Gov Matawalle boils, says I’ll no longer grant amnesty to bandits
Bans movement of cows, firewood, charcoal, others Issues new directives on sale of petroleum products Zamfara Governor, Bello Matawalle, says that the state government is no longer interested in holding a dialogue with bandits, noting that they had spurned the olive branch once extended to them. He said in Gusau that instead, security forces would flush them out of the state. “My administration will no longer grant amnesty to bandits as they have failed to embrace the peace initiative earlier extended to them,’’ the governor said, while addressing a congregation. He urged residents to be patient and to support
Zoning will determine PDP’s fate in 2023 – Governor Ortom
The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, said on Friday that zoning would determine the fate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general elections. The governor, who disclosed this to journalists in Makurdi shortly after he arrived from Abuja, said the PDP has no choice but to win the 2023 elections following the abysmal performance of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the last six years. He added that the PDP leadership had apologized to Nigerians for the past mistakes which led to the party’s defeat in the 2015 election. The governor expressed the hope that Nigerians would
Another Marriage Scandal Hits Oba Adetokunbo Tejuosho
By Maureen Badejo Forget the old cliché of the young girl with a sugar daddy. Rather, it seems an increasing number of millennial men are the ones looking for women to scam. This is the story of a self-acclaimed royal father who builds marital relationships with younger women purely to extract money from them. His Royal Highness, Oba Adetokunbo Tejuosho, the Olu of Orile Kemta, in Ogun State, has again enmeshed himself in a marriage scam after the April 2021 scandal which led to the reason he was disowned by Kemta Traditional Council of Chiefs. Without repentance, Oba Adetokunbo is
APC: We Don’t Want Igbo Presidency In 2023 – Hope Uzodinma
APC: We Don’t Want Igbo Presidency In 2023 – Hope Uzodinma Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State has stated that the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, is not looking for an Igbo president in 2023. The Imo state governor dismissed reports that the ruling party is working to zone the 2023 presidential election ticket to the southeast zone. Speaking in an interview with Channels Television on Friday, Uzodinma disclosed that the APC is locking for a president that would be for all Nigerians. The governor was responding to questions on if the APC would give its
FG to borrow $3bn via Eurobonds in October
The Federal Government has disclosed plans to raise $3bn from Eurobond sales in the second week of October. The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, who disclosed this during an interview on Bloomberg TV on Thursday said that the $3bn constituted half of the amount needed from external borrowings to fund the 2021 budget deficit. Ahmed said, “We should be going to the market in the second week of October. The government has approved to raise $6.1bn from overseas. So we are looking at doing half of that in the Eurobond market and the other half from
Congresses: APC national chairmanship race gathers steam
John Alechenu examines the recently concluded ward and local government congresses of the All Progressives Congress and how it is shaping the race for the national chairmanship of the party. As 2023 draws nearer, the scramble for the control of the structures of the ruling All Progressives Congress has started in earnest. When three opposition political parties, namely the All Nigeria Peoples Party, Action Congress of Nigeria and the Congress for Progressive Change, as well as a fragment of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, came together to form the All Progressives Congress, little if anything, was heard about their power-sharing
30-year-old man in Ekiti remanded for inserting iron into lady’s private parts
An Ado Ekiti Chief Magistrate’s Court on Friday ordered the remand of a 30-year-old man, Gboyega Ogunlola, in a custodial centre for allegedly inserting an iron into the private parts of a 27-year-old lady after reportedly raping her. Ogunlola was arraigned for rape and attempted murder. The victim, in her statement to the police, said the defendant took her in his car when she was going to Anambra State to check on her children, adding that she slept off in the process. According to her, she later found herself in Ogunlola’s room where he allegedly raped her and inserted a
