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Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto State has urged Nigerians to reject what he Tuesday described as “prison-yard democracy, typified by the ignoble meddlesomeness, rascality and high-handedness of some security agencies against democratic institutions” in Nigeria in recent times. Speaking against the background of Monday’s siege to the Benue State House of Assembly and other perceived violations of the country’s democratic culture including the attacks on the national legislature, the All Progressives Congress, APC governor described the developments as aberrations that go against the fundamental human rights of Nigerians. Tambuwal who became the first APC governor to openly chide recent happenings in the country said: “Nigerians must, in strong terms, say no to prison-yard democracy, where the rights of the citizenry are shackled to the caprices of a few, as if we now run a nation of helpless inmates. If the people of Nigeria are so unfortunate to endure...

A former Deputy Governor of Niger State, Alhaji Ahmed Ibeto, has dumped the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the State. The Sun reports that Ibeto is currently undergoing the process of obtaining his PDP membership card from his ward in Magma Local Government Area of the state. Ibeto was the Deputy Governor for eight years to former Governor, Muazu Babangida Aliyu. He decamped from PDP during the 2014/2015 general election for the ruling APC after he lost the party’s primary. Details later…

The mother of the remaining abducted Dapchi School girl Mrs. Rebecca Sharibu has told the Founder and General Overseer of the Omega Power Ministries OPM Apostle Chibuzor Chinyere that he is a real man of God. In a media interaction with our correspondent, the mother of Miss Leah Sharibu said words cannot describe how she felt about the concern the Port Harcourt based cleric has shown towards the plight of her daughter and her family since their ordeal began. Miss Leah Sharibu refused to renounce her Christian faith for her release alongside her school mates leading to her continued abduction by the members of the Boko Haram sect. Mrs. Sharibu while pleading for her release, urged Nigerians to continue in their prayers for the release of her daughter stressing that life has never been the same since the abduction. ''We are facing an ugly nightmare which will come to past with the release of our daughter'' she said. Mrs. Sharibu said she has not communicate...

A front line  Federal lawmaker  representing Katsina South senatorial District Sen. Abu Ibrahim has described the Reform APC   breakaway group as 'lacking in focus, direction, principle, purpose or agenda and merely an exercise in futility meant to massage the egos of individuals and group of persons who have lost relevance in the nation's political reckoning and are desperate to regain their lost position by all means fair and foul'. Elaborating further, Sen. Ibrahim who is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Police Affairs and has been unanimously endorsed for another term in the Red Chambers by an overwhelming majority of party leaders, stakeholders , loyalists and teeming supporters in the zone faulted the sweeping allegations leveled by the 'Reform APC' against the APC led Federal Government. He slammed the allegations of the breakaway group as the ranting of disgruntled, self-seeking and self-perpetuating megalomania cal individuals bent on aggre...

RIWAMA Sole Administrator, Bro. Felix Obuah Impressed With Compliance Despite Downpour The Sole Administrator of the Rivers State Waste Management Agency (RIWAMA), Bro. Felix Obuah has applauded residents and those doing business in the State for actively participating in the sanitation exercise held across the State on Saturday, July 28, 2018. Bro. Obuah, shortly after the monitoring exercise in some sections of Port Harcourt, the State capital, applauded the people for defying the heavy downpour which lasted over two hours, to clean their surroundings. The Sole Administrator said the fact that people participated actively in the exercise despite the downpour, showed that Rivers people appreciate healthy environment and urged them to sustain the tempo in future sanitation exercises. “The early comers also did a great job in that we saw a lot of cans and plastic bottles floating from the drains and this is a good time to do this cleaning so that our drain...

The gale of defections in the National Assembly last week was followed by an advice from no one else than Sen. Abu Ibrahim that the Senate President Dr. Bukola Saraki as well as the Speaker of the House of Representatives Yakubu Dogara and others in the fold of the All Progressives Congress APC that are still masquerading in the party should resign their membership of the party. This call which also implies that they resign their positions as leaders of the various arms of the National Assembly is yet to be complied with by those concerned as at the time of writing this piece Whatever their reasons for still staying put in the party may be, the fact of the matter is that their continued stay in the party has become a sore which must be extricated from the body.  As I watched through the proceedings of the defections on national television, I wept for the country for producing such leaders that lack morality despite all the party has given them politically which they ordin...