Sometime in 2015 at BIGARD MEMORIAL SEMINARY ENUGU… I could remember vividly that very DAY after Morning Mass, Peter Obi unknown to the Rector and college of Formators, followed the students to the refectory for breakfast. The amazement that filled the refectory was mind blowing. We all paused to watch him dissect his ọkpa with…
Ahead of the 2023 elections, presidential candidates like Peter Obi, Rabiu Kwankwaso, Omoyele Sowore and other politicians have been warned about why they can’t defeat the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Activist lawyer, Deji Adeyanju, said Obi, Kwankwaso, Sowore, and others can’t defeat Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar if they…
The Federal Government has resumed talks with representatives of unions in the nation’s universities, The PUNCH reports. The PUNCH reported last week that the Prof Nimi Briggs committee set up by the government to renegotiate the 2009 agreement was expected to end its three months’ timelines given on June 7, 2022. But investigations revealed that…
The Labour Party (LP), has said it would not compromise the principle of social-religious inclusion and settle for a Christian Christian ticket being debated by other parties for her 2023 presidential ticket. Chairman of the Labour Party, Barr. Julius Abure, said this in Abuja, on Monday, while speaking in commemoration of Democracy Day. He said…
Plateau Diocese Dissociates Self From Denying Members Without PVC Access To Church Plateau dioceses dissociates self from priests who stopped parishioners from attending mass because they had no PVC. The Catholic Diocese of Pankshin in Plateau state has distanced itself from the actions of one of its Priests, Rev. Fr. Kefas Gogwim, who on Sunday,…
The worst mistake both the APC and PDP could make right now is to assume that the silent revolution which has started with the present desperation by young Nigerians who are old enough to register to vote is an empty threat. Age is one reason Peter Obi of Labour Party seems to hold more appeal…
The Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has dismissed insinuations that he may be unable to win the 2023 presidential election because he and his party lack political structures in all states of the country. Obi said the over 100 million Nigerians affected by poverty, pensioners as well as students and lecturers affected by the…
Indications have emerged on the role played by some critical party and state officials in the emergence of the National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, as the party’s presidential candidate. This is coming amid hints that indecision and serious infighting on the part of President Muhammadu Buhari and the…
The apex pan-Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere, has commended the Nigerian judiciary for bringing the killers of a daughter of its leader, Mrs. Olufunke Olakunrin, to justice. Olufunke, one of the daughters of Pa Reuben Fasoranti, the leader of Afenifere, was gruesomely murdered in June 2019 at Oore in Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State…
No fewer than 85 youths, drawn from across the 36 states of the federation, including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja have benefited from tricycles distributed by the former president Olusegun Obasanjo as part of the activities to mark his 85th birthday celebration.The tricycles, valued at N1million each, were donated through the Youths Development Centre…