AKPABIO, GLOBAL PEACE AND NEED FOR PROMPT LEGISLATIVE ACTION.

By Edward Usoro

"It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it." - Eleanor Roosevelt

The President of the Nigerian Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, obviously took Roosevelt seriously when he went to Angola, recently, for the 147th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). Hence, as a very practical leader, he felt mere talks about “parliamentary action for peace, justice and strong institution”, would be meaningless without appropriate actions.

AKWA IBOM GOV, UDOM EMMANUEL, URGES FG, ASUU TO END ASUU STRIKE ARE-OPEN VARSITIES

• * Says Failure To Do So Has Calamitous Implication For Nigerian Youths, Parents And Nation

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11

Akwa Ibom State and presidential aspirant on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Udom Gabriel Emmanuel, has appealed to both the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to end the on-going strike action and re-open the nation's universities for students to return to school.

Anambra Nov. 6 poll: ETIABA NOW ACTION ALLIANCE PARTY GOVERNORSHIP CANDIDATE

* Nominates Grassroot Mobilizer, Regina Uchebo, As Running Mate

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

Gubernatorial frontliner in the Saturday November 6, 2021 governorship election in Anambra state, Chief Ben Etiaba (Ifennia Nnewi) has finally emerged the party flagbearer for the Action Alliance (AA).

Etiaba who resigned his membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday August 5, 2021 at his ward in Umudim, Nnewi, over some irreconcilable differences arising from the controversial party primary, on Saturday August 7, 2021, declared for the Action Alliance (AA) at a news conference held at the party Headquarters in Abuja.

The AA governorship contender said in a media statement shortly after his declaration that: "With every sense of humility and immense gratitude to Almighty God, I announce my new political home. It is Action Alliance!

“Over the last Four weeks, l sought the face of our Most High God for political direction. Following that spiritual process, l have found myself as the Governorship candidate of Action Alliance in Anambra 2021 governorship election.”

Also unveiling his running mate for the election during the press briefing, a renowned grassroots women mobilizer in Anambra state, Etiaba said:

”Permit me please, to have the pleasure of most humbly introducing my Deputy Governorship candidate, Mrs Regina Uchebo.

”Mrs Uchebo is a grassroots politician of many years standing, a great mobilizer of our women in politics, an astute businesswoman, and a graduate of Business Administration from the Rivers State University of Science and Technology.”

Etiaba restated than he defected from the APC due to the controversial primary that gave victory to one of his co-contenders, Senator Andy Uba.

“While I say goodbye to All Progressives Congress without bitterness and wish the Party well having resigned my membership of APC at my Umudim Nnewi Ward 1 before my registration in my new party, Action Alliance, at my Ward on Thursday 29th July 2021, l do look forward to ushering in a new political era for myself and prayerfully for Anambra State.” NNL.

Anambra Poll: ACTION ALLIANCE, ETIABA CAMPAIGN COUNCIL PROTEST EXCLUSION OF FLAGBEARER, OTHER CANDIDATES FROM ARISE NEWS TV GUBER DEBATE

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

The Campaign Organization of Chief Ben Etiaba, the governorship candidate of Action Alliance (AA) in Saturday's gubernatorial election in Anambra state, has raised serious protest over the exclusion of the AA candidate and indeed the candidate of other political parties for the election in the governorship debate organized by Arise News Tv scheduled to take place today (Monday, November 1, 2021).

APC, 2023 ELECTIONS AND THE PROPHECY OF BOGARU

By Hassan Gimba

The All Progressives Congress (APC) is losing the 2023 elections big time, says a friend who, for the sake of this piece, I will call Bogaru.

APC, PDP IN INTRICATE PLOT TO WIN TARABA STATE GOVERNORSHIP IN 2023

By Nahum Sule (Taraba State Correspondent)

The race for the 2023 governorship is gathering momentum in Taraba State. Aspirants for the top political office in the state are beginning to come out of their political cocoons. And the situation is the same in the two major parties in the state – the All Progressive Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

AS 2023 WALKS DOWN THE AISLE OF JUSTICE...

By Jude Ogechi Eze

Tuesday last week defined more concretely our previous assertion here that 2023 general election may be the most critically decisive poll in the anals of our national history. I was having a rough time, trying to tie off a tragedy that befall my family two weeks ago, which kept me away from this space for the first time in four years, when barrage of messages filtered into my WhatsApp, followed by torrential calls. It was so urgent, I had to mute notifications.

ASUU Strike: POSTPONING THE EVIL DAY?

• * 'The Mistake ASUU Made And What The University Lecturers Must Do'

By Bolanle Bolawole

After a two-day meeting at the University of Lagos, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) backed down on its threatened total, till-Armageddon-comes strike action and has, instead, announced a one-month warning, roll-over strike.

AU, NIGERIA, DRC, MALAWI, SENEGAL, OTHERS TO MEET On CAPAR’S IMPLIMENTATION

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11

The African Union and the Coalition for Dialogue on Africa (CoDA) are to hold a high-level technical meeting with top government officials and heads of anti-corruption and asset recovery agencies from Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Senegal and Malawi this week in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

BANDITS IN POWER

By Emeka Obasi

Policy decisions are taken outside Aso Villa, this is the practice even if we do not want to say it. Since 2010, those who determine what the country gets hardly sleep within the precincts of the seat of power. Call them power brokers, I see them as the real bandits.

BMO DISMISSES NANS FACTION'S CLAIMS OF TOTAL COLLAPSE OF EDUCATION SECTOR UNDER ADAMU

By Chinwendu Agoha (Governance Reporter)

The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has dismissed claims by a faction of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) that the education sector has collapsed under the current Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu.

BMO HAILS NEW MILITARY STRATEGIES KILLING INSURGENTS, TERRORISTS

By Chinwendu Agoha (Governance Reporter)

The leadership of the Nigerian armed forces deserves encomiums for effectively heeding President Muhammadu Buhari's directive for an intelligence-driven operation against terrorists, insurgents and other criminal elements

BMO SAYS NDDC'S FORENSIC AUDIT REPORT A VINDICATION OF BUHARI'S INSISTENCE ON PROBE

By Chinwendu Agoha (Governance Reporter)

The Buhari Media Organization (BMO) has said that the recent submission of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) forensic audit report to President Muhammadu Buhari by the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, was a clear demonstration of the President's commitment to transparency in governance, in line with his administration’s fight against corruption.

BUHARI SAYS COVID-19, TERRORISM, CORRUPTION, AND OTHER CHALLENGES REQUIRE CONCERTED INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE

By Janet Bassey (Governance Reporter)

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday, in Abuja, restated the need for the international community to collectively and frontally confront the COVID-19 pandemic and other common challenges affecting the globe.

BVAS Test-Run: LACK OF ADEQUATE AWARENESS CAUSE OF LOW TURNOUT.....Voters

By Mohammed Nasir Shuaibu (Bauchi State Correspondent)

Some voters in Bauchi State have attributed the low turn out of the people during the mock accreditation exercise to inadequate awareness campaign from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

CBN SET TO REDESIGN N1,000, N500, N200 NOTES

By Damilare Okunola

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is planning to redesign the N1,000, N500 and N200 notes.

CJN Ariwoola: SEARCHING FOR NIGERIA'S MARSHALL

By Olawale Rasheed

History is replete with judges who shaped their days and nations, judicial officials who imprinted their footprints in front pages of national archives. In uncertain times, the nation needs an activist reformer, a man ready to crusade for a transformative judiciary, issuing federalist corrective landmark rulings, focussing on unanimity in apex court decisions and deploying the bench as a weapon of national restructuring. Is Justice Olukayode Emmanuel Ariwoola that man to remake the judiciary for this sacred national tasks?

Court Conviction: LABOUR PARTY CHIEFTAIN ADVICES OKUPE TO RESIGN AS PETER OBI'S CAMPAIGN DG

By Alexandria Dominic-Chukwu

A chieftain of the Labour Party, (LP), Chief Patrick Eholor, has declared that a court judgment convicting Doyin Okupe, the Director General, DG, of the Presidential Campaign Council, PCC, of the party will not affect the ongoing campaign in any way.

Covid 19 Vaccine: VARSITY DON CALLS FOR EFFECTIVE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

By Ankeli Emmanuel (Sokoto)

The Vice Chancellor of Federal University, Kachere, Gombe State, Professor Umar Pate, has urged both the Federal and State Governments as well as international organizations to strive towards effective community engagement as a measure towards encouraging acceptability of Covid-19 vaccine in Nigeria.

CRYSTAL GEMS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ABUJA HOLDS 2022 GRADUATION PARTY/AWARDS

By Cecilia Ogezi (Education Correspondent Abuja)

It was a happy moment and celebration galore as one of Abuja's most academically distinguished and renowned elite school, Crystal Gems International School, marked its 2022 graduation and passing out with a spectacular ceremony.