Pastor Kumuyi Warns Against Unguarded Utterances

ABUJA — The founder of Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Pastor William Kumuyi has warned against the call for secession in Nigeria. Kumuyi spoke while addressing journalists after his crusade in Abuja on Sunday warned that secession has a way of hampering God from solving Nigeria’s challenges. “The point is these people that received this divine touch they did not give up, did not think is all over, they knew that God can still do something,...

Oji-River People Pass Vote-of-Confidence on Gov. Ugwuanyi

ENUGU — The people of Oji-River in Enugu State have passed a vote-of-confidence on Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi’s leadership resourcefulness in the entire Enugu State. This was contained in a communiqué made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Enugu on Saturday at the end of an extraordinary stakeholders’ meeting held on April 23 in the council area. It noted that the people, especially the political and community leaders of Oji-River Local Government Area (LGA),...

OPINION: The Unfolding Consequences of Idriss Déby’s Death

By Michelle Gavin The ripple effects emanating from the death of Chadian President Idriss Déby on April 20 are only beginning to be apparent. Most immediately, the future of Chad has been thrown into question. Déby reportedly died while on the frontlines fighting rebel forces, just days after cementing his continued grip on power through a staged election devoid of both integrity and suspense. On the one hand, dissolving the parliament and installing a military officer from Déby’s family at...

2023 Election: Enugu East Senatorial District Warns Other Zones To Stay Off Gubernatorial Position

Stakeholders of Enugu East Senatorial District during a meeting at the palace of HRH Igwe Julius Nnaji declared that the Governorship position of all the political parties in Enugu come 2023 be reserved for persons from their zone. The communiqué released after the meeting endorsed by seven prominent political bulwarks from the zone states, “on the premise to attain equity, sense of belongingness and social justice, we reiterate the Enugu East Senatorial zone’s commitment to...

Joshua Chigbogu Ulasi—a Pioneer in the History of Igbo Entrepreneurship

Igbo’s recognizable flair for business and free enterprise did not start overnight. This story of an industrious Igbo son of the Nnewi clan, Joshua Chigbogu Ulasi is a historical validation.  Nnewi is the second-largest commercial and industrial city after Onitsha in Anambra State in southeastern Nigeria. Nicknamed “The City of the Millionaire” the town is also a major trading and manufacturing center in Nigeria, enduring high commercial activities, and attracting millions of people from other...

Jonathan Slams Aliyu Over ‘Nothern PDP Agreement’ Comment

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has slammed Babangida Aliyu, ex-governor of Niger state, over the claim that the northern Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors worked against him in the 2015 elections. Last Friday, Aliyu had asserted that Jonathan’s bid for a second term was opposed by northern PDP governors because it was against their agreement not to seek another tenure. “Since this was against the grain of our earlier agreement in the party, and which we...

APC Governors Refute Obaseki’s Currency Printing Allegation

The Progressive Governors’ Forum (PGF) has discredited Governor Obaseki’s comment about the printing of N60 billion in March. The Edo state governor had accused the FG of printing about N50 – N60billion to contain the shortfall in the distribution of revenues among the three tiers of government. Refuting the claim, the PGF chairperson and Governor Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi in a statement said Mr. Obaseki’s claims did not reflect the true position of things. “Given...

District Head Suspended For Conferring Traditional Title On Suspect

Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State has suspended the District Head of Badarawa in Shinkafi Emirate Council Alhaji Surajo Namakkah. Namakkah was suspended indefinitely by the Governor for conferring the traditional title of Durumbu on a military officer arrested for allegedly selling ammunition to bandits in Zamfara. A statement by the Director-General Media to the governor Mr Yusuf Idris on Friday in Gusau, said the state government would not tolerate anything capable of destroying the...

PDP Rejects Buhari’s Statement on the Continuity ‘of His Misrule’

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has reminded President Muhammadu Buhari that his tenure as president ends on March 29, 2023. This was the opposition’s reactions to Buhari’s response while answering questions from journalists on his administration where the President said Nigerians should expect continuity. Buhari made the statement on his return from London where he had spent two weeks undergoing medical checkup. While reacting to the comment on Thursday, the PDP rejected the President’s “declaration...

OPINION: Yoruba Debate “Restructuring” of Nigeria or “Autonomy”

By John Campbell, Guest Columnist & Blogger ______ Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland Gani Adams, in a speech at a book launch in Lagos on April 14 said that the Yoruba people have “graduated from restructuring to self-determination.” He continued by saying that Nigeria is dominated by a “main powerful bloc” that, he implied, makes restructuring impossible. Specifically, he is advocating autonomy for Nigeria’s regions, in which “70 to 80 percent” of political power would be exercised by the regions...

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