Year: 2018

As the presidential elections edge closer, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) desperation for power is becoming even more glaring. It is this utter desperation that triggered the PDP and its candidate Atiku Abubakar into hiring Russian hackers to compromise the polls. With the reported alliance gaining  grounds last week, the Coalition for Nigeria (CN) has echoed that it is no mere idle talk neither is it some sort of conspiracy theory. The group made this known in a press statement on Tuesday in Lagos. According to Mr Dipo  Samuel,…

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Following ceaseless bickering over unsubstantiated facts on budget from certain organisations,  renowned civil society group, Centre for Social Justice, Equity and Transparency (CESJET) has backed the Nigerian Army. The group has questioned the likes of Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), Enough is Enough (EiE), and BudgIT who raised false alarm over the Army’s budget implementation in the last three years. According to CESJET, these groups have no moral right to enquire into the military’s activities, especially as they are known to be sponsored by external fraternisation to destabilise the…

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The National Council of Elders has called on security agencies to closely watch the lawmaker for Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Senator Shehu Sani, who it described as having graduated from being a comical rabble rouser into a chronic inciter of violence. Presidentof the council, Elder Anthony Danjuma, who stated this while speaking in Kaduna on Monday, expressed concern that Shehu Sani is being encouraged by the failure of the country to hold him accountable for the scores of deaths from the crises he recently instigated in Kaduna state. Danjuma warned…

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As tributes and encomium continue to pour in for President Muhammdu Buhari on his 76 birthday, Nigerian women Monday morning trooped out in their number to celebrate him. The women, under the aegis of African Women Arise for Change and Good Governance , who stormed the Unity Fountain to declare their support for the president, called on Nigerians to reelect Buhari in 2019. The women also launched the ‘Tell Your Neighbours Say Baba’ campaign in support of the Buhari’s second term bid. Speaking on behalf of the women group, Mrs.…

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The lawmaker representing the good people of Ogoja/Yala Federal constituency, Hon Jarigbe Agom has said that the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is repositioned and set to wrestle power from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the forthcoming 2019 general elections. He said the ruling APC has failed the country and that the PDP is out on a rescue mission, the repositioning is aimed at bringing Nigeria out of the doldrums Hon. Jarigbe said his party, the PDP was poised to defeat the APC and return power back to…

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The Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Water Resources and other international bodies such as United Purpose, UNICEF, UKAID, WSSCC, have declared Yala, Bekwarra and three other local government areas of Cross River State open defecation free. Other local government with this clean bill are, Obanliku, Yakurr and Ikom. And with this declaration Cross River State becomes the first state in West Africa to tackle the challenge of open defecation. This was made known by Community-led Health Improvement through sanitation and hygiene promotion in Nigeria (CHISHPIN) in a press…

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The Coalition Against Terrorism in Nigeria (CATE), has reacted to the lift on ban ealier placed on the activities of the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) by the Nigerian Army. The Nigerian had on Friday suspended the activities of UNICEF in the north-eastern part of the country. It accused the organisation of working for Boko Haram insurgents and sabotaging the war against insurgency. However, in a dramatic u-turn, the army lifted the suspension in less than six hours, a decision it said followed “intervention by well-meaning Nigerians”. Reacting…

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