Now that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has finally slunk back into the PDP once again, the party that he once helped found and twice futilely helped to kill, all absurd arguments to justify this third missionary journey into the party are been spewed by different characters across the nation’s political landscape. Only recently, the so-called Adamawa State PDP’s leadership and an amorphous group that calls itself Katsina State People’s Democratic Party Elders’ Consultative Forum are reported to have publicly pleaded with the erstwhile Vice President to come back to…
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AC Milan appoint Gennaro Gattuso as coach
Fallen Italian giants AC Milan have sacked coach Vincenzo Montella and named combative former player Gennaro Gattuso as their new boss, the Chinese-owned club said Monday. The seven-time European champions are lying seventh in Serie A after a goalless draw against Torino on Sunday. “AC Milan announces the exemption of Vincenzo Montella from the post of coach of the first team,” the club said in a statement. “Montella is the most appreciated thanks to the work done so far with her staff for commitment, seriousness and professional fairness. “The technical…
Read More2019: Delta State will be free from those that squandered it- Emerhor
Delta State APC Leader, Olorogun O’Tega Emerhor clocks 60 recently. He bear his mind on his early life, Fame and why PDP will loose 2019 elections in Delta State. Granball Choice was there at the event. Excerpts:. From your own beginning, how did you set and actualized the dream of building a robust wealth, power and influence you command today? Thank you for this interesting question. As a young person, your initial set is not to go and build wealth and influence and it was very few people have that…
Read MoreEducation and the 2018 federal estimates
In this season of the presentation of budget estimates by the executive and their consideration by the legislature, it is imperative to interrogate budgeting for education. Education is one of the building blocks of modern society and civilisation. The budget provides the opportunity for policy, plan and the budget to work in a continuum that moves resources towards the fulfillment of government’s core objectives in promoting development, economic growth, human rights and fundamental freedoms, etc. This discourse is focused on the right to education, which is a human right in…
Read MoreEgypt blames ISIS for deadly Sinai mosque attack
Egypt has blamed ISIS fighters for the attack carried out during Friday prayers at a mosque in the country’s Sinai Peninsula. The Egyptian government placed the blame on the group citing eyewitnesses who saw the attackers carrying ISIS flags. Egypt’s Chief Prosecutor, Nabil Sadeq had also accused ISIS of carrying out the attack. Sadeq also said that the death toll has witnessed a dramatic increase from the previously announced 235 fatalities to 305 worshipers, including 27 children, while another 128 were injured. He also said that the attack was carried…
Read MoreEx-Niger Delta warlord Ateke Tom crowned king
Ex-Niger Delta warlord, Ateke Michael Tom, has been crowned the new Amanyanabo of Okrika Town. At coronation ceremony, the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, charged the new Amanyanabo of Okochiri town to continue to invest in the sustenance of peace in Okrika. Governor Wike advised the newly crowned monarch against being used to disunite the people of Okrika town. In an address during the coronation of King Ateke Michael Tom (JP) at Okochiri town on Saturday, Governor Wike charged the traditional ruler to further establish himself as an agent…
Read MoreNNPC, FAAC to parley on Monday over discrepancies
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) will tomorrow meet to reconcile the discrepancies in data submitted at its last meeting. The FAAC meeting was last Thursday, called off due to discrepancies in the oil revenue receipt reported by the NNPC. The corporation has insisted that it remitted all the required funds to the FAAC, saying the challenge has to do with the interpretation of the data it submitted. Confirming the re-scheduled meeting, the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division GGM/GPAD of the…
Read MorePDP chieftain, Obanikoro finally decamps to APC, gives reasons
Former Minister of State for Defence, Sen. Musiliu Obanikoro, on Saturday officially decamped from the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. The ex-Minister’s defection at his Lagos Island constituency ended months of speculations about the status of his political allegiance. He defected to the APC along with other PDP bigwigs in the state, including a former aide of former president, Goodluck Jonathan, Modupe Sasore. Others are a national officer of the PDP, Jide Damazio, and another PDP chieftain, Chief Kola Balogun. The decampees were received…
Read MoreSouthern senators insist on restructuring, implementation of 2014 confab report
The Southern Senators Forum has called for the restructuring of the country and the implementation of the 2014 National Conference Report, as it underscored the need for continued peace and unity in the country. This was just as the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) urged the Senate president, Dr Bukola Saraki, to allow Nigerians to create their own constitution through a constituent assembly instead of speaking out of tune and context on the restructuring debate Saraki had, on Friday, at the Southern Senators’ Retreat held in Calabar, harped on the unity…
Read MoreCommunity disowns ex-minister Tonye Graham-Douglas, 5 others over suspension of monarch
Crisis is brewing in Abonnema Community in Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State following the purported suspension of the monarch of the community, the Amayanabo of Abonnema, King Disrael Gbobo Bobmanuel, as the Chairman, Council of Chiefs by some chiefs led by former Minister of Aviation, Alabo Tonye Graham-Douglas. The community and the Abonnema Council of Chiefs have subsequently announced the suspension of the “renegade” chiefs Graham Douglas, Chief Enoch Granville, Chief Edmund Young Jack, Chief Beremabo Pedro, Alabo Anthony Oweredaba and Chief A. B. Ajumogobia for allegedly embarrassing…
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