The screening committee for governorship election in Southeast on Thursday screened no fewer than 37 aspirants seeking the party’s ticket in the three States in the region. Aspirants from Abia, Ebonyi and Enugu States were at the party’s zonal office for the exercise in Enugu. As of the time of filing this report, 37 […]
The Senate Minority Leader, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, has blamed the Muhammadu Buhari administration for the security challenges facing Nigeria. Speaking on a Channel Television programme, Politics Today, Abaribe claimed the Federal Government is applying double standard in its handling of the security challenges in the South-East, North-East and North-West. The former Abia State Deputy Governor […]
…insists he didn’t feel betrayed Speaking on Kanu’s re-arrest when he featured on a programme on Television Continental (TVC), ‘Journalist Hangout’, Abaribe said he didn’t feel betrayed by Kanu, since the IPOB leader didn’t jump bail but fled for his life. Abaribe, who reiterated that he would be willing to stand as surety for Kanu […]
…court remands IPOB leader in DSS custody, to continue trial July 26 Lawyers yesterday said the bail bond entered by Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe and two others who stood as sureties for the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu cannot be recovered under the law even as the fleeing Biafra agitator […]
CHUKWU DAVID reports on how the majority and minority caucuses in the National Assembly, recently disagreed on the state of the nation under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari The minority caucus of the National Assembly and its majority counterpart in the Senate, traded tackles last week over the way and manner the All Progressives […]
…says FG pushing Nigerians toward self-help, disintegration The Minority Leader of the Nigerian Senate, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe has said that the problem currently plaguing the country has nothing to do with corruption, but everything to do with what he described as ‘ethnic triumphalism’. Abaribe made the assertion while presenting the keynote address at the 2021 […]
CHUKWU DAVID reports on the recent debate that took place in the Senate during which members of the Red Chamber expressed fears and frustration over worsening insecurity in the country as well as proffered solutions In recent times, there has been palpable apprehension across the country stemming from the worsening state of insecurity, which has […]