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KOGI GOVERNORSHIP RACE:Youths CRAVE for IDRISIMA.....Project 2020 And The Efforts So Far Chronicling, Kog  leadership conundrum over the years especially the multifarious developmental impediments and average representation despite been the centred and seat of the great Igala Kingdom and the entire state with her rich historical antecedents and cultural heritage. Some of these confronting challenges include: poor representation, inadequate drinkable water, poor road network, poor educational facilities, inadequate market infrastructure, epileptic power supply to some regions due to refusal of mandated authority to replace the faulty and damaged electrical facilities and also to negligence from those who could have even done it out of benevolence but remain uncaring etc. These among others are the challenges that are retarding the progress and development of Kogi and collectively we can liberate ourselves, our people and yet unborn generations through your sacrifice and my human a...

President Muhammadu Buhari has instructed Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State to bring the 83-year-old Imam of Nghar village, Gashish District in the Barkin Ladi Local Government Area, Alhaji Abdullahi Abubakar, to Abuja for “a handshake and national honour.” Lalong said the President took the decision following reports that the Imam saved about 300 persons on June 24 when suspected Fulani herdsmen invaded about 15 communities in the Barkin Ladi LGA, killing over 200 persons. The people, mainly Christians, were said to be fleeing from a neighbouring village in the Barkin Ladi LGA when the Imam hid them in his house and mosque. “I hid the women in my personal house and after that, I took the men into the mosque and hid them there,” Imam Abubakar had stated. However, the assailants caught up with the Imam, forcefully demanding that he release those who were Christians in the mosque. But the cleric said deceived the bandits that all those in the mosque were Muslims and upon ...

Defections: APC Rules Out Automatic Tickets For Lawmakers The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress , Adams Oshiomhole , has ruled out the likelihood of offering the APC ’ s legislators automatic tickets as a way of making them to remain in the party . Oshiomhole said this at a meeting with the APC caucus in the House of Representatives at the party ’ s national secretariat in Abuja on Thursday . He explained that the best the party could offer in line with its democratic practice was to provide a level playing field for all members to test their popularity . Towards this end , he said the direct primary, which was used successfully in Osun and Bauchi states, to pick candidates, would henceforth be adopted by the APC . Oshiomhole said, “Somebody asked me are we countering the Peoples Democratic Party by offering automatic tickets, I asked , did we offer anybody departure ticket? If we did not , then how does the issue of return ticket arise ? “For me, I am ...

Investigators from the office of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), yesterday in Abuja, grilled the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, over his alleged role in the Offa robbery attack. The interrogation came 48 hours after Saraki declined to show up at the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) office of the Nigeria Police, Guzape, Abuja. Special Assistant on New Media to Saraki, Olu  Onemola, making the revelation on his Twitter handle, said the police interrogators arrived the National Assembly office of the Senate President at about 1:40pm. He wrote: “Further to the invitation to the Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, by the police on July 23, 2018, and his written response to them on July 24, 2018, on why he could not see them that day, today (yesterday) at about 1:40pm, the Senate President met with a team of investigators on the Offa robbery case in his office. “Saraki used the opportu nity to reiterate the fact that he ...

The Lagos State Government has announced plans to engage some religious leaders, including pastors and imams, and place them on a salary structure.  This is a way of carrying out reorientation of the citizenry to shun corruption and immorality. The development was made public by the Lagos State commissioner for home affairs, Abdulhakeem Abdulateef, during a sensitization programme for imams and scholars across the state, on Thursday, July 26, Daily Trust reports.  The commissioner disclosed that the state government would continue to interact with religious leaders, and tasked them to be above board and encourage their followers to shun corruption. He said: “We shall be willing to even engage many of them by making provision for their salaries so that they can assist government to re-orientate the people for good. “Imams and Pastors are believed to be men of God. So we need all of you to help us to encourage the right values in the society; particularly in the area of ...

Thirty seven members of the House of Representatives formerly in the fold of the All Progressive Congress (APC), has dumped the party and moved to the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) and African Democratic Congress (ADC) The Representatives in a letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara officially announced their defection during plenary on Tuesday. Top on the list of the defectors is the Chairman Committee on Rules and Business Rep. Emmanuel Orker-Jev (Benue). Of the 37 defectors, 33 went to the PDP while four others from Oyo state moved to ADC. Other prominent members who dumped the APC include: Sani Rano, Barry Mpigi, Ali madaki, Dickson Tackighir, Hassan Saleh, Danburam Nuhu, Mark Gbilah, Razak Atunwa, Ahmed Garba Bichi, Abdulsamad Dasuk and Zakari Mohammed. This is coming after 15 senators in the Senate dumped the APC for PDP. The defection in the House of Representatives threw the chamber into a rowdy session as the remaining members of the APC in...