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Femi Adesina, President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, has publicly ‘advised’ Nigerians who assault banks, loot shops and interact in civil disobedience to desist from such acts. He ‘revealed’ how he has been surviving amidst scarcity of new naira notes in the country. Writing on “Living on shoestring budget,” yesterday, Thursday, 9th February 2023, he state living on just twenty thousand nairas for one week. Adesina noted leaving Abuja on January 23rd, with the 31st earmarked for a return, on an adventure through Bauchi, Lagos, Senegal, Katsina, Kano, and Jigawa, spending just the twenty thousand nairas with him for one week. He had termed it a ‘Shoestring budget’. He had noted relying on ‘just’ N6,000 out of the N20,000 he ‘had’, which soon slimmed down to N2,500 by the 26th/27th of January. Those in authorities “itch as properly, and scratch as hard,” he stated. “Birds sweat,” he said, “however their feathers make the sweat indiscernible”. After liaising ...

Peter Gregory Obi, Labour Party presidential candidate for the fast-approaching February 25th elections, has affirmed that his party would not give excuses, and would create employment, end insecurity and establish a better Nigeria. He had asked Nigerians to join him in the task of building a nation they will be proud of as he promised to revolutionise governance and run an all-inclusive regime carrying women, youths and persons with disabilities along. This was yesterday, Thursday, 9th February 2023, at the Labour Party (LP)  Mega Rally in Abuja. He therein further urged Nigerians to hold himself and his running-mate, Dr Datti Baba-Ahmed, responsible for a better and new Nigeria. Nigeria's past governments have been in the past, producing insecurity, poverty and unemployment in the last 20 years, he had said, but, “we are offering you security and prosperity. We are going to fight insecurity.” He promised food to be in surplus as no Nigerians would have any reason to be hungry. He...

Peter Obi, yesterday, 9th February 2023, during his party’s campaign rally at the old Parade Ground, Abuja, had promised he would work for the economic growth and prosperity of the country. He promised not to appropriate state funds for himself and had boasted about the clearness of his records. He had said his opponents have tagged him as stingy because these opponents have stolen all the money. Obi told supporters to accept money from other parties attempting to buy their votes, since “it is your money,” but to cast their votes for him, vowing to tackle security challenges and make Nigeria a state that everyone would be proud of.  Obi and Datti have asked that Nigerians hold them responsible for a new Nigeria. He promised to change the country and stop all stealing while affirming and boasting about the fact that none of them had stolen money from the government.  Everything it takes to return the nation’s former glory, Obi and Datti had said they will do. They promised to b...

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...

A Deputy Governor of the CBN, Folashodun Shonubi, admitted today, Thursday, 9th February 2023, that the ongoing scarcity associated with the naira redesign and cash withdrawal policy was not anticipated. This revelation was made at the 22nd fellowship conferment lecture and ceremony organised by the Nigerian Society of Engineers in Abuja, amidst several protests and attacks on banks by angry Nigerians due to the accessibility of cash. “Contrary to public opinion,” he had said, “the redesign plan which has been in the works for two years was not to punish anyone but to improve the economy,” while stating the numerous challenges faced. “These,” he said, were “caused by a new line of business created by indigenous Nigerians.” Still, he revealed that numerous benefits have been achieved which include the retrieval of N2 trillion to the banking system. However, he noted that the challenges will soon fade into history while adding that the CBN will go to any length within its powers to salva...

The National Universities Commission (NUC), today, 9th February 2023, as directed by the Minister of Education, Mallam  Adamu Adamu, has ordered the closure of universities across the country. This was confirmed in a letter issued to all University Vice-Chancellors and Directors of inter-university centres, to enable students to participate in the 2023 general elections slated for February and March this year. It will be recalled that the Presidential and National Assembly polls come up on Saturday, 25th February 2023, with the Gubernatorial and State Assembly parts slated for Saturday, 11th March 11, 2023. After extensive consultations with relevant security agencies on the welfare of University dwellers, Mallam Adamu finally came up with the directive and suspected academic activities from the 22nd of February and 14th of March 2023. With higher schools shut for the aforementioned period, it is heart-warming that everyone will be closed up in respective closets close by friends a...

“If you vote for PDP, peace will return to Yobe. We will make sure that our schools are re-open so that our children will continue to go to school,” Atiku Abubakar was noted to have said during the presidential campaign rally in Yobe state. The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has laid on the ground his competency in restoring lost glory in the state when elected amidst many promises assuring the people of Yobe hope. He has pledged to reopen the Niger-Benue borders for the free flow of human and agricultural resources. He insisted his administration will make funds available for women and youths to go into entrepreneurship. Senator Iyorcha Ayu, the PDP National Chairman, too, noted the suffering in the land results from the hoarding of naira notes to buy votes and said the elections present an opportunity for Nigeria to be recovered from the ruling party. Together with the PDP Vice Presidential candidate, who is also the governor of Delta state, Ifeanyi Oko...

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...

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...

Femi Fani-Kayode has come out wildly against the PDP’s sacrilegious picture going viral on social media portraying Atiku Abubakar superimposed onto the image of Jesus Christ, as blasphemy. It was observed that Dele Momodu, yesterday morning, Tuesday, 7th February 2023, had posted the image on his social media handle, which has since elicited wild criticisms from all corners, FFK, being one of the chiefest. FFK in reaction, described the PDP Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), with unimaginable tags. He had asked for boundaries and if there is nothing sacred to them. He had asked why they could be so free to speak just anything. Responding to FFK, Dele Momodu accused other parties of creating the image to intentionally use against Atiku. He had said opponents were trying to play the religious card on his candidate as he distanced the PDP from the image. He described it as mere propaganda with no life in it. He had insisted that he alongside others like Dino Melaye, Paul Ibe, Daniel Bwa...

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 ...

Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, who presently is the APC presidential campaign council Director of New Media/Special Projects, Femi Fani-Kayode, has come out with some threats targeted at some perceived enemies. FFK, today, Tuesday, 7th February 2023, has threatened to fight and bury some perceived political enemies, including members of the cabal, with warnings that a battle line has been drawn. “Was out of circulation due to ill health for two weeks but now I am back and fully restored,” he had said, and is back and ready for war, against the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, and others he didn't mention. Others outside the APC, are a former Director in the APC presidential campaign council, Najaatu Muhammad, the Labour Party (LP) flagbearer, Peter Obi, and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. Accusing these of trying to upturn everything against Nigerians as a whole, and Tinubu alongside Buhari in particular, he stated his full a...

Bright Ogaji, a Benue South Senatorial PDP aspirant in the May 2022 primaries, and Coordinator of the Benue Voters in Diaspora (BVD), had said Atiku would poll over a million votes in Benue. Ogaji, a US-based philanthropist and former chairman of Oju Local Government Council, had stated that contrary to opinions from many quarters, Atiku will emerge the winner at the February 25 election across the country. He said Atiku will secure a landslide vote from Benue State. With registered voters in Benue State announced to be 2.7 million, Ogaji inferred that the PDP man will sweep Benue irrespective of Ortom’s fury with the party's leadership. A critical figure amongst the G-5 Governors of PDP which Ortom is, Ogaji said all members of the BVD from various countries would arrive in Nigeria and Benue State, for an aggressive grassroots mobilisation for Atiku and PDP. With all getting set day by day, the bubbles are getting bigger. Tensions are rising, tendons are working. Nights receding, ...