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Nigeria’s Worst Military Govt Better Than Buhari’s - Ortom

Nigeria’s Worst Military Govt Better Than Buhari’s – Ortom

Benue State, Governor Samuel Ortom has claimed that the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration cannot even be compared to the worst of military governments in Nigeria.

Ortom asserted that Nigerians were better off during the military regimes than Buhari’s present administration.

He noted that Nigeria is more divided along ethnic and religious lines under Buhari’s administration than all previous governments.

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The governor disclosed this while speaking with journalists in Makurdi, the state capital yesterday.

Ortom accused the current Federal Government of deceiving Nigerians.

According to Ortom: ‘I have been privileged

Why Buhari Will Not Release Nnamdi Kanu – Onochie

Why Buhari Will Not Release Nnamdi Kanu – Onochie

President Muhammadu Buhari’s assistant on social media Lauretta Onochie has opened up on why her principal will not release Nnamdi Kanu.

According to her, the President would not release the secessionist leader because of the killing of notable and average Nigerians in the South-East region by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

Onochie accused the secessionist leader of having led to the death of many Nigerians including Chike Akunyili, husband of a former Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, late Prof Dora Akunyili.

Onochie was reacting to the call by civil societies, traditional, opinion, …

I’m Still Plateau Assembly Speaker – Abok Ayuba

Plateau Assembly Crisis: Police Whisk Speaker Ayuba Away

The crisis rocking the Plateau Assembly took a new twist on Monday as the embattled factional Speaker, Abok Ayuba, was taken away by in a police van from the assembly complex.

As he was being led away by a police team led by the Commissioner of Police in the state,Edward Egbuka, Ayuba in a brief chat with journalists said he did not know whether he was arrested or not.

The crisis rocking the Assembly was set off when Ayuba was impeached by 8 members of the assembly who also elected Yakubu Sanda as the new Speaker on 27 October.

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Kwara Govt Begs Doctors To Suspend Strike

Kwara Govt Begs Doctors To Suspend Strike

Kwara State Government on Monday, appealed to medical doctors on its pay roll who declared a 7-day warning strike action to shelve their action.

The doctors on the platform of Nigeria Association of Government Medical Doctors and Dental Practitioners, NAGMDP, Kwara State chapter, on Monday declared the strike action to press for improved welfare for members and increase in renumeration.

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A statement by the Permanent Secretary, Kwara state Ministry of Health, Dr Abubakar.O. Ayinla, in Ilorin, said suspension of the strike action while government implements 70 percent proposal that its …

Anambra Governorship Candidates Call For Talks With IPOB

Anambra Governorship Candidates Call For Talks With IPOB

Governorship candidates in the forthcoming Anambra election have called for dialogue with secessionist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra.

Candidates of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Andy Uba; All Progressives Grand Alliance, Professor Chukwuma Soludo and Valentine Ozigbo of the Peoples Democratic Party made the call during their Live Debate organised by Arise News on Monday.

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‘I believe in engagement. If you don’t engage them, how will you know what their problem is? I believe in engagement to dialogue because their problem is work,’ Uba said when asked to

Anambra: Don’t Shed Blood Of Innocent Citizens – Iwuanyanwu

Anambra: Don’t Shed Blood Of Innocent Citizens – Iwuanyanwu

An elder statesman and Chairman Ohanaeze Ndigbo Council of Elders, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu has made a passionate appeal to the youths in Anambra State not to shed blood of innocent citizens who will turn out to vote on November 6, governorship election.

He said that those who may lose their lives if there was any disturbance during the forthcoming election are our brothers and sisters.

Iwuanyanwu, who made the appeal on Monday in Owerri, spoke in his capacity as the Chairman Council of Elders Ohanaeze Ndigbo, adding that if the Saturday November 6 election is disrupted, the people of Anambra …

Gov Ortom Clears Air On Applying For RUGA Fund From FG

Gov Ortom Clears Air On Applying For RUGA Fund From FG

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has dismissed insinuations that he supports RUGA by applying for funds meant to implement the policy being imposed on Nigerians by the Federal Government.

The Governor insisted that the state is only working in line with the recommendations as contained in the National Livestock Transformation Plan, NLTP document as approved by the National Economic Council, NEC to enhance ranching and not for RUGA settlements.

Governor Ortom made the clarification Monday, November 1, 2021 while fielding questions from newsmen at the Makurdi Airport on his return from the PDP National Convention in Abuja.

He stated that …

Declare Bandits Federal Workers' – Shehu Sani To FG

Declare Bandits Federal Workers’ – Shehu Sani To FG

Senator Shehu Sani, a former federal lawmaker, has asked the government to go ahead and declare bandits as federal civil servants since it is becoming difficult for them to pronounce them terrorists.

Well-meaning Nigerians, individuals and groups have provided various reason the Buhari administration should declare bandits’ groups in the North as terrorists.

However, the government has remained adamant to the calls, saying that there is a process to declare a group as a terrorist organisation.

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Bandits and kidnappers are on rampage in the North West, killing, kidnapping and maiming …

Plateau: Showdown In Assembly Complex As Abok Gains Access

Plateau: Showdown In Assembly Complex As Abok Gains Access

There was pandemonium at the Plateau State House of Assembly in the early hours of Monday as thugs gained access from the back of the Assembly complex to wreak havoc and attempt to remove members who were already sitted in the House.

The security operatives were taken by surprise when some unknown persons made their way through the back of the House to stop the embattled Speaker, Abok Ayuba, and some members of the House from going ahead with any proceedings which led to a response and clash with youths who were protesting outside the complex in support of the …

2023 Tinubu Visits Aso Rock, Praise Buhari

2023: Tinubu Visits Aso Rock, Praise Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday played host to National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu in Aso Rock.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that both men held a closed-door meeting.

Tinubu ton newsmen at the end of the meeting, the former governor of Lagos stated that he was at the presidential villa to thank the president for visiting him in London where he sought medical treatment.

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‘I came to thank President Muhammadu Buhari for visiting me in London when I had a knee surgery. He …

Abuja To Become Center Of Medical Excellence – Minister

Abuja To Become Center Of Medical Excellence – Minister

The Minister of the FCT, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, has said that stakeholders in the Abuja project are being encouraged to join hands with the Administration towards making the FCT a Centre of Medical Excellence.

Bello, who also pledged the support of the FCT Administration for the activities of medical professionals towards the development of the Territory’s health sector, stated this when he received members of the Nigerian Association of Urological Surgeons led by its FCT Chairman, Dr. Celestine Undie, on a visit to the FCTA.

This was disclosed in a statement made available by Bello’s Chief Press Secretary, Anthony …

Atiku Reacts To Invasion Of Justice Odili’s Residence

Atiku Reacts To Invasion Of Justice Odili’s Residence

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has condemned the raid on the residence of a Supreme Court judge, Justice Mary Odili, by security operatives.

Africa Daily News, New York recalls that security operatives invaded Odili’s home on Friday, based on claims that “illegal activities” were going on there.

The search warrant showed that the panel comprises the EFCC, the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), and the Ministry of Justice.

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But, the anti-graft agency denied reports that its operatives were behind the raid.

Reacting, in a press statement issued by the media office of Atiku, …