What Reverend Did To His Members Without PVC

Revd. Uma Ukpai of the Victory Cathedral Fellowship Center, Uyo, Akwa Ibom, on Thursday announced that the church would stop communion for members who had not collected their Permanent Voter Cards.

Uma Ukpai

Ukpai made the announcement during a church service in Uyo, saying it was unpatriotic for any Nigerian eligible voter not to participate in the electoral process.

Controversial AIG Mbu Reveals His Big Dreams

Controversial new assistant inspector General of Police Zone 2, Joseph Mbu last week paid a visit to the Ogun state police command which is under his zone.
Mbu revealed that his dream is to become the Inspector general of Police.
Dimeji Kayode-Adedeji of Premium times was on hand to give the full transcript of the visit.

AIG Joseph Mbu

Excerpt:
“I have come here to restore hope in all of you and to blow air into you. You know when you just have a male child, you blow air into his mouth and nose so that he can be like you.

Boko Haram Base Captured: Chad Troop Take Down Insurgents

 Chadian Troops on Tuesday defeated insurgent group Boko Haram and took back the town of Dikwa from their grasp.

Chadian Army

The major battle had a huge amount of casualty with sources saying that hundred of terrorists were killed.

Edwin Clark Predicts The Future Of Almajiri Schools

Former Federal Commissioner of Information, Chief Edwin Clark, has said predicted a bright and rewarding future for the almajiris in Nigeria.
According to Daily Trust, Clark stated this on Tuesday, when the Goodluck Jonathan Almajiri Support Initiative Group and the executive council of the National Youth Leaders of Nigeria paid him a visit in his Abuja home.
He posited that President Jonathan is the only President in Nigeria that remembered the almajiri, adding that the northern governors have not done anything for them.
It would be recalled that as part of attempts to remove the growing figure of over four million children beggars from the streets of Nigeria, the federal government begun the establishment of 400 almajiri schools across the North.
The initiative is the first ever government intervention in the almajiri problems in the history of Nigeria.

President Goodluck Jonathan flanked by the Sultan of Sokoto and Sokoto State Governor during the commissioning of one of the almajiri schools in Northern Nigeria

Nigerians React To PDP Begging Obasanjo

The political tension created in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) due to former president Olusegun Obasanjo’s dramatic exit from the party on Monday February 16, still lingers on.

President Jonathan and Obasanjo.

The Jigawa State Governor, Sule Lamido, who said he was in a closed door meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday, hinted that the party will go and beg the former president who wants to become just an ‘elder statesman’ to return and forgive whatever wrong doing the grand children may committed.

Read What APGA Is Accusing PDP, APC Of Doing

The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has reportedly accused the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the major opposition party the All Progressives Congress (APC) of overheating the polity.

South West chairman of APGA, Alhaji Tayo Sowunmi

Speaking on Wednesday at a press briefing in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, the South West chairman of APGA, Alhaji Tayo Sowunmi advised supporters of APC and PDP to stop heating the polity with their utterances.

PDP Youth, Norther Civil Society Campaign For Jonathan

 In its bid to mobilise Nigerian youths for the realization of the second term bid of President Goodluck Jonathan/Namadi Sambo, the Directorate of Youth Mobilisation of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Organisation on Wednesday, held an interactive session with Non-Government Organizations, NGOs and Civil Society Organisations based in the north in the historic city of Kaduna.
The event which was held at the Quarters House Hotel, Kaduna, was attended by at least 35 leaders of civil society organizations and major NGOs in northern Nigeria.
Among the dignitaries that graced the occasion were the National youth leader of the PDP, Rt. Hon Abdullahi Maibasira, Kaduna state PDP youth leader, Hon. Boniface Garba, the Senior Special Assistant to President Jonathan on Students’ and Youth Matters, Jude Imagwe and Safiya Ibrahim.

In his welcome address, the convener of the interactive session, Rt. Hon Maibasira thanked the leaders for taking time out to be part of the event.