December 2021

The Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Matthew Kukah, has expressed grave concerns over the rising numbers of deaths under the President Muhammadu Buhari insinuating that things are actually getting out of hand.

The courageous preacher lamented that his views on the worsening security situation in the country have often been misrepresented as a personal attack to the president by those who are closer to him in government.

While speaking at an interactive session with journalists in Sokoto, on Thursday, the cleric reiterated that the president owed Nigerians explanations on the rising kidnappings and killings.

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Former Nigeria’s President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has berated a leader of the Ijaw nation, Chief Edwin Clark, over his recent claim that oil in the Niger Delta belongs to the region and not to Nigeria.

He posited that Clark’s ownership claim amounted to having two sovereign entities within a state, which is impossible in any clime no matter the conditions.

Africa Daily News, New York recalls that the leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum and chairman of the Board of Trustees, Ijaw National Congress (INC), had in a letter titled, ‘My Disappointment Over Unprovoked Outburst Against The …

The Governor of Kastina State, Aminu Bello Masari has gone against the position of the Northern Governors’ Forum that power rotation is unconstitutional, maintaining that power should shift to the southern part of the country come 2023.

The Governor stressed that shifting power to the south does not in any way violate the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as earlier posited by the Chairman of the Northern Governors’ Forum after a meeting of the Governors in Kaduna on 27 September 2021.

Masari made the assertion during an interactive session with journalists at the State Government House, on Tuesday.…

A former President of the Senate, Adolphus Wabara and current Senate Minority Leader, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe were among other notable politicians who have tipped the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Sen. Pius Anyim Pius to become the next President of Nigeria.

Wabara, who represented Abia South Senatorial Zone in the National Assembly, and Abaribe made this known while addressing southeast stakeholders during a civic reception organized by the Obingwa community to honour prominent Nigerians.

In their separate responses to questions being asked, Wabara described Anyim as one of the prominent Igbo men that has the capacity …