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By Our Reporter on December 7, 2015 COVER … Says govt shouldn’t ignore agitations for-self determination Amid sliding value of the Naira and mounting complaints by private sector players on the tottering state of the economy, all appears not to be well with the Nigerian state. But former Abia State governor, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu, says it is not time to despair because President Muhammadu Buhari is making efforts to rework the economy. In an interview with journalists at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos on arrival from the United Kingdom, at the weekend, Kalu urged that Buhari should be given enough time to deliver on his promises, as he grapples with the burden of tackling Nigeria’s multi-faceted challenges. Excerpts: What is your take on plans by some s

Just 6 months after dragging the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) out of government, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has divided into two in Kaduna state.  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter APC Logo Leadership reports that the new APC group has named itself ‘True APC’. Members of the new faction are said to have been unhappy because the state governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, did not do anything in line with the change mantra the party represents. They also accused the governor denying the people of Kaduna the true change they yearn and voted for. Members of the new faction include the retired permanent secretary, Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, Hajiya Hafsat Baba, former ANPP chairman, Alhaji Kabir Umar, former education commissioner, Mr. Tom Mataimaki Maiyashi, Alhaji Lawal Maiturare, Nasiru Ahmed; special adviser on strategy to Senator Shehu Sani and Murtala Abubakar who is the publicity secretary. READ ALSO:  E l-Rufai Labels Biafra Agitators Losers? Alhaji M

0 By Our Reporter on December 7, 2015 Politics … Tells APC, PDP to call govs to order By Bimbola Oyesola The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), at the weekend, directed affiliates all over the Federation to begin mobilisation against any state governor who attempts to reverse payment of the N18,000 minimum wage. This is even as ‎it called on the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to call their governors to order, warning that any attempt to renege on the payment of the  national minimum wage or engage in mass sack of workers  will throw the country into industrial disharmony and chaos either now or in the new year. NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, ‎said this became necessary owing to the insistence and determination of the ch

By Soni Daniel, Northern Region Editor A BUJA — The special team raised by the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to probe the disbursement of $2.2 billion arms contract deal in the office of the former National Security Adviser, yesterday, confronted the major suspects with evidence of their illicit transactions. EFCC operatives The 27-member task force, which has Ibrahim Magu as a member, spent most part of the day to grill the suspects and asked them to speak up on any aspect of the transactions where their names or those who allegedly fronted for them, appeared. The extended questioning of the high profile suspects, our correspondent learned, was to prepare the ground for their arraignment this week. However, Vanguard could not obtain a specific date of the week when the suspects are likely to be docked and the specific charges to be pressed against them. It was gathered that the commission had outsmarted the key suspects

IPOB women give 7-day ultimatum to FG over Kanu S-East not advocating secession — Ebonyi govt By Kenneth Ehigiator, Chidi Nkwopara, Daniel Eteghe,  Peter Okutu , Ugochukwu Alaribe & Chimaobi Nwaiwu I n a strategy designed to separate himself from a controversial movement that parades two factions, the leader of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, has announced a new name, Biafra Independent Movement, BIM, for the group. This came as former Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu declared that the Igbo have the full right to agitate for self-determination. Chief Uwazuruike, who made the announcement, yesterday, while addressing the press in Owerri, also said that he was irked by the bad corporate image some dissidents of MASSOB, were attracting to the group. “The change in name became absolutely necessary because of the sad introduction of violence by the disgruntled dissidents and this is at var

By Samuel Oyadongha & Emem Idio YENAGOA—WITH official results from five of the eight local councils, Governor Seriake Dickson of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, emerged as the front runner in the Bayelsa State Governorship election having scored 81,929 votes. He is closely being pursued by the All Progressives Congress, APC, standard bearer and immediate past governor of the state, Chief Timipre Sylva, who got 56,514 votes. So far, results from 28 polling units in the five councils were cancelled due to electoral skirmishes, over-voting, malfunctioning card readers and violence. BAYELSA POLLS RESULT While Dickson won in four of the five councils, Sylva had the upper hand in the battle for Brass, his local council. The councils that Dickson won were S agbama, Yenagoa, Ekeremor, Kolokuma/Opokuma. Official announcement of the results will continues today at 10 am. The remaining councils are Ogbia, Nembe and Southern Ijaw. This came as the PDP a