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Adams Oshiomhole, Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has called for the probe of former President Olusegun Obasanjo and ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar tenure for allegedly spending $16 billion on power in the country with no proof that such money was spent on electricity generation. Oshiomhole, who was the guest of honour at the flag-off of Governor Simon Lalong’s re-election campaign at Jos Township Stadium, said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) 16 years in power was a waste alleging that Nigerians became poorer under Obasanjo regime and Goodluck Jonathan as a result of their failure to put the interests of Nigerians first before any other considerations. He accused PDP Presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar of heading the privatisation of federal government organisations under President Obasanjo eight years in power during which thousands of workers lost their jobs while few top government officials allegedly took away federal owned companies at a give-away price.

President Muhammadu Buhari will on Monday, inaugurate the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council for the 2019 General Elections. This information is contained in a statement issued by Mr Festus Keyamu, Director, Strategic Communications, APC Presidential Campaign Council. He said those expected at the ceremony were the persons earlier announced as members of the APC Presidential Campaign Council. They are: Chairman, President Muhammadu Buhari, Co-Chairman, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Deputy Chairmen,Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and APC National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole. Others are, Vice Chairman North, Sen. George Akume, Vice Chairman South, Sen. Ken Nnamani, Director-General, Rotimi Amaechi, Deputy Director-General (Operations), Sen. A. O. Mamora and Deputy Director-General (Coordination), Arch. Waziri Bulama. Other members include the Secretaries, Adamu Adamu and Dele Alake, Zonal Directors — North West: Sen. Aliyu. M. Wamakko, North East: Sen. Muh’d Ali

By Nwafor Sunday The newly appointed head of election collation centre for the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for the 2019 elections, Mrs. Amina Zakari has denied having a consanguinity relationship with President Muhammadu Buhari. Her appointment has generated myriads of criticisms and arguments from opposition’s political parties, Nigerians and Presidency Zakari is a princess of Jigawa State. She was born on June 23, 1960 to the late Emir of Kazaure, Hussaini Adamu. She completed her elementary education at Shekara Girls Primary School, Kano in 1971 and had her secondary education at Queens College, Lagos. Amina Bala Zakari was the former Acting Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission. Her appointment took effect from the directive of the President Muhammadu Buhari following the expiration of the tenure of her predecessor, Attahiru Jega on July 30, 2015. However, since her appointment, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has delved into captious

PMB and cronies have finally reached out to the people of kogi state. This is according to APC UK Twitter handle.

US military has deployed soldiers to Gabon amid fears of violent protests in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo in anticipation of . Donald Trump told Congress on Friday that the first of about 80 troops arrived in Gabon on Wednesday to protect US citizens and diplomatic facilities should violence break out in DRC’s capital Kinshasa Voters in Congo went to the polls on December 30, two years after they were first scheduled to be held, to elect the successor to President Joseph Kabila, who has been in power for 18 years. “The first of these personnel arrived in Gabon on January 2, 2019, with appropriate combat equipment and supported by military aircraft,” Trump’s letter to Congress read.“Additional forces may deploy to Gabon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or the Republic of the Congo, if necessary for these purposes.” “These deployed personnel will remain in the region until the security situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo becomes such that their presen

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the prosecution of the President of the Nigerian Football Federation, Amaju Pinnick, over an alleged multi-billion scam in the organisation. It was also learnt that the Federal Government through the Presidential investigative panel headed by Mr. Okoi Obono-Obla, had placed Pinnick on travel ban. Our correspondent gathered on Saturday that Buhari gave the order for Pinnick’s prosecution when the Obono-Obla presented a preliminary investigation report to him. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission also addressed a report on the NFF to Mr President detailing the outcome of their investigations which tallied with what Obono-Obla’s panel had submitted to the President. EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Magu had in his six-page report informed Buhari that the anti-graft agency had investigated and prosecuted the Director, Finance and Administration, Christopher Andekin; Head, Finance and Administration, NFF, Jafaru Mamzah and a cashier with the Finance

In another mendacious press release, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has continued their baseless accusations regarding Hajiya Amina Zakari, a commissioner in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) accusing her of partiality and casting doubts about her integrity as an electoral commissioner. In their desperation, they forget that it was the PDP government that appointed her in the first place and they keep lying, as they have been caught doing on so many issues, by imputing a blood relationship between her and President Muhammadu Buhari. President Buhari and Commissioner Amina Zakari don’t share a family relationship. An inter-marriage occurred in their extended families, so the imputation of blood relationship between the President and the electoral commissioner is a simple lie. What is even more curious about all the fuss coming from the PDP is that they, as a ruling party picked Mrs Zakari, judging her by her own merit and made her an electoral commissioner. Sh

His Excellency Alhaji Atiku Abubakar Gcon ( 2019 Presidential Candidate of PDP arrived Sokoto state to pay condolence visit to the people and government of the state over the demise of the former president late Shagari. He was accompanied by Abdusalam Abubakar

By Marie-Therese Nanlong The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has again urged Nigerians to vote for all candidates standing for elections on the platform of the APC as the party was working to reposition the country on the path of greatness. Similarly, the Director-General, Buhari Campaign organization, Rotimi Amaechi reminded the people that their party was for the poor because it understands the grassroots and would work hard to rescue them from poverty. Both spoke yesterday at the flag-off of the re-election campaigns for President Muhammadu Buhari and Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong. The APC National Chairman who commended the leadership style of Lalong said: “The APC is pro-poor, we are here to receive these people of character and vision who have joined our party because of our leadership style. “Atiku said he will sell NNPC, he presided over the liquidation of the Nigerian Airways without paying workers, will you

Thousands of people have signed a petition in New York City to rename the block in front of Trump Tower after former President Barack Obama. A MoveOn petition started by Elizabeth Rowin is calling for the stretch of Fifth Avenue between 56th and 57th streets to be renamed “President Barack H. Obama Avenue The petition would require President Trump to formally change the address of his Trump Tower building, where his 2020 reelection campaign will be headquartered on the 15th floor. The measure had nearly 4,300 signatures as of Friday morning. “We request the New York City Mayor and City Council do the same by renaming a block of Fifth Avenue after the former president who saved our nation from the Great Recession, achieved too many other accomplishments to list, and whose two terms in office were completely scandal free,” the petition states. A stretch of a freeway in Los Angeles was recently renamed after the former commander in chief. For the street to be renamed, the New York City

Olufemi Atoyebi, Abuja The Federal Government and organised labour on Friday failed to reach an agreement over the proposed N30,000 minimum wage after a seven-hour meeting at the Ministry of Labour and Employment headquarters in Abuja. However, the meeting was postponed till Monday for further negotiations. The meeting was called to discuss the new minimum wage proposed by the tripartite committee that deliberated on the issue and how to avert a nationwide protest by organised labour on January 8. At the meeting were the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, Minister for Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udo Udoma, and Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed. Also in attendance were the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Ayuba Wabba, General Secretary of the union, Peter Ozo-Eson, President of Trade Union Congress, Kaigama Bobboi, and members of the tripartite committee. Speaking at the end of the meeting, Wabba told journalists that the meeting made substan

Rashida Harbi Tlaib was born July 24, 1976 is an American politician while some referred to her as a Palestinian American. And also lawyer who is in the U.S. Representative for Michigan's 13th Congressional district.She is a Democratic, a former member of the Michigan House of Representatives. Until term-limited out, she represented the 6th District, which is in Southwest Detroit and stretches from an area just south of Downtown to the city's southern border, and west to the city of Dearborn. Upon taking office on January 1, 2009, Rashida became the first Muslim woman to serve in the Michigan Legislature, and the first Muslim woman in American history to be elected to any U.S. state legislature. Now she's coming out bold to criticize the president which she has always done, but non of these has gained more momentum than the video currently trending where she refers to the American president as a motherfucker. Trump replied Tlaib yesterday by saying "Well, I thou