Seun Opejobi 
The leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele has urged Nigerians to pray for judges handling the President Election Petition Tribunal, PEPT, as he foresees attempts by some forces to influence their judgments. Primate Ayodele said if the attempt to influence the judgments is successful, Nigeria will be thrown into a huge crisis … Read more
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has accused the Supreme Court of subverting the course of justice against its leader, Nnamdi Kanu. IPOB accused the Supreme Court of using the instrumentality of adjournment against Kanu. The spokesman of IPOB, Emma Powerful, said the separatist group was disappointed and bewildered over the decision of the Supreme … Read more
A public affairs analyst, Shehu Sani, has mocked the immediate past Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai. Sani described El-Rufai as “a Rastafarian and Reggae artiste.” He was reacting to El-Rufai’s latest Twitter comment. El-Rufai posted a song by late Reggae legend, Bob Marley, ‘Who The Cap Fit and The Wailers.’ This is coming after … Read more
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has linked Nigeria’s poor road infrastructure to the failure of the federal government. Obaseki said the Federal Government had failed to live up to its responsibilities. This, Obaseki said, could be seen in the number of bad federal roads in the State. Addressing journalists in Benin City, Obaseki decried … Read more
An aide to Atiku Abubakar, the 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Daniel Bwala, has described the President Bola Tinubu administration’s N5 billion palliative as renewed nonsense. Bwala made the remark while noting that the organized labour demystified the N5billion palliative to State governments. He noted that the calculation by the organized … Read more
The Coalition of Civil Society Groups for Rule of Law and Justice (CCSORLJ), a conglomerate of 15 CSOs in Nigeria, have condemned the planned extension of the tenure of the Acting Comptroller General of Immigration, Carol Adepoju Wura-Ola, for another six months, warning that the move is a total violation of the civil service rule … Read more
Former President Muhammadu Buhari’s ex-Communication aide, Bashir Ahmad, has hinted on who may become the new Minister of Petroleum. Ahmad claimed that Tinubu is the potential minister of Petroleum Resources. He noted that Tinubu took after former Presidents, Olusegun Obasanjo and Buhari, who opted to assign the ministry to themselves. Tweeting, Ahmad wrote: “President Bola … Read more
The new Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo has vowed not to disappoint President Bola Tinubu. Keyamo made the remark while thanking the President for assigning him to a ministry. Tweeting, Keyamo wrote: “Thank you, Mr. President. On my honour, I promise not to disappoint.” Keyamo was the Minister of Labour and Employment … Read more
President Bola Tinubu has been criticized for appointing Mohammed Badaru as the Minister of Defence. Shehu Sani, a former Kaduna Central Senator, said Tinubu should not have appointed a politician as the Defence Minister. Sani noted that the ministry should have been given to a retired military officer with records of accomplishments. Tweeting, Sani wrote: … Read more
Former Emir of Kano, Khalifa Muhammadu Sanusi II has said Nigerians should not allow themselves to be intimated by a president or state governors. Sanusi, who is the Head of the Tijaniyya sect, said Nigerians are not subordinate human beings because they opt to ignore politics. In a statement he issued, the former Central Bank … Read more