Thousands Criminal-Herders on Trial Across States in Nigeria – Buhari

NewsNigeriaPoliticsThousands Criminal-Herders on Trial Across States in Nigeria – Buhari

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)February 15, 2021

The President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, said  that “thousands of” criminal herdsmen are on trial and convicted across Nigeria for illegal activities. President Muhammadu Buhari has been severely criticized for taking a soft approach to the herdsmen crisis based on ethnic affiliations. Herdsmen are mostly Fulani, the same ethnic group with the President. Speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Monday, Buhari’s Senior Special Assistance on Media and Publicity Garba Shehu said such criticism carried...

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Zone The 2023 Presidency To South- Gov. Ganduje

NewsNigeriaPoliticsZone The 2023 Presidency To South- Gov. Ganduje

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 14, 2021

Kano State Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has said the Presidency in 2023 must be zoned to the South. The governor, who stated this during an interview on television, said he was not unmindful of the fact that the Nigerian constitution does not have provision for zoning, but that it was important to adopt it since it was strategic in winning elections. Presidency must go to “the Southern part of the country, but there should be a...

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Group Seeks Obiano’s Support for Someone from Nnewi South LGA to Become Governor

NewsNigeriaPoliticsGroup Seeks Obiano’s Support for Someone from Nnewi South LGA to Become Governor

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)February 11, 2021

A group, Anambra South for Better Tomorrow, in association with youth organizations and the All Progressives Grand Alliance –APGA- youth arm in Nnewi South and Anambra South, yesterday held an awareness exercise where they also asked the Governor of Anambra State and the leadership of the APGA to avail someone from Nnewi South the opportunity to succeed governor Obiano whose tenure of office will elapse in exactly one year, one month and six days. The...

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2023 : Nigerians Will Vote Out APC – Gov Wike

NewsNigeriaPolitics2023 : Nigerians Will Vote Out APC – Gov Wike

Ibrahim Abdul' Aziz (Correspondent)February 4, 2021

By Ibrahim Abdul’Aziz, Regional Correspondent _____ YOLA — Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike says the inability of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to tackle insurgency, banditry, and corruption will compel Nigerians to vote out the party in 2023. Governor Wike noted with the current economic woe of the country and escalating banditry, it was obvious that Nigerians have realised they made a terrible mistake to have voted for the APC. The Rivers State governor...

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ALGON Canvasses 4-year Tenure for Local Government Chairmen

Local GovernmentNewsNigeriaPoliticsALGON Canvasses 4-year Tenure for Local Government Chairmen

PilotnewsFebruary 4, 2021

KANO — The Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON), has canvassed for a four-year tenure for Local Government Chairmen across the country, to enable them serve their people effectively. Mr. Constantine Ikiako, the former ALGON Deputy National President, made the call while briefing newsmen on the sidelines of the association’s National Executive Council meeting, on Wednesday, in Kano. Ikiako, who is also the Delta State ALGON Chairman, added that the three years or months,...

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Buhari Returns to Abuja After 4-day Official Visit to Daura, Katsina State

NewsNigeriaPoliticsBuhari Returns to Abuja After 4-day Official Visit to Daura, Katsina State

PilotnewsFebruary 2, 2021

ABUJA —  President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday returned to Abuja after a four-day official visit to Daura, his hometown in Katsina State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Presidential aircraft carrying the president and some presidential aides landed at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja at about 5.p.m. NAN reports that the president was welcomed at the airport by his Chief of Staff, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, Minister of...

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Northern Governors Mourn Late Tony Momoh, Says Lalong

NewsObituaryPoliticsNorthern Governors Mourn Late Tony Momoh, Says Lalong

PilotnewsFebruary 2, 2021

JOS —  The Northern Governors Forum has condoled with the people of Auchi Kingdom, Government and people of Edo, and the Nigerian media industry over the death of Prince Tony Momoh, on Monday. The late Momoh passed on at the age of 81. The Chairman of the forum and governor of Plateau, Simon Lalong, in a condolence message issued by his Director of Press and Public Affairs, Dr. Makut Macham, on Tuesday, in Jos, described...

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Senate Committee Rejects Voting Rights for Married Underage Girls

LifestyleNigeriaPoliticsSenate Committee Rejects Voting Rights for Married Underage Girls

Beloved John (Staff Writer)February 2, 2021

ABUJA —  Senator Kabiru Gaya, chairman of the Senate Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has said the suggestion that married underage girls should have the right to vote has been rejected. The senator disclosed this while at the NAN Forum in Abuja on Tuesday. The matter had generated widespread criticism when it was brought up in the senate in December 2020. According to Gaya, a memorandum on the matter was “submitted by...

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No More Crowning from Abuja in APC – Buhari

NewsNigeriaPoliticsNo More Crowning from Abuja in APC – Buhari

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)January 30, 2021

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday said imposition would no longer be tolerated in the ruling All Progressives Congress. Buhari said there would be “no more crowning from Abuja.” The President spoke immediately he revalidated his membership of the party in his hometown, Daura, Katsina State. The President, being accompanied by the Chairman of the APC Caretaker Committee, Mai Buni; members of the committee; President of the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan; state governors and other party...

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Again, Presidency Alerts Nigerians on Smear Campaign Plot Against President Buhari

NigeriaPoliticsPress * MediaAgain, Presidency Alerts Nigerians on Smear Campaign Plot Against President Buhari

PilotnewsJanuary 29, 2021

ABUJA  — The Presidency has alerted the nation of another orchestrated smear campaign against President Muhammadu Buhari, using some online newspapers and blogs. Mr. Femi Adesina, the President’s spokesman, who raised the alert in a statement in Abuja on Friday, said the campaign was designed to further exacerbate tension in the land, by portraying the president as pandering to ethnic and other primordial tendencies. According to him, this narrative is contrary to Buhari’s pledge to...

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