Yoruba and Buhari’s government

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Is it that everyone has been silenced, or these times are just normal or what really is happening? One Igboman wrote a provocative piece last week challenging what he called the inexplicable silence from the South West in the face of the debilitating economic crisis in the country and, in particular, the zone’s manifest marginalization in the present power order. I read it online. He claimed that in private discussions, he found Yoruba people livid with anger at the shut-out they suffer presently but they just won’t vent their spleen in the open. Why? Are they afraid? Afraid of what and of whom?  He asked.

OPC commends Fayose over anti-grazing law

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The Oodua People’ s Congress has commended the Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose for the anti-grazing law,which was recently passed into law in the state .
The national coordinator of the group, Otunba Gani Adams described the law as  a “ right step in the right direction “

Fayose dismisses Sheriff visit to Obasanjo, says; “It’s coming together of PDP enemies”

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has reacted to today’s visit of Senator Ali Modu Sheriff to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, saying it was a coming together of collaborators in the total annihilation of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).The governor said it was on record that both Obasanjo and Sheriff collaborated to destroy the All Nigerians Peoples Party (ANPP) and their meeting today must be to further collaborate to destroy the PDP.

APC’s lack of vision, incompetence and poor handling of Economy caused recession, not Dr. Jonathan, says the PDP

Read the press statement below...

Our attention has once again been drawn to the recent inconsiderate statement attributed to the Governor of Jigawa State, Abubakar Badaru and similar comments from people of like minds to the effect that the previous Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Administration was responsible for the current Economic Recession.

Former NNPC GMDs call for hike in fuel price

Former Group Managing Directors of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, weekend, called for an upward review of the price of Premium Motor Spirit, also known as petrol, stating that the present price cap of N145 per litre is not in line with current economic realities. According to a statement by the NNPC, the Former Group Managing Directors (GMD) stated this at a one-day meeting with the Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Dr. Maikanti Kacalla Baru and the immediate past GMD and current Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr. Ibe Kachikwu in Abuja. The former GMDs said the PMS price cap of N145 per litre is not congruent with the liberalization policy especially with the foreign exchange rate and other price determining c0omponents such as crude cost, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) charges, among others, remaining uncapped.

‘How Good Samaritan saved our son from the jaws of death’

This is the story a two-year old boy snatched from the jaws of death by a ‘Good Samaritan’ Obaloluwa Mark Kolade, born with hole in his heart, needed a corrective surgery available only abroad, specifically India. The father is into furniture works while the mother is a trader. In short, they were unable to raise the amount for the surgery, a little shy of N5,000,000 for the child to live. The beleaguered but prayerful parents took their plight to Sunday Vanguard which revealed their financial challenges to the reading public. family On March 23, 2016 when the paper published their cry for help,

Sheriff may be PDP’s undertaker – Obasanjo

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, said factional National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, might be the party’s undertaker. Modu Sheriff Obasanjo, while emerging from a meeting with Sheriff, held behind closed doors at his Hilltop residence in Abeokuta, said Sheriff was nursing a party whose soul had already departed.