We Can’t Keep Quiet As Tinubu’s Policies Cause Pain, Distress, Tears, Hunger — Atiku Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has said that Nigerians cannot keep quiet when the policies of the President Bola Tinubu administration are causing pain and distress to the rest of the country. In a statement he personally issued on Sunday, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election, accused the President of failing to offer any concrete measures to tackle the foreign exchange crisis and rising poverty in a recent meeting he called on the issue. According to the former vice…
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PAN Rejects Reps’ Parliamentary System Proposal The Parliamentary Advocacy Network (PAN), has rejected the recent proposal by 60 federal lawmakers in Nigeria’s House of Representatives seeking a return to the parliamentary system of government that the country practiced at independence. The lawmakers, who belong to a House of Representatives pressure group known as the Parliamentary Group, introduced a Constitution Alteration Bill on the floor of the House of Representatives proposing the abolishment of the Presidential system in Nigeria. In a statement signed by the National Coordinator of PAN, Sunny Anderson Osiebe and the General- Secretary, Fred Itua, the duo noted…
2027: Nobody Can Challenge Us – Say Wike The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has expressed confidence, saying nobody can challenge his political camp in the 2027 elections. Wike stated this during a thanksgiving service by Senator Barinada Mpigi in Koroma, Tai Local Government Area of Rivers State on Sunday. He said, “With the forces we have I don’t know of anybody who can challenge us. I can tell you it is like tomorrow is 2027. For me it is still very far, I can’t wait. The two leadership of the party, APC is here, PDP is…
We Don’t Know What Crime To Charged Emefiele With; He’s Responsible For Hunger In Nigeria –Akpabio We Don’t Know What Crime To Charged Ex-Central Bank Governor, Emefiele With; Their Actions, Policies Responsible For Hunger In Nigeria –Akpabio Nigeria’s Senate President, Godswill Akpabio has stated that President Bola Tinubu’s administration does not know what crime to charge a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele with. The former Minister of Niger Delta noted that the actions and policies taken under Emefiele’s watch as the governor of the apex bank were responsible for hunger in Nigeria. According to him,…
Nigerian Female Student Allegedly Bathes Colleague With Hot Water A second year student of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, identified as Chioma, has allegedly poured hot water on the president of her hostel, identified as Mark. A Facebook source, Valentine Mbadugha, said the female student also stabbed him. The disagreement between both students was said to have started over sanitation on school hostel where both of them lived. The incident occurred on Saturday, 17th February 2024, at Twins Fall Lodge, Ifite-Awka. Chioma was said to have reacted violently when Mark reminded her of her duty to join others in ensuring that…
Tinubu To Consult Obasanjo, Jonathan, Others For Advice Over Economic Hardship, Challenges In Nigeria The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) youth wing under the aegis of PDP Youth Frontier on Saturday asked President Bola Tinubu to seek the guidance of former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan on how to solve the current hardship his policies had subjected Nigerians to. The group said this in a statement signed by its National Coordinator, Usman Okai Austin. The PDP youth wing stated that Nigeria requires a leader who can propel the country towards economic recovery because Tinubu has failed. The party further stated…
BREAKING: 2Baba Is Dead Information reaching Ibom Focus says that 2Baba Is Dead A major security raid in Rivers state spearheaded by the police has reportedly led to the killing of the notorious cult leader, Gift Okpara, aka 2Baba, the prime suspect in the brutal murder of a former Divisional Police Officer, SP Bako Angbashim. The police and other security agencies were said to have coordinated a land and aerial raid simultaneously at the identified hideout of the Iceland cult leader and his gang in Idu-Ekpeye in Ahoada East local government area of the state on Saturday afternoon with 2Baba…
Nigerians Move To Chad, Cameroon Over Economic Hardship Before dawn, Muna Garage in Maiduguri, Borno State, was already abuzz with activities – passengers and traders haggling, while a fleet of commercial trucks warm up, eagerly waiting to hit the road. At the Nigeria Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) office inside the park, men and women in groups, obviously foreign and local traders, were busy settling transportation costs. Pyramids of assorted goods and materials were seen parked in the busy park, with the owners, mostly Chadians and Cameroonians, guarding them before getting them loaded on trucks to the target destinations.…
Hardship: Nigerian Government Sets To Sell Rice N20,000 Each Bag, Other Food Items At Lower Prices As part of the measures to ameliorate the suffering of citizens occasioned by high cost of food items, the Nasarawa State government has reached an agreement with traders and marketers association in the state to buy off their wares and sell them at discounted prices to the people. Following the agreement, the government has taken custody of more than 2,100 bags of rice from the association for onward sale to the people. Governor Abdullahi Sule who disclosed this to newsmen said the state government…
Tinubu’s Minister In Trouble Over Threats Against Nigerians Criticising President’s Failures The Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) has condemned the recent threat issued by the Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, against Nigerians who criticise the economic collapse and rising insecurity in the country. A statement signed by Comrade Muhammed Ishaq, PRP Ag. National Publicity Secretary, on Sunday, said as a democratic institution committed to the welfare and progress of Nigeria, “we in the PRP, find such threats not only unwarranted but also an affront to the fundamental rights of citizens to express their opinions as enshrined in the Nigerian…