Goods destroyed as fire wreak havoc at Rivers oil mill market

March 12, 2023 Admin III 0

Goods worth millions have been destroyed after fire dsteoyed the popular oil mill market along Aba Road in Port Harcourt, Rivers state. Blueprint learnt that the fire outbreak started on Saturday morning till Sunday. Confirming the incident, the Chairman, Community Development Committee (CDC), Rumuokwrushi, O. C Wosu said the cause of the fire had yet to be determined. He said: Read More

5,000 APC, LP members collapse structures for Atiku

February 23, 2023 Bode Olagoke 0

With less than 30 hours to the Presidential and National Assembly elections, no fewer than 5,000 members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Labour Party (LP) have collapsed their structures into the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The decampees, whose structures had all along worked for the APC and LP across the country, changed loyalty to the PDP presidential Read More

28 governorship candidates pass vote of confidence on ADC’s NWC

August 29, 2022 Bode Olagoke 0

28 governorship candidates of the opposition African Democratic Congress (ADC) have risen from an emergency meeting with the resolve to pass a vote of confidence on the Chief Ralph Nwosu-led National Working Committee (NWC). The forum also warned against personal interest among members and candidates that might lead to crisis within the party, saying the party is supreme.  Speaking  with Read More

2023: TPF unveils, set to mobilise Nigerians for APC, Tinubu

August 24, 2022 Bode Olagoke 0

Ahead of the 2023 general elections, a foremost group within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), the All Progressives Youth Forum (APYF) has transitioned to The Progressives Forum (TPF), for greater inclusion, wider reach, better representation and more strategic engagements. The TPF founder Barrister Ismaeel Ahmed said the objective of the forum was to take part and take charge in Read More

The vacuum of transparency and accountability in Nigeria’s CSO’s space, by Ibrahim Tanko Salisu

August 22, 2022 Ibrahim Tanko Salisu 0

“He Who Comes Into Equity Must Come With Clean Hands.” This old maxim is the basis of the clean hands doctrine and constitutes the meat of this treatise that seeks to thrust a beamlight on the activities of NGO’s and CSO’s in the democratic realm of Nigeria. The core thrust of mainstream civil society organizations (CSO’s) and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO’s) Read More

Breaking: Coalition of Bishops, Pastors storm Shettima’s unveiling as Tinubu’s running mate

July 20, 2022 Bode Olagoke 0

Contrary to the position of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), a coalition of Bishops and some pastors have arrived at the Musa Yar’adu centre, venue of the official unveiling of Senator Kashim Shettima as the vice presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The Bishops in their numbers were seen dressed in their cassock. CAN had rejected Read More

2023: Era of taking Nigerians for granted over, ex-APC spokesman warns party

July 19, 2022 Bode Olagoke 0

Immediately past Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Hon. Yekini Nabena, has said the party’s defeat in the just concluded Osun state governorship election is a warning to the ruling party, saying “no one can cheat nature twice.” Nabena specifically called on the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu to caution the likes of governor Babajide Read More

2023: North-central APC stakeholders demand vice presidential slot

June 28, 2022 Bode Olagoke 0

Some stakeholders of the ruling All Progressives Congress in north-central have made a strong case for the region to produce the party’s presidential running mate for equity and stability.  The North Central APC Stakeholders Forum, which made this known at a press conference on Tuesday in Abuja, warned the party not to make the mistake of ignoring the zone in Read More

Don’t disappoint Nigerians, council of political technocrat urges new CJN

June 27, 2022 Lateef Ibrahim 0

The South-west Council of Political Technocrats has congratulated the new acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola. In a congratulatory message signed by its Executive Director, Government and Public Affairs, Prince Oloke Kehinde Alexander, at their monthly meeting on Monday, urged Justice Ariwoola not to disappoint Nigerians in the new assignment given to him. Noting that the new Acting Read More

2023: Anti-Muslim-Muslim ticket protesters stranded at APC national secretariat 

June 21, 2022 Bode Olagoke 0

Some hired protesters rejecting a Muslim-Muslim ticket for the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Tuesday, stranded at the national secretariat of the party. It was gathered that the protesters were brought by three Luxurious buses on Tuesday morning to protest against alleged plan by the APC to fly a Muslim-Muslim ticket ahead of the 2023 presidential Read More

Mecer Inter-Ed appoints Bytes Ahead as official training partner in Nigeria

June 18, 2022 Bode Olagoke 0

Training solutions company Mercer Inter-Ed has announced software and tech consultancy firm Bytes Ahead Ltd. as it’s official training partner for the Nigerian market. Mecer Inter-Ed, a subsidiary of Mustek Limited and located in Midrand, South Africa is a broad-based training provider accredited with various SETAs (Sector Education and Training Authorities) and a Certified Partner for international certifications. MIE provides Read More

Presidential ticket: I’m intoxicated, didn’t expect to win – Tinubu

June 8, 2022 Bode Olagoke 0

The newly elected presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, said he was intoxicated because he didn’t expect to win the primary election. Addressing delegates after he was declared winner Wednesday at the Eagles Square, Abuja, the APC presidential candidate said he was not expecting the victory. The excited Tinubu said: “I did not Read More

Presidency: I’m a unifier, this moment calls for me – Tinubu

June 7, 2022 Bode Olagoke 0

National leader and presidential aspirant of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu, has described himself as a unifier and the one the moment in the country calls for. Addressing special convention, Tuesday evening, Tinubu, who commended other aspirants for conducting what he described as a decent campaign, said the competition will eventually make the party strong. He asked Read More

Breaking: EFCC deploys ‘beautiful’ female officials to Eagles Square

June 7, 2022 Bode Olagoke 0

Blueprint can authoritatively reports that some beautiful female officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have stormed the Eagles Square, the venue of the ongoing presidential primary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). While some of the operatives were dressed in their official apron, other female officials were in mofty. The officials of the anti-graft agency are Read More

Owo attack: Tinubu donates N75m to support victims

June 6, 2022 Bode Olagoke 0

All Progressives Congress National Leader and frontline presidential aspirant, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on Monday promised to work with Governor Rotimi Akeredolu to bring succour to the victims of Owo Massacre. Speaking at the Palace of Olowo, Oba Ajibade Gbadegesin  Ogunoye during a condolence visit in company of Arakunrin Akeredolu, Tinubu condemned the violent attack on innocent worshippers and described the Read More

Breaking: Northern APC governors back power shift to South

June 4, 2022 Bode Olagoke 0

The All Progressives Congress (APC) governors from the north have asked President Muhammadu Buhari to look toward the southern presidential hopefuls when considering his successor. The governors released a statement to this effect after a meeting on Saturday. They asked the northern presidential hopefuls to withdraw from the race in national interest. See full statement bellow: STATEMENT BY NORTHERN STATES Read More

Breaking: APC screening committee disqualifies 10 presidential aspirants

June 3, 2022 Bode Olagoke 0

There is palpable tension currently at the national secretariat of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) even as the presidential screening committee has disqualified 10 out of 23 aspirants screened to contest the party’s ticket. The Chief John Oyegun-led committee is currently submitting its reports to the national chairman Senator Abdullahi Adamu. Chairman APC Presidential Screening Committee, John Odigie Oyegun, Read More

Presidency: South-east APC leaders back Lawan, ask Buhari to endorse him as party’s candidate

June 1, 2022 Bode Olagoke 0

Chieftains of the All Progressive Congress (APC) from the South-east geopolitical zone on the platform of APC South-east Front has asked President  Muhammadu Buhari and other party leaders to endorse the Senate President Ahmad Lawan as presidential flagbearer of the party. Rising from an emergency meeting held in Abuja, the South-east APC leaders said it would be fair and just Read More

Breaking: Dambazau dumps APC, joins NNPP in Kano

May 30, 2022 Bode Olagoke 0

Member representing Takai/ Sumaila federal constituency of Kano state, Hon Shamsudeen Bello Dambazau has announced his decision to leave the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) under the leadership of Engr Dr Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso. Dambazau who did not site the reasons for his defection, however said unfortunate development within the APC in the Read More

Middle Belt Youths fault ASUU over call to sack Emefiele

May 26, 2022 Lekan Shehinde 0

Youths from Middle Belt under the aegis of Middle Belt Youths Forum (MBYF) have faulted the call by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) demanding the sack of the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Dr Godwin Emefiele.  The Forum, in a statement by its leader, Godwin Meliga, wondered how a union that has turned the nation’s Read More

Akwa Ibom governorship: APC members protest allege imposition of Udofia

May 25, 2022 Bode Olagoke 0

Members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Akwa Ibom state Wednesday stormed the national secretariat of the party in Abuja to protest against the alleged plot to impose Akanimo Udofia as the governorship candidate in 2023 general elections. According to the revised timetable and schedule of activities of the ruling party, the governorship primary election will take place today Read More