Former Edo state governor, Adam Oshiomhole, on Wednesday, came to the rescue of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has he left netizens rattled following another gaffe during his presidential rally in Rivers. Tinubu rattled social media users when he threw up his hands during the recitation of the national…
Ogun State Government has upgraded its College of Health Technology in Ilese-Ijebu to a polytechnic, and would henceforth be known as; Ogun State Polytechnic of Health and Allied Sciences. With a promise to appoint a substantive rector for the institution soon, the state governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, made the pronouncement on Wednesday, during his re-election…
Governor Samuel Ortom has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to quickly review the Naira swamp and cashless policy warning that the country is facing looming anarchy. The Governor who make the call in Makurdi said the policy was anti-people and should not come from a government that is eager to impact the people positively. According to the…
AHEAD of the presidential elections, Governor Nyesom Wike has said All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, possesses the character and courage required for Nigeria. Wike who received Tinubu at the Government House, Port Harcourt, shortly after the APC candidate’s campaign rally for Rivers Wednesday, said he owes nobody apologies for making the…
“What the rhetoric intentionally hopes to conceal, more than anything, is the nakedly transparent facts of the proven incapacity of the APC to govern and reform Nigeria after nearly seven years in power.In every imaginable index of human development, Nigeria has retrogressed under the lumbering weight of the incompetence of the APC. “..The truth is…
NATIONAL BROADCAST BY HIS EXCELLENCY MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE CHALLENGES OF THE CURRENCY SWAP AND STATE OF THE NATION, ON 16th FEBRUARY, 2023 My Dear Compatriots, I have found it necessary to address you today, on the state of the nation and to render account on the efforts of our…
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike yesterday recalled how the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, turned down offers to work against the reelection of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019.Wike said after meeting with a former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and the Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, in Paris between…
Ahead of next week’s presidential election, President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday justified the Naira redesign policy of his administration, saying it has contributed immensely to the the reduction of throwing money around in political season. In a nationwide broadcast monitored by DAILY INDEPENDENT, the President also directed the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to release…
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, has described the announcement by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), that only the old N200 banknote remains legal tender while the old N500 and N1,000 notes are not as a contempt of court. According to the lawyer-cum-activist, the president cannot overrule the Supreme Court of Nigeria. The…
In a bid to promote education and support less-privileged students in Kogi State, the Nigerians Unite for Tinubu/Shettima, NUFTS, has procured about 1,200 Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, forms for students in the three senatorial districts of the state.The forms which were distributed through the “RTA JAMB Support” initiative of the group, aimed at…