The UK Guardian has released a video of how Cambridge Analytica allegedly sought to influence the 2015 presidential election.In the video, graphically violent images were used to portray President Muhammadu Buhari, then candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as a supporter of Sharia law who would brutally suppress dissenters and negotiate with extremist groups.Christopher Wylie, a whistleblower, had told [...]
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Reno Omokri, ex-aide of former President Goodluck Jonathan, says no cash what was found at any residence of Jonathan.He said this in reaction to a viral video on a purported raid of a residence of Jonathan where a huge amount of cash was found.In a statement on Tuesday, Omokri alleged that the video was circulated by agents of All Progressives [...]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has reportedly invited Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former minister of finance, to explain the withdrawal of $250 million from the $500 million recovered from the Sani Abacha family.In 2015, a sum of $250 million was released to the office of the national security adviser (NSA) for the procurement of arms and ammunition to equip security [...]
Ima Niboro, a former spokesman of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, says the All Progressives Congress (APC) will win 2019 elections by a "sizeable margin" despite its challenges.Speaking with journalists at the weekend, Niboro said there is still time for ruling party to resolve grievances within it.The APC chieftain said his party " will pull off a major upset in Delta state" [...]
Ex-president Goodluck Jonathan says Nigeria will overcome its challenges no matter what the forces of evil do.Jonathan said this in an Easter message on Friday.The former president appealed to Nigerians to live in unity."Easter is a time when we celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, who died for the sin of the world," a statement posted [...]
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says he will not stop talking about the corruption perpetrated under former President Goodluck Jonathan.He said this on Thursday at the 10th Bola Tinubu Colloquium in Lagos.He said the President Muhammadu Buhari administration is determined to change the negative perception about Nigeria.“Let me say that when we began our journey in 2014, our party the APC was determined [...]
Muhammadu Buhari, once a military ruler of Nigeria, was finally elected President in 2015 after four grueling attempts. In between, he once wept in public to express his lamentation at the deepening leadership deficit in the country, but more fundamentally, the direct object of his regret was the failure to be elected as the leader widely believed to be equipped [...]
Former President Goodluck Jonathan says there is a campaign to tarnish his reputation.Jonathan, who is currently monitoring the presidential runoff election in Sierra Leone, said this less than a week after Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo criticised the immediate past administration.Osinbajo had said Jonathan shared N150 billion two weeks to the 2015 elections.“In one single transaction, a few weeks to the 2015 [...]
A bulk of the schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram from Government Girls Science Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe state, were released on Wednesday.The schoolgirls, 110, were abducted on February 19 but only 91 have been confirmed released by the federal government.While some Nigerians expressed delight over their return, others accused the government of playing politics with the abduction.Below are some of [...]
Reno Omokri, ex-aide to former president Goodluck Jonathan, says a statement credited to Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo is false.On Monday, Osinbajo said Jonathan shared N150 billion two weeks before the 2015 polls.Reacting, Omokri said the "vice-president has again surrendered his lips to Satan to be used to spread slander and lies".The former presidency aide challenged Osinbajo to publish evidence that the [...]
In leadership and nation-building, like begets like. The leaders determine the kind of citizens that a nation would have in her possession. If the leaders are lawless, it is impossible for the citizens to be law-abiding. It is hypocrisy for leaders to make the laws that they aren’t going to submit to. The law that binds that led should be [...]
Wole Soyinka, foremost Nigerian playwright and political activist, says former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan were poor in managing human disasters when both men governed Nigeria.While addressing his audience on Thursday at a dialogue organised by Ripples Centre for Data and Investigative Journalism in Lagos, the Nobel laureate accused Obasanjo of neglecting the plight of victims of the Ikeja [...]
Reno Omokri, former media aide of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has criticised President Muhammadu Buhari for being "unaware" that Ibrahim Idris, inspector-general of police, did not obey his order to relocate to Benue.The president had asked Idris to move to Benue after 73 persons were killed in herdsmen-farmers clashes in January, but during his visit to the state on Monday, the [...]
Former President Goodluck Jonathan is currently in Sierra Leone as head of Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (EISA) election observers.Ahead of the election slated for Wednesday, the Nigerian leader presided over his mission’s initial briefing and orientation programme in Freetown, capital of the country.Jonathan has led observers to different African countries.Below are pictures of him in the West [...]
Former Presidents Goodluck Jonathan and Olusegun Obasanjo sat next to each other at Saint Stephen’s Anglican Church, Otuoke in Bayelsa state, on Sunday.Both men are of the Anglican fold.Seriake Dickson, governor of the state and top officials of the Bayelsa state government joined the ex-presidents during the service presided over by James Oruwori, bishop of Ogbia.While welcoming Obasanjo to his [...]
Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan has taken a swipe at the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), saying even if a party wins through propaganda, it can not govern with it.Speaking when he received leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state capital, on Friday, Jonathan said the APC had failed to fulfil its promise to Nigerians.He also charged the PDP [...]
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