Elder statesman and prominent Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, is dead. Clark, a former federal commissioner for information died at 97. In a statement, the Clark-Fuludu Bekederemo family of Kiagbodo Town, Delta state, said the ex-senator died on Monday, February 17. The statement read, “The Clark-Fuludu Bekederemo family of Kiagbodo Town, Delta State, wishes to…
The Northern Christian Youth Professionals (NCYP) have condemned alleged campaigns of calumny against the National SecurityAdviser (NSA), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu. In a statement on Monday in Kaduna, the group warned those behind the dastardly act to deceased from distracting the NSA from the critical work of securing the nation. The statement signed by Isaac Abrak,…
Shuaibu Miqati, Chairman, Kaduna State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Appeal and Reconciliation Committee, has described the defections of some prominent chieftains of the party in Kaduna to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), as “a sad and worrisome development.” On Saturday, 50 prominent members of PDP in Kaduna state were received into the APC by…
Uba Sani, governor of Kaduna state, has observed that despite several alleviation programmes, the nation’s poverty index has been on the increase. Sani made the observation on Saturday when Nentawe Yilwatda, minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, paid him a courtesy visit at the Government House, Kaduna. He said the fact that…
Governor Uba Sani has received some prominent chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who decamped to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna state. Among the prominent PDP decampees are Muktar Ramalan Yero, a former governor of Kaduna state, Shehu Sani, a former senator who represented Kaduna Central Senatorial Zone, Suleiman Hunkuyi, former senator…
Aminu Tambuwal, a senator and ex-governor of Sokoto state, says no politician with a conscience would join the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), given its current policies and the economic hardship faced by Nigerians. Tambuwal stated this in an interview with journalists on Saturday in Kaduna, shortly after a meeting of the North-West zone of…
