyond the APC and the PDP. Nigeria is much more than the sum total of all the political parties. “We will see who is who in February next year. In Edo, they made this argument that politics is different from labour bu...

Source: The Punch News Niger State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani-Bello has said that he has no plan to defect from All Progressive Congress (APC) to any other political party. According to the Governor, there is no cause for apprehension in any quarters emphasizing that Niger state has remained predominantly an APC state and political affiliation in the state will continue to wax stronger. In a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Malam Jibrin Ndace, the governor maintained that he remained consistent in support of President Muhammadu Buhari-led government and committed to party ideals stating that APC remains the only political party to rescue Nigeria from the many wrongs of the past administrations. “In the last three years, we have shown commitment to the needs and aspirations of Nigerlites through restoration agenda predicated on agriculture, health, education, peace and security, youth and women empowerment and infrastructural development” “We demonstrated throu...

Source: The Punch News The governorship candidate of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) in the 2016 poll, Chief Olusola Oke (SAN) has refuted the report that he was planning to return to the People’s Democratic Party(PDP). Oke who is the former National Legal Adviser of the PDP before joining the All Progressives Congress (APC) shortly before 2015 general election won by President Muhammadu Buhari, later moved to the AD and contested against Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, the then APC candidate. He however retraced his step and returned to APC at a rally in Akure late last year. A statement by his media aide, Rotimi Ogunleye said “There is no iota of truth in the story. It is a story planted by his detractors. “Regardless of the unfavourable experience in APC as claimed by the planted story, I have no intention of leaving APC either for PDP or any other party for now. Politics is in the air and one will understand the wicked intention behind the planted story especially at this t...

Source: Sahara Reporters,New York Shehu Sani, the senator who represents Kaduna Central in the National Assembly, says he will not leave the All Progressives Congress (APC) “for now” because he is “not a rabbit’ to fall for “juicy carrots”.  Sani said this on Thursday evening while appearing as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today. Asked if he would remain in the APC, he answered: “For now, yes”. With his many of his colleagues in the National Assembly who defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said to be promised automatic election tickets, Sani said he had not been made any promise of an automatic ticket by the APC. “I heard that senators were promised juicy carrots and I am not a rabbit. But what I know very well is [that] the PDP promised the automatic tickets,” he said. “The APC said there is no automatic ticket and I believe I am very much prepared for any form of primaries.” He urged the party to restore harmonious working relationship between th...