This is coming as the group assured the State Governor, Yahaya Bello, of an unflinching support for his administration as the November poll approaches.
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The Deputy Apex leader of Ndigbo in Lagos APC, Sir Jude Idimogu, appealed to opposition parties to allow President Bola Tinubu breathe and concentrate on governance in the interest of the masses.
Idimogu, the immediate past two-term lawmaker, who represented Oshodi-Isolo Constituency II in the Lagos State House of Assembly, made the appeal Friday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.
The pastor was said to have told his victims that he was led by God to come to Ibadan from Gambia for the crusade.
Whatever the case this is not the OBJ I once knew, loved, defended and worked so hard for. Something has gone wrong.
It is likened to a cup of clean water held by a leprous hand; a beautiful ripe orange infested with disgusting maggots.
The group disclosed that the credentials of all the governorship candidates have been reviewed but no one has what it takes to be governor of Lagos State, except the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate and incumbent governor of the state, Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
Despite my desire to maintain silence about the elections, I am constrained to comment on a dangerous view spreading across the country. I need to intervene in a growing narrative about Igbo votes across the Southeast states for Peter Obi, the Labour Party Candidate. Some have used the vote numbers to push a patently false view that the votes for the labour party is another evidence of Igbo bigotry and ethnic voting. This view is false, evil, and designed to promote hate against an ethnic group.
The 44-year-old mother of two made this known on her Instagram page.
Also, another book, I Love My Country, will be presented to the public. The brain behind it is Prince Ade Ajayi Foundation (PAAF) Centre for Constitutional Literacy and Civic Education.
It stated in its weekly bulletin issued on Monday that the four language subjects are Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba and Arabic.
Our people have not embraced brotherhood and brotherliness. We have not seen ourselves as one. We think it must be a mistake that God created us and put us within same geography. We are always striving and fighting one another instead of building together.
Presenting the items to the beneficiaries in Gusau on Friday, the APC Chairman, Alhaji Lawal Liman, said the items were donated by a former Governor and APC Leader, Alhaji Abdul’aziz Yari.
Nweze, the pioneer APC Secretary in Ebonyi, gave the advice on Wednesday in Abakliki in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria.
The Igbo nation will on February 15 proclaim the beginning of its Lunar Year, a custodian of Igbo culture and Prince of Nri Kingdom, Chukwuemeka Onyeso, has said.
Twenty-nine Nigerian minor languages had become extinct, while another 29 minor languages are in danger of extinction. Three Nigeria’s major languages – Yoruba, Igbo, and Ishekiri – are also endangered, according to studies by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation and views expressed by language teachers and linguists.
The participants said a major conflict in Nigeria has the potential of engulfing the entire West Africa sub-region.
The groups said this in a statement on Wednesday in Lagos after the groups’ training with the theme: “Engaging the media, community-based groups for peace building and conflict prevention”.
Obijiaku made the commendation in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Gusau.
Kojo Boakye, Facebook’s Head of Public Policy, Africa, said in a statement on Wednesday in Lagos, that the two languages were in addition to Hausa language, already supported by the platform.
Life Continental Lager Beer, a beverage in the staple of Nigeria Breweries Plc, has declared over N10 million prize money to support growth of Igbo traditional dance, culture and high-life music.