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Ahead of 2019 general elections, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is poised to wrestle power from the ruling All Progressives Party (APC). The major opposition party is reportedly working towards wooing some APC key members spread across 15 key states. The Nation reports that the states are:   Kano, Kaduna, Osun, Imo, Kogi, Bauchi, Kwara, Jigawa, Benue, Plateau, Adamawa, Nasarawa, Zamfara, Sokoto and Ekiti. According to sources, the PDP is looking forward to conquering all the 15 states and that this informed the reconciliation committee headed by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu set up by President Muhammadu Buhari. The Nation reports that the…

Akwa Ibom State got the highest share of N143.6 billion in 2017, showing an increase of 25 per cent from the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) disbursements, the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, stated. News Agency of Nigeria reported that the state was followed by Rivers State with a total allocation of N119.6 billion; Delta State came third with a total allocation of N111.2 billion in 2017 while Bayelsa State got N105.3 billion to take the fourth position. However, Osun State received N10.4 billion to take the lowest position of FAAC within the year under review. In a statement…

President Muhammadu Buhari has described as a national disaster the abduction of students of Government Girls Technical College, Dapchi,Yobe State by suspected Boko Haram insurgents. In press statement issued in Abuja Friday, Buhari said “President “The entire country stands as one with the girls’ families, the government and the people of Yobe State.” Buhari said “We are sorry that this could have happened and share your pain. We pray that our gallant armed forces will locate and safely return your missing family members.” According to him,“When I received the devastating news of the attack on the school and the fact…

All Progressives Party (PDP), Akwa Ibom State chapter sees the implementation of report on Reigners Church building collapse issued by the state government as a ruse and an attempt to deceive the people based on the provisions of the Commission of Enquiry Law of the state. On February 21, Charles Udoh, the state Commissioner for Information and Strategy issued a press release that the Governor has set in motion necessary a machinery to implement the recommendations of the report. Udoh said government has mandated the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice to commence the process of taking appropriate actions against…

A Nigerian man of God has predicted a major shake-up in the country’s political system from February to April this year. Apostle Emmanuel Nuhu Kure, who made the prediction during the February 2018 National Prayer Altar meeting in Abuja, posited “I want Nigerians to watch out the happenings within these months and see what God is going to do.” Kure, who is the founder of Throneroom Trust Ministries, Kafanchan in Kaduna State, said “By April this year, Israel will celebrate 70 years of independence. It is the month of Adar in Jewish calendar. There will be strange miracles and changing…

Heart-rending tributes from different parts of the world have continued to pour in over the demise of Billy Graham, US televangelist at the age of 99. President Donald Trump said in a tweet that “the GREAT Billy Graham is dead. There was nobody like him! He will be missed by Christians and all religions. A very special man.” The GREAT Billy Graham is dead. There was nobody like him! He will be missed by Christians and all religions. A very special man. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 21, 2018 Mike Pence, US Vice President said in a statement that…

Some Nigerians have reacted to the marriage proposal of Rev. Fr. Patrick Henry Edet of Grace Family slated for Saturday,  March 17, this year, with a respondent querying “I hope his wife meets him a virgin.” The decision by the popular Uyo-based cleric and radio preacher, Rev. Fr. Edet,​ who ​resigned as a Priest of the Roman Catholic Church​, six months ago, has set social media frenzy​. The respondents in Naijagists reacted differently. One Joyful Amaka  posited “I hope his wife meets him a virgin.”  F.M. Akinyemi observed,  “Forced celibacy in the name of God. It is better to marry…

The visit of Yobe State Governor, Ibrahim Gaidam, to Dapchi turned messy as officials were injured and seven vehicles damaged following pelting of his convoy with stones by residents of the town. Boko Haram insurgents had Monday stormed Government Girls Technical College in Dapchi and disappeared with 46 schoolgirls. Some of the girls who fled into the bushes in the area had returned to the school. The crowd, on sighting the governor in the area Thursday threw stones at his convoy, injuring some of his aides as well as government officials. The anger seemed to have been precipitated by the…

More than 549 deaths and displacement of thousands in 12 states in the last 12 months were recorded, Amnesty International stated, accusing the Federal Government of unlawful killings, torture and detention of persons. Enumerating a litany of mishaps it encapsulated in 15 human rights issues in Nigeria, the London-based Non-Governmental Organisation, in its 2017/2018 annual report also lamented that inter-communal violence linked to lingering clashes between herdsmen and farming communities resulted in It reported that ”Boko Haram carried out at least 65 attacks causing 411 civilian deaths, and abducted at least 73 people. Sixteen women, including 10 policewomen, were abducted…

The Council of States Thursday endorsed $1 billion from the current $200 million to boost agriculture and empower livestock farmers including the Fulani herdsmen. The Council also recommended inter-state security joint operations to flush out bandits, especially those operating from the forests. Governor Abubakar Badaru of Jigawa State, alongside Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State and Willy Obiano of Anambra State, stated this while briefing State House correspondents after a six-hour Council of States meeting, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa, Abuja. The financial assistance to cattle farmers, they said, was not designed to…