APC LEADERS SHARE POWER, GIVE OBJ THREE MINISTERIAL SLOTS

LEADERS of the All Progressives Congress (APC) were involved in marathon meetings throughout last week in Abuja in what was described as “last minute confidence-building exercise.”
Strategic leaders of the party had arrived Abuja on Monday and remained in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) till Saturday morning when some of them headed for Lafia, Nasarawa State for the grand finale of the presidential campaign rally in the North-Central state.
Sources told Sunday Tribune that as part of confidence-building aimed at ensuring that stakeholders go into the election with a sense of belonging, each of the leaders was told what he is likely to get in the event the APC wins the presidential election on 28 March.
It was gathered that though some discussions on power sharing had actually taken place before now, the exercise of last week was aimed at rebuilding confidence in the party and firming up a zoning arrangement.

ABURI ACCORD: YOU LIED, OJUKWU’S ASSOCIATES TELL GOWON

Associates of ex- Biafran leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, yesterday lashed out at a former head of state, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, for saying that the departed Ikemba Nnewi misinformed Nigerians on the 1968 Aburi Accord.
The three associates, who fought with Ojukwu on the Biafran side during the civil war are Col. Emmanuel Nwobosi (retd); Col. Joe Achuzia (retd); and Col. Ben Gbulie (retd).
In separate reactions on the telephone, they dismissed Gowon’s comments as “untrue.” Gowon, who made the comments at a book launch in honour of President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja, said Ojukwu returned to Nigeria from Aburi, Ghana and told Nigerians a wrong version of events that transpired at the parley. Gowon said he could not return immediately because he was down with fever.

Peace Ambassadors Unveil this Year's Charity Week Logo, OTA 2015

The Society for Peace and Mutual Coexistence, SPMC has launched the 2015 Charity Week Logo to mark the official count down to OTA 2015 (Ogun State, Nigeria).Charity Week is an annual event of SPMC involving care-giving and numerous charity works. The event proper which will hold from July 20 – July 26, 2015 has earlier editions as Enugu 2014 and Lagos 2013.During the Charity Week, Peace Ambassadors will utilize the funds generated to change the lives of the hungry, the needy and the less privileged.Here is a short message from the President of SPMC, Amb Ifeanyi Ifeadinmesi Aniagoh at the unveiling of the OTA 2015 Logo:

CLEANER GETS ₦7,200 SALARY INCREMENT FOR RETURNING ₦12 MILLION

Josephine Ugwu, the airport cleaner who returned a passenger’s luggage containing local and foreign currencies to the tune of N12m has been rewarded with a N7,200 salary increment. Ugwu, who works for Patovilki Cleaning Services, a concessionaire engaged by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria to keep the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos clean, was on a monthly salary of



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Atiku Dissociates Self From Defecting Supporters To PDP

A former Vice President and chieftain of the All progressives Congress, APC, Atiku Abubakar, has denied knowledge of the groups of politicians who announced their defection to the PDP from the APC.Atiku said in a statement by his media office in Abuja that he remains a committed member of the APC and urged that the purported defections of these groups be discountenanced.A total of 120



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FEC APPROVES FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF CONFAB REPORT.

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) wednesday formally approved for the full implementation of the recommendations contained in the 2014 National Conference Report. The immediate past supervising Minister of Information, Chief Edem Duke disclosed this to newsmen after the FEC meeting. Chief Edem Duke who was joined by the Secretary to the government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius



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JONATHAN SWEARS IN MINISTERS, NAMES OBANIKORO FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER

President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday swore in the new set of ministers cleared by the Senate. Embattled former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, (Lagos) was sworn in as the Minister of State Foreign Affairs II, while Nicholas Ada (Benue) is now the Minister of State Foreign Affairs I. Mr. Obanikoro had resigned his appointment to run for the Lagos governorship ticket



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PHOTOS: PEOPLE IN BUHARI'S VILLAGE WASH THEIR ROADS AFTER GEJ PAYS A VISIT

According to an instagram user who shared this collage of pictures; this is Daura, the home town of Gen Muhammadu Buhari in Katsina state.
Apparently, President Goodluck Jonathan went there yesterday to campaign for re-election and the people hilariously began to wash their village roads soon after he left the town

ELECTING BUHARI AS PRESIDENT, DISASTER FOR AFRICA –EX US ENVOY

A former spokesman for four United States Ambassadors to the United Nations, Richard Grenell, has said that if former military Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari, emerges as the next president of Nigeria in next Saturday’s elections, it would be a disaster for the entire African continent.
Grenell, who made the declaration in a piece titled: Nigeria on the brink, and which was published in the Washington Times, a US based publication, of Thursday, March 19, 2015, described Buhari as working tirelessly to enthrone Sharia law across the country, which he said would further pose a major challenge to the fight against terrorism in Nigeria and the continent at large.
He said, “Western foreign policy observers pre-occupied with the rise of ISIS in the Middle East should wake up to the reality unfolding in Nigeria. Opposition candidate General Buhari wants Sharia law throughout Nigeria. In fact, he wants it everywhere.

JONATHAN INAUGURATES KANO BRIDGE, NAMES IT AFTER LATE EMIR

President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday inaugurated a multi-million naira bridge in Kano and named it after the late Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the bridge was constructed by the Federal Government at Kundila Roundabout on the ever busy Zaria Road to ensure smooth traffic flow.
Speaking at the ceremony, Jonathan said that the project was in line with the road resuscitation programme of his administration’s transformation agenda.
He said that the new flyover would help to improve commercial activities in the ancient city, adding that the Federal Government was poised to restore the lost glory of Kano as a commercial nerve centre.
According to him, the flyover will also ease traffic congestion and promote socio-economic activities between the state and other parts of the country.