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Vice-President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has yesterday advised  the South West  to support President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election bid in other to have a chance at the presidency come 2023. Osinbajo made the remark when he visited the palace of Lamidi Adeyemi 111, the Alaafin of Oyo, on Saturday. Buhari’s main challenger in the 2019 elections, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), had been endorsed by some leaders of the Igbo who are also eyeing the presidency in 2023. According to Osinbajo, if Buhari fails to secure a second term, it “may take a very long time” for a Yoruba man to become president. “The 2019 general elections is our own. We are not looking at the 2019 but 2023,” Osinbajo said. “If we get it in 2019, Yoruba will get it in 2023. Because if we don’t get it in 2019, we may not get it in 2023 and it may take a very long time to get it. “We need to look at tomorrow and not because of today. What we are doing now is for tomorrow and not for t...

 I’m taking over from Buhari – Gov. OkorochaPublished on December 23, 2018 By John Owen Nwachukwu The Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has vowed to be Nigeria’s President after President Muhammadu Buhari. The Governor said that his mind is made up on taking over at Aso Rock as the first elected civilian president of Igbo extraction in 2023. He made the declaration when he hosted members of the Orlu Zone Congress of Journalists, OZCOJ, at the Government House, Owerri on Saturday. Governor Okorocha said that all the campaigns of calumny against him was “because his detractors have realised that I’m the most eligible and most detribalised Igbo man.” He described himself “as the rallying point for all Ndigbo and the only one who can bridge unity, understanding and togetherness in order to realize Igbo presidency in 2023.” The Coordinator of OZCOJ, Ambassador Ikenna Onuoha, who spoke earlier, pointed out that Orlu people were happy that one of their sons represented t...

Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has vowed to petition US President Donald Trump over the role his ambassador to Nigeria, Stuart Symington, played in sending an impostor to the White House as “dead” President Muhammadu Buhari. Kanu, who made the vow yesterday in a special worldwide broadcast from Israel, accused Ambassador Symington of complicity in the “international fraud” allegedly perpetuated by the cabal in Aso Rock to replace President Buhari by a stage play actor from Sudan, Jubril Aminu Al-Sudani. Buhari was in the US earlier in the year for bilateral talks on Trump’s invitation. That meeting ended with the US President reportedly saying he never wanted to meet someone as lifeless again. Speaking, the IPOB leader said the motive behind the petition was to prove the seriousness of his caveat that an impostor is superintending the affairs of Nigeria and holding international engagements on behalf of President Buhari He said: “US Preside...

A former governor of Lagos state and leading member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has described the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari as a task that must be met while speaking about the 2019 exercise. Tinubu also came for Nigeria’s former vice president and current presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, saying his political organisation has left the country ruined for 16 years. “They ruled this country for 16 years from 1999 to 2015; they were planning for 60 years of doing nothing, lack of direction and lack of attention to the economy and the education sector. “They are not qualified to lead this country. They left schools in dilapidation, left hospitals without care; they don’t deserve to come back,”   The Punch reported him as saying on Tuesday, December 4, at the presentation of a keynote address at the National Consultative Forum (NCF) organised by the National Committee of Buhari Supp...

The 200 level student studying Philosophy at the institution was apprehended alongside her boyfriend, Ibarahim Danladi, also a student of the university, by operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, IRT, who trailed them to their hideout in Maraba area of Nasarawa State. Police sources disclosed to Vanguard that, Odama and her boyfriend ran into trouble, after one of their victims, identified simply as Danti, paid the sum of N150,000 after being blackmailed and thereafter demanded an additional N300,000, threatening to kidnap the victim’s wife and children if he failed to comply. The terrified victim was said to have written a petition to the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris who then directed his operatives at the IRT headed by Abba Kyari, to go after the alleged blackmailers. A source explained that the operatives urged the victim to play along and he was asked to lure Danladi who was the person communicating with him to come for ...

Former military president Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (retd) has spoken out against four more years for President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC). The gap-toothed general who annulled the freest and fairest presidential election ever held in the country and who deprived business mogul Late Basorun MKO Abiola from becoming president in 1993 tweeted on Thursday that he doesn’t want another four years of the APC administration. He said if the change he had seen in the last four years is what APC is promising in the next four years, the party should as well keep its Change. Read his tweet: ”I am not against any political party or any political candidate; but if the change I saw in the last 4 years is what they are promising in the next 4 years; they can as well keep their CHANGE.” Share this We bring the news to you as it comes.....

President Muhammadu Buhari says leaders who undermine the economy by denying workers their benefits while stuffing personal accounts with public funds will not escape the current anti-corruption dragnet. The president stated this when he received the All Progressives Congress (APC) delegation from Benue state, led by Senator George Akume, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. President Buhari said the federal government’s bailout to states and Paris Club funds were basically to alleviate the sufferings of the people, describing misappropriation as unjust and unfair to workers, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. He said: “I honestly don’t know how people sleep when workers have not been paid. The workers have to pay rent, buy food, send their children to school and they have health care to take care of. “I assure you that my main interest is all Nigerians in all parts of the country. “Therefore, if anybody who tries to create any impression that I prefer any group across ethn...