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Seventeen state governors will be awarded for the roles they have played in promoting the Sustainable Development Goals. The award will be organised by the International Association of World Peace Advocates (IAWPA) official partner to the United Nations on Sustainable Development Goals. The association in a press statement signed by its international spokesman Amb. Emmanuel Nkweke said the award ceremony is part of its activities to celebrate the 3 rd anniversary of the United Nations Sustainable Goals which was adopted by member states of the UN date back 25 th September 2015 in New-York. According to the statement, the governors of Lagos, Katsina, Rivers, Kogi, Anambra, Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Kebbi, Bauchi, Imo, Taraba, Abia, Adamawa, Kano, Niger, Ogun and Kaduna states will be awarded in various areas of the SDGs. The governors according to the spokesman merited the award due to their activities in their respective states on sustainable development. The statement said...

A coalition of Observer groups that observed the Rivers Constituency III House of Assembly bye elections have appealed to the All Progressives Congress APC not to murder the democracy which the Nigerian people fought so much to achieve and is enjoying today all   in its desperate bid to grab power at all cost. The coalition in a press statement made available to newsmen   and signed by Comrade Davidson Wokoma and Abubakar Adah said the conduct of the party and its agents on Saturday the 19 th   of August 2018 leaves much to be desired and should be condemned by all lovers of democracy in Nigeria and the world over. “We were attacked by thugs hired by the party which has never happened to us even in Ekiti despite all the hype that greeted the governorship election in that state. The Chairman of the APC in the state Ojukaye Flag – Amachree was seen moving from ward to ward mobilising miscreants to attack members of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP and eligible vote...

Recently the Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress APC unveiled its new party secretariat in Port Harcourt the Rivers State Capital. The Commissioning which was witnessed by an array of party faithful across the state signified the preparedness of the party to take over from what Sen. Magnus Ngei Abe who commissioned the Secretariat described as the contraption in the Rivers state government House. The fact that the who is who in the fold of the All Progressives Congress APC graced the occasion is not actually the news. What came as the take home message that day for everybody present and those that followed up the news is the way and manner the governorship faithful in the state under the party Magnus Abe showed maturity in urging all the members of the party in the state to come together as one in the bid to take over the state. The senator representing Rivers West in the Senate did not toe the line of other politicians who would have resorted to name callin...

The gale of defections that gripped the Nationa Assembly recently, reached another level with the decision of the former minority leader of the Senate Sen. Godswill Akpobio to resign his position as the leader of the minority. His resignation was followed by the confirmation of the rumour that he is defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party to pitch tent with the ruling All Progressives Congress APC. The fact that the former two term governor of Akwa Ibom state decided to dump the party which gave him the opportunity of becoming a   political personality in the country should be considered his political right no matter what but one thing that continues to baffle Nigerians is the way and manner he has gone about the whole issue. First and foremost if there is one single individual that has benefited from the former ruling party in the country, Sen. Akpabio will count as one of such. Commissioner in charge of various ministries for eight years not to talk of being in char...

Following widespread rumors, especially on the social media, that the Kano state Deputy Governor, Professor Hafiz Abubakar has dumped form the ruling All Progressives Congress APC for the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, he said he is yet to decamp.   “The attention of the office of the Deputy Governor of Kano state Professor Hafiz Abubakar has been drawn to a story circulating in the social media saying that he has defected from APC to PDP, it is important to inform all his supporters, well wishers, associates and the general public that such important decision is not taken on the pages of social media.” This is contained in a press statement issued Wednesday night and signed by Abdulwahab Sa’id Ahmad, a media assistant in the office of the Deputy Governor. The statement further called on the public to await whatever political stance he will decide on in the near future. “The general public should note that whatever the future political direction of His Excellency Pro...

The Special Assistant on Social media to President Muhammadu Buhari, Lauretta Onochie on Thursday said the Governor of Sokoto state, Aminu Tambuwal had wanted to overthrow President Buhari when the president was Onochie revealed this while condemning Tambuwal over his defection to the Peoples Democratic Party,PDP. Onochie writing on her Facebook page stated that Tambuwal lied about the reason why he left APC, explaining that the Sokoto state governor left the ruling party after his plan to overtake Buhari’s tenure as President failed. She wrote: ” Governor Tambuwal of Sokoto state, yesterday, returned to his vomit. It was expected. The problem I have is that he lied about the reason for leaving APC. “APC? A haven for the corrupt? And he returned to PDP? He is not an honourable man. ” He is a man who wished for, prayed for and desperately wanted the death of President Muhammadu Buhari. He almost physically threw out our government so he could “complete” Pres. Buhari’s ...

The minister of women affairs and social development, Senator Aisha Alhassan has resigned her position in order to contest the 2019 governorship election. President Muhammadu Buhari confirmed the resignation in his acceptance of her notification through a letter conveyed to her dated July 27, 2018. Minister for Women Affairs, Asha AlHassan In the letter, however, President Buhari raised a condition of supporting her so long as she vies on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC. Alhassan had famously last September vowed that she would not support Buhari’s second term ambition on the claim that he had promised to serve only one term and that she would only support former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. Abubakar who was at that time in the APC has now defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. It was yet unclear yesterday if she would follow Abubakar to the PDP. Alhassan was the candidate of the APC in the 2015 governorship election and lost it by the whiskers....