Assessing Ubah’s Move to APC (2): Politics Remains a “Game of Interest”

“Right now, APGA, our party, has only one advantage left, and that is the advantage of ethnic privilege.” —Ebuka Onyekwelu For nearly one month since Sen. Ifeanyi Ubah joined APC, I am often amazed at how some members of our party, APGA, have continued to insist that Anambra cannot vote APC. This is, at best, laughable. Only as recent as in 2017, Sen. Tony Nwoye, then of APC, garnered over 90 thousand votes in the...

Aircraft Crash: NSIB Commence Investigation

The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) has commenced an investigation into an accident involving an HS 125 aircraft with 10 passengers and 3 crew members onboard, which was en route to Ibadan from Abuja. The aircraft with nationality and registration marks 5N-AMM, belonging to Flint Aero on final approach to landing Runway 22, Ibadan Airport, crashed short of the runway. Mr. James Odaudu, Director of NSIB Public Affairs and Consumer Protection said in a statement...

Court orders EFCC to release Emefiele without conditions

A High Court in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to release the former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Godwin Emefiele from detention. “The third and fourth respondents are hereby ordered to unconditionally release the applicant from detention forthwith,” Justice Olukayode Adeniyi ruled on Thursday. The Federal Republic of Nigeria, the Attorney General of the Federation, the EFCC Chairman and the EFCC are the first...

EFCC bans officials from raiding people’s homes at night

…reviews arrest and bail procedures. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has banned its officers from embarking on night raids to effect an arrest. The order came after the agency came under fire for raiding students’ hostels on Tuesday night and arresting 69 male students whom they labelled “Yahoo boys”, otherwise known as internet fraudsters. The students were arrested at Oduduwa Estate in Ile-Ife, the town housing the Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, in Osun...

President Tinubu vows to sack nonperforming ministers

…ministers to sign performance pact President Bola Tinubu has said that he would not hesitate to fire any member of his cabinet over incompetence. “We can’t complain and give excuses,” Tinubu said at a retreat for ministers, presidential aides and other top government officials in Abuja, on Wednesday. The President reminded the ministers of their responsibility to serve the people who entrusted their mandate to him. “We have to give hope to the near hopeless,...

Third Mainland Bridge Lagos To Be Close For Five Weeks

The Federal Government on Wednesday said that it had completed plans to close a section of the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos for five weeks of comprehensive repairs. A statement by the Federal Controller of Works in Lagos State, Mrs Olukorede Kesha, said that the repairs would start from Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. The statement said: “The Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Works wishes to inform the motoring public that it has perfected...

Brain Drain: Over 7,000 Pharmacists Left Nigeria – PSN

Prof. Cyril Usifoh, President of Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) has says more than 7,000 pharmacists emigrated from Nigeria in search of better practice environment abroad in the last two years. Usifoh told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) said on Tuesday in Gombe that the issue of brain drain which remained one of the major challenges in the health sector needed serious attention in the interest of the well-being of Nigerians. Usifoh said government...

Boko Haram Terrorists Kill Over 20 Mourners In Yobe

At least 20 villagers have been killed when a motorcycle was struck by an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by Suspected Boko Haram terrorists on Tuesday evening killed no fewer than 20 villages in a bomb explosion planted by the terrorists in Goni Mittiri village under Gumsa town in Gaidam local government area of Yobe State. It was learned that mourners in the village, located some 20 kilometers away from Gaidam town, had gone to...

Understanding the Ongoing Strike Action by Anambra Parliamentary Staff

“In 2021, Governor Obiano signed the Judiciary financial autonomy bill into law, yet the House cannot recruit its own staff” —Ebuka Onyekwelu The Anambra State House of Assembly Complex has remained closed, following strike action by parliamentary staff, under the aegis of the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria – PASAN, over the non-implementation of the Assembly autonomy, by the state government. It is worthy of note that section 121 of the 1999 constitution of the...

First Lady hails Supreme Court’s judgment as the “Lord’s doing”

The First Lady of Nigeria, Oluremi Tinubu has welcomed the Supreme Court’s verdict on the election of President Bola Tinubu, her husband, saying it is the “Lord’s doing.” Pilot Need reports that the Supreme Court, last Thursday, aligned with the presidential election petition tribunal and affirmed Tinubu as the winner of the presidential election in February At a Tuesday political rally in Imo State, the First Lady told a mammoth crowd of the ruling All...

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