October 2021

Mr. Peter Obi, the former governor of Anambra State and the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) Vice Presidential Candidate in the 2019 election, has denied breaking any Nigerian laws by indulging in secret enterprises to set up overseas tax havens.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that an online publication, Premium Times, quoting Pandora Papers, had listed Mr. Obi as one of those personalities who clandestinely set up and operated businesses overseas, including in notorious tax and secrecy havens in ways that breached Nigerian laws.

The Pandora Papers are a leak of around 12 million papers that revealed hidden riches …

The Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) National Executive Committee has endorsed the recommendation of its committee to zone the position of national chairman to the north.

After the NEC meeting in Abuja on Thursday, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, addressed journalists on the decision.

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Based on the decision, all positions in the party currently occupied by people from the South will go to the North and those occupied by people from the North will go to the South.

The PDP NEC also retained the scheduled date for …

Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State, on Thursday, held a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Obiano, who updated Buhari on security challenges facing the state, said bandits from neigbouring states are responsible for the killings and disruption of public peace in Anambra.

He described the call for the declaration of state of emergency in Anambra to address security challenges in the state as ‘very unfortunate’.

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The meeting is coming after the Federal Government threatened to invoke emergency rule as part of measures …

The Governor Ebonyi State and chairman of the South East Governors Forum, David Umahi has described the agitation for Biafra as madness noting that achieving it would not mean well for the people of the zone.

Umahi claimed that the Southeast would be the greatest loser if Biafra is achieved.

He maintained that people from the Southeast has invested in every part of Nigeria; hence people of the region cannot afford to lose their investments due to Biafra agitation.

Speaking on Channels Television, Umahi noted the Southeast elites are against Biafra but rather prefer to be treated equally as Nigerians.…

He suggested that the situation cannot be solved politically, but through pacification of the people of the Southeast, adding that a committee should be set up to interface with the aggrieved.

Kalu who spoke at an interactive session with journalists at the National Assembly on Wednesday maintained that President Buhari as a father of the nation should …