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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Gov. Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa state has condemned the quit notice recently given to Igbos living in northern Nigeria by Arewa Youth Coalition Forum and sued for unity among Nigerians. In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Daniel Iworiso-Markson, in Yanegoa on Monday, Dickson said it was regrettable that some people would deliberately build-up hatred against fellow Nigerians. He said that all Nigerians were guaranteed by the 1999 Constitution to live in any place of their choice and pursue their legitimate businesses without molestation. Dickson said that it was high time the Federal Government showed leadership by designing a comprehensive master plan to reconcile all citizens irrespective of tribe or religion. According to him, the Federal Government must deliberately build confidence among all the people, give a sense of belonging to all component parts and deliberately return sovereignty to the people to stem the tide of quit notices. He said that...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Johnbosco Agbakwuru ABUJA–WORRIED by the conditions of many Nigeria’s indigenous contractors, an international human rights organisation has written a protest notice to the Federal Government to pay its indebtedness of N20 billion to local contractors to enable the contractors pay back loans they collected from banks to execute the projects. The human rights group claimed that one of the local contractors from Benue State has died at the National Hospital, Abuja, for his inability to deposit N1million needed for his medical treatment while the Federal Government is allegedly owing him N5 million for project executed. In the protest letter to government through the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi  Adeosun, signed by its Managing Director, Paul Okeh, the group lamented that some of the projects had since been completed and commissioned while they were yet to be paid by the government. The protest notice titled, “Urgent demand for payment of over 20 billion ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, on Thursday faulted calls by some politicians on President Mohammed Buhari to resign over his ill-health. George faulted the calls while speaking with some journalists in Lagos, describing them as wrong and inflammatory. He said it was inhumane of anyone to pressure the president to step down from office just because he was having some health challenges. George pointed out  that it was only the president and his managers who could decide when he was incapacitated, adding those making the calls are taking politics too far. He said though he had always been in different camps with the president, he was always praying for his quick recovery,  urging all Nigerians, irrespective of political allegiance, to do the same. “You see, I don’t support the call by some people that the president should resign because of his health. “Even though I have always been on different camps with the ...

http://ift.tt/2rZQrEE By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor Igbo leaders including Senator Ike Ekweremadu, Prof. Charles Soludo, and Prof. Pat Utomi according to reports are converging on Enugu today to deliberate on the lot of Ndigbo during the Muhammadu Buhari era. Today’s meeting should have been a non-issue had something come out of a pre-inauguration get-together between the then President-Elect, Muhammadu Buhari and the deputy president of the Senate, Senator Ekweremadu. Senator Ekweremadu, then and still the highest political office holder from the Southeast, according to normally reliable sources had visited Buhari before the inauguration to wish him well. The visit was significant given that the Southeast returned the lowest proportion of votes for the victorious All Progressives Congress, APC presidential candidate, Buhari. Those familiar with the meeting said that Ekweremadu without making apologies for the way the people voted for Goodluck Jonathan had enjoined the inco...