President of Ohanaeze Youth Council, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro (white) The Ohanaeze Youth Council, a pro-Igbo group, have proferred President Buhari with conditions for their support of his 2019 re-electiopn bid. The National President of the group, Mazi Isiguzoro, in a Tuesday interview in Umuahia, Abia State, insisted that the President  must look into the problems facing the entire south-east region, particularly the clamour for the creation of more states in the zone. Isiguzoro said the President has to begin the creation of additional states in the Southeast zone before December. He explained that the zoning of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Vice Presidential slot to the south-east ahead of 2019 election, was never the panacea to the infrastructural decays that have ravaged the zone. His words,”If he wants Ndigbo to adopt him, he should create additional states in Southeast zone, whether the state is from Abia, Anambra, Imo, Ebonyi states or anywhere. “So, if Buhari meet

The presidential candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari and his son-in-law, Mr. Junaid Abdullahi of allegedly engaging in corruption, economic sabotage and unethical conduct by using funds from fake contract awards to fund the president’s re-election campaign to the tune of about N18bn. In a statement on Tuesday, Atiku’s Special Assistant on Public Communication, Mr. Phrank Shaibu said the All Progressives Congress, APC, controlled Federal Government has allegedly been using the Border Communities Development Agency, BDCA, headed by President Muhammadu Buhari’s son-in-law, Mr. Abdullahi for hundreds of phony lawmakers’ constituency projects, using non-existent firms to fund Buhari’s electioneering campaign. The statement was a reaction to a report published by Premium Times, detailing massive fraud in the border agency. The Border Communities Development Agency, BDCA, has the mandate to provide social and infra

President Muhammadu Buhari has assured that Nigeria will always cooperate and lend helping hand as necessary to neighbouring countries. He gave the assurance while receiving the outgoing Ambassador of Equatorial Guinea, Mr. Job Obiang Esono Mbengono, at a farewell audience in the State House, Abuja, on Friday and was contained in a statement made available to the media by his Media Aide, Femi Adesina. Buhari said Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea have always identified with each other, “and we will continue to maintain good neighborliness.” The President expressed happiness that the outgoing Ambassador, who spent nine years, “settled and understood our people and culture quite well.” On his part, Ambassador Mbengono said Nigeria made great impact on his life, as he learnt a lot “about this big and important country,” adding that the people were very friendly and warm. Congratulating President Buhari on his re-election, he said: “Nigeria is in good hands, and we are happy.” The Ambas

1843 - published Yoruba Vocabulary and began translating the Bible  1857 - Wrote the first book in Igbo language, Isoama-Ibo.  1882 - wrote the "Vocabulary of the Ibo Language", the first detailed dictionary in Igbo. Samuel Ajayi Crowther was probably the most widely known African Christian of the nineteenth century. He was a Nigerian linguist and the first African Anglican bishop in Africa.  Ajayi (also Ajai or Adjai) Crowther was born in Osogun (in the present-day Iseyin LGA, Oyo State) in 1809. He was a Yoruba man who also identified with the Creole ethnic group of Sierra Leone. In later years, it was told that a diviner had indicated that Ajayi was not to enter any of the cults of the Orisha (the Yoruba divinities) because he was to be a servant of Olorun (the God of heaven).  In 1821, at the age of twelve, Crowther was captured along with his mother, toddler brother and several other family members and sold into captivity. He was passed from one master to a

Too many people have forgotten about the one Naira coin, and the chap on that coin. This is a big disservice to Nigeria.  Herbert Heelas Macaulay was born on 14 November 1864 in Lagos. Macaulay belonged to a distinguished missionary family. He was one of the seven children of an Anglican Priest, Thomas Babington and his wife, Abigail Crowther Macaulay. He was the maternal grandson of Samuel Ajayi Crowther, first African bishop of the Niger Territory. READ ALSO:  Samuel Ajayi Crowther, The Man With A Lot Of First's Herb attended his father’s school, CMS, then Fourah Bay College in Freetown, Sierra Leone. He returned to Lagos in 1882 and got a job in the Department of Public Works. In July 1890, he left the Lagos Colony for Plymouth in England, to study Civil Engineering under G. D. Bellamy. He was there for three years. When Macaulay returned to the Lagos Colony in 1893, he was appointed Surveyor of Crown Lands by the colonial government. However, he resigned five year

The National Assembly, Peoples Democratic Party, over 45 opposition political parties under the aegis of the Coalition of United Political Parties, and some prominent Senior Advocates of Nigeria on Friday kicked as President Muhammadu Buhari finally withheld his assent to the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2018 passed by the National Assembly. The President had earlier on Friday announced his decision to withhold his assent to the crucial electoral bill which the National Assembly transmitted to him on November 7. The controversial bill has been returned to the National Assembly after the President refused to sign it the fourth time. The President had earlier rejected it for the third time and returned it to the legislature on August 30. Confirming Buhari’s latest decision in Abuja, his Senior Special Assistant, National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang, said the President gave his reasons in a letter to the National Assembly. Enang, a member of the All Progressives C

 According to a report by Punch Metro, the Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation has praised the wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, for admitting that President Muhammadu Buhari’s government was being impeded by two men. The organisation said Aisha’s statement was evidence that Buhari’s government has been hijacked.  Recall that Mrs. Buhari had said on Tuesday that her husband could have achieved more but for two people in government who will never allow things to move fast. The President’s wife also expressed disappointment with some unnamed men who, rather than fight these two other men, would rather go to them at night begging for favours.  Speaking with our correspondent on Wednesday, however, a spokesman for the Atiku organisation, Mr. Segun Sowunmi, said, “It is a clear indictment. It means that he has lost the grip of the state; little wonder the ship of the state is just drifting on the ocean of time where the armed forces and the economy are not doing well and there is pov

Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose was involved in a Motor accident on the 3rd Mainland bridge in Lagos earlier today,  According to his media aide, Lere olayinka, Fayose has been hospitalised and is responding well to treatment. Olayinka wrote on twitter; “Immediate past Governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose was involved in auto accident on 3rd Mainland Bridge in Lagos few minutes ago. He is in stable condition as I write while he is receiving medical attention.” More details soon….

Amosun; Oshiomhole; Okorocha The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, said the success of the ruling party in the forthcoming governorship elections in Imo and Ogun States is not tied to the governors of the state, Ibikunle Amosun and Rochas Okorocha. The party chair who denounced Amosun and Okorocha for their anti-party activities said they are poor students of their own history adding that they both lost elections before winning on the platform of the APC. “Those who think our political future is tied to them; they are poor students of their own political history. Some of these people who talk as if they are invincible, they have forgotten that they have run elections in the past and lost until they abandoned their parties and joined us. So if they return back, history will repeat itself, said Oshiomhole.” Oshiomhole spoke after receiving the APC women leaders from Edo State and Abuja, who paid him a solidarity visit in his office in Aso Drive, A

A prophet with an Anglican church, Okechukwu Daniel Udoka has tipped Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and his running mate, Peter Obi, to win the 2019 presidential election. Udoka, who spoke with pressmen in Awka, said Atiku’s government would heal the wounds of the country, and would be a lot better than many administrations before his. He contradicted Rev. Fr Ejike Mbaka’s position on the fate of the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku, in the 2019 presidential election where he predicted that he will end in shame. Udoka had in 2017 predicted the outcome of Anambra State gubernatorial election, including the first, second and third positions. He at the time said he saw the grace that put Obiano there putting him back. Concerning the 2019 election, Udoka said, “I am privileged to watch it again. The least person not expected will take the position. Thank God the person is coming closer. And he is no one else if not Atiku. “And God said that Atiku will be better than the four administrations

Daily Nigerian reports that the kidnappers who abducted 16-year-old twin sisters in Zamfara have threatened to kill one of the girls if payment of their ransom is not made on time. Hassana and Hussaina, whose wedding was slated for December, were abducted at their elder sister's residence in  Dauran village in Zurmi Local Government Area of Zamfara State. They had visited their sister, Summaya, 20, in preparation for their wedding. Their father, Alhaji Abubakar Yusuf, said the kidnappers had initially demanded N150 million. A family member, Ibrahim Abubakar, who spoke with the kidnappers and the twins on phone said the kidnappers had reduced the ransom to N15million. “We are only able to get N6m selling our properties and receiving contributions from family members, politicians, traders and ordinary people,”  Mr Abdubakar told Daily Nigerian on Thursday night. In an audio clip that had since gone viral on Facebook, one of the twin sisters, Hussaina was heard sobbing, complain

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has reduced the jail term of ex-Governor Joshua Dariye to 10 years. Dariye, a former Plateau State governor, was in June sentenced to 14 years in prison by the high court. However, the appeal court on Friday said while the conviction was right, the former governor should have been jailed for 10 years. The court reduced the sentence of 14 years to 10 years for criminal breach of trust while a similar conviction for diversion of N1. 62 billion ecological funds was reduced from two years to one year.  The sentences are to run concurrently, like the previous judgement in June, meaning Mr Dariye has now been effectively jailed 10 years. The appeal court ruled that the lower court should not sentence a first time offender to the maximum 14 years term contained in the charge against him. According to the court, the sentence was handed down in the season of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act which does not allow maximum sentence for first time offend