DELTA APC SAYS DEFECTORS TO PDP ARE POLITICAL RETIREES, NOT SUPPORTERS OF SENATOR OVIE OMO-AGEGE

The Delta State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has debunked the false defection narrative in circulation that supporters of the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, defected to the PDP.

Delta Programme Implementation: NASENI, DELTA-2 PARTNERS, SIGNS $21.7 MILLION PROJECTS AGREEMENT

• * Signs MoU For Establishment Of Coal-based Fertilizers

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

The National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) has signed an agreement worth $21.7 million with eleven firms in Nigeria as beneficiaries for take-off of the Delta-2 Projects, being the outcome of the bilateral collaboration between the federal government of Nigeria and the Czech Republic.

Democracy Day: I WILL ENSURE A FREE, FAIR, TRANSPARENT ELECTIONS IN 2023.....BUHARI

• * Criticizes Gen. Babangida For Annulling June 12, 1993 Presidential Election
• Ondo Gov, Rotimi Akeredolu, Cancels Democracy Day Celebration Over Owo Church Killings

With less than a year to the end of his eight-year tenure, President Muhammadu Buhari has promised Nigerians that his administration will conduct a free, fair and transparent general election in the country in 2023.

Democracy Dividend, Other Parameters: SOKOTO APC RATES GOV AHMED ALIYU

By Ankeli Emmanuel (In Sokoto State)

The Sokoto State Chapter of the All Progressive Congress (APC) has rated governor Ahmed Aliyu high in both character, knowledge and delivery of dividends of democracy to the entire state within just seven months of existence.

DEPOSED EMIR OF KANO, LAMIDO SANUSI, PROCEEDS TO OXFORD UNIVERSITY

* Says Count Me Out of 2023 Presidency

By Joy Osayame (Politics Correspondent)

Former governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and dethroned Emir of Kano, Mallam Lamido Muhammed Sanusi, hinted at the weekend that he will be proceeding to the Oxford University in the United Kingdom in October as a visiting fellow at the institution’s Department of African Studies. Sanusi also said that he will not be available for the 2023 presidential race as being rumored, saying he has no interest in politics, including running for political office.

DEPUTY SPEAKER, KALU, RALLIES SUPPORT FOR TINUBU IN CHURCH, ASSURES CHRISTIANS OF INCLUSIVITY

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief)

Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu, has assured the Church of a place in the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu led government, saying Christians are part and parcel of the new administration in the country.

Despair: SUICIDE, NEVER AN OPTION

By Michael West

The shocking news of a suicide reportedly committed by a telecommunications company's employee, Folake Abiola, an accountant, last weekend, shook the news media space. Largely described as a good woman, unmarried and an active church worker, Folake painfully ended her life abruptly.

DESPERATE TINUBU RALLIES FORMER IGBO GOVS

By Steve Osuji

The president and his party are obviously in a frenzy. The next election in 2027 seems like a last battle for them. The passcode in the country today which gives them away is 'support Tinubu.' It's as if the president is an invalid on crutches needing support. No official speech ends without a word for President Tinubu; every government activity dovetails into a subtle campaign for reelection of President Bola Tinubu. The desperation, or shall we say, trepidation, by the ruling party over the 2027 general elections is so intense one wonders if anything else is attended to by this government.

DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH PROJECT CENTER SUPPORTS NABTEB EXAM CANDIDATES WITH N300,000

By Musa Ubandawaki (Sokoto State Correspondent)

The Development Research and Projects Center (DRPC), an NGO, has presented N300,000 to Government Technical Collage Farfaru in Sokoto state as support to prepare candidates for the National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB) examinations.

DIASIES ACADEMY APPRECIATE NIGERIAN ARMY'S SELFLESSNESS IN TACKLING INSECURITY

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief/Defence Correspondent)

Students of Daisies Academy, Abuja, have expressed their appreciation to the Nigerian Army (NA) for the selfless sacrifice rendered to the nation in the face of daunting security challenges.

Diezani, Sadiya And Betta: INTERROGATING WHY BEAUTIFUL WOMEN SEEM WORSE TREASURY LOOTERS

By Steve Osuji

THE BEAUTIFUL THIEVES:

Should we make a law urgently that our beautiful women should never be allowed near the national till? Has anyone else noticed the seeming emerging trend of our women public officials outdoing the men in making a mess of our national treasury? The womenfolk seem to take no prisoners when they have opportunity to attack and they show exceptional impunity and the iron balls of hardened pyrates. In May 2014, this column (then appearing in The Nation newspaper), had described Diezani Alison-Madueke as “the beautiful thief”). Diezani was minister in charge of Petroleum under President Goodluck Jonathan.

DIPLOMAT, KASHIM TUMSAH, DONATES N1.5 MILLION, LAPTOPS TO YOBE STATE NTIC STUDENTS AFTER GLOBAL VICTORY

By Our Reporter ‎ ‎

Renowned diplomat, lawyer, and philanthropist, Barrister Kashim Musa Tumsah, MFR, has donated N1.5 million and brand-new laptops to three students of Nigerian Tulip International Colleges (NTIC), Mamudo, Potiskum Local Government Area of Yobe State. The students distinguished themselves at the global TeenEagle competition held at the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom.

Disputed Poll: PETER OBI STORMS COURT, AS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION TRIBUNAL BEGINS SITTING THIS MONDAY

The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal Abuja, this Monday morning, began a pre-hearing in the petitions challenging the outcome of the February 25 presidential election.

DIVIDENDS OF DEMOCRACY TO NIGER PEOPLE MORE IMPORTANT THAN MY CHOICE OF MOSLEM AS GUBER RUNNING MATE.....Bago, APC Candidate

By Princess Simon (Bureau Chief North Central, in Minna)

The All Progressive Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Niger state, Hon. Umar Mohammad Bago, has said that the choice of Moslem as his running mate shouldn’t be an issue, but that people should be rest assured that if he emerges Governor next year, the living conditions of Nigerlites will improve.

Divorce: WHY THE HEAT IS ON THE CHURCH

By Michael West

The uproar that greeted the deaths of star worship leader, Osinachi Nwachukwu, 42, and former banker, Chinyere Ogudoro, 47, allegedly due to abusive treatments unleashed on them in their respective marriages, apparently brought the Christian doctrine on marriage under scrutiny.

DNA Scandal: EX-BANKER DIES AFTER WIFE CONFESSES THEIR CHILDREN BELONGED TO FCMB BOSS

By Nafisat Folake

It was a bleak New Year for the Thomas family as their son, Mr. Tunde Thomas (alias Tunde Gentle), 45, a former staff of the defunct Oceanic Bank, died about two weeks ago, Tuesday, December 15, 2020, from heartbreak.

DO CAMPAIGNS HAVE TO BE BLOODY TO WIN?

By Azu Ishiekwene

If this were a compulsory exam question, a number of politicians would simply answer: it depends. On what? On what is at stake. What the opponent does and how. And, of course, how far the resources of the one at the receiving end can go to exact revenge, sometimes in spite of the rules.

DOES GOD HATE POLYGAMY? (1)

By Bola Bolawole

Abram (later Abraham), the father of faith and the progenitor of Judaism, Islam and Christianity married more than one wife. He married the wife of his youth, Sarai (later Sarah) and when Sarah offered him her maidservant, Hagar, he took her and bore a child, Ishmael, through her.

DOES IT MATTER WHO TINUBU REALLY IS?

By Ikeddy Isiguzo

In a manner of speaking we do not know who Bola Ahmed Tinubu is. He feels no discomfort about his variegated identity. His commitment to a life that showcases him as an exemplary embodiment of averseness to clarity is only a wonder to the rest of us. Everything about him is sipped in debates, doubts, and ridiculousities peculiar to Tinubu.

DOES PRESIDENT KNOW THEY'RE THREATENING DELE ALAKE?

By Ikeddy Isiguzo

Debates are needless about the importance of Dr. Henry Oladele Alake, Honourable Minister of Solid Minerals Development in President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's administration. To put it more pointedly, Alake is important to President Tinubu. We have heard stories of Alake being Tinubu's lone choice if Jagaban Borgu needed only one man for any battle.