Obasanjo Gives Conditions On 2023 Presidential Candidate
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has told the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party the conditions they must look out for to choose the candidate that could be President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor in the 2023 general elections.
Source: Sahara Reporters
According to Punch, top sources within the PDP leadership stated that Obasanjo asked that they should not pick candidates “because such a person has money” while asking them to look at how presidential candidates emerged in the United States.
FG, Striking Doctors Meet Again In Abuja
Federal Government representatives met with striking resident doctors on August 21, 2021. Friday Okeregbe/Channels Television
Source: Channel Television
After more than nine hours of meeting behind closed doors on Friday through Saturday morning, the Federal Government and striking resident doctors met again on Saturday.
The adjourned meeting had been slated for 10am on Saturday but didn’t commence until about 4.30pm.
Politicians who hired private jets to attend Buhari son’s wedding are also bandits
Controversial Islamic cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has condemned the hiring of private jets by politicians to attend the wedding ceremony of the Yusuf Buhari, the son of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Source: Daily Nigerian
The president’s son married Zarah Bayero, the daughter of Emir of Bichi, Nasiru Bayero in a grand ceremony held in Bichi, Kano where many dignitaries attended the wedding in a private jet.
Lai Mohammed calls for promotion of culture, tradition in Nigeria
The Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has called on Nigerians to promote culture and tradition in every part of the country.
Source: Guardian Nigeria
Mohammed made the call on Saturday at the Grand Finale of the 2021 World Sango Festival in the Palace of Alaafin of Oyo Kingdom, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III, in Oyo Town.
Naira Under Buhari Regime Is One Of Africa’s Most Useless Currencies – Jerry Gana
Source: Sahara Reporters
Former Minister of Information and former presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party, Prof Jerry Gana, has said that the Nigerian currency, Naira, under the Muhammadu Buhari administration, is one of the most useless currencies in the African continent
Gana added that Nigeria also has the highest number of “miserable people in Africa.”
Buhari regime can prosecute repentant Boko Haram members: Lai Mohammed
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says contrary to reports that the federal government would not prosecute repentant Boko Haram members, the Buhari regime can prosecute the insurgents if it wants to.
Source: People Gazette
The minister, who spoke in Washington DC, U.S. on Saturday, said he was misrepresented in the earlier report and added that “the decision of the Federal Government not to prosecute repentant insurgents was in line with global best practice.”
PIA expands fuel imports beyond Dangote, other refiners
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has signed the Petroleum Industry Bill 2021 into law.
Source: Punch Newspapers
The provision inserted by the Senate in the Petroleum Industry Bill that allowed only active refinery licence holders to import petroleum products has been altered to pave the way for other players in the downstream sector to be involved in importation.
Companies holding refining licences in the country include Dangote Oil Refinery Company, Waltersmith Refining & Petrochemical Company Limited, OPAC Refineries, Niger Delta Petroleum Resources, BUA Refinery & Petrochemicals as well as Edo Refinery and Petrochemical Company Limited.
Petroleum Industry Act: Military threatens tough actions as Niger Delta youths plan fresh hostilities
Niger Delta youths, under the aegis of Anioma Youths Forum Worldwide, has said there may be fresh agitation in the Niger Delta over the recent signing of the Petroleum Industry Bill into law, describing it as an aberration to the oil rich region.
Source: Punch Newspapers
This is as the Defence Headquarters said the military was ready to forestall the breakdown of law and order in the region.
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Monday, signed the PIB into law after over 20 turbulent years,.
Nnamdi Kanu’s Lawyer Sends A Strong Warning To Clerics
According to what Sahara Reporters broadcasted, The lead counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, has said that he could no longer tolerate the myriads of prophecies and visions sent to his electronic mail daily, while warning that clerics should stop the practice.
Source: Sahara Reporters
Ejiofor added that the array of “fake prophecies” was a distraction to the ongoing legal processes, while asking such prophets and soothsayers to desist from sending items to him.
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