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… Says hold Iyorchia Ayu responsible if Fulani herdsmen killings continue in the Middle Belt The Southern and Middle Belt Alliance (SaMBA) has rejected plans by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to present a Fulani Presidential candidate for the party in the 2023 presidential election saying that a Fulani man cannot end his eight year rule and handover to another Fulani man in 2023. SAMBA warned that if PDP under the leadership of its current Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu succeeds in their plan to allow a northern Fulani to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari, the people of Middle Belt will hold Mr.…

… Recover arms, ammunition, as IGP harps on technology-driven policing in Nigeria Operatives of the Force Intelligence Bureau Intelligence Response Team (FIB-IRT), in a sting operation, arrested four notorious arm dealers and recovered 57 AK47 rifles and a large catchment of ammunition in Jos, Plateau State and from other locations across the country. This is in furtherance of the IGP’s recent charge to the men of the Nigeria Police Force to be dauntless in the fight against crimes and criminality in the country. The suspects, Hamza Zakari (aka Hamzo) aged 20 years, Abubakar Muhammed (aka Fancy) aged 22 years, Umar…

A frontline 2023 presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Peter Obi, has assured Nigerians that if he is given the chance to pilot the affairs of the nation as the President, the wealth of the nation would be secured and prudently managed for the benefit of all, rather than misappropriated by few individuals. Obi said that he would draw from his wealth of experience in the corporate and public sector to ensure that the nation begins to create wealth in all sectors of the economy. Wealth creation and productivity, he said, remain strong antidotes to…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) panel screening aspirants who want to contest for the gubernatorial ticket in Enugu State yesterday cleared former Minister of Power, Prof. Barth Nnaji. The seven-member panel headed by Prof. Yusuf Dankofa, from Kaduna State, merely asked Professor Nnaji to take a bow and “go in recognition of your immense contributions to national development over the years.” Said Dankofa, “People like you are needed in the public to move this country forward.” The other panel members, including James Ugwu, the panel’s secretary from Enugu State who is also the the PDP South East Zonal Secretary, noted…

… As ANLCA seeks reduction of levy to 5% Apparently in a move to avert further industrial unrest at the seaports as a result of the imposition of the 15% National Automotive Council (NAC) levy by the federal government, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has changed the NAC levy to import levy. It will be recalled that the NCS recently announced its migration from the old version of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Common External Tariff (2017- 2021) to the new version (2022- 2026) which came into effect on Friday, April 1, 2022 in-line with the World…

… As Roundtable advocates collaboration between public and private sectors The Chairman, Institute of Directors Centre for Corporate Governance (IoDCCG), Alhaji Shuaibu Idris has said that tackling illicit financial flows is a matter of survival for Africa’s development. Idris stated this in his opening remarks at a public/private sector dialogue with the theme “Strengthening Anti-Money Laundering/Countering Terrorists Financing And Curbing Illicit Financial Flows In Nigeria and West Africa”, put together by the Centre for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), USA and Institute of Directors Centre for Corporate Governance (IoDCCG) in Lagos on Thursday. He observed that Africa not only lose about…

A Presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Peter Obi has said he is not desperate to be president but eager to see Nigeria work. The two-term governor of Anambra State and Vice Presidential Candidate of the PDP in the 2019 general elections stated this on Wednesday when he paid a courtesy visit to Governor Duoye Diri at the Bayelsa State Government House in Yenagoa. Obi said Nigeria was a great country with untapped potentialities noting that he is desperate to move the nation away from a consumption economy to a productive one. He stressed…

The former Director-General of Anambra State Digital Entrepreneurship Office, Engr. Ifeanyi Aniagoh has praised the leadership of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA for the ease at which the screening of aspirants is being done while expressing his readiness to represent the people of Njikoka II constituency in the State House of Assembly on the platform of the party. He made this known yesterday in Awka after facing the APGA Screening Committee at the Party’s State Secretariat in Awka. According to the 2023 Election Guidelines released by the party, the screening of aspirants for the State House of Assembly which…

Mobilization of funds in support of Peter Obi’s Presidential bid in 2023 has hit the first N1 million after the inauguration of the group in Abuja by His Excellency, Peter Obi. The group in a statement issued immediately after the contribution which is domiciled in Keystone Bank with the Account Name: PETER OBI SUPPORT NETWORK and Account Number: 1012528032 thanked Nigerians for expressing love for the actualization of Peter Obi’s Presidency. The group vowed to take the campaign to every nooks and crannies in the Federal Republic of Nigeria and urged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to maintain the integrity…

… Demands tax break to encourage exploration, research and development A former National President of the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF), Dr. Eugene Nweke has urged the Minister of Finance, Hajia Zainab Ahmed to relax the present policies with the appearances of tax imposition even as he appealed to her to go back to the drawing board, review critical issues and concerns raised in his letter and elsewhere by stakeholders and make adjustments for the sake of the impoverished consuming public. Nweke who made this appeal in his open letter to the Minister on Tuesday observed that…