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The BOS Strategic Thinkers inaugurate her Bariga LCDA Chapter _COORDINATOR_ and _EXCO's_ at the LGA office today, 21st of December 2018. This great occasion was well attended by party members across the eight (8) wards in Bariga LCDA. The Chapter Coordinator; Alhaji Azeez Olatunji intimated members that the leaders and his

I extend to President Muhammadu Buhari my warmest sympathies on his sick bed. It is a measure of the fragility of our democracy that an elected President insists on hiding his frailty from the people who are compelled to pay for his treatment abroad.  There is no hiding place in the constitution. Nonetheless, President Buhari is scheduled to return to Nigeria tomorrow.  He will be welcomed with at least one Lagos street protest that the police are trying to muzzle.  That would be another self-inflicted injury, and I urge Acting President Yemi Osinbajo to tell them to back off and go pursue Lagos’ many criminals. I reiterate that it is a shame and an embarrassment that despite Mr. Buhari’s promises and posturing for many years, he sees no irony in running off to the United Kingdom for his medical needs, leaving behind the nation’s most expensive (and presumably best-equipped) publicly-funded clinic in the presidential palace. This fact underlines a ...

Former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisa Metuh FORMER National Publicity Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisa Metuh, has said that the rejection by the House of Representatives of the Bill for Establishment of South East Development Commission does not demonstrate the desired spirit of national accommodation and sensitivity towards the people and problems of the South East zone. Metuh said this on Sunday through a statement he personally signed and made available to newsmen, just as he commended the South East caucus of the National Assembly for bringing the needs of the region to the front burner. According to him, it is also heart-warming to note that a good number of lawmakers from other geo-political zones supported the bill, describing the gesture as a “laudable act, showing that other regions are beginning to appreciate the issues related to the developmental predicaments of the South-East.” ...

Governor Ayodele Fayose has asked the people of Ekiti State to ask his predecessor, Dr Kayode Fayemi what he has done with his position as a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the last one and half years. Fayose insisted that Fayemi, who is the Minister Mines and Steel Development, had not impacted positively in the State, particularly in helping to tap the huge mineral potentials of the State as a man superintending over the Ministry. He also dropped a bomb shell that critical stakeholders loyal to Alhaji Ahmed Makarfi’s group in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will defect to another party, if Senator Ali Modu Sheriff wins the appeal pending at the Supreme Court. The Governor said these on Wednesday while interfacing with youths between ages 18 and 22 at the government’s house ground in Ado Ekiti. Fayose said his predecessor was holding the ministerial position in trust for the people of the State, adding that Fayemi had ‎allegedly failed to use the...

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, John Oyegun has said a National Leader of the party, Bola Tinubu was not responsible for his emergence as the ruling party’s National Chairman. Oyegun made the remark in an interview with Vanguard while responding to a question that some people are alleging that he has not been fair to those who assisted him to emerge National Chairman of the party, especially, Bola Tinubu. The APC Chairman insisted that everybody in the party and not a particular individual aided his emergence. According to Oyegun, “Everybody assisted me to this position and I am grateful to all of them. The only thing is my personality and integrity; I don’t joke with these two things because they are the only currency that I have and I will defend them at any time. “I don’t believe one particular person solely assisted me to this position, everybody assisted me and someday, the story of how I became chairman of APC will be ...

TARABA State chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Victor Kona has said the state chapter of the party remained neutral in the current leadership tussle at the national level, but chose to concentrate in consolidating the party’s position in the state. Kona disclosed this to newsmen yesterday during an interactive session at the party’s secretariat in Jalingo. According to him, the party has chosen to stay neutral in the face of the crisis because taking sides with either of the factions will simply mean inviting the crisis to the state, thereby dividing the party in the state and giving the opposition a chance to operate. “In Taraba, I can assure you that there is no crisis in the PDP. Our concern is to continue to consolidate the party’s position in the state and that is what we are doing. In the face of the crisis we won rerun elections for House of representative and Assembly seats and clear all the chairmanship seats in the just concluded local go...

Ahead of the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Anambra State, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has set up a seven– member planning and strategy committee. The committee was chaired by a former Governor of old Anambra State, Dr. Jim Nwobodo, while a former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu would serve as Vice Chairman. Other members include; Senator Emma Agboti from Enugu State, who is the secretary, while Senator Ifeanyi Ararume (Imo), Senator Nkechi Nwogu (Abia), Chief Maduba Cosmas (Imo) and Chief Gbazueagu N. Gbazueagu (Enugu), were members. Speaking at a meeting of South East leaders of the party hosted by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige at his country home, Alor, Idemili South local government area of Anambra State, the National Vice Chairman of the party in charge of South East, Chief Emma Enenkwu said the Anambra election was one in which the APC must show the nation that Igbo people were fully prepared to play the mainstream pol...

A member of All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Timi Frank, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to sack appointees, including cabinet members, who had brought the Federal Government to disrepute. He said this on Wednesday in Abuja, while reacting to the suspension of Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Babachir Lawal by the president and the Director-General of National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Amb. Ayo Oke. Frank noted that the suspension of the SGF and the NIA boss was long overdue but that it would boost the confidence of Nigerians in the Federal Government`s fight against corruption in the country. Reacting, the SGF said he was not aware of his suspension by the presidency. But Frank expressed confidence that the three-member committee set up by the president to investigate the matters would come up with a result that would please Nigerians. “The president should take more bold steps like this to sack all the incompetent hands in his government. ...

Mr Timi Frank, a member of the All Progressive Congress party (APC) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to sack appointees, including cabinet members, who had brought the Federal Government to disrepute. He made the Statement on Wednesday in Abuja, while reacting to the suspension of Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr David Babachir Lawal by the president. In the suspension announced in a statement by Mr Femi Adesina, his Media Adviser, on Wednesday in Abuja, Buhari also ordered an investigation into allegations of violations of law and due process against the SGF in the award of contracts. Also suspended by the president was the Director-General of National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Amb. Ayo Oke. Lawal was alleged to have committed the offences as Chairman of the Presidential Initiative on the North-East (PINE). Frank said the suspension of the SGF and the NIA boss was long overdue. Oke’s suspension followed the recent discovery of a la...