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A group, Amaechi Vanguard in the United States of America/Canada has urged the All Progressives Congress to choose the Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, as the party’s consensus presidential candidate. The coordinator of the group, Daniels Chukwuma, said that Amaechi had made enough sacrifices for the party to be considered qualified to emerge as a consensus presidential candidate of the APC for the 2023 elections. According to the group, Amaechi’s courage in canvassing for Muhammadu Buhari’s presidential ambition in 2015 in South-South and southeast zones was one of the major reasons APC is today the ruling party in the country.…

The 2022 World Cup qualifier between Nigeria and Ghana is beyond a football match. It is a derby to crown whoever brings the best spices for a scintillating ‘jollof’ on the pitch. Nigeria versus Ghana is always contentious duel on any day regardless of what is at stake. Even a friendly does not douse the intensity both West African nations bring to the pitch. It is all or nothing. No football rivalry comes to close Jollof Derby in West Africa. This time around, it is the mother of prices in football – a spot in the 2022 FIFA World Cup…

Gov. Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State and Chairman, Media and Publicity Sub-Committee for the All Progressives Congress (APC) 2022 National Convention, has released the programme of events for the party’s March 26 National Convention. Below is the programme of events for the convention scheduled to hold at Eagle Square, Abuja, as released by Sule on Thursday in Abuja. 1. Arrival of Accredited National Delegates – 10 a.m-1p.m 2. Arrival of the Members of the National Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) – 1:30p.m 3. Arrival of APC State Governors, National Assembly Members, Ministers, and Party Leaders – 1:30-2:p.m 4.…

Abimbola Adelakun After the jokes, memes, comedy skits, and satire about Ms Bianca Ojukwu slapping the former first lady of Anambra State, Ebele Obiano, had settled, it dawns on you how much abuse is endemic to our Nigerian societies and forms a part of our socialisation processes. To be born a Nigerian is to be thrust into a daily war where a weapon of warfare is all shades of abuse. Growing up Nigerian is akin to surviving a war front—you are dodging one incidence of abuse or the other while learning to inflict as much of it as possible.…

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has described the protests embarked upon by some Ile Ife indigenes over the announcement of a non-native as the next Vice Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University as “crazy”. Soyinka, a former lecturer at OAU, spoke at a lecture titled, ‘The Politics of Black Intellection and Creativity, at the University of Pennsylvania, the United States’, which was the first of the newly-inaugurated Distinguished Lecture series in African Studies. Reacting to a question by Professor Wale Adebanwi, Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies, Department of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Soyinka said he’s “shocked” over the…

The immediate past governor of Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko has denied making demands from business mogul, Aliko Dangote which forced him to move its Dangote Refinery from the Olokola Free Trade Zone to the Lekki Free Trade Zone. Dangote had in 2013, announced plans to build a refinery at the Olokola Free Trade Zone which is jointly owned by the Ogun and Ondo state governments, but the plan failed to materialise, with the project moved to Lekki Free Trade Zone in Lagos. Reacting through a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Media and Digital Communications, John Paul Akinduro,…

The Sokoto State Governor, Alhaji Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has said that merit and not the zone a person comes from should determine who becomes Nigeria’s president in 2023.Tambuwal also emphatically said that the opposition Peoples Democractic Party (PDP) will not zone the presidency to any part of the country. The Sokoto State governor made this known in Minna, Niger State Wednesday after holding private audiences with two former Nigerian leaders, Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida and Gen. Abdusalami Abubakar, at their residences.Tambuwal said that zoning of the presidency has never been the main issue in any political party in Nigeria since…

• Ishaku, Ortom, Ugwuanyi, Fayose, 34 others in a panel on zoning • Atiku says 2023 is a choice between greatness, destruction • Fintiri dumps governors’ camp for Atiku • Lawmakers excited over Saraki’s presidential ambition Rising from their meeting in Umuobiakwa, Obingwa, Abia State, yesterday, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors, under the aegis of PDP Governors’ Forum, resolved to change the leadership of the country. Describing the All Progressives Congress (APC) government as uncaring and insensitive to the plight of Nigerians, they said the ruling party has become a menace to Nigeria. They consequently urged Nigerians to reject the APC, which…

Tayo Oke By the simplest logic of demand and supply, a producer of goods in hot demand by the market reaps the benefit in more money from higher prices, especially where there is no extra cost attached to the production. In other words, if a cocoa farmer suddenly found that demand for cocoa has shut up along with its price, it would mean that he could sell all the cocoa he produces at a higher price than hitherto. The incentive is there for him to produce even more cocoa because the buyers are there waiting to scoop them all…

Lekan Sote A friend, an attorney, who may prefer to be anonymous, recently expressed his reservation, albeit with a hint of regret, about a call made by this column, a few weeks ago, that restructuring of the Nigerian polity should be in the manifesto of presidential aspirants who may transform into presidential candidates in 2023. The political structure of Nigeria as prescribed by the 1999 Constitution, a clone of the 1979 Constitution, constrains and prevents Nigeria’s economic and social progress. It is also an unfair document that is not from the hearts of Nigerians, no matter the claim of…