Former Enugu State Governor Chimaroke Nnamani has chided presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, to get down from his ‘high horse’, and instead join president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu in making a new nation. Nnamani said this while speaking to journalists on Sunday. He described Obi’s petition against Tinubu as ‘dead on arrival’, stressing that from the inception, Obi never had the ‘spread’ nor the ‘national appeal’ required to win the presidential election of February 25, 2023. He continued, “His appeal to non-electoral matters is to demarket the President-elect and besmirch his reputation. “He does not have near…
Author: Victor Fola
President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu is expected to return to Nigeria today ahead of the May 29 inauguration ceremony. Director of Media and Publicity, Tinubu/Shettima campaign organization, Bayo Onanuga made this known on Monday. Onanuga said via his Twitter account that the President-elect has been on vacation in France. According to reports, Tinubu whose plane is billed to land at the presidential wing of the Abuja Airport will be escorted from the airport by a carnival-like motorcade to the Defence House. The president-elect had jetted out of Nigeria to France on March 21, a trip his campaign council said was meant…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has dissolved its Presidential Campaign Council. The campaign council was constituted to ensure the victory of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu in the last election. The dissolution was disclosed in a statement signed by the council’s Director General, Governor Simon Lalong and the Secretary, James Faleke. Lalong commended President Muhammadu Buhari for supporting the council during the election period. According to Lalong, the council won’t have achieved its result without Buhari’s support. He said, “However, we have concluded that it is in the best interest of the campaign and its stakeholders for us to dissolve our…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has voided the petitions being filed by Peter Obi and the LP, on the one hand, and Atiku and the PDP on the other, labeling them ‘ungrantable’. The electoral umpire asked the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) to reject the prayers, which among others seek the declaration of Obi as winner of the February 25 poll. INEC, the 1st respondent, stated this in the reply filed by its lawyer, Abubakar Mahmoud (SAN), at the PEPC’s Secretariat, in Abuja on April 10. The commission prayed the court to either “dismiss or strike out the petition…
The Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has given an order for the demolition of three two-storey buildings in Banana Island following the collapse of a seven-storey building in the area. Sanwo-Olu gave the order on Saturday during his visit to the site of the collapsed seven-storey building and inspection of other infrastructure in the area. At 310 Close, the Governor ordered the demolition of the two-storey building because it was an illegal structure devoid of approval. Also at 306 Close, the governor ordered the removal of two-storey buildings adjacent to each other because they were constructed under the powerline…
Concession of the Cassava Bio-mass, Bio-ethanol Value Chain and the National Fire Detection & Alarm System (NAFDAS), approved by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) recently, targets among other things, a revenue generation of over N180 billion. This was disclosed by the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) in a press statement made available to Tribune Online on Saturday in Abuja. The NAFDAS is for the effective prevention, detection and management of fire across the country, while the concession of the Cassava Bio-mass, Bio-ethanol Value Chain aims to create wealth, provide jobs, reduce poverty, improve food security & nutrition, provide renewable energy…
Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa says there are plans ongoing to evacuate Nigerians from Sudan. She, however, explained that it is impossible for any flights to leave at this time. This was contained in a statement by Mr Gabriel Odu, Media, Public Relations and Protocols Unit, NIDCOM in Abuja. Dabiri-Erewa said the Nigerian Mission in Sudan and the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) had put in place arrangements for evacuation of students and citizens stranded in Sudan. She said that the tense situation in Sudan made it “risky and impossible for any flights at this point…
Nearly a month after Peter Obi, Labour Party’s candidate, denied the leaked audio tape in which he was heard plotting a ‘religious war’ with famous cleric and founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide, Bishop David Oyedepo, the former Anambra governor has failed to make good his threat to bring legal action against the online news outlet that reported the leak and analysed his widely condemned role. His refusal to sue based on his contention that the audio leak was a defamatory fabrication has prompted fresh allegations that Obi’s denial and resort to legal steps was merely a distraction tactic deployed…
US-based Nigerian rapper, Darlington Okoye, popularly known as Speed Darlington, has said that afrobeats star, Davido lacks musical talent The rapper said it amazes him how the DMW boss manages to achieve and maintain a great music career despite lacking talent. He stated this via his Instagram on Friday. Sharing a flyer of one the singer’s upcoming events, Speed Darlington wrote, “I don’t know how you manage to maintain a career. Your lack of talent amazes me yet you have a career. Davido recently released gus fourth music studio album ‘Timeless’. The 17-track album has attracted a mix of knocks…
Borno State governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has indicated that while he will seriously miss the huge support he got from President Muhammadu Buhari, he is highly relieved that the combination of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Senator Kashim are stepping in. Zulum described the APC’s victory in the February 25th presidential elections as the greatest relief to him and his administration. Zulum said this on Friday when he hosted the Vice President-elect, Kashim Shettima to a Sallah lunch at the Government House in Maiduguri. “It is one of my greatest joys that here today; HE Senator Kashim Shettima is sitting in…