Category: Politics

…says destruction devastating. By Mandy Park Labour Party Presidential Candidate, Mr. Peter Obi has said that the country ought to have declared flood disaster emergency in some areas of the country. Obi who has suspended his National Presidential Campaign to enable him visit and empathize with the victims of the flood disaster in some states of the federation including Benue, BAYELSA and Anambra states said that Federal Government ought to have declared national emergency on the natural disaster in view of the massive damage recorded. According to the Labour Party…

…says there was abuse of human right procedures By Omocho Kalu Labour Party (LP), Vice-Presidential Candidate, Yusuf Baba Ahmed has said that security agencies deployed to the Lekki tollgate during the October 2020 #EndSARS protests should have protected demonstrators but failed. Baba-Ahmed spoke on Thursday during an interview on Channels Television. Recall that on October 20, 2020, in what appeared to be an attempt to disperse protesters, officers of the Nigerian Army stormed the Lekki tollgate and started shooting. In November 2021, a judicial panel set up by the Lagos…

By Mandy Park The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday night released a new presidential campaign council list following the controversy that greeted the first one. The list was unveiled by the national secretary of the party, Senator Iyiola Omisore, as against the previous one released by James Faleke. The changes in the new list sees the national chairman Abdullahi Adamu rise to number two on the campaign list right below President Muhammadu Buhari who retains his position as the chairman of the council. Tinubu drops from deputy chairman I…

By Mandy Park The Lagos State Government has alerted residents of the state, especially those residing on the banks of Ogun River to relocate upland. The state government also directed property owners and developers to desist from embarking on any form of physical development without adherence to processes and procedures outlined by the government to provide habitable structures across the state. On the Ogun River Banks, the Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tunji Bello, who issued the red alert, stressed the need for residents to be vigilant. Bello…

By Mandy Park The presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, has asked his counterparts in other political parties to suspend their campaigns and join him to help victims of floods across states of the federation. Obi made the call on Wednesday, 29 October, while addressing journalists after his visit to Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State at his Abuja private residence where he had gone to discuss modalities on his planned visit to flood sites in Benue and other states. The former Anambra State governor is in the 2023…

By Mandy Park The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, today, Wednesday, 19, disclosed that the construction of the 2nd Niger bridge is now completed and will soon be released public for use. He made the confirmation at an ongoing press briefing to present the President, Muhammadu Buhari’s scorecard in Abuja. According to him, the only factor delaying the commissioning of the road is the construction of the link road which the recent surge of flooding has impeded. According to Fashola “I can confirm that the second Niger bridge itself…

By Mandy Park The Nigeria Army on Tuesday launched three special military operations in the South East, South South, South West and North Central, as part of efforts to tackle rising insecurity challenge across the geopolitical zones. The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Farouk Yahaya who flagged-off the exercises at the Nigeria Army 6 Division Step-up Headquarters in Ahoada, Rivers, said the exercises code-named Exercise Golden Dawn (South East), Exercise Enduring Peace (North Central) and Exercise Still Waters (South South and South West) would complement ongoing security operations in the…

… insist his extradition and subsequent trial was illegal… His release will douse current tension By Mandy Park As the President Buhari-led Government continues to dilly-dally over the illegal detaintion of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) even after a court of competent jurisdiction discharged and acquitted him, South East Council of Traditional Rulers and Representatives of Igbo Archbishops and Bishops on Peace and Conflict Resolution today, Tuesday 18, called for his immediate release without further delay. The revered temporal and spiritual leaders who noted the July…

……. Assures Northern farmers of safe return to their farms in 2023 By Mandy Park The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election, Peter Obi has assured the North that his Presidency if elected will give the region premium place in his agenda because the wealth of the nation is in the region. Obi who titled his remarks, ‘the unmet Needs of the North’, told the Arewa Joint Committee Interactive Session at the Arewa House Auditorium, Kaduna, yesterday, Monday, October 17, 2022 that the region is strategic…