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Ebonyi Governor David Umahi said some PDP governors are not in sync with the agreement of the region producing the next president despite the southern governors’ resolution. Umahi who left the PDP for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2020, had recently given his take on the 2023 presidency zoning controversy in the opposition party. For courting PDP’s anger, the party in a statement issued on Saturday, C.I.D Maduabum, director-general of PDP-GF, advised Umahi to leave the PDP alone and “face his frustrations” in the APC. The statement reads: “We advise Governor Umahi to face his frustrations in APC and not drag…

A former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Dr Obadiah Mailafia, is dead. The 64-year-old ace Vanguard columnist and public intellectual, who had been having running battles with security agents in Nigeria over his controversial statements, is reported to have died at the National Hospital, Abuja. Mailafia who was born on December 24, 1956 in Randa village, Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna State served as the deputy governor of the CBN from 2005 to 2007. From 2010 to 2015, he was the chief of staff (Chef de Cabinet) to the 79-member nation African, Caribbean and Pacific…

France Friday recalled its ambassadors to the United States and Australia over what political analysts see as foreign policy disagreement. The relationship between the US and France conceived in 18th century revolutions is at a tipping point after the U.S. Australia and Britain shunned France in creating a new Indo-Pacific security arrangement that involved Australia dumping its previous agreement to buy diesel powered submarines from France in favor of buying better more equipped nuclear powered submarines from the US and the UK to counter growing threats from China. It is the first time ever that France has recalled its ambassador…

Akwa United got $20,000 bonanza to beat Algerian Champions, CR Belouizdad in the CAF Champions League second leg preliminary round match in Algiers Sunday. Akwa Ibom billionaire, Mr. Akan Udofia who made the promise after redeeming a pledge of N5 million to the club for scoring five goals in their last NPFL match against MFM FC of Lagos last month. Udofia who is also the Chief Executive Officer of Desicon Engineering Limited, had promised to give the team N1 million for each goal scored against MFM FC in the game played at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium. He commended the…

The people of Bonny Local Government Area in Rivers State have been thrown into mourning following the untimely exit of their council’s chairman, David Irimagha. Irimagha died few days after celebrating the first 100 days into his second term in office. The chairman died Saturday at an undisclosed hospital in Port Harcourt, reports say. Though there was no official confirmation from his family, the Bonny Local Government Council or his party, chairman was a member of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). Irimagha had reportedly been sick for a while and had been complaining about not feeling healthy. Another source attributed…

ExxonMobil, operators of NNPC/MPN Joint Venture, says it has been remitting N7 billion every month as Pay As You Earn (PAYE) to Akwa Ibom government. The Manager, Media and Communications, ExxonMobil, Ogechukwu Udeagha told correspondents of national dailies in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital, as part of the activities that marked the Correspondents’ Week. Udeagha, who was reacting to an allegation that the company was not paying taxes to Akwa Ibom government, noted that the company is paying employees’ pay up of N7 billion to the state government every month as tax. “70 per cent of our staff live and…

Ahead of the 2023 presidential elections, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has said there will be no automatic ticket to defectors to the party. APC Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) Secretary, Senator John James Akpanudoedehe, in a statement released on Friday, September 17, said defection into the party by any person does not confer the status of an automatic candidate of the party on such individual. Akpanudoedehe, who was reacting to a misrepresentation of his views on the waiver granted new entrants and defectors by the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) at its December 8, 2020 meeting in a…

After 25 days in the bandits’ den, Major Christopher L. Datong, abducted by bandits at Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) in Kaduna has breathed fresh air. Bandits attacked the NDA on August 24, 2021, killing two senior officers in the process. On Friday night, the Deputy Director Army Public Relations 1 Division, Nigerian Army, Colonel Ezindu Idimah, announced the rescue of Datong from the kidnapper’s den. Idimah said the operation leading to his rescue brought about the destruction of several identified bandits’ camps in Afaka- Birnin Gwari areas of the state. According to him, scores of bandits were killed during the operation,…

As popular Nigerian singer, Innocent Idibia better known as 2baba, marks his 46th birthday, he has used social media to reconcile with his wife, Annie and his family members. Recall that Annie Macaulay Idibia had taken to her official Instagram page a week ago and called out her husband. The Nollywood actress then accused him of sharing the same house with his ex-baby mama, Pero Adeniyi during vacation. The accusation led to a plethora of backlash between Annie and the Idibia family as they kept revealing other things to the public hearing. This led to a bitter online battle between…

Ondo Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu says rush to the National Assembly for an amendment of the Value Added Tax  (VAT) law is dead on arrival. In an interview on Channels Television after he presided over a meeting with his Southern colleagues who agreed that states should collect VAT, Akeredolu believes those resisting the collection of VAT by states in place of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) would fail. He said “Our (the states’) position is that having looked at the law, it is there clearly for us to see that taxation, or what we call consumption taxes, falls within the…