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IPOB

Our Members Will Storm Abia For The Burial – IPOB

February 8, 2020 3:46 am

Emma Powerful is the Media and Publicity secretary of IPOB. In this interview with OKEY SAMPSON, he warned police not to dare IPOB, insisting that despite police threat, the pro Biafra members would come to Umuahia in their numbers from across the globe to  participate in the burial of parents of their leader, Nnamdi Kanu.

 Parents of your leader, Nnamdi Kanu will be buried next week, what are we expecting from IPOB?

The burial will be done the way burials take place in Igbo land; IPOB is an organization that wants peace in Igbo land and when we talk

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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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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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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 …

Refund Money Or Finish Work -Bauchi Gov Warns Contractors

February 7, 2020 2:18 pm

The Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has summoned contractors handling various abandoned road projects in the state.

He said this at a meeting in Government House Bauchi. The Governor called on them to repay the advanced payment given to them if they cannot continue with the projects.

The governor who was not satisfied with the performance of the contractors, said he was not interested in anything they did in the past.

“I am not here to beg anybody. I am here with my lawyers and the rest. You should either do it or leave it. I am not interested in

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Imo

Imo APC Chairman, Nwafor Warns Against Impersonation

February 7, 2020 2:17 pm

The factional chairman of the All Progressives Congress APC in Imo State, Hon. Daniel Nwafor has appealed to the state Governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma to be wary of those parading themselves on illegal authorities, insisting that there is nothing like Caretaker Committee in the state APC.

Nwafor spoke during the party’s stakeholders meeting held in Owerri.

He said there is only one executive structure of the party duly elected and recognized by law, having passed through both the electoral and party guidelines.

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Although, he admitted that what the

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Kogi

Kogi Herders/Farmers Clash: Lawmaker Tasks Youth

February 7, 2020 2:17 pm

Hon. David Idris Zakarias representing Idah/Ibaji/Igalamela/Odolu/Ofu Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, says he will sponsor a peace and reconciliation dialogue between Oforachi Community in Igalamela/Odolu local government and Fulani settlers to ensure a peaceful coexistence as was the case in years back.

Reacting in an exclusive interview with DAILY POST in Abuja, the lawmaker was saddened by the resurgence of herders and farmers clashes, stressing that life has offered opportunity for all to live peacefully, if there was understanding among all.

He decried the killing of a Kogi farmer, late Godwin Egbunu at Oforachi in the presence of …

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