Politics

UK DEPORTS 44 NIGERIAN/GHANIAN ASYLUM SEEKERS The United Kingdom has deported 44 Nigerian and Ghanaian asylum seekers, marking the highest number of deportations in a single flight to date, according to a report by the UK Guardian. This deportation comes just 48 hours after UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer signed a controversial deal to deport migrants arriving on small boats …

WIKE, ATIKU TRADE WORDS: NIGERIANS HAVE REJECTED YOU, GO BACK HOME – WIKE; YOUR COMMENTS STRING OF INANITIES, BASELESS RANTS – ATIKU Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Barrister Nyesom Wike, has mocked former Vice President Atiku Abubakar over his failure to be president of the country. Wike took a dig at Atiku at a luncheon honouring loyal members of …

NORTHERN LEADERS WANT TO DRAG JONATHAN INTO 2027 PRESIDENTIAL RACE Influential leaders from the North have begun efforts to persuade former President Goodluck Jonathan to join the 2027 presidential race. This development poses a significant challenge to President Bola Tinubu’s bid for re-election with discontent about his leadership growing by the day. A North East state governor and a retired …

MASKED MEN DISRUPT LABOUR PARTY MEETING IN ABIA A tense situation unfolded in Aba as masked men, suspected to be police officers, disrupted a meeting of the Labour Party (LP) on Saturday. The incident occurred when over 20 masked individuals stormed the venue, demanding silence from attendees. In a dramatic turn of events, five of the masked men approached the …

SOLUDO VS OBI OF ONITSHA: RIFT DEEPENS AS GOV SHUNS OFALA FESTIVAL The crisis between the governor of Anambra State, Prof. Charles Soludo, and the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Alfred Achebe, has taken a worse turn. The governor, who has been a regular guest at the annual Onitsha Ofala Festival, shunned the 2024 edition on Friday. While as a guest …

Like the proverbial cat with nine lives, the Senate President Godswill Akpabio, former governor of Akwa Ibom State, defied all opposition to clinch the position of Senate President of the 10th National Assembly on June 13, 2023.His emergence was characterised by high-powered politics, intrigues, and bickering, considering that he was said to have been President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s preferred candidate …

FG FAILS TO PAY ALLOCATION TO LOCAL GOVTS THREE MONTHS AFTER SUPREME COURT JUDGEMENT The Local government councils’ allocations for September 2024 were paid into the states/LGs Joint accounts by the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) contrary to what Nigerians were made to believe that the funds would go directly into the LGs’ individual accounts as ordered more than three …

WHY TINUBU HAS REFUSED TO STOP EFCC FROM PROSECUTING YAHAYA BELLO – PRESIDENCY SOURCES The reason President Bola Ahmed Tinubu did not intervene to stop the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from investigating former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello has been revealed.Bello, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was a member of the defunct Tinubu/Shettima campaign organization …

NIGERIA ON AUTOPILOT – JOE IGBOKWE, TINUBU’S STRONG SUPPORTER Joe Igbokwe, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has continued his tirade against the country’s economic fortunes since President Bola Tinubu assumed the mantle of leadership. Igbokwe, who campaigned actively for Tinubu in the buildup to the 2023 elections, has been very critical of the current administration lately. On …

NOBODY IS WORKING FOR THIS GREAT COUNTRY – JOE IGBOKWE LAMENTS APC Chieftain has expressed concern over the recent report by the World Bank that Nigeria’s currency, the Naira, is the weakest in Africa. In a post shared on his Facebook page this morning, October 18, Igbokwe wondered how this has happened when Nigeria is the ‘’most endowed country in …