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The inability of President Muhammadu Buhari to restructure the country may have cost him the support of pan-Yoruba group Afenifere for a second term in 2019.                     Spokesman of the group Yinka Odumakin said this recently, adding that the group will only back a candidate that would restructure the country for the general elections in 2019. Odumakin told a national daily that, “We wanted the country to be restructured so that we can start on a fresh slate, the government that spent three years without carrying out restructuring, I doubt if it will do so before next year’s election. “Therefore, in the next election, we are going to bring in a government that will restructure Nigeria on the path of productivity. “We need to try other hands in order to move the country forward and stop the killings going on across the country at the moment.” He added that, “We are so tired of their rhetorics, and their words mean nothi...

             President of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF), Alhaji Shettima Yerima, has said that President Muhammdu Buhari, who has declared his interest to run for a second term, will be humiliated at the poll. Buhari has declared to recontest in 2019, what is your reaction to this? We have expected this and we have already prepared for him. We are ensuring that every Nigerian youth obtains his or her voter’s card. We will ensure that we secure our votes and our votes count. We didn’t expect him to say that he was not going to contest. This is democracy and no one can deny him the right to contest. He had admitted that he ought to have been doing something better than he is doing, but age and ill health have actually overtaken a lot of things in him. So, we were thinking that, as a man with integrity; a man who had said he would only go for one term, should understand that he would be under pressure put on him by his cabinet members a...

A former Minister of Information, Prince Tony Momoh has explained why he asked Nigerians to stone the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government if he failed to perform.                      Momoh had during the build up to the 2015 general elections called on Nigerians to stone the APC government if they don’t leave up to expectations. Speaking with The Sun, the former minister said Nigerians were already stoning the president despite his monumental achievements. He said, “We are in a democracy. As Minister of Information, I gave Nigerians information; one, to satisfy your need for information; secondly, to give you the information to do what you like to do with it. “So, people who are saying that APC has done nothing have a right through the information they have to achieve the aims they want, but that does not reduce from the fact that objectively, APC has done something. “Whatever happens, I said stone us if we don’t pe...

               Reno Omokri, a former presidential assistant on new media, has described the Buhari government as ‘pathetic’. He stated this in a statement on Monday. Omokri wondered why the current administration usually condemned and demonized those who criticized its actions, programmes and policies. He also listed names of those the Buhari government had ‘attacked’ in recent times because of their position on economy, security and other issues. He wrote: “President Jonathan’s administration has the enviable record of advancing Nigeria’s anti corruption war and delivered results to the point where we made our best ever improvement in Transparency International’s CPI in 2014 when we moved 8 places forward from 144 to 136. “Can this government say the same. How many people will they demonize? “Bill Gates spoke, and they said he is a dropout. TY Danjuma has spoken, they have labeled him an anarchist. “President Obasanjo spoke and the...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague has indicated that it will investigate the September 2017 invasion of a community in Abia State, Nigeria by soldiers of the Nigeria Army during a military exercise codenamed Operation Python Dance.                      This was contained in a letter from the office of the prosecutor in response to a petition filed to the court by a Nigerian award winning journalist, Mr. Ahaoma Kanu, following the military occupation of Afara Ukwu community in Umuahia in a bid to arrest the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, which led to the killing of several unarmed members of the group. The letter with reference number OTP-CR-413/17 dated March 20, 2018, which is the second response by the court to the petitioner, confirmed that the military invasion and deaths recorded relates to a situation already under preliminary examination by the Office of the Prosecutor....

A supporter of President Muhammdu Buhari and the General Overseer of Soul Winning Chapel, Lagos, Rev Dr Moses Iloh has given reasons he will not vote for the president if he runs in the 2019 election.                       Rev. Iloh said he had supported President Buhari because of his will to fight corruption in the country but disappointed that he (Buhari) can only expose corruption and not tackle it. “If Buhari wants to come out again, I doubt if I will vote for him”, the cleric told Sun. “Reasons being that he cannot fight corruption but he did very well by exposing corruption. “I think he should retire. I don’t think he can fight corruption. Let’s get someone else. “Corruption is of the devil and I don’t think he understands the difference between the devil and righteousness. “But he has done a very good job for which I still praise him. What Buhari has done is that he has succeeded in exposing corruption. “Without...

             The oppressive one-North is on its death-bed. General Yakubu Danjuma sang the Nunc Dimittis on Saturday. But if the Middle Belt states are free finally, the credit cannot go to this taciturn General from Takum. The Fulani conquerors deserve the prize; they scored the golden own goal.  It has taken the Hausa/Fulani and their Kanuri collaborators just three years of bloody indiscretion to unravel 104 years of one-North myth. The greedy mice of the tiny Fulani elite have peed into the North’s soup pot; everyone has now learnt to answer his mother’s name.  We are at the threshold of a new phase in the struggle for a new Nigeria. But then, the battle has just started. The dying won’t let go of their inheritance quietly. Beyond Danjuma’s Taraba, Benue and Plateau, is there anywhere else that is not feeling the pangs of Hausa/Fulani/Kanuri elite destruction? I call their abode the Core-North which is not interested in catching up wit...