Author: Ishaku Yohanna

Don’t hand over APC membership register to any party chieftain, PGF DG warns

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By Godwin Amunde Director General of the Progressive Governors Forum, (PGF) Dr. Salihu Lukman said the current attempt to project some All Progressives Congress, (APC) has debunked media reports suggesting that part of the founding leaders of the party are in disagreement with the leadership of the party on the decision to conduct membership registration and revalidation exercise. This is coming against the backdrop of the reaction that trailed Chief Bisi Akande’s remarked while revalidating his membership of the party that undertaking the party’s membership registration exercise for the second time…

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COVID-19: WHO excludes Nigeria from global vaccine bid, shortlists Rwanda, other African countries

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By Ishaku Yohanna The World Health Organisation, (WHO)-led COVAX Global Initiative has excluded Nigeria from African countries shortlisted for the COVID-19 Pfizer vaccines following the country’s inability to meet the standard requirement of being able to store the vaccines at the required -70 degrees Celsius. African countries shortlisted to get the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines are Cape Verde, Rwanda, South Africa and Tunisia. Nigeria was expected to be on the list of African countries to receive the first set of Pfizer vaccines because of its rate of infection which is now…

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Buhari nominates Olonisakin, Buratai, others for ambassadorial positions

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By Ishaku Yohanna President Muhammadu Buhari has forwarded the names of the immediate past service chiefs, as well as the Chief of Defence Intelligence, to the Senate to be confirmed as non-career ambassadors-designate. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday titled “President Buhari nominates Olonisakin, Buratai, Ibas, Abubakar, Usman as non-career ambassadors.” Adesina said their names have been sent to the Senate for confirmation. The statement read, “President Muhammadu Buhari has forwarded the names of the immediate past…

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2023: APC Govs Clamouring for Jonathan Presidency are Hypocrites – Sule Lamido

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…Says APC is a party of double talk By Ishaku Yohanna Former governor of Jigawa state, Sule Lamido, has described some governors of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) that are clamouring for former President Goodluck Jonathan to contest the 2023 presidential election as mere hypocrites. Speaking on Arise Television on Wednesday, Lamido wondered why the governors are thinking of presenting Jonathan who they had described as “weak, clueless; a man they vilified, demonised, a man they called all sort of names and eventually defeated to come back and become…

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Court remands nurse for raping student in Jos

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By News Agency A high court sitting in Jos, the Plateau state capital, has ordered that a 32-year-old nurse, Alex Pam, be remanded in a correctional centre for allegedly drugging and raping a 22-year-old student. NAN reports that during the trial on Wednesday, Olive Okpuru, the police counsel, told the court that the defendant allegedly drugged the lady on December 11, 2020. Okpuru alleged that Pam thereafter raped the lady, who is a student of the Plateau College of Health Technology, Zawan. The offence, she said, is punishable under sections…

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FEC approves establishment of 20 new private universities

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By Ishaku Yohanna The Federal Executive Council (FEC), presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the establishment of 20 private universities in the country. Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, who briefed newsmen after the session on Wednesday, said the approved universities will get their provisional licenses from the National Universities Commission (NUC), which they will use for the next three years while monitoring and evaluation will go on. The new universities are: James Hope University, Lagos, Lagos State, Maryam Abacha American University of Nigeria, Kano, Kano State, Capital City…

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Corruption Perceptions Index: Garba Shehu blames Nigerians for poor ranking by Transparency International

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…Says report a reflection of corruption by Nigerians and not by Buhari administration By Ishaku Yohanna Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media & Publicity, Garba Shehu, says the report by Transparency International (TI) that ranked Nigeria low was an indictment of Nigerians and not President Buhari or his administration. The Presidential spokesman said this on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Monday while reacting to the poor ranking on Transparency International’s 2020 Corruption Perception Index in which Nigeria scored 25 out of 100 and was named the…

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PGF DG touts implementation of ‘APC True Federalism Report’ as key to addressing ethnic tensions in Nigeria

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By Godwin Amunde The Director General of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF), Dr Salihu Lukman has identified the inability of political leaders to address issues of ethnic tensions, including widespread systematic weakening of governance institutions as reasons that have continued to inflame all manner of political crisis in the country. Lukman, in a statement titled ‘Nigeria’s Volatile Politics and the APC Report on True Federalism’ on Saturday in Abuja, said the purported eviction order on Fulani herders by Ondo State government and the generated ethnic tension in the country, and the poor…

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True federalism the panacea to the current high wave of ethnic and religious hatred amongst Nigerians – Lukman

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By Godwin Amunde Director General (DG) of the Progressives Governor Forum, Dr. Salihu Lukman says there is the need for political leaders to assert their authority in mobilizing alternative responses which should inspire Nigerians to rise above the current high wave of ethnic and religious hatred in the country, in order to arrest and prevent criminal activities. Salihu Moh’Lukman who stated this in a statement on Monday in Abuja, also stressed the need for a strengthened politics to be able to manage difficult realities, noting that so long as the…

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Building Party Bureaucracy: PGF DG demands audit of APC National Secretariat

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…Says PDP living in denial of its internal organisational challenges By Godwin Amunde The Director-General of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Progressive Governors’ Forum (PGF), Salihu Moh Lukman, has demanded for an audit of the national secretariat of the ruling APC as a way of strengthening its structure to recognize and respect the value of building a party bureaucracy to contribute to national development. In a statement titled, “Bureaucracies and political parties as pillars of strong institutions in democracy,” he issued in Abuja on Wednesday, the PGF DG said strengthening…

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