A PortHarcourt-based businessman from Kogi State, Alhaji Jimoh Garba, has said that Governor Yahaya Bello of All Progressives Congress (APC) will convincingly win the governorship election holding in the state on November 16, 2019. Garba, a native of Okene who is the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of JJ Digger Global Services Limited, a haulage service delivery firm, insist that Bello has done well to deserve another four years to pilot the affairs of the state to greater heights. He said: “Governor Yahaya Bello is the concept for now for Kogi State. I call GYB the concept for Kogi because…
Author: Michael Jegede
The Pan African Parliament (PAP) on Monday opened its Third Ordinary Session of the Fifth Parliament in Midrand, South Africa, with a call from Rt. Hon. Roger Nkodo Dang, President of the PAP, for Africans to unite and tolerate one another to allow the Continent grow and progress in the right direction. The PAP’s statutory meeting is being held under the African Union (AU) theme of 2019: “Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons: Towards Durable Solutions to Forced Displacement in Africa.’’ In his opening remarks, Dang said: “I understand that there are challenges which we are facing as Africans. Those…
About a year after Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State assumed office, he launched the Agricultural Revolution Programme (ARP) as a move towards the actualization of his plan to revolutionize agriculture in the state. This was with a view to making Kogi self-sufficient in food production, boosting its income generation as well creating employment opportunities for the people, particularly the teeming youths. Bello’s agricultural revolution drive was patterned after the agricultural policy of the President Muhammed Buhari-led Federal Government, aimed at shifting the country’s economy from its monolithic oil-based status to a more plural one with the agric sector playing…
The 3rd Ordinary Session of the fifth Parliament of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) will be held at its headquarters in Midrand, from October 7 to 19, 2019 as initially planned, a release by the Bureau led by the President of PAP, Rt. Hon. Roger Nkodo Dang, indicates. According to the release, the possibility of a change of dates had been explored amid concerns raised by members of the PAP in light of the xenophobic violence that occurred early September and led to loss of lives and property among other casualties. The Bureau cited measures taken by the South African government…
A Lokoja-based businessman and chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC), Hon. Fancy Jimoh Tiamiyu, has hailed the efforts of Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, towards revolutionizing the agricultural sector in the state. Tiamiyu, the Director-General for Kogi Local Government Area (LGA) APC Bello-Onoja campaign organization, gave the commendation while speaking against the backdrop of the recent inspection of the over four billion naira Rice Mill solely constructed by the Bello-led government of Kogi State. He described the project as laudable and remarkable, noting that it served as an evidence of Bello’s determination to reposition Kogi State for greater heights…
The African Union (AU) Assembly of Heads of State and Government at its 32nd Ordinary Session held on February 10 and 11, 2019, launched the AU Theme of the Year 2019: “The Year of Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons: Towards Durable Solutions to Forced Displacement in Africa”. The 2019 theme was declared by the AU Heads of State and Government in July 2018, following a recommendation from the AU Executive Council at its 29th Assembly in July 2017. It was designed to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the 1969 OAU Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee…
A Lokoja-based Chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC), Hon Fancy Jimoh Tiamiyu, has said that the appointment of Senator Smart Adeyemi, as the Director-General of the Kogi State APC Governorship Campaign Council, was another wise move made to ensure the party’s victory in the election holding on November 16, 2019. Tiamiyu, one of the notable leaders of the party in Lokoja Local Government Area (LGA), described Senator Adeyemi as a quintessential politician that has the experience and capacity to deliver victory for APC, in the forthcoming guber poll as the head of the party’s campaign organization. “After the emergence of…
The Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU), has called on the Federal Government (FG) to take immediate step towards acceding to the various demands of the union, based on the understanding and agreement reached before the suspension of its industrial action, which lasted for over two months in December 2018. COEASU made the call in a communiqué issued at the end of the Expanded National Executive Council (ENEC) meeting of the union held on 10th and 11th of September, 2019 in Akoka, Lagos. The Union, in the communiqué, jointly signed by the President, Nuhu Ogirima and General Secretary, Taiwo Olayanju,…
After his emergence as the flag bearer of All Progressives Congress (APC) from the primary poll conducted on August 29, 2019, Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State nominated his Chief of Staff, Edward Onoja, as his running mate for the November 16 gubernatorial election. Keen watchers of Kogi politics were not surprised that Bello dumped his current Deputy, Simon Achuba, for his CoS, Onoja. Bello and Achuba had fallen out, with no love lost between them presently. Their relationship had gone sour and acrimonious. Many knew Bello would not choose Achuba as his running mate for the coming election. The…
An All Progressives Congress (APC) leader in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, Hon. Jimoh Tiamiyu, has said that the choice of Edward Onoja by the State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, as his running mate for the November 16, 2019 governorship election, was a welcome development. According to him, the nomination of Onoja, a brilliant political tactician, currently serving as the Chief of Staff (CoS) to the governor, has further brightened the chances of APC in the forthcoming gubernatorial poll. Tiamiyu, a grassroots mobilizer and close ally of Onoja, maintained that the CoS rightly deserves the nomination, because, in his words,…
The former lawmaker representing Anambra Central Senatorial District in the Red Chamber of the National Assembly, Distinguished Senator Victor Umeh, has said that he would challenge the tribunal verdict dismissing his petition against the incumbent Senator Uche Ekwunife of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Umeh, the candidate of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the last Anambra Central senatorial election, had asked the National Assembly Election Tribunal sitting in Awka to nullify Ekwunife’s election, on the ground that she never participated in the primaries of the PDP as required by the law. The tribunal, however, declined Umeh’s request, saying that Ekwunife’s…
The Senator representing Benue South Senatorial District, Comrade Abba Moro, on Friday, paid a condolence visit to the people of Okokolo community of Agatu Local Government Area (LGA) in Benue State, over the recent attack unleashed on them, which reportedly left over 20 persons dead and many houses burnt. Moro was accompanied by a former member of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Samson Okwu and his Campaign Director, Hon. Yusuf Obioyi. Agatu is one of the nine local government councils within the senator’s constituency, the Benue South Senatorial District. Speaking during the visit, Moro who was sworn in on…
Kwara State Government on Sunday said the response of former Governor Abdulfatai Ahmed to the outrage greeting the diversion of N1.5bn UBEC funds has raised more questions on the sordid neglect of public schools under him. Chief Press Secretary to Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, Rafiu Ajakaye, said in a reaction to Ahmed’s statement that claims that funds weren’t diverted or mismanaged hold no water in the face of revelations from UBEC and the decrepit state of the schools. The government said the mismanagement is apparent in Kwara ranking 37th — or the lowest — on the list of UBEC Matching Grant…
The Senator representing Benue South Senatorial District, Senator Patrick Abba Moro, has condemned the fresh attack on Okokolo community, in Agatu Local Government Area (LGA) of Benue State. The attack which reportedly occurred in the early hours of Sunday left over 20 persons dead and several houses burnt. The Senator described the action of the attackers as callous, wicked and barbaric, noting that they have no reason to justify the killings of defenseless and innocent citizens. In a statement from his media office on Monday, Moro called on security operatives to ensure that the perpetrators of the heinous act are…
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has said his first priority is to get things back to normal and restore confidence in the state, such as fixing bad roads, getting water running and getting moribund institutions back to work. AbdulRazaq said this Monday night when he visited the Kwara State College of Education (Technical) Lafiagi where he assured workers who have long been on strike that they would be paid as soon as possible. He had earlier visited Bacita, a town in Kwara North that once housed Nigeria’s biggest sugar factory, where he said that discussions are ongoing with investors to…
Kwara State would benefit from the N200bn funds the Central Bank of Nigeria has set aside to promote innovative ideas and entrepreneurship, Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has said. AbdulRazaq said talks have reached an advanced stage for the state to be considered for the funds that would establish innovation hubs in the area of high-end movie production and textile manufacturing. “We are talking with the CBN on the innovation hub and I’m glad to inform you that our proposal to access the fund is receiving favourable ratings,” AbdulRazaq told a delegation of Kwara Youth Centre (KYC) who visited him in Ilorin,…
Gibbon (British MP, between 1774 and 1784) Following the overwhelming victory of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the February 23, 2019 presidential/National Assembly elections, the National Chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, announced the adoption of Senate Leader, Senator Ahmad Lawan, and House Leader, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, as the next Senate President and Speaker of House of Representatives respectively. The APC clinched majority of the federal legislative seats, thereby paving the way for it to produce the presiding officers in the Red and Green chambers of the ninth National Assembly expected to be inaugurated on Tuesday, June…
Soon after the 2019 presidential/National Assembly elections, the battle for the seats of presiding officers for the ninth Assembly began in earnest, with elected lawmakers on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), interested in one position or the other, publicly making their intentions known. The APC had overwhelming victory in the elections. President Muhammadu Buhari secured a second term and the party won majority of the legislative seats, paving the way for it to produce the presiding officers in both chambers of the 9th NASS to be inaugurated in June. While the aspirants for the NASS topmost…
Former National Chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief (Dr) Victor Umeh, OFR, was elected by his people on January 13,2018, in the court-ordered rerun of the 2015 Anambra Central senatorial election, to represent them in the Senate. Umeh, a consummate and astute politician, was inaugurated as a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, on January 18, 2018. The journey of the ex-APGA helmsman to the Senate was tortuous – full of twists and turns. After the March 28, 2015 polls, Umeh was at the tribunal, to challenge the election of Mrs. Uche Ekwunife of Peoples Democratic Party…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Enugu State for the 2019 general election, Senator Ayogu Eze, has promised to restore hope and confidence in the people, by embarking on several meaningful people-oriented programmes and projects if elected governor. In his New Year message, titled, “It is well with Enugu State”, where he asked the people of Enugu to embrace love and peace in 2019, Senator Eze said Enugu State will experience a new lease of prosperity and even development when his government takes off in May 2019. The Enugu APC guber flag bearer implored Enugu people to be…
