Wase local government area of Plateau state blessed in all ramifications particularly in the area of natural endowments, but suffers unwarranted neglect and acute infrastructure deficit. Its underdevelopment is attributed to several factors including politics, geographical location; religion, corruption and sense of responsibility. Politically, it is one of the few local government areas enjoying the privilege of being a federal Read More
Speaker of the Lagos state House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, Thursday said the issue of godfatherism is on a positive note in the state. saying it has been responsible for consistency in development across the State. He made the submission while reacting to a lecture delivered at the assembly premises during the 13th edition of annual hijrah (1443 A.H.) lecture. Read More
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, a group, Grassroot Alliance For Good Governance (GAFGG) has called on the two leading political parties in Nigeria, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to pick their presidential candidates from the South. The group which said it is beating the drums of unification and togetherness to the hearing of Read More
Former Vice-President and Presidential flag-bearer of the opposition People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar will from every indication throw his hat into the ring for the sixth time in his sojourn into Nigeria’s political murky Read More
The Director General of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF), Dr Salihu Lukman, has faulted the Islamic cleric, Sheikh Abubakar Gumi, for calling on the authorities to grant amnesty to bandits in the country. The APC chieftain said Gumi’s position was not only self serving but clearly a threat to national security. Lukman also applauded the role played by Chief Executive Read More
Nigeria’s former Military President between 1985 and 1993, Ibrahim Babangida, has revealed the quality and age limit of the country’s next President he desires. He desired for a man that has great appeal across the length and breadth of Nigeria, who possesses the quality of inclusivity and can bond the nation together. The former President said, “That is a person, Read More
Business Mogul, Chief Emmanuel Oritsejolomi Uduaghan, has described the former governor of Delta state, Chief James Ibori, as a colossus, true patriot and political go-getter. In a congratulatory message to Ibori on the occasion of his 63rd birthday, Monday, Uduaghan praised the former governor for his enormous contributions to the state and his achievements. ‘’Chief James Onanefe Ibori faithfully and Read More
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has lamented the kidnap of students in different parts of the country and demanded an urgent intervention from concerned authorities. Addressing journalists Friday in Abuja, its national president, Comrade Abdulmajeed Oyeniyi, after taking over power from the previous exco, said the association hds also spoken with the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Read More
Today, June 12, 2020, is being observed all over the country as Democracy Day. It is the third commemoration of the day, declared by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2018. The day has supplanted May 29 as the Democracy Day to mark the handing over of the reins of power to a democratically elected government on May 29, 1999. In the Read More
Chairman of a foremost youth group in Cross River state, Nka Ikemesit Mkparawa Essien Efik Duopeba, Mr Ekpo Ekeng, has warned that it was joblessness, that birthed frustration and anger, responsible for ravaging security challenges Nigeria is facing. Ekeng, who spoke with Blueprint in Calabar, Thursday, said the problem could be surmounted if governments at all levels and the political Read More
It is the bounden duty of every citizen to hold the government to account. In fact, citizenship is a call to duty – for the state. And there is no compelling duty which supersedes citizens subjecting their employees – the government – to scrutiny and constant vigilance. Criticising the government is within the rights of every citizen, and active citizenship Read More
A former presidential spokesman, Dr Doyin Okupe, has cried out to political leaders across party lines to unite in finding solutions to the problems of insecurity bedeviling the Nation. Okupe in a personally signed statement in Abuja Sunday, said addressing the problem along with agitations for self rule and intra ethnic hatred ahead of 2023 general elections , were very Read More
The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has bestowed on Senator Uba Sani (Kaduna Central) the award of ‘Outstanding Senator’ in the 9th National Assembly, describing the lawmaker as the most “media-friendly” in the North-west. The lawmaker bagged the award during the roundtable discussion on the effects of fake news on governance, organised by seven of the North-west states in Arewa Read More
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