Author: TheStories

Those who are chroniclers of history often deploy subjective and partial recording to suit their aim. They usually want history to be revised in the opposite direction to suit their egos, and to confuse the younger generation of Nigerians. The facts of history concerning the failed third term bid of former President Olusegun Obasanjo are very lucid. Former president Obasanjo sought a third term, but it failed woefully, because it didn’t have the buy-in of those who worked for his election in 1999, the Governors, the media and other critical stakeholders. After I survived an assassination attempt in the early…

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Directs security agencies to apprehend perpetrators Tracereporters –Niger state governor, Abubakar Sani Bello has condemned the setting ablaze of the Catholic Priest of St. Peter’s and Paul, Rev. Fr. Isaac Achi by bandits at his residence in Kaffin Koro, Paikoro local government area. Earlier report shows that bandits in the early hours of Sunday set the Catholic Priest, Achi ablaze. Governor Sani Bello in a statement by his spokesperson, Mary Noel-Berje on Sunday, described “the setting ablaze of the Parish resident of SS Peter and Paul Kaffin Koro where the parish Priest was burnt alive to death as ungodly and…

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ASHENEWS reports that a Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, dismissed a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’ suit seeking the disqualification of Sen. Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), and his vice, Mr. Kassim Shettima, for the 2023 general elections. Delivering judgment, Justice Inyang Ekwo, dismissed the suit on the ground that the PDP lacked locus standi to institute the suit. Justice Ekwo, who held that the case was caught by the principle of issue estoppel, described the suit as an abuse of the court process. The PDP, in its originating summons, marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1734/2022, had sued the…

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The Lagos state governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Abdul-Azeez Adediran (Jandor) on Friday said he remained committed to faithfully deploying state resources to ease the burdens and hardship of residents and end their worries. Adediran in the company of party leaders made the pledge when his campaign train landed in the Somolu local government area of Lagos, in continuation of his tour of the 245 wards of the state. The governorship hopeful, in interactive sessions with various artisans, religious and other groups in the council, said that his ambition was not personal but for the interest of the masses. According…

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A Prosecution Witness (PW) on Friday told an Ajaokuta High Court sitting in Lokoja, Kogi that the corpse of his alleged murdered brother was found in a locked up metal storage drum behind the house of his suspected killer. Mr. Taiye Ajayi, PW1, made this known while being led in testimony by a prosecuting Counsel, Mr. Badama Kadiri, in a culpable Homicide case brought before Justice Hauwa Yusuf of Ajaokuta High Court. The state ministry of justice charged Francis Julius and Obiodun Yusuf with three counts of criminal conspiracy, theft, and culpable homicide. They were accused of conspiring and murdering…

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Nigerian policymakers and implementors love fiction and we as citizens play along. I just remembered that our next census is going to be in April, immediately after the elections in February and March. If there is a need for a run-off presidential election, it would happen just as the census is taking off. No sane country would roll out two massive high-cost events that require massive logistics and security arrangements just days apart. Sanity says they simply cannot happen in the same year. In Nigeria, no one cares because we all know it is make belief and will not happen…

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