Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, has issued a 72-hour ultimatum to special adviser to President Bola Tinubu on information and strategy, Bayo Onanuga, to retract alleged defamatory statement issued against him. Onanuga had alleged that supporters of Obi are behind the proposed nationwide protest against economic hardship…
By Callistus Agwaza in Jalingo The Kuteb Elders Forum (KEF), Abuja, has asked the Taraba state governor, Agbu Kefas, to call Benjamin Bako, one of his aides to order for making inciting comments on social media platforms. In a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, leader of KEF, Ande Fili, said Bako’s acidic utterances are likely…
President Bola Tinubu has appealed to Nigerian youths to shelve the planned nationwide protest. Speaking with State House correspondents on Tuesday after a meeting with the president, Mohammed Idris, minister of information and national orientation, said the President listens to youths and is committed to making the country good for them. There have been reports…
The Arewa Coalition for Justice (ACJ), has kicked against the alleged cancellation of the a N147.6 billion contract for the full rehabilitation of Katsina-Kankara-Dutsinma-Maraba Kankara road in Katsina state. The contract was said to have been awarded to an indigenous firm, Vipan Global Resources Limited, after fulfilling all the requisite requirements, with a completion period…
Hasan Abubakar, the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), says plans to merge the Airforce Institute of Technology (AFIT), Kaduna, with the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), also in Kaduna, would be retrogressive and counter productive to the nation’s earopspace industry. In a statement on Tuesday by Edward Gabkwet, spokesperson of the Nigerian Abubakar said AFIT…
Kaduna state governor, Senator Uba Sani has lamented that insecurity has retarded developments in critical sectors in the north. Speaking when the leadership of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), paid him a courtesy visit on Monday at the Government House, Kaduna, Sani lamented that the north “faces an existential”. He lamented that criminal elements were…
