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Reactions have greeted the pronouncement by the National Universities Commission (NUC), favouring the temporary shutdown of the higher institutions of learning, between the 22nd of February through the 14th of March. Eminent personalities which include Peter Obi of the Labour Party have lauded the National Universities Commission, (NUC), for the closure of universities and inter-university centres which it ordered. This will enable students who have been spread nationwide the opportunity to participate in the polls and exercise their constitutional rights to vote, as directed by the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu. With higher schools shut for the aforementioned period, it is heart-warming that everyone will be closed up in respective closets close by friends and families, and to a meaningful degree, the safety of lives is guaranteed. Obi on Twitter heartily welcomed this decision of the NUC to close universities ahead of the 2023 general elections, a directive the Education ...

The Westlink Iconic Villa – a joint venture project of Odu’a Investment Company Limited and Chapter Four Estates Management Limited owned by UK-based Nigerians, was commissioned today. Those involved in effecting it, a group of UK-based Nigerian professionals and investors, had said V.P. Yemi Osinbajo had inspired them to come home and invest at a meeting in London years ago with him. On house deficits, the V.P. noted a 17 million significant deficit, noting that we need housing finance, affordable mortgages and social housing. All developed economies have to grow, usually, with government support, and mortgage schemes. After the 2015 UK meeting, he added that the road to raising capital was rough, but these investors remained dogged through the years and the breakthrough was realised through the Odu’a Investments Company Limited. The Odu’a Group Chairman, Mr Bimbo Ashiru, and MD of Chapter Four Estates Management Limited, Mr Shams Ogunmuyiwa, who represented the diasporans, praised th...

Ajaero, the new President of the Nigerian Labour Congress, has vowed to mobilise members against the current scarcity of Naira notes if the government failed to address the issue by the end of next week. Comrade Joe Ajaero, NLC Deputy President and Secretary of the Nigerian Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE), succeeded Comrade Ayuba Wabba as its National President, yesterday, Wednesday, February 8, 2023. The new NLC boss, born on December 17, 1964, in Emekuku Owerri-North, Imo State, emerged unopposed at the end of the 13th National Delegates Conference in Abuja, yesterday, Wednesday, 8th February 2023. He promised a robust engagement of the government “to stop the impunity and pervasive wickedness in the country in the name of petroleum product pricing.” He similarly promised protection from all anti-people policies. He affirmed that the tradition of ensuring that Nigerians are not plundered by the government will be continued and reduced to the barest minimum as the government oug...

Temilade Openiyi, (Tems), Nigeria’s latest Grammy award winner who recently won an award at the Grammys for her feature on American rapper, Future’s song, expressed unreserved gratitude to God. For the great work He’s done for her, and humbled by all the love she’s been receiving, alongside the award which makes her Nigeria's first female Afrobeats act honoured by the Grammys, Tems returned all the glory to God. The global superstar did a collaboration which earned her a colossal win in the ‘Best Melodic Rap Performance’ category for her feature on Future’s ‘Wait For U’ ft. Drake at the 65th edition of the world’s prestigious musical honours. She also acknowledged all of her supporters, from Rebel Gang to everyone supportive of her craft, stating she never takes any of them for granted. “I truly appreciate it, the love has been too much,” she concluded. She later exchanged pleasantries with top international stars who did lavish her with praises, extolling her musical prowess, as m...

The President of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission, Omar Alieu Touray, has urged INEC and political parties to obey the peace accord and conduct credible polls. The ECOWAS Commission, after stakeholders gathering in Owerri at the weekend, has urged all 18 registered political parties and candidates in the forthcoming elections to be mindful that the world would be watching the exercise. The President, represented by a regional body official, Dr Onyinye Onwuka, charged everyone concerned to adhere strictly to provisions of the Electoral Act 2022 guidelines and the peace accord they signed before the campaigns. It charged to ensure credible, free and fair general elections at the February 25 and March 11 presidential, National Assembly, Gubernatorial and State Assembly elections. INEC was charged to ensure unbiased conduct of the polls because the whole of Africa and the world are looking up to Nigeria, noting that the importance of Nigeria in the West Afr...

The APC presidential candidate has been under strict scrutiny by Nigerians for his alleged poor health condition since he made his intention to contest for the presidency public. Tinubu at a rally in Akwa Ibom State on the 30th of January, erroneously claimed to have made Atiku Abubakar the Senate President, someone who has never crossed that border before. These constant errors are gradually becoming embarrassing to the country, Nigeria. It has to be noted here, that these constant errors or ‘comic scenes,’ could be effects of his failing health. Past instances were his ‘plan’ on recruiting 50 million youths into the Nigerian Army to solve unemployment. Another was his call for PVCs collection which he said would expire ahead of the election. It should be recalled that INEC had to swiftly do some corrections after that started causing panic in the polity, even as he called the card APV, instead of PVC. Nigeria would become the butt of jokes across the world with Tinubu as its Presiden...

Brunei’s 24-year-old Faiq Jefri Bolkiah, a member of the Bruneian Royal Family, born in Los Angeles, California, in the United States of America, on the 9th of May, 1998, is the world’s richest footballer. Faiq has a net worth of an extraordinary $20 billion (£16bn), which is considerably more than Messi ($600m) and Ronaldo ($490m), being nephew to the Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, but a market value of just €200k. Bolkiah, a talented young player who frustratingly continues to fail in cutting it out, currently plays as a left winger for Thai League 1 club Chonburi FC and has served as captain of the Brunei national team. With stints at Southampton, Chelsea and Leicester City, he never managed to break into the first team and left England for Martimo in the Portuguese Primeira Liga, on the 23rd of September, 2020. Bolkiah noted having about three or four offers after Leicester but decided on CS Marítimo, which unfortunately still didn’t work out as he only made three senior appea...

The Secretary-General of the Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE), Chief Oladipo Oyewole, has stated their unalloyed backing for the APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, in the fast-approaching presidential election on February 25. Chief Oyewole revealed this in Ibadan on the 6th of February 2023, after a special executive session, on the group's conviction that Tinubu’s record as Lagos State governor, and other giant strides, make him apt for the seat. Oyewole, while declaring the support, said it was unanimously agreed that “his detribalised disposition, resourceful capacity and love for humanity stood him in good stead to lift the country out of socio-economic precipitation.” It was maintained by the Council that the Yoruba, a major stakeholder in the Nigeria enterprise, should not be pushed aside in the politics of the nation and that only the competent should be paraded for such candidacy as Tinubu. While noting the tense atmosphere engulfing the country as a result of scarcity ...

Former presidential aspirant and PDP chieftain, Dele Momodu, on Tuesday, 6th February 2023, has stylishly come out to describe Nigeria's Party System as a ‘Two-Party’ one by referring to Peter Obi as a Third Force. On Channels TV’s ‘The 2023 Verdict’, he said, the Labour Party had aspired to become a ‘Third Force’ to bring change to the political landscape, but is ‘struggling’ because a presidential race is not a marathon and ‘takes time to build bridges’. “Usually, in many countries,” he had said, “you have two mainstream political parties and candidates. In the case of Nigeria, now we seem to have a third force, the fourth force is not doing much.” Even though he categorises Obi as part of the ‘leading candidates,’ stating them as Atiku, Tinubu, Obi, (note the arrangement), then others, the use of the term embeds much in portraying Obi’s ‘probable’ fate in the elections. What is a ‘Third Force’? Though originally used by the ANC in the 1980s/1990s with what is of no ‘concern’ in ...