Month: March 2018

Buhari backs Tinubu, says Oyegun’s tenure extension illegal

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President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the reversal of tenure elongation of Chief John Odigie-Oyegun and other National and State Executive Officers of the All Progressives Congress (APC). He described the elongation of their tenure by one year as unconstitutional. He told the National Executive Committee meeting of the party in Abuja on Tuesday that he had reflected on the elongation and also sought advice and had come to the conclusion that it is unconstitutional. The APC had in its NEC meeting on February 27 extended the tenure of members of…

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Atiku Declares For 2019 Presidency

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Nigeria’s former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar on Tuesday declared his intention to run for president in 2019 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Abubakar announced his candidacy in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital on Tuesday, Channels tv reports. The former Vice President said his decision to make the announcement in Rivers State because is because he believes Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike represents what he represented in 1998/99 as the live wire of the PDP. Mr Abubakar who defected from the All Progressives Congress to the…

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Obasanjo attacks Buhari again

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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has again slammed President Muhammadu Buhari for failing to sign the Africa Continental Free Trade Area agreement. The former President, however, expressed hope that the President will change his mind before it is too late. Obasanjo spoke his mind on the African Continental Free Trade Area, AfCFTA, during a presidential panel, titled: ‘When Leaders Make History’ at the Africa CEO Forum in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire on Tuesday. The former Head of State was joined by the President of Zimbabwe, Emerson Mnangagwa. Obasanjo said, “That President Buhari…

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Bill Gates, the naked truth and the power of IMPACT!

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In 1999, the Gate’s Foundation pledged US$750 million to set up Gavi Vaccine Alliance. With that commitment, everyone interested in global health matters knew at the time that Bill Gates meant business. With the same drive he deployed at Microsoft, he has pursued the eradication of polio relentlessly. Polio is still endemic in Nigeria. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s share of spending on polio eradication is a third of the global effort. With his immense contribution, polio cases have declined from 400,000 when he started to 22 in 2017.…

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What Buhari, Saraki, Oyegun discussed at APC caucus meeting

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The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun has said that the National Caucus meeting of the party held on Monday, was “to conclude the agenda we started last time which we didn’t conclude”. Oyegun stated this when he spoke with journalists after the meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House, Abuja. The national caucus meeting had in attendance, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Senate President, Bukola Saraki and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara. Also present at the meeting were other…

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Moscow To Come Down Hard On U.S. Decision To Expel Diplomats

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Russia will not leave the decision of the U.S. to expel 60 Russian diplomats unanswered, but is still willing to maintain dialogue with Washington on the strategic stability, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told Sputnik on Tuesday. On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the expulsion of 60 Russian diplomats, including 48 employees of the Russian Embassy and 12 people who have been assigned to the UN in New York. Trump also ordered the closure of the Russian consulate in Seattle in connection with Moscow’s alleged involvement in the nerve…

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Prenatal Stress Can Change Baby’s Brain – Study

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New evidence from fetal brain scans has shown that a mother’s stress during pregnancy can change the neural connectivity in the brain of her unborn child, potentially affecting the baby’s brain functions. Moriah Thomason, an assistant professor of Wayne State University, presented this new finding on Monday at the 25th meeting for the Cognitive Neuroscience Society in Boston. He explained that research in newborns and older children to understand prenatal influences has been confounded by the postnatal environment. But recent advancements in fetal imaging allowed researchers to gain insight into…

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Nigeria, ECOWAS and the Morocco question

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I was in Morocco recently, about 20 years after I last visited Timbuktu, Marrakech, Casablanca, Rabat and Laayoune. I was quite impressed to see how Morocco with its colour-coded cities remains very much an organized, efficient and a comparatively competitive country. The trip this time began from the Lagos airport aboard the Royal Air Maroc, which now plies the Lagos-Casablanca route. Twenty years earlier, I had to go first to Paris, France, change from one airport to the other, before boarding another flight to Morocco. This crisis of transportation, having…

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Nigeria heading to no destination – Wike

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Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has declared that Nigeria is permanently on a dangerous downward slide and heading to no destination. Governor Wike stated this on Monday, while swearing in four judges of the state’s High Court and Customary Court of Appeal, at the Government House, Port Harcourt, the state capital. He said that the state’s security has been deliberately compromised by security agencies who work with the All Progressives Congress (APC) to undermine security of lives and property. According to Governor Wike, the recent deliberate crisis and threat…

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Bill Gates: Why I spoke directly to Nigerian leaders

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Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, again on Monday told the CNN that his criticism of the Nigerian government was to ensure that the country put more investment in education and health sectors. According to him, the current level of investments in those areas were just not good enough. “While it may be easier to be polite, it’s more important to face facts so that you can make progress,” the philanthropist said at the special meeting of National Economic Council that included the governors, leading Nigerian businessmen as well as Vice President…

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