National chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole has bounced back from suspension slammed on him yesterday by an Abuja court.
Today, March 6, less than 24 hours after the suspension order by an Abuja high court.
The judge, Justice Lewis Allagoa ordered the police and Department of State Service (DSS) to provide security for Oshiomhole to resume in his office.
Justice Danlemi Senchi, had granted an order of interim injunction stopping Oshiomhole from parading himself as the APC National Chairman.
However, hours after the ruling, Oshiomhole appealed the judgment at the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division.
As at press time, it was not clear who filed the case in Kano.
With all due respect sir, you have been more of a disaster to the Yoruba nation than a blessing since 1960. You destroyed the Yoruba nation for the sake of your greed and selfishness. We will never forgive and forget your misdeeds against millions of Yoruba citizens.
In the name of Olodumare, the Yoruba nation will get out of this shithole called Nigeria and you can gladly relocate your lineage to North or eastern part of Nigeria but not in Yorubaland.
If you are actually remorseful and shameful, you should never talk about Yoruba agenda because you are the number one enemy of the Yoruba race.
Aare Kurunmi Kakanfo wrote in his open letter to retired General Olusegun Obasanjo. Please read pn:
OPEN LETTER TO RETIRED GENERAL OLUSEGUN OBASANJO
Dear sir,
I was shocked when I read the news last week that Nigeria must be restructured in order to avoid her disintegration. I couldn’t believe my ears that our same President Olusegun Obasanjo can openly canvass for true federalism and restructuring, waow… God is really a wonderful.
Sir, is it true that you said the present Nigerian structure has turned your Yoruba race into second class citizens? Am I dreaming or what?
Sir, are you just realizing that the Yorubas are actually a conquered people within the contraption called Nigeria after you have spent over 10 years as the former president and head of state of Nigeria???
What were you thinking when you were using state actors like the Nigerian army and army to kill, maim and destroy fellow Yorubas and other southerners like the people of Odi, all in name of one Nigeria?
With all due respect sir, why are you trying to turn into a Yoruba nationalist all of sudden after you have openly denigrated and spited your people both home and abroad for the sake of other ethnicities most especially the fulani Oligarchs and caliphate in Nigeria.
Your atrocities against the Yoruba nation is uncountable. As far as I know you have never used your position and influence to preserve the Yoruba race or fight against injustice meted out against the Yoruba nation by other ethnic nationalities within Nigeria.
Madam funmilayo Ransome kuti was killed during your regime as the military head of states, also Chief Bola Ige was assasinated during your regime as the civilian head of state. Till date nobody has been prosecuted for the assassination of this bright Yoruba citizens.
We still remember the hatred and bitterness you harbor against chief Obafemi Awolowo. Obafemi Awolowo stood and sacrificed for the Yoruba nation till his death while you planned and pray so that his legacy will be permanently destroyed in Yorubaland, Nigeria and throughout the world. Fela Anikulapo kuti was beaten and tortured by soldiers during your regime as the head of state. Fela today is one of the greatest Yoruba sons that ever graced the earth.
Awolowo won the election in 1978 but you openly campaigned and rigged in Favour of a fulani candidate. You were quoted to have said that the best candidate will not win the election. Your hatred for MKO Abiola is also well known. After you became the president of Nigeria on the back of Yoruba agenda in 1999 and the sacrifices of MKO and Kudirat Abiola, you embarked on the campaign of whitewashing the struggle of june12. You even said Abiola is not the messiah Nigeria needs. What a shameful statement.
When patriotic Yoruba citizens were fighting to reclaim Kwara from Fulani hegemony, anarchy and apartheid system of government in 1999, led by Gani Adams and Mohammed lawal, you openly unleashed the military and the police to massacre thousands of Yoruba freedom fighters. You handed over power back to the Saraki dynasty and the emirates in kwara without thinking twice while the Yoruba nation was cursing you for your treason.
Should we even mention how you used thugs, deceit and betrayal to destroy the Alliance for democracy and Afenifere group.
We still remember how you refuse to give lagos state, a Yoruba state in Yorubaland monthly allocation for 3 years because the governor of Lagos state led by Tinubu complained to you that why should lagos state have 20 local government while Kano state that contributes nothing to Nigeria’s revenue has 44 local government. Your response was to starve Yoruba sons and daughters living in lagos to death by withholding their allocation for 3 good years.
Tinubu wanted to build an independent power station in lagos to serve lagos state, you destroyed and frustrated the project.
A national census was carried out in 2006 by your government which was declared as a fraud because of your usual commitment in favouring the hausa fulani establishment over your people.
During your government, Yoruba intellectuals told you and warned you that restructuring and true federalism is the only way out of the impending doom of Nigeria. What did you do? You used federal might to silence your critics and openly said you are a Nigerian nationalist not a Yoruba nationalist. Do you still remember sir?
Fast forward those years to 2020, you are all of a sudden crying and screaming of fulanisation and Islamization. You are now an apostle of true federalism and restructuring. It’s even amazing that you can attend Oodua people’s congress meeting to talk about Yoruba agenda after you openly called Oodua peoples congress a terrorist organization? What a shame.
With all due respect sir, you have been more of a disaster to the Yoruba nation than a blessing since 1960. You destroyed the Yoruba nation for the sake of your greed and selfishness. We will never forgive and forget your misdeeds against millions of Yoruba citizens.
In the name of Olodumare, the Yoruba nation will get out of this shithole called Nigeria and you can gladly relocate your lineage to North or eastern part of Nigeria but not in Yorubaland.
If you are actually remorseful and shameful, you should never talk about Yoruba agenda because you are the number one enemy of the Yoruba race.
Executive Director of Administration and Finance of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Bashir Jimoh has been appointed the Agency’s Director General to take over from Dakuku Peterside who retires on March 10.
Already, President Muhammadu Buhari has approved Bashir Jamoh’s appointment.
The new Director General hails from Kaduna State and is currently the president of the Chartered Institute of Transport Administration of Nigeria (CIoTA).
The 56-year-old Jimoh holds a PhD from the University of Port Harcourt, specialising in logistics and transport management. He also holds a master’s degree in management from Korea Maritime and Ocean University, a post-graduate diploma in management sciences from Bayero University, Kano and a diploma in accounting from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria.
Jimoh has 32 years of professional experience in the transportation and maritime sector.
He is the author of the book, Harnessing Nigeria’s Maritime Assets: Past, Present and Future. Jamoh joined NIMASA in 2003 as an assistant chief commercial officer, eastern and central zones.
He served with the Kaduna state government before transferring his services to the then National Maritime Authority (NMA) in 1994.
The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has filed for a stay of execution of an Abuja High Court order suspending him, insisting that he remains the party’s chairman.
Reacting today, March 4 to the court ruling, Oshiohole said: “our legal department is studying the matter and we have filed for a stay of execution and appealed the ruling. With those processes, Oshiomhole remains the National Chairman of the party.”
His reaction, which was contained in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Simon Ebegbulem, said the party’s lawyers had filed for a stay of execution.
This was even as the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) has approved the nomination of Arch. Waziri Bulama as the party’s Acting National Secretary.
The NWC in a statement by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu also approved the appointment of Senator Abiola Ajimobi as Deputy National Chairman (South) and Mr. Paul Chukwuma as National Auditor.
“The decision was reached on January 14, 2020, during the meeting of the NWC at the party’s National Secretariat.
“Following the resignation of H.E. Mai Mala Buni as the party’s National Secretary in May 2019 prior to his election as the Governor of Yobe State, the party subsequently gave notice for a replacement from the zone.
“The NWC has also approved the nominations of Senator Abiola Ajimobi as the Deputy National Chairman (South) and Mr. Paul Chukwuma as the National Auditor following nominations from the respective zones.”
Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 election, Atiku Abubakar has given reasons why his former boss, ex President Olusegun Obasanjo has refused to retire from Nigeria’s politics, even at the age of 83.
He said: “your love for Nigeria and commitment to her unity, good governance and stability has prevented you from retiring, a sacrifice that my family and I deeply appreciate.”
In an open letter he signed and released to media today, March 4, as Obasanjo marks his 83rd birthday, Atiku wrote:
Dear Chief Olusegun Obasanjo,
As you turn 83 today (March 5), my family and I felicitate with you and thank God for your life. No individual living or dead, has bestrode the Nigerian political space as positively and purposefully, as you have done, for good and better, in peace time and war, in times of austerity, and times of prosperity.
It is not an exaggeration to describe you as the preeminent political colossus in Nigeria, a nation that owes so much to you. Indeed, many Nigerians would read about your birthday on their GSM devices, which are one of your legacies to the Nigerian people.
Your love for Nigeria and commitment to her unity, good governance and stability has prevented you from retiring, a sacrifice that my family and I deeply appreciate.
From The Congo, to South Africa, to Angola, to Liberia and São Tomé and Príncipe, your democratic finger prints on the African continent is indelible. You have served and still serve as a beacon of democracy and a guardian of constitutionality.
Nigeria owes you a debt that we cannot pay, because you led us to pay the foreign debts that we could not imagine paying. By that singular action, you planted trees for generations yet unborn.
You hold the enviable and esteemed record of being the first African military ruler to have voluntarily, and without internal and external pressure, restored power to the government democratically elected by the Nigerian people. It was Not Your Will to be in office, but it was your will to bequeath democracy to Nigeria. And after 21 years of the Fourth Republic, Nigeria has cause to celebrate your democratic credentials.
Happy birthday President Obasanjo. You are beloved now and forever.
Atiku Abubakar, Vice President of Nigeria, 1999-2007
Nigeria has emerged the largest economy on the African continent, overtaken South Africa which slump into its second recession in two years, as severe rolling power blackouts frustrate President Cyril Ramaphosa’s attempt to revive growth.
Bloomberg, in a report, said that, “to the question of whether South Africa or Nigeria, the two countries that account for almost half of sub-Saharan Africa’s gross domestic product, is the biggest economy on the continent has long depended on which exchange rate you use for the West African nation.
“But now both the official naira rate of N306 per dollar and the weaker market exchange rate of around N360 that almost all investors use put Nigeria on top.
“Nigeria’s economic growth beat forecasts in the fourth quarter, helping its economy to expand the most in four years in 2019 as oil output increased and the central bank took steps to boost credit growth.
“GDP in the West African country stood at $476 billion or $402 billion, depending on the rate used. South Africa’s economy went in the opposite direction.”
On the other hand, for South Africa, its full year expansion was 0.2 per cent, the least since the global financial crisis, and even less than the central bank and government estimated. Based on an average rand-dollar exchange rate of 14.43 for the year, GDP was $352 billion.
“South Africa’s weak growth adds to pressure on the central bank to lower the benchmark interest rate at its Monetary Policy Committee meeting March 19, especially after the U.S. Federal Reserve’s emergency rate cut Tuesday amid risks from the spread of the coronavirus.
“Projections show Nigeria’s economy will continue to grow faster than South Africa’s. While the International Monetary Fund cut its forecast for Nigeria’s 2020 growth to two per cent from 2.5 per cent last month, due to lower oil prices, South Africa’s GDP is forecast to expand only 0.8 per cent,” the report.
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Muhammad Musa Bello has said that he is already thinking of remodeling Abuja mass housing scheme after that of Lagos in view of the dwindling land.
“In applying the concept of affordable housing, we should now start thinking of high rise buildings. I recall in Lagos that civil servants had high rise buildings in Victoria Island, Ikoyi and Surulere.
“This is the concept we now have to start looking at because massive land are simply no longer available and you will be surprised with what you can do with half a hectare.”
The minister, who received in audience today, March 4, the newly sworn-in Head of Civil Service of the Federation of Nigeria, Dr. Folasade Yemi Esan, stressed the need for partnership with relevant stakeholders for the purpose of providing more affordable houses for civil servants, saying that what is now suitable for such mass and affordable housing are high rise buildings.
“What we have observed is that the concept of building that hitherto was done here in Abuja may be 20 or 25 years ago. But for the affordable housing, it is no longer sustainable, in the sense that land is simply not available in the areas that are accessible by all the means of transportation and more importantly, where there is infrastructure.”
Muhammad Musa Bello said that with a strong collaboration, a robust high capacity bus system could be worked out to meet the transportation needs of civil servants, adding that it would greatly ease the hardship faced by civil servants in transporting themselves to and from work.
Dr Folashade Yemi Esan had solicited the assistance of the FCTA to improve the welfare of civil servants across the country, especially in the areas of affordable housing and transportation.
She said that it is worrisome that many civil servants cannot afford to own their own homes as a result of which the Federal Government introduced the Federal Integrated Staff Housing) scheme, designed to enable civil servants own houses at affordable rates.
She said that over 50,000 civil servants had signed up for the scheme and requested the FCT Administration to expedite action on the provision of land for the programme.
The German airline, Lufthansa has grounded 150 aircraft due to the fast-spreading Coronavirus outbreak.
The airline said today, March 4, that 125 of the grounded planes are continental and 25 are intercontinental. Lufthansa has 752 aircraft according to its website.
Earlier, Britain’s Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, pledged to look into reports that airlines are flying half empty planes around the world just to retain lucrative slots under international allocation rules after a drop in demand for air travel.
The Aliko Dangote Foundation (ADF) yesterday pledged a whooping sum of N200 million to support current effort of the Nigerian government towards curbing the spread of Corona Virus or Covid-19 in the country.
ADF’s intervention is considered the largest single donation by a corporate organization in the country to contain the spread of coronavirus since Nigeria recorded its first index case last month in Lagos, Nigeria. The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Aliko Dangote Foundation Ms. Zouera Youssoufou, represented by the Health and Nutrition Programme Officer Maryam Shehu-Buhari, at a donor coordinating meeting in Abuja today, March 3, said the donation was part of the Foundation’s cardinal objective of partnering with governments at all levels against the dreaded disease in Nigeria and the rest of Africa. The Foundation is also the only Nigerian donor that attended the meeting and made monetary pledge. To this extent, she said the Aliko Dangote Foundation has earmarked N124million that will support facilities to help prevent, assess and respond to health events at Point of Entry to ensure National Health Security. Ms Youssoufou also highlighted other areas of intervention to include surveillance and epidemiology, where facilities worth N36million will be provided by the Foundation to support government’s effort. According to her the ADF will also donate N48million for case management training of health workers. Speaking at the meeting facilitated by World Bank, the Country Director represented by the Operations Manager Ms. Kathleen Whimp identified four thematic areas to tackling the spread of COVID 19. These are: Regular communication with the public, contact tracing, training of volunteers and international co-operations. Speaking also, the Director, Health Emergency Preparedness and Response of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Dr. John Oladejo said some of the challenges, going forwarded include lack of enough isolation centres, contact tracing, training of volunteers, international cooperation, fake news and panic, among others. Mr. Noel Chisaka of the Regional Disease Surveillance System Enhancement Project commended the Aliko Dangote Foundation for the contribution and encouraged others to join in the fight against Covid-19. Other donors invited to the meeting include: WHO, UNICEF, BMGF, RTSL, EU, USAID, US CDC, DFID, Public Health England, GIZ, JICA, Africa CDC, WAHO, PHI, MTN, Red Cross, IFRC and AFENET. According to reports there are a total of 90,936 confirmed cases worldwide – although more than half of those (47,995) have already recovered. The biggest numbers are still by far in mainland China (80,151), followed by South Korea (4,812), Italy (2,036) and Iran (1,501). Japan has 274 confirmed cases, France 191, Germany 165, Spain 120, Singapore 108, US 106, and Hong Kong 100. There are also cases in South America, Africa and Australia. The total death toll stands at 3,117 with 2,936 of those coming from China. The countries with the next highest numbers are Iran (66), Italy (52) and South Korea (29).There have also been deaths in Japan, the US, France, Australia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand. It would be recalled that the Aliko Dangote foundation also committed N1billion in the fight against the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Africa, helping to build resilience and strengthen Nigeria’s health system in a manner expected to endure beyond the Ebola crisis period. The foundation’s support during the Ebola crisis ensured the establishment of the National Ebola Emergency Operations Centre (EEOC) in Yaba, Lagos; provision of 12 units of thermal cameras across Nigeria’s International Airports with training for 160 staff/personnel of the Federal Ministry of Health, Port Health Services Department, on the use of the thermal cameras; provision of W.H.O-certified Personal Protective Equipment, PPEs and comprehensive logistics support for the returnee volunteers on Ebola intervention across countries ravaged by Ebola. President Muhammadu Buhari had then commended Mr. Aliko Dangote for what he described as “remarkable sacrifices in eradicating Ebola virus disease and polio in Nigeria.”
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The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has filed for a stay of execution of an Abuja High Court order suspending him, insisting that he remains the party’s chairman.
Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 election, Atiku Abubakar has given reasons why his former boss, ex President Olusegun Obasanjo has refused to retire from Nigeria’s politics, even at the age of 83.
The German airline, Lufthansa has grounded 150 aircraft due to the fast-spreading Coronavirus outbreak.
The Aliko Dangote Foundation (ADF) yesterday pledged a whooping sum of N200 million to support current effort of the Nigerian government towards curbing the spread of Corona Virus or Covid-19 in the country.
Obasanjo, You’re Number One Enemy Of Yoruba Race, By Aare Kurunmi Kakanfo
With all due respect sir, you have been more of a disaster to the Yoruba nation than a blessing since 1960. You destroyed the Yoruba nation for the sake of your greed and selfishness. We will never forgive and forget your misdeeds against millions of Yoruba citizens.
In the name of Olodumare, the Yoruba nation will get out of this shithole called Nigeria and you can gladly relocate your lineage to North or eastern part of Nigeria but not in Yorubaland.
If you are actually remorseful and shameful, you should never talk about Yoruba agenda because you are the number one enemy of the Yoruba race.
Aare Kurunmi Kakanfo wrote in his open letter to retired General Olusegun Obasanjo. Please read pn:
OPEN LETTER TO RETIRED GENERAL OLUSEGUN OBASANJO
Dear sir,
I was shocked when I read the news last week that Nigeria must be restructured in order to avoid her disintegration. I couldn’t believe my ears that our same President Olusegun Obasanjo can openly canvass for true federalism and restructuring, waow… God is really a wonderful.
Sir, is it true that you said the present Nigerian structure has turned your Yoruba race into second class citizens? Am I dreaming or what?
Sir, are you just realizing that the Yorubas are actually a conquered people within the contraption called Nigeria after you have spent over 10 years as the former president and head of state of Nigeria???
What were you thinking when you were using state actors like the Nigerian army and army to kill, maim and destroy fellow Yorubas and other southerners like the people of Odi, all in name of one Nigeria?
With all due respect sir, why are you trying to turn into a Yoruba nationalist all of sudden after you have openly denigrated and spited your people both home and abroad for the sake of other ethnicities most especially the fulani Oligarchs and caliphate in Nigeria.
Your atrocities against the Yoruba nation is uncountable. As far as I know you have never used your position and influence to preserve the Yoruba race or fight against injustice meted out against the Yoruba nation by other ethnic nationalities within Nigeria.
Madam funmilayo Ransome kuti was killed during your regime as the military head of states, also Chief Bola Ige was assasinated during your regime as the civilian head of state. Till date nobody has been prosecuted for the assassination of this bright Yoruba citizens.
We still remember the hatred and bitterness you harbor against chief Obafemi Awolowo. Obafemi Awolowo stood and sacrificed for the Yoruba nation till his death while you planned and pray so that his legacy will be permanently destroyed in Yorubaland, Nigeria and throughout the world. Fela Anikulapo kuti was beaten and tortured by soldiers during your regime as the head of state. Fela today is one of the greatest Yoruba sons that ever graced the earth.
Awolowo won the election in 1978 but you openly campaigned and rigged in Favour of a fulani candidate. You were quoted to have said that the best candidate will not win the election. Your hatred for MKO Abiola is also well known. After you became the president of Nigeria on the back of Yoruba agenda in 1999 and the sacrifices of MKO and Kudirat Abiola, you embarked on the campaign of whitewashing the struggle of june12. You even said Abiola is not the messiah Nigeria needs. What a shameful statement.
When patriotic Yoruba citizens were fighting to reclaim Kwara from Fulani hegemony, anarchy and apartheid system of government in 1999, led by Gani Adams and Mohammed lawal, you openly unleashed the military and the police to massacre thousands of Yoruba freedom fighters. You handed over power back to the Saraki dynasty and the emirates in kwara without thinking twice while the Yoruba nation was cursing you for your treason.
Should we even mention how you used thugs, deceit and betrayal to destroy the Alliance for democracy and Afenifere group.
We still remember how you refuse to give lagos state, a Yoruba state in Yorubaland monthly allocation for 3 years because the governor of Lagos state led by Tinubu complained to you that why should lagos state have 20 local government while Kano state that contributes nothing to Nigeria’s revenue has 44 local government. Your response was to starve Yoruba sons and daughters living in lagos to death by withholding their allocation for 3 good years.
Tinubu wanted to build an independent power station in lagos to serve lagos state, you destroyed and frustrated the project.
A national census was carried out in 2006 by your government which was declared as a fraud because of your usual commitment in favouring the hausa fulani establishment over your people.
During your government, Yoruba intellectuals told you and warned you that restructuring and true federalism is the only way out of the impending doom of Nigeria. What did you do? You used federal might to silence your critics and openly said you are a Nigerian nationalist not a Yoruba nationalist. Do you still remember sir?
Fast forward those years to 2020, you are all of a sudden crying and screaming of fulanisation and Islamization. You are now an apostle of true federalism and restructuring. It’s even amazing that you can attend Oodua people’s congress meeting to talk about Yoruba agenda after you openly called Oodua peoples congress a terrorist organization? What a shame.
With all due respect sir, you have been more of a disaster to the Yoruba nation than a blessing since 1960. You destroyed the Yoruba nation for the sake of your greed and selfishness. We will never forgive and forget your misdeeds against millions of Yoruba citizens.
In the name of Olodumare, the Yoruba nation will get out of this shithole called Nigeria and you can gladly relocate your lineage to North or eastern part of Nigeria but not in Yorubaland.
If you are actually remorseful and shameful, you should never talk about Yoruba agenda because you are the number one enemy of the Yoruba race.
May Olodumare continue to uplift the Yoruba race.
Yours sincerely,
Aare Kurunmi Kakanfo.