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*No one can win presidency on regional voting alone - ACF *We’re not after power but fixing Nigeria —League of Northern Democrats *Coalition remains on course — Atiku’s aide  AS the anti-Tinubu coalition, headed by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, gathers momentum in the North, elder statesman, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai, has said the North alone cannot determine who emerges as president in 2027. This came as the League of Northern Democrats, yesterday, said the mission of the group is not in seizing power but fixing the country. It will be recalled that former Special Adviser on Political Matters to President Bola Tinubu, Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, recently declared that the North will soon define its political direction, ahead of the 2027 general elections. Baba-Ahmed had stressed that no politician can win the Nigerian presidency without support from the Northern region. “No politician can become president without Northern support, making the region’s stance crucial to any aspir...

*Hunger, unemployment, insecurity real — Tinubu *Promises to address challenges, strengthen labour protections *FG must recognise workers as key partners – Atiku THE Organised Labour has issued a 20-point demand to the Federal Government to address the worsening socio-economic situations in the country, incLuding escalating genocidal killings and bloodletting across the nation.  Leaders of the NLC and TUC, called for justice, pro-people economic reforms and democratic accountability in Nigeria. The Nigerian workers made the demand during the May Day celebration. Meanwhile, President Bola Tinubu, acknowledged that Nigerians are experiencing economic hardship headlined by rising living costs, hunger, insecurity, unemployment, loss of livelihoods, and the pressure of providing for their families. The President made the statement on a day Organised Labour handed the Federal Government a 20-point demand, urging action on worsening socio-economic conditions in Nigeria, including escalati...

•Says democracy not threatened in Nigeria PRESIDENT  Bola Tinubu has told opposition politicians in the country to lick their wounds and stop blaming him for the inability to manage affairs of their parties competently. He also said politicians changing party affiliation was not new or peculiar to Nigeria, pointing out that in more advanced democracies, there were ready examples of notable politicians, statesmen and women who changed parties. He stated further that the accusations that his administration was moving towards authoritarianism were baseless and exaggerated, adding that democracy in the country was not in any way being said to be under threat. The President, who in a statement by his spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, wondered while the defection of some members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, such as the immediate past governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, to the Social Democratic Party, SDP, should be celebrated, while the defection of some members of the oppo...

We’re not bothered — PDP, LP, Atiku’s coalition *Say 2027 between APC, Nigerians *Delta defection, mockery of democracy — Abure's LP  faction lMore Govs’ll join us soon — Ganduje Following the defection of  Governor Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta State, his predecessor, Senator Ifeanyi Okokwa and other stakeholders to the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Delta State, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the Labour Party, LP, and the anti-Tinubu coalition, said they were not bothered by the defections. While the PDP described it as unfortunate, insisting that the 2027 general elections will be determined by Nigerians and not the number of governors, the Labour Party, LP, described it as an aberration and a mockery of democracy. The anti-Tinubu coalition, on its part, expressed indifference to the defection of Governor Oborevwori, saying more governors will join the APC. The leadership of the PDP in Plateau State, however, urged its loyal members to be calm in the face of ongoing d...

THE ascendancy of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis, to the papacy was a trinity of sorts. It was historic, prophetic and redeeming. For 1,272 years, the papacy was occupied by Europeans only, especially the Italians. Some even joked about the Italian Mafia at work. Indeed, some mafia might at various stages been at work. For instance, Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI made his son Cesare Borgia, a bishop at 15 and cardinal at 18. Cesare wielded considerable power in the papal army, and the only obstacle for him becoming the Captain General of the church, that is the supreme commander of the Papal State Armed Forces, was his uncle, Giovani Borgia. The latter in 1497 conveniently turned up dead in the River Tiber. Pope Alexander VI was said to be displeased by the reality that Jesus was a Jew from the Middle East, and therefore not a White man or an European with pointed nose, blue eyes, long brown hair and beards. So he commissioned paintings of his notorious son, Cesare as the model...

*13 slaughtered, many missing, 50 houses razed in fresh Benue attack *Mutfwang prohibits night grazing, transportation of cattle *Leave France, return home, Obi tells Tinubu *Tinubu must restore law and order in Plateau, Benue — Falana *We’re deeply pained over Plateau bloodshed — Northern Elders NO fewer than 144 persons have been killed by herdsmen in the two north central states of Plateau and Benue states in the last two weeks, as the blood-letting continued late Tuesday, with the killing of at least 13 persons, while scores of others sustained injuries, with over 50 houses razed. It would be recalled that within the period, 104 persons, comprising 52 in Bassa Local Government Area and another 52 in Bokkos LGA of Plateau State, were killed by the marauding herdsmen, while at least 40 were also killed in Benue State. In Benue, three persons were killed on April 3 when a Benue Links bus was ambushed at Ikobi community in Otukpo Local Government Area, LGA, while on April 10, two farme...

*Vows to resume office *PDP groups rally against party govs *Govs’ position may weaken PDP till 2027— PDP Frontliners THE embattled National Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, took a swipe at the governors elected on the platform of the party, saying he was elected at PDP National Convention for four years and could, therefore, not be removed by a handful of party men. According to him, the decision of the PDP Governors’ Forum to supplant an elected national officer of the party is an affront on the nation’s laws and the PDP’s constitution that cannot stand. Anyanwu, who was reacting to the decision of the governors, who met in Ibadan, Oyo State, vowed to return to Abuja and resume office at the PDP National Secretariat in Wadata Plaza, Abuja. It could be recalled that the PDP Governors Forum, on Monday, dumped Anyanwu and appointed an interim National Secretary.  Reacting to the governor’s position, Senator Anyanwu said: “I remain the National Secr...