Evritinnaija

President Muhammadu Buhari, while speaking at the Commonwealth Business Forum, has said the Nigerian youth wants to sit and do nothing,                                             The Cable reports. The forum is part of the ongoing Commonwealth Head of Governments Meeting (CHOGM) being held in the UK. Buhari discussed the Nigerian economy, claiming that 60% of the population is below 30, and a lot of them haven’t been to school. They are claiming the country is an oil producing one, he said, and want to sit and get housing, healthcare, and education free. He added that his administration is “doing very well” in security and economy. He said: Quote About the economy, we have a very young population, our population is estimated conservatively to be 180 million. This is a very conservative one. More than 60 percent of the population is below 30, a lot of them haven’t been to school and they are claiming that Nigeria is an oil producing country, therefore, they should sit and do noth

                              A governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Uche Onyeaguocha, yesterday alleged that primary intension of Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, is to destroy the source of livelihood of the people, under the guise of urban renewal. The former member of the House of Representatives, condemned alleged continuous onslaught on the people and accused Okorocha of using thugs from Ohaji/Egbema to attack traders and destroy their wares. He said Imo has been turned into a jungle where rascality and use of brutal force have become the grand norm, stressing that the present administration whose constitutional mandate, he said, is to protect life and property of its citizens, has, “unfortunately, declared war on the people. “It has, also, been noticed that the primary intention of Governor Rochas Okorocha has always been to destroy people’s means of livelihood, at a period when parents are expected to pay their children’s

                Senator  Ben Bruce representing Bayelsa east senatorial district at the National Assembly has warned of imminent civil unrest from Nigerians amid killings and violence ongoing in the country. Speaking at plenary on Tuesday, Bruce said the tension in the country is nothing compared to the tension in 1983. He said this while contributing to a matter of urgent public importance raised by Suleiman Adokwe, a senator from Nasarawa state. A coup led by some senior military officers in 1983 had led to the overthrow of the civilian government of Shehu Shagari, and ushered in Muhammadu Buhari, a major general, as the military head of state. While telling his colleagues that “people are dying” in the country as a result of continued violence, the senator lamented that “the leadership we are providing is total failure”. “Let it be on record that the way we have conducted ourselves, it is guaranteed that democracy will not survive,” he said. He added that “the tension

Many atime the source of wealth and flashy lifestyle of some certain actresses has been questioned considering that they are not that financially buoyant from the pay they receive for acting.                   To some Nigerians rich men and politicians have been their source of income and survival and that is nothing but true as three Nollywood actresses are been used by one politician. According to reports, the politician is a sitting Governor in one of the south west state of the country, he takes this three actress to the same hotel to satisfy his urge. The actresses are all based in Ibadan with two of them being a single mother and the other one a failed politician. They are no more in talking terms after they knew that they were dating the same man who is making them live large. According to reports; the incumbent governor of a state reportedly took one of them to one hotel in the ancient city the day one of them was servicing another politician in the same hotel. And

SDP’s chairman Olu Falae and former President Olusegun Obasanjo are billed to meet in Abeokuta on Tuesday to firm up plans to unseat President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019. Sources close to the former presidential candidate and Obasanjo have confirmed the meeting which might have been prompted by Buhari’s declaration last week for a second term. The former president had advised Buhari to consider an honourable dismount in 2019, criticising him and his government openly for nepotism and bad management of the economy. But Buhari has refused to back down. His refusal has made Obasanjo seek an ally in the former SGF who contested against him in 1999, and had been critical of his eight-year government until the conspiracy against Buhari united them. As part of the efforts to unseat the president, Obasanjo floated the Coalition of Nigeria Movement, a non-partisan group he said will produce a third force to wrest power from the APC and PDP he described as leprous. Apparently, Falae’s SDP has

             Owerri—There is now growing tension in Imo State following the resurgence of kidnapping and killings of several innocent residents of the state. The latest to be kidnapped is the  former Commissioner for Culture and Tourism in the state, Mr Alex Ogwazuo.He was said to have been kidnapped while he was returning from a social function. Ogwazuo’s abduction came on the heels of the abduction and killing of  a former local government chairman of Ideato South Local Government Area on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Mr Livinus Alisigwe. Alisigwe was gruesomely murdered by his killers who beheaded him and amputated his legs and hands from his headless body before setting his residence ablaze. This was even as there were reports that the dead bodies of three siblings aged between two and five years, were found in a vehicle at Okwelle Onuimo Local Government Area of the state. The names of the deceased children were given as Saviour – 5; Salvation- 3

Falae said though President Buhari is his friend, he hasn’t been able to live up to expectation in the last three years. Chief Oluyemisi Falae, a Nigerian politician, and friend of President Muhammadu Buhari has launched a campaign against his re-election bid ahead of 2019. In a conversation with the media in Abeokuta, Ogun State on Tuesday, April 17, 2018, Falae said though President Buhari is his friend, he hasn’t been able to live up to expectation in the last three years. “President Buhari is my friend if you can recall that I raised his hand in Adamasingba stadium in Ibadan asking people to vote for him because we thought he would restructure Nigeria,” Falae said. Continuing, the national chairman of the Social Democratic Party said: “The federal government knows and I know that they have not done well, the primary responsibility of a government is to protect the lives of its citizens but this government is not doing so. People are slaughtered and killed every day an

Primate E. O. Akeju of New Holy Messiah Church in Ilasamaja, Lagos state on Wednesday announced a set of 32 prophecies wherein he stated that God revealed to him that former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, will emerge as Nigeria’s next president.                He also called on APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to be wary of supporting the re-election bid of President Muhammadu Buhari if the former Lagos governor does not want an end of his political career. The prophet maintained that Buhari will be disgraced like former president Goodluck Jonathan if he goes ahead to contest the 2019 elections. Not yet done with Tinubu, the cleric called on him to be mindful of his health and be more prayerful for his children so as to avert “another tragic occurrence on any of them”. The prophecies also affected former presidents, Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida, both of whom Akeju called enemies of this country, insisting that nobody should take them seriously. He went

Former military president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (rtd) has made it clear he will support any individual or group, whose objective is to achieve one Nigeria.                    Babangida stated this in Minna yesterday, when he received the new leadership of the Northern Leaders and Stakeholders’ Assembly (NLSA), a northern socio-political advocacy. IBB vowed he would never be party to any organisation or discussion aimed at the disintegration of the nation. “I will support any group that comes out with a template that will ensure the unity and stability of Nigeria,” Babangida said emphatically, adding: “Politics is all about togetherness and the betterment of the country.” Babangida told the group led by Alhaji Tanko Yakasai to interact with politicians across the country, irrespective of party affiliations because “they (politicians) know what Nigerians need. “I will support and bless what you are doing but you should be fair in your dealings with Nigerians. “T

The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has predicted a “bloody” 2019 general election in Nigeria.                The National Director of Information for MASSOB, Sunny Okoroafor, said this in reaction to President Muhammadu Buhari’s second-term declaration. The group also declared its non-interest in how Nigeria is run, saying its only interest is achieving Biafra. He added that while elections in Nigeria are baseless and flawed, the group would not undermine the 2019 elections. Okoroafor said to The Sun, “If President Muhammadu Buhari declares for a second term or not, it is not our concern, our major concern is Biafra. Elections in Nigeria are baseless and flawed, MASSOB do not have interest in Nigerian politics. However, we are not going to disrupt the 2019 elections.” He lamented the bloodletting ongoing across the nation, adding that it would be worse during the elections. Okoroafor therefore called on Igbos not to participate in t

The senator representing Adamawa North Senatorial District in the Senate, Mrs.  Binta Masi Garba, on Sunday narrated how all that she had were set ablaze by her biological father after she gave her life to Jesus Christ. She spoke during a thanksgiving service organised to mark her 50th birthday at the Chapel of Praise International Church, Yola on Sunday. Binta, who broke down in tears during the service, said God made it possible for her to become a cornerstone after the deprivation and rejection she suffered after accepting Jesus Christ as her Lord and Saviour. She said, “I gave my life to Christ when I was in primary school. My father was infuriated and he burnt everything I had because of my decision to follow Christ. I suffered so much because of the name of Jesus. I would have been nothing if not for His grace. The rejected child, because of my faith, has become a cornerstone. I give glory to His name.” In his remark, the Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, called for p

The Coalition for Nigeria Movement, led by former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has lambasted President Muhammadu Buhari over his statement blaming past governments for state of the economy.                The President had on Sunday while he received some members of the Buhari Diaspora Support Organisation in his London residence said considering the condition in which his administration met the country without savings and the economy vandalised, his government ‘was not going badly’. He blamed past leaders for failing to capitalise on the nations resources, thereby keeping Nigerians poor. Buhari was quoted as saying “Failure of some of the leadership we had in the past led to our not being able to capitalise on resources to improve the lot of the people. “Wicked people plundered the country and kept Nigerians poor.If they had used 50 per cent of the money made when oil prices were as high as $143 per barrel and stabilised at $100, with production at 2.1 million barrels per day