November 16, 2021

Former National Chairman of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), Senator Victor Umeh, says Anambra State is not Imo.

Umeh made this assertion while reacting to the threat of Senator Andy Uba, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in last week’s election, to challenge APGA’s victory and reclaim the mandate.

Uba had alleged that APGA did not win the election, citing alleged irregularities.

He had pledged to slug it out with Professor Chukwuma Soludo, winner of the election, while accusing the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of conniving with APGA.

But in his response, Umeh said APGA’s lawyers are …

Former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, has asserted that Nigerian leaders lack the intellectual capacity to be classified as leaders in saner climes.

The former INEC boss made the assertion when he spoke at the Maitama Sule Leadership Lecture Series, organised by the Students Wing of Coalition of Northern Groups (SW-CNG), in Katsina, on Monday. He attributed the security and economic challenges affecting the country to bad leadership.

He said Nigeria has greedy leaders who have narrow vision in terms of how to usher in developmental projects.

Jega, who was the chairman of …

Controversial Kaduna based Islamic Scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has built a school for herdsmen at Kagarko Grazing Reserve near Kohoto Village forest in Kaduna state.

The scholar, who named the school as Sheikh Uthman Bin Fodio Centre, revealed that it was funded by Sultan Mosque Foundation Limited.

According to him, the centre designed to educate herdsmen, will be replicated everywhere in the country.

He said instead of spending billions on military hardware to fight the bandits, Nigeria should spend such on schools and teachers to educate the herdsmen.

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