A former Senate President and a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential hopeful, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim opens up on critical national issues, making a strong case on why he is in the best position to be the next president. He speaks to WAPS Editorial Board member, Dr. Anthony Ogbo about significant issues surrounding the upcoming election.
As the DRC becomes the newest member of the East African Community, the regional organization confronts multiple challenges in its effort to tackle insecurity in eastern Congo. The East African Community (EAC) wasted no time in wading into the complex and murky security issues bedeviling its newest member, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The DRC, which is also a member of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the Common Market for Eastern...
The board of Twitter has agreed to a $44bn takeover offer from the billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, the company announced on Monday. Musk, who made the shock bid less than two weeks ago, said Twitter had “tremendous potential” that he would unlock. Mr. Musk’s offer came after frequent complaints about claims of content censorship and lack of free speech on the site. “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the...
ABUJA — President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife, Aisha Buhari, has urged political parties to always consider women as running mates to candidates contesting elections for various positions across the country. Mrs. Buhari was speaking on Saturday night when she hosted 2023 presidential aspirants from various political parties to a Ramadan (Iftar) dinner at the Old Banquet Hall, State House, Abuja. The First Lady had invited the presidential hopefuls across political parties to the dinner on Thursday,...
LAGOS — Google, on Thursday, unveiled plans to go for the heart of Nigeria’s Internet market with its Equiano submarine cable. Google landed the cable with its partner, WIOCC, a prominent African digital backbone company in Lagos yesterday. The state-of-the-art Equiano subsea cable, which will become a critical element in meeting Nigeria’s current and future international connectivity demands, according to Google, would reduce the retail cost of Internet prices by 21 per cent after its...
OWERRI — Tuesday, April 19, 2022, was all about Nollywood diva, Rita Dominic, and her beau, the publisher of Daily Times, Fidelis Anosike, as they shut down Imo State for their traditional wedding ceremony. The ceremony which took place in her hometown, Aboh, Mbaise, in Imo State had many of Rita’s friends and colleagues in Nollywood grace the occasion in stunning outfits. The event looked like a huge Nollywood reunion party with radiant faces, and...
Former Nigeria President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, on Wednesday, said the establishment of state police is the only option that would address the challenge of growing insecurity in the country than community policing. A statement by the Special Adviser on Media, to the former President Kehinde Akinyemi, said the challenge of insecurity around the country should be everybody’s concern. According to the statement, the former President was speaking while playing host to the leadership of the...
“It might be fair to ask how the Igbos arrived at this discreditable juncture” It is no longer a speculation that in Nigeria, Ndi Igbo are faced with an extraordinary surge of different but overlapping security crises, from violent kidnapping, and crime, to extremist insurgencies destroying every corner of this region. Besides various unpopular pro-Biafran activists and groups, the activities of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB); the Indigenous...
Currently, he is merely romancing party cliques and showcasing his self-canonized sainthood. All over his campaign literature and everywhere on social media, a Nigerian upcoming presidential aspirant, Peter Obi, has been touting his moderate lifestyle and honest decision-making aptitude as qualifications for his candidacy. Most Nigerians, especially his supporters, are very excited and are beginning to these values as a devotional creed. The first promotional story to showcase Obi’s moderate lifestyle came in 2017, shortly...
By Olalekan A. Babatunde (Guest Columnist) Recent history indicates that China abhors war or violence of any kind. Since its brief war against Vietnam in 1979 and border dispute with India for the first time in more than four decades, China has not been a full-scale war with anyone. Instead, China builds and not bombs. It is building bridges across the multipolar and multicultural world. It is not that China was not tempted or provoked...
