February 2020

ADP

ADP Woos Members Of Deregistered Political Parties

February 8, 2020 3:45 am
Less that 52 hours after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) deregistered 74 political parties for failing to win  any seat in the last general elections, the Action Democratic Party (ADP), has called on members of the defunct parties to join the party in order to address the challenges Nigeria is faced with.
ADP National Chairman, Yabaji Sani, who stated this at a press briefing yesterday in Abuja, commended the parties for going through the rigor of registering their parties and participating in several elections.
“Our Party is using this medium to invite all genuine credible men and women of
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Buhari

Kano Emirate Crisis: Why I Cannot Intervene – Buhari

February 8, 2020 3:44 am

The President, Alhaji Muhammadu Buhari has said that he has no constitutional powers to intervene in the ongoing Kano Emirate crisis.

The president gave this explanation when he received the governor of Kano State, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje and his entourage at the Presidential Villa on Friday.

Ganduje was at the villa to present the newly-elected legislators from the state, made up of three members of the House of Representatives and four members of the state Assembly, to the president.

Buhari explained that “I know my role as the president of Nigeria. By the Constitution of the Federal Republic of …

Ihedioha

Withdraw Your Suit Against Hope, Imo Monarchs To Ihedioha

February 8, 2020 3:43 am

Traditional rulers from Owerri North Local Government Area of Imo State have called on Hon. Emeka Ihedioha to withdraw his suit against Governor Hope Uzodinma from the Supreme Court in the interest of the people of the state.

Spokesperson of the royal fathers, Eze Akujuobi Osuagwu , traditional ruler of Awaka autonomous commmunity while addressing newsmen in his palace yesterday noted that the controversy generated by Ihedioha’s case at the supreme court is currently dragging the state backward.

According to the royal fathers, no investor would like to establish their business in the upheaval of the political crisis in the …

Muhammadu Sami

The Emir Of Zuru’s Bombshell: – Gen. Muhammadu Sami

February 8, 2020 3:42 am

The Emir of Zuru, Major General Muhammadu Sani Sami, retired, (Sami Gomo II) ascended the throne as the 11th Emir of Zuru in 1995. He was commissioned into the Nigeria Army in 1963 as Second Lieutenant alongside President Muhammadu Buhari. He also participated in the civil war and was the commander of the troops that chased away Chadians who invaded  Borno State. In this interview with Saturday Sun, the British trained Army General who was at different times military Governor in Benue, Sokoto and Bauchi states explained how to end the insurgency, and insecurity ravaging the country. He told

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Femi Adesina

Nigeria Would Have Been Dead, Gone – Femi Adesina

February 8, 2020 3:41 am

Femi Adesina, President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, has said that Nigeria would have been dead and gone if not for the election of his principal in 2015.

According to Adesina, Boko Haram terrorists had already taken over the entire North and were heading to the South before Buhari intervened.

Adesina’s claim was contained in an article he entitled Insecurity: What Buhari has done, and is doing, and sent to DAILY POST on Friday night.

“Each time he itemizes the three focal areas of government, President Muhammadu Buhari follows the same order: we shall secure the

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CAN

Insecurity: Enough Is Enough – Ayokunle, CAN President

February 8, 2020 3:40 am
The President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Rev. Samson Ayokunle, has warned that insecurity has pushed Nigeria to the tipping point even as he said CAN would no longer take further attacks on its members. Ayokunle who spoke exclusively with Saturday Sun in Abuja, declared that despite all the suggestions that CAN had given to the government, it appeared that the government was not taking any of them.

He concluded that having been given everything to curtail the insecurity in the country, excuses were no longer permissible within the prevailing circumstances, saying that enough is enough.

Asked what

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Moshood Mayegun

How Wale Adenuga Made Me Actor – Moshood Mayegun

February 8, 2020 3:37 am

For Moshood Mayegun, without television and film producer, Wale Adenuga, who offered him his first script, he wouldn’t have been a successful actor today. 

According to the Lagos State-born thespian, meeting and being offered a script by Adenuga was one of his evergreen moments. “Mr. Wale Adenuga, chairman, Wale Adenuga Production (WAP) gave me my first script, he gave me a platform to showcase my talent. That was also how I got to meet some actors like Antar Laniyan and the late Moji Olaiya. They used to come for the shooting of their movies and sometimes I got a role …

Sisters Separated During WWII Reunited After 78yrs

February 7, 2020 2:25 pm

Two Russian sisters have been reunited 78 years after they were separated by the turmoil of World War II, thanks to a television show and a police search.

In footage of their meeting late last month provided by the interior ministry, Yulia and Rozalina Kharitonova, now 92 and 94, hugged and kissed as their family members watched in tears.

“I was searching for her, I was always searching for her,” said Rozalina, holding her sister’s hand.

As teenagers, the sisters lived with their parents in Stalingrad, the city now known as Volgograd that saw one of the bloodiest battles of …

Buhari Pledges More Funding, Equipment For Armed Forces

February 7, 2020 2:25 pm
  • Procures 22 aircraft, expects additional 17

 

President Muhammadu Buhari said Thursday that the federal government was committed to providing more funding and enhanced equipment for the Armed Forces and other security agencies to enable them tame the insecurity in the country.

This is coming as the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, said government had so far procured 22 aircraft while 17 more were expected this year.

Speaking at the induction ceremony of three helicopter gunships in Abuja, the president said professionalism, capacity building and equipping of the armed forces were a major policy thrust of his …

Only Unity Of Members ‘ll Deliver Abia To APC – Wabara

February 7, 2020 2:24 pm
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sir Marc Wabara, has identified unity as the strongest element needed to deliver Abia State to the party in 2023.
He said it would be difficult for any organisation to make meaningful progress when some of its members are working at cross purposes, adding that all the APC needed in Abia State was to resist the anti-progressive characters ranging from clannishness, greed to selfishness that were witnessed in the party during the last general elections, to upstage the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), that has not been people-oriented in its policies and programmes
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Borno: Soldier Kills MOPOL Officer With Anti-Aircraft Gun

February 7, 2020 2:24 pm
An Army corporal has killed a Mobile Police Officer, Sergeant Rowland Tafida in Borno State.

The homicide occurred after a face-off at Makara Area of Gwoza Local Government Area (LGA).

The corporal opened fire on the deceased and his colleagues with an Anti-Gun Aircraft (AAG). The shooting also damaged some facilities at the Limankara Police Training Camp.

Tafida was among the MOPOL Special Forces Team deployed to Gwoza last August, on counter-insurgency operations and would have completed his six months anti-terrorism operation on February 8, 2020.

Rowland, a father of two young girls, had already planned to depart Borno this

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Uzodinma Should Strenghten APC In South East – Apugo

February 7, 2020 2:22 pm

Prince Benjamin Benedict Apugo is a member of the Board of Trustees (BoT) and also a member of the national caucus of the All Progressives Congress (APC). In this interview, the Umuahia, Abia State –born politician takes a look at the Supreme Court judgment in Imo State, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe’s call on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign over insecurity problems in the country and other national issues.

How do you feel about APC’s victory at the Supreme Court in respect of Imo governorship seat?

I feel very happy, we (APC) had Imo State when Chief Rochas Okorocha was there, but …

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