Police Nab 3 Suspected Child Traffickers, Recover 2-Month-Old Baby In Delta

Police operatives in Delta state, at the weekend, arrested three suspected child traffickers in Igbodo community and recovered a two- month old baby allegedly sold out by the traffickers.

Police commissioner in the state, Mr Hafiz Muhammed Inuwah, who confirmed the arrest of the suspects, said they were arrested following intelligence report. He said one Kelvin Anyia of Qush Quarters in Onicha Ugbo community informed the police that one Ogechi Godwin, one of the suspects’ girlfriend, gave birth to a baby boy and sold the child out to an unknown person under a pretence that the baby died.




CP Hafiz Muhammed Inuwah said that the development in which the suspects were arrested, had paved ways to the arrest of many others who are currently being detained for further investigation.

He added that the suspects would be charged to court on completion of investigation, and warned that the police would do everything possible to ensure that those behind the activities of child trafficking are brought to book soon.

In similar development, the police have arrested two boys with black 4matic Mercedes Jeep with registration number: LSD 494 GF around Oshimili South local government council secretariat.

Police commissioner, Hafiz Muhammed Inuwah, who confirmed the incident, said the suspects were detained at the state CID; while two others, who were said to be in their company, escaped.

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Business Man Murdered Over Lingering Land Dispute in Delta State

A middle aged man identified as Onyine Onwuka, a native of Idigbe – Ocha quarters, Obodogba in Okpanam community, Delta state, was at the weekend, allegedly murdered over land dispute.

Police Commissioner in the state, Hafiz Muhammed Inuwah, who confirmed the incident to our correspondent, said that unknown youths suspected to be from Ugbolu community were allegedly fingered in the gruesome murder of the businessman; adding that investigation was ongoing.

Sources said that the victim and some unknown youths from Ugbolu community, had been locked in the web of threats over a parcel of land located at a disputed area between Obodogwugwu and Ugbolu communities beyond Anwai River, where they were said to be mapping out roads on the said land, when the incident that led to the business man’s death occurred.

Our informed sources said some youths suspected to be from Ugbolu community challenged those, who were mapping out the roads on the land, during which time fight ensued, and he was allegedly shot at the chest, and he died on the spot.

The chairman, Idigbe Ocha Youths, Mr Ifeanyi Ijeh, claimed that the area in question belong to Umuidigbe Ocha; adding that they defeated Ugbolu in court four years ago.

CP Muhammed Inuwah said that the corpse of the victim was deposited at Federal Medical Center (FMC, Asaba) mortuary, and assured that police would do everything possible to ensure that those involved in the alleged murder of the businessman were brought to book.

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Delta Monarchs Call For Stringent Measures To Curb Impostors

The Delta state council of traditional rulers has proffered stringent measures to curb the increasing rate of fake- self-imposed traditional rulers across the state, as a way of ensuring sanity among the rulers’ council.

In a press release signed by the chairman, Delta state council of traditional rulers, Obi Emmanuel Efeziomor 11, a copy made available to our correspondent, noted that the way and manner these fake-self acclaimed traditional rulers in various communities in the state allegedly carryout illegal activities and however appealed to the security agents to intensify its efforts at bringing them to arrest.


The monarchs said in a statement. “We have been inundated by unwholesome activities of these fake-self acclaimed traditional rulers in various communities in the state and we are urging the police to ensure those in the activities are brought to arrest as a matter of urgency.”



The monarchs frowned at the inconsistencies arising from non adherence to laid down rural and urban development laws, insisting that the rules should not be bent by town planning officers to the detriment of the economic interest of the Delta state and Deltans generally.

“We questioned the integrity of town planners in the state ministry of lands and surveys, who we also believed have compromised the town planning laws for selfish reasons.”

The traditional rulers, therefore, condemned the express permission often given to people to construct buildings on road culverts without due regards to laid down rules, which had negatively impacted on the lives of the people, and appealed to the state commissioner for lands to prevail on officers of urban and ruler town planning development to enforce relevant laws and issue red card to all those involved in human trafficking activities; just as they charged the state taskforce on human trafficking to scale up its efforts at tracking down culprits.

In another development, youths of Obodogba quarters in Okpanam community in Delta state, at the weekend, protested against what they described as unnecessary tenure elongation of the current interim youths committee. To press home their demands, the youths, numbering over 180, visited Diokpa Isi of Okpanam (oldest man) where they pleaded with him to intervene on the issue.

But addressing them, Diokpa Isi Fredrick Ugbene, advised them to always go about the issue peacefully and in line with the rules and regulations of the community.

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Edo Guber: Defeated Ize-Iyamu Keeps His Plans Close To Chest

The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Edo state, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, has disclosed that he would prefer to keep his next line of action to himself, following his defeat in the last Saturday’s governorship election by the incumbent governor, Godwin Obaseki.

Ize-Iyamu, who trailed the winner with over 84,000 votes, said he was still studying the results and would make known his plan very soon. He said this on his Facebook page.




It reads: “I hereby, thank and appreciate my teeming supporters, who have had to endure many evils, including being prevented from exercising their franchise; for their support and determination during the election process. I assure you all that I am studying the results along with other party members, and will announce the next line of action soon. God bless you all.”

The defeat of Osagie Ize-Iyamu, the All Progressive Congress (APC) governorship candidate, has literarily turned the ancient Benin relatively peaceful.

Speaking to our correspondent in Benin, a prominent member of the Labour Party (LP) Mr Osagie Osayimwen, said: “It’s not yet over for PDP because, there are many litigations hanging on the party, and if care is not taken, the matter would end up at the Supreme Court, and my party candidate will become governor.”

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Yoruba Group Seek MASSOB Cooperation On Oduduwa Republic Campaign

A Yoruba group under the aegis of Yoruba World Congress (YWC) has expressed its readiness to collaborate with the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSO, otherwise called the Biafra Independent Movement, BIM’s Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, on how to fight the monster and actualize a sovereign Oduduwa Republic.

The Professor Banjo Akintoye-led YWC stormed the Ojukwu Memorial Auditorium, Owerri, Imo state capital last Weekend where it met with the founder and leader of MASSOB/BIM, Chief Ralph Uwazurike. Akintoye represented by Bashorun Kunle Adesokan, stressed the need for concerted efforts of both the Igbo and Yoruba to defend their land from encroachment by strangers.


“We are on same path like you to freedom and very soon it will be welcome to Biafra and welcome to Oduduwa nations. We will never allow our people to become slaves anywhere. We will never allow anybody to come from outside and conquer our land. We will stand and defend our land beyond that”.

The delegation included Arch. Opeyemi Akinnola, Dr. Akin Adejuwon and the Don of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Mrs. Nwakpa Bunmi Abidogun. They expressed optimism that the two entities would use peaceful means of negotiations to actualize their purpose.

“We are great nations and we are going to congratulate our Igbo brothers. We are ready to work hand in hand to achieve our noble purposes to which we stand, we say congratulations in advance.

“We are sure we stand together. Let us stand together and let us stand together in peace and confidence. Let us make black race a proud race in the world. Thank you for doing what you are doing. I know we have hurt one another in the past. We must move forward and remove them and free people in the world, congratulations again I greet Igbo nation.”



In his response at the meeting tagged, ‘hand shake across the Niger”, Chief Uwazuruike described the Yoruba nation as the game changer in Nigeria.

Uwazuruike in a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Social Media Matters, Comrade Emma N. Nnadi and made available to newsmen in Onitsha, hinted that it was a Yoruba man, Herbert Samuel Heelas Badmus Macaulay and an Igbo man, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, that gave Nigeria independence. He pledged to work under the Erudite Professor Banjo Akintoye, as Nnamdi Azikiwe worked under Herbert Macaulay.

He noted that the two nations, (Igbo and Yoruba) have come a long way, recalling how a top Yoruba military officer, Lieutenant Colonel Adekunle Fajuyi, who was the then Military Governor of Western Nigeria, sacrificed himself to save an Igbo man in 1966.

Defending him he said, “Instead of killing the Igbo man who is in my house, kill me first”‘ and he was killed.

“Had any other tribe in Nigeria done that to an Igbo man? Since our people have been in the west, moreover Lagos, have you ever had any organized killings of Ndigbo like is done in the North?

“As a matter of fact, outside Igbo land the next safest place is Lagos, West and that is where my family is, he hinted.

Uwazuruike recalled that MASSOB organization was formed in Lagos on September 13, 1999, adding that Biafra was registered in UNPO under the instrumentality of the YWC. “What we lost in Biafra during the civil war was sovereignty and not recognition. And what we are fighting for today is sovereignty,” Uwazuruike further disclosed.

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Delta Govt Sanctions 41 Teachers Over WASSCE Misconduct.

The Delta State Government has sanctioned 41 teachers for examination malpractice during the 2019 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).

This is contained in a statement by Mr. Patrick Ukah, Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, which noted that the decision was based on the recommendations of the Examination Ethics Disciplinary Committee of the state. He said: “They are to suffer deferment of promotion by one year and banned from supervision of any school examination for a period of three years.

“I have directed the Post Primary Education Board (PPE to implement the deferment of promotions by one year for the 41 affected teachers while others are being sanctioned. P.O. Okolo, is to be given a letter of commendation for a job well done during the examination.

“The principals and examination officers of 13 public secondary schools and one private secondary school indicted for examination malpractice are to be issued with letters of warning by PPEB to desist from acts of negligence,” he said.

Ukah approved Anointed Secondary School, Ubogo, Udu Local Government Area, which was closed down last year for examination malpractice, to be issued a warning letter and allowed to reopen to give the school a second chance to abide by laid down examination ethics.

“Mary Mount College, Boji-Boji Owa, was found guilty of examination malpractice and fined N100,000 as penalty to act as deterrent to other schools.

The Examination Ethics Disciplinary Committee was headed by the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Sam Dietake. Other representatives are the PPEB, Ministry of Justice, Nigeria Union of Teachers, All Nigeria Conference of Principals of Secondary Schools, Association of Private School Owners of Nigeria, National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS) and other officials of the ministry

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C’River Anti-Tax Chair Advises Politicians To Stop Sponsoring Illegal Taxation

The Chairman of Cross River state Anti-tax Agency, Bishop Emmah Isong, has appealed to politicians to stop sponsoring touts to molest the poorest of the poor through illegal levies and taxation, saying illegal taxations was impacting negatively on the economy of the state with thousand of businessmen relocating to other states.
Isong, who is also the national publicity secretary of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) and presiding Bishop of the Calabar-based Christian Central Chapel Int’l (CCCI), made the appeal, Tuesday, in Calabar in a chat with Journalists.

He said that recent development over the matter had shown that powerful politicians were real masterminds and sponsors of the illegal levies, saying the state would benefit more if everyman would join hands with Gov Ben Ayade to end the menace.


“You can now see why His Excellency appointed only Pastors and clergy to handle the anti-tax fight. It never dawned on us what we were brought into until we hit the ground running. We have come to discover that it is Mr Otu’s goat that ate Mr Otu’s yam. The touts on the streets oppressing and beating up old market women because of collecting levies are people’s workers.

“They are being sent to those revenue points by people, particularly politicians. The agents are placed in those places as rewards for electoral victories. That explains why activities of illegal taxes and levies surge immediately after elections. His Excellency has also come to discover the political timber and caliber behind illegal taxation in the state. The narrative is that those guys on the streets perpetrating this act are chips of the old block.

“Since we started arresting those violators of anti-tax law, we have been receiving calls from the big and mighty for us to soft-pedal. What we are going to do is that we will hold unto the cubs until the mother lion comes out, but we do hope they’ll repent. I appeal to those sponsoring those illegal tax agents to cooperate with the state government and stop such acts for the interest of the economy of the state.”



The PFN Chief further disclosed that no fewer than 7000 members had left his Church within the past twenty years and relocated their businesses to neighbouring states because of illegal taxations.

Explaining why he took up the appointment, Isong said, “Seven thousand of my members left our Church to other states because of an uncomfortable and un-conducive business environment connected to illegal taxation.

“As a financial expert who was the best graduating student in banking and finance of the University of Calabar, I see my appointment to head the anti tax agency as an opportunity to correct the anomaly instead of fasting for 40 days for God to retain our members in Church. “There has been a mass exodus of people, I mean businessmen from the state and the reasons are connected to illegal taxation and unfriendly business environment.”

He restated the resolve of the agency to prosecute all anti-tax law offenders, and maintained that the arrest of violators of the state government law on taxation on Monday by his agency was a pointer to the fact that the agency meant business.

“Our concern is that our people should go about their businesses without fear of molestation from tax touts in consonance with His Excellency’s executive fiat which released them from all forms of tax responsibilities and in line with Cross River state Tax Exemption law. The Governor is very concerned over this matter, and I tell you, the anti-tax movement may turn out to become the Governor’s signature project or imprint of his administration,” Isong submitted.

The anti-tax chief also enumerated achievements of the agency to include carrying out sensitization campaigns across the state as well as creating synergy with other relevant government’s organs to give tax relief to the poorest of the poor who, he believed, had been burdened for long

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12 Reasons Nigeria's Agric Revolution Is Real Under President Buhari.

“I will stand my ground and maintain my position that under my watch, [the] old Nigeria is slowly but surely disappearing and a new era is rising in which we grow what we eat and consume what we make.”
President Buhari, December 14, 2016

“We are determined to change Nigeria from an import dependent country to a producing nation. We must become a nation where we grow what we eat and consume what we produce.”

President Buhari, April 5, 2017

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President Buhari is determined to ensure that Nigeria grows what it eats and produces what it consumes. He has been determined to ensure this since he assumed office in 2015. One of the first significant programs he launched was the Anchor Borrowers Program, led and underwritten by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

Since then, Agriculture initiatives like the Presidential Fertilizer Initiative (PFI), FarmerMoni, Livestock Productivity and Resilience Support Project (L-PRES), NIRSAL Agro Geo-Cooperatives Scheme, NIRSAL Multi-Peril Crop Indemnity-Index Insurance, Agriculture for Food and Jobs Plan (AFJP), N-Power Agro, and others, have been launched to support the presidential vision to revolutionize Agriculture in Nigeria. Many State Governments and Private Investors are equally keying into this Presidential vision, with emerging positive results, including but not limited to the following:

1. In Kaduna and Kwara States, Olam invested $150 million to build Nigeria’s largest integrated animal feed mill, poultry breeding farm and day-old-chick (DOC) hatchery, and an integrated poultry and fish feed mill, respectively. These game-changing investments were commissioned in 2017.

2. Ekiti State Government is partnering with Promasidor to revive the hitherto abandoned Ikun Dairy Farm. The project has seen a 5-million dollar investment from Promasidor. At full capacity, the Dairy farm will produce over 10,000 litres of milk per day, and employ more than 1,000 workers. In addition, a new rice mill is under construction in Ado Ekiti.

3. In Kebbi, in May 2020, GB foods opened a 20 billion Naira Tomato Processing Factory, and adjoining farm, the second largest factory in Nigeria and the only fully backward integrated plant in ECOWAS – and has the largest single tomatoes farm in Nigeria. When fully completed (all phases), the factory will be the largest fresh tomatoes processing factory in Sub-Saharan Africa. The farm will produce industrial tomatoes in the dry season and soya beans in the rainy season. The soya bean oil will be used to manufacture GBfoods' Mayonnaise.

4. In Ogun, GB Foods in July 2020 opened its N5.5 billion state-of-the-art mayonnaise production factory in Sango, Ogun State. The soya beans to serve the plant will be farmed in its brand new farm in Kebbi State.

5. In Anambra, a year ago, October 2019, Coscharis commissioned its brand new Rice Mill, a 40,000 MT modular Mill. A second phase of 80,000MT capacity is under construction. Total investment by Coscharis comes to about 12 billion Naira. Prior to that, in 2016 the Company began growing rice on its own farms, and now has more than 2,500 hectares under cultivation.

6. Lagos State is building a 32-Metric-Ton per hour Rice Mill in Imota, one of the largest Rice Mills in Africa. It will produce 2.4 million bags of 50kg per annum, and create an estimated 250,000 jobs. It will source its rice from other States across the country, leveraging on the Anchor Borrowers Program of the Central Bank.

7. In 2018, Cross River commissioned its brand new 3 billion Naira Hybrid Rice Seedlings Factory to supply seedlings nationwide. The Factory, commissioned by President Buhari, is part of CrossRice, a multi-billion Naira Commercial Agriculture Development Project promoted by the Cross River State Rice Company Management Board, the Central Bank of Nigeria and Sterling Bank.

8. Under the Presidential Fertilizer Initiative, which launched in January 2017, a total of 22 blending plants were resuscitated as at the end of 2019, with a combined installed capacity of over 2.5 million metric tonnes. In that period more than 18 million 50kg bags of Fertilizer produced and supplied for sale. Prior to the launch of the PFI, only 4 fertilizer blending plants were in operation in Nigeria, running at 10% capacity utilization.

9. In Lagos, Dangote Group is building a 2-billion-dollar Fertilizer Plant that will be the biggest in the world, with a production capacity of 3 million tons of urea and ammonia per annum. It will commence production in the first quarter of 2021. It will make Nigeria the leading exporter of Urea in sub-Saharan Africa. Dangote Group in 2016 also launched a Rice Outgrower Scheme covering 150,000 hectares of land in Kebbi, Sokoto, Zamfara, Kano, Niger and Jigawa States, and is also building a 16MT/hour Rice Mill in Jigawa State, the first of six Rice Mills planned across the above-mentioned States.

10. In Ondo State, Nigeria’s leading grower of cocoa, a 9 billion Naira Chocolate Factory has just been commissioned in September 2020, with the capacity to produce 2.8 million tonnes of chocolate per annum. According to the Governor, to guarantee the supply of cocoa beans to the factory, a 1,700-hectare cocoa plantation has been revived, with 250 farmers.

11. The 2020 Wet Season Harvesting has commenced; with it will come a moderation in food prices. For example, Ogun State started harvesting Rice in August (the rice was planted in March). The State is developing hundreds of hectares of rice at Rice Hubs across 10 LGAs of the State, under the Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP), a partnership between the Federal Government and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). Also under the VCDP, women farmers in Niger State are seeing a four-fold increase in rice yields. In the Hadejia River Valley in Jigawa State, which was largely spared the devastating floods that affected parts of Northwest Nigeria, Rice Harvesting has also commenced.

12. The National Food Security Council (chaired by President Buhari, with Kebbi State Governor as Vice Chair) has met twice in recent weeks to tackle the issues of flooding and rising food prices. Relief interventions are being made available to the farmers affected by the flooding in Kebbi and other parts of the Northwest, and they are gradually bouncing back and preparing to re-plant. Parts of the Southwest that had previously suffered shortfalls of rain are also now seeing a reversal of this situation.

“Through the food security initiative, we are promoting “Grow What We Eat” and “Eat What We Grow”. I am also delighted that more and more Nigerians are taking advantage of the opportunities in the agriculture and agri-business sector.”

President Buhari, June 12, 2020

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Ologbondiyan: Buhari's Eight Years Is A Passing Phase; Nigerians Should Endure


Kola Ologbondiyan, National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in this interview with TEMIDAYO AKINSUYI, speaks on the just concluded Edo governorship election, Nigeria at 60, restructuring and other issues. Excerpts:

Your party, the PDP just secured victory in the just concluded governorship election in Edo state. How do you feel?

I feel so elated for a hard battle won. It is a collective victory for all of us. Like I said on my social media page, this victory is historic, the aroma is sweet and its lesson for political godfathers will last a lifetime. The people’s power will always prevail. Once again, congratulations to Governor Obaseki, his deputy, Phillip Shaibu and the good people of Edo state.

Nigeria will be celebrating 60 years of independence as a sovereign nation on October 1st, how far do you think we have come as a nation?

I think we might not have been able to reach the expectations of our founding fathers. However, prior to the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, I think we were progressing as a people. Painfully however, the last five years has expanded the divisive tendencies in our nationhood. It is shocking that under a watch of our President that served the Nigerian Army and rose to the position of Major-General, our nation can become so divided to an extent that ethnic demands have overridden the bands of unity.

I don’t know how the Buhari administration will want to manage this and take us back to a united country. But like eminent Nigerians have said in the last few weeks, we have become much more divided than we have ever been in the last 60 years of our nation.

The Presidency, through Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media said the division in the country did not start under this government and that Nigeria has always been divided. What is your take on that?

I think Femi Adesina’s argument is far misplaced or maybe he did not understand the context of the question he was responding to. What Nigerians are saying is that there can be conflicts and divisions, but we have not had a President whose policy direction and approach to national cohesion has been this divisive. We have never had a President whose policies have demonstrated a huge division in our nation like President Buhari. We are not saying there have never been grounds for people disagreeing or have challenges; after all, we have had a civil war. But what we are saying is that we have never had a leader, a President whose actions and policy direction has demonstrated a huge division in our nation like President Buhari. That is the question Femi Adesina ought to have responded to. It is disgusting and painful that a government that came into office on a mantra of change, saying that things were not going well under the previous administration and that if elected, they will come and repair the crisis area in our nation, to have allowed itself by the manner of the leadership it is providing for the nation. It is worthy of note that this division is affecting their policies.

How do you mean?

For instance, President Buhari said agriculture is the main focus of his policies. He also said that the youths should go back to the farm. But today, if you go and plant, Fulani herdsmen will come in and destroy your farmland. No matter what you do, you cannot get justice. We even have a situation where the Presidency said we should go and live with our neighbours. So, these are the tendencies that have become worrisome in the lives of our nation. We have never had a President whose policies is driven on the basis of where he comes from; a president whose policies of his administration can be manifestly seen that he taking side with a particular region of the country. Will that encourage unity in our country? Will that foster the spirit of togetherness? All these actions have failed to enable us more than ever before to see ourselves as one Nigerian. Part of the legacy President Buhari must work towards leaving behind is that of a united Nigeria because no matter how Femi Adesina wants Nigerians to believe that the country has always been divided, it has never been this divided in the history of our nation.

Do you agree with former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s position on the state of affairs of the nation under President Buhari?

There is no Nigerian that has the love of this country that will not speak in the manner Baba (Olusegun) Obasanjo, Prof. Wole Soyinka and other eminent Nigerians have spoken. In whatever way you look at it or in whichever manner you want to ascribe the blame of our crisis, what Nigerians are saying is that we have never had it this worse under this administration. When the presidency was attacking Obasanjo, our party counseled President Buhari to listen to the voice of wisdom. His approach to governance is to say the least, very disappointing. Those who packaged Buhari in 2015 gave Nigerians the impression that he was coming to make the difference and be the Messiah that Nigerians have been waiting for. Can any of them now in their clear conscience say they have been justified given what has happened in the last five years? They cannot, because the performance of the administration has been a disappointing one.

One major issue that has continued to dominate the political space is the restructuring of the country. The APC-led federal government has refused to implement the reports of the 2014 national conference but rather set up the El-Rufai committee on True Federalism which has already submitted the report. Why do you think the party has not done anything in that regard?

For us in the PDP, we did not for one day took the El-Rufai committee on restructuring serious. Part of the campaign that was made by the APC in 2015 was restructuring. They have not by any effort come close to their own promise. In whatever way you look at the administration, it has manifestly failed. If you make a promises, even if you can’t fulfill all, you can still walk around part of the promises and provide hope that even after you have left office, any office that is coming after you will be able to do part of what you have left behind. The reality is that this APC government is not prepared for restructuring. They cannot deal with it and they cannot fulfill any promise. In a tenure of eight years, we have had this government for five years. By next year, politics will begin in full swing while governance will take the backseat. So, what is left for them to do.

The APC recently said Nigerians should calm down that restructuring has already begun. Are you saying the party is not sincere?

When you talk about restructuring, it appears to different people from different angle. There are those who believe in devolution of power as restructuring. To these ones, to restructure Nigeria, power must be taken from the centre and given to the states and local governments. There are others who believe that the 36 states and FCT is not working and as such, we must go back to regionalism; that is also restructuring. There are those who believed that a bicameral legislature is too expensive and that we should go back to a unicameral legislature; that is also restructuring. There are those who believe that the states should be allowed to have their own police while there are others who believe that even the local councils should have their own police; it is still restructuring. There are those who believe that the traditional rulers should be given roles in the constitution in such a manner that they can look over their domains; it is also restructuring.

There are those who also believe that each state should be allowed to manage its resources and return a percentage of those resources to the centre, in order to enable the centre run its affairs. That is also restructuring. So, there are various ways of restructuring that Nigerians have expectations. In all these angles of restructuring that I have explained, which one can you point to that the Buhari administration has attempted to implement? None! So, as far as we are concerned in the PDP, we have seen the eight years of President Buhari as a passer-by years. We do not know in concrete terms what Nigerians will be able to point to after the eight years of his administration

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Regina Fani-Kayode: I’m Still Married To Fani-Kayode

Mrs Regina Fani-Kayode (nee Hanson-Amonoo), the legal wife of a former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, says the ex-minister has never abused her in their 23 years of marriage.

She said this during a telephone interview with The PUNCH on Monday in reaction to allegations that Fani-Kayode abused his estranged wife, Precious Chikwendu.

Regina, who is a Ghanaian, said she got married to Fani-Kayode based on Ghanaian customs in 1997 and they subsequently tied the knot at the Apapa Registry in Lagos in 2002


She said, “We have a beautiful daughter called Oluwaremilekun and both she and I are very proud of him. He has been a wonderful father and caring husband and he has never subjected me to any form of domestic abuse or treated me badly.

“Reports in the media that we are divorced are fake and suggestions that I was treated in a bad way by him or subjected to any form of abuse at any time in the 23 years that we have been married are malicious and false.”

When asked if she was aware of Fani-Kayode’s relationship with Precious that produced four sons, she responded in the affirmative, adding that she approved of it.

Regina stated that she had relocated to Ghana and that a monogamous relationship would have been difficult for her husband hence she gave him her blessing to take another wife


She, however, said her husband did not commit bigamy as he did not marry Precious legally but traditionally.

Precious, who is a beauty queen, recently separated from Fani-Kayode amid rumours of domestic violence.

However, neither Precious nor Fani-Kayode has agreed to speak to the media on the matter.

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