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Following the national debate that the recent removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal Government generated, the Network for Democracy and Development (NDD), a civil society organisation, embarked on extensive consultation among its stakeholders across the country. The following communiqué which was issued at the end of the consultation represents our position on the new policy. *Observations and Issues of Concern:* 1. The decades-long debate about subsidy in the oil industry took a new twist with the decision of the administration of the former President Muhammadu Buhari to discontinue appropriation for fuel subsidy by the end of June 2023. 2. The leading candidates in the last presidential election made removal of fuel subsidy a key component of their manifestoes. However, Nigerians were not provided sufficient information about how the removal of fuel subsidy and its ramifications would be managed if they were given the mandate to lead the country. 3. Subsidy in one form or another is...

The controversy trailing the All Progressives Congress (APC) zoning formula for the position of presiding officers of the 10th National Assembly is yet to abate, as youths drawn from the North Central have said the region would not settle for anything less.  The youths, under the aegis of the North Central Youths Stakeholders Forum and North Central Youths Stakeholders Forum and the Middle Belt Forum, specifically said the region would only accept the Senate Presidency and Speakership of the House of Representatives.  In a statement, the Leader of the NCYSF, Mohammed A Mohammed, said the groups were behind the decision reached at the recent meeting held by governors of the region and National Assembly members-elect, not to accept the decision of the party. Mohammed contended that the APC zoning arrangement was a deliberate attempt to undermine the contributions of the North-Central to the survival of the party and its victory at the February 25th general elections and subseque...

By James Okhiria Born in June 14th 1982, to the illustrious Aikoriogie Edoimioya Iyase N’Zomo Benin Royal Family in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State was blessed with the gift of a baby boy. His parents, Mr and Mrs Aikoriogie were determined that the lad should aspire to higher heights as they saw education as a gift parent will bequeath to a child. Dr Dennis Osahon Aikoriogie’s tirelessness, industrious acumen and relentless studies, and determination to achieve far more his parents had actualised in every aspect of life horned his quest for total skills acquisition and that has sufficiently and adequately prepared him for the future and the Governorship of the State under Labour Party, as the current Governor Godwin Obaseki climbs down from the exalted office, come November 12, 2024. At the early stage, Dr Osahon was enrolled into Edokpolor Primary School, Benin City and later proceeded to Broadway Group of Schools, Benin City for his secondary education. The young Osahon later...

  A non governmental organization, Secure D Future International Initiative (SDF) has launched it's pioneer program, Mental Health Club in Abuja. According to the organisation, providing students with easy access to information in Mental Health issues has been one of the major preoccupations of Secure D Future International Initiative (SDF). To this end the SDF team on Friday 17th Feb., 2023 launched the foremost Mental Health Club in Government Secondary School Wuye in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Present at the launch are the SDF Founder Dr. Saadatu  Adamu, SDF Nigeria Country Director Mrs. Chide Omali, SDF Director HR/Admin Dr. Mohammed Audu and other staff of SDF.  Also at the occasion was Engr. Bobby Enofiok, the CEO of Bokano Nigeria Limited, a partner of SDF with a Corporate Social Responsibility that aims at awareness creation on Mental Health among the Nigerian Youths. The representative of the School’s principal and the Guardian Counsellor Mrs. Ojo were...

  The Governorship Candidate of the New Nigeria People's Party, NNPP in Abia State, Dr Ukpai Iro Ukpai has rejected in totality the campaign poster associating him with the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, saying it was done without his consent and does not in anyway represent his kind of politics. The NNPP Candidate who strongly condemned the poster, said his ideology and experience is different from his opponents and there's no need trying to distract him with what will never be. A statement by the Director of Communication,  Dr. Ukpai Campaign Organization, DUCO, Hon. Chibuisi Mba said  "A new twist was yesterday added to the mischievous attempts  by the opposition parties in the State to distract the smooth sailing campaign of our party, the NNPP in Abia State, when a poster suddenly emerges with the picture of the incoming governor of Abia state, Dr Ukpai Iro Ukpai and that of Mr Peter Obi of the LP and other inscriptions suggesting falsely that it ca...

The New Nigeria People's Party, NNPP, frontline Governorship candidate in Abia State, Dr Ukpai Iro Ukpai has expressed shock over the  unfortunate demise of the People's Democratic party candidate in the state, Prof  Uche Elezar Ikonne. Ukpai in a press release wrote; "it is with shock that the Abia State Governorship Candidate of New Nigeria People's Party, NNPP, Dr Ukpai Iro Ukpai, received the news of the death of Professor Eleazar Uche Ikonne, the PDP Abia State Governorship Candidate." Dr Ukpai, on behalf of his family, his Campaign Organization, supporters, and NNPP family Abia State, commiserates with the Prof Uche Ikonne family on this irreparable loss. Dr Ukpai also commiserates with Dr Okezie Ikpeazu and the Abia State Government, as well as the Abia PDP family and the Ngwa nation. Abia State has indeed lost her illustrious son! He prays God to grant Prof Ikonne's immediate family and all Abians the courage and fortitude to bear this loss and to rest...

*OBJ recommendation of Peter Obi speaks volume.   Rivers State governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has taken a swipe against those accusing him and Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State of frustrating the micro-zoning of the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to South-East.   Governor Wike said he had always believed and supported concerted effort towards ensuring that the presidency was zoned to the south.   He spoke at Itu Bridge Head, venue of the flag-off of the Akpabu- Odido Road in Emohua Local Government Area on Monday.   "I was one of those who led the campaign that the party's chairmanship should go to the North because I believed the presidency should go to the South.   "I attended meetings of southern governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and other parties from Delta to Lagos to Enugu states, where we agreed that presidency should come to the south."   Governor Wike insisted that while sou...