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Former President, Goodluck Jonathan’s pardon of late ex-Bayelsa Governor, DSP Alamieyeseigha made the international community to turn against him during the 2015 Presidential election. This claim was disclosed by the spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bolaji Abdullahi, in his upcoming book, , ‘On a Platter of Gold: How Jonathan Won and Lost Nigeria.’ Alamieyeseigha, Governor of Bayelsa state from 1999-2005, was arrested in London in 2005, over claims of money laundering. It was then alleged that about £1 million cash found in his London home, and later another £1.8 million in cash and bank accounts. The former governor was subsequently convicted and jailed on corruption charges in 2007. However, the then administration of Jonathan granted him presidential pardon in March 2013. In his book, Abdullahi noted that the amnesty pardon was the turning point for the international community, adding that it was Jonathan’s original idea to pardon his former boss....

Former governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari would have stopped ex-Vice President, Atiku Abubakar from leaving the All Progressives Congress, APC. Kalu, while speaking with Channels TV, said the former Vice President would have stayed back in APC if he was given a ministerial slot. He said, “The president should be more interested in the things of the party. As Commander-in-Chief, he should be interested in who leaves. “If I was in position, I would have stopped the movement. “The president should have consulted the governors in appointing men like Kwankwaso, Atiku into the system. “He should have given them a ministerial position to pacify everybody and call governors to bring five names of candidates for ministerial slot, that way democracy becomes a participated one. “I’m not scared of PDP coming back in 2019, they cant return because no international agency likes them and they insisted PDP be pushed away “All I know...

Alleging a draconian clampdown of democracy in the All Progressives Congress, APC, a derailment of its set objectives in governance and the abandonment of the Nigerian youth, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has resigned his membership of  the APC Noting that more than a year after the memo that no action was taken to repair the breach, Atiku said the situation has even worsened leaving him with no option than to leave the party. Atiku did not state his next intentions, but Vanguard gathered that arrangements are on for the former vice-president to register for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in his hometown Kojoli, Jada, Local Government Area this weekend. His statement read thus: “On the 19th of December, 2013, I received members of the All Progressives Congress at my house in Abuja. They had come to appeal to me to join their party after my party, the Peoples Democratic Party, had become factionalized as a result of the special convention of August 31, 2013. “The fr...

  The Senate has described as herculean the investigation of the sacked Chairman of Presidential Task force on Pensions Reforms, Alhaji Abdulrasheed Maina, disclosing that over 222 houses recovered by the EFCC have been allegedly shared by the EFCC officials. Raising through order 42 and 43, Senator Emmanuel Paulker, Chairman of Federal establishment pointed that the Committee which was set up barely a month now ran into trouble in the course of investigating the embattled Pension Task-force chairman. He further explained that the combined team of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) allegedly recovered over 222 houses including hotels from Maina,and were shared amongsome top officials. He said his committee did not have the mandate to investigate further due to the scope of it’s mandate. “Mr President, Distinguished colleagues, you could recall that the committee investigating former Presidential Task-forc...

The immediate past President, Goodluck Jonathan has said he should be blamed for the Peoples Democratic Party’s loss in 2015. Jonathan said it was better to take responsibility for the party’s defeat to the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the last presidential election. The former President said it has become his priority “to ensure that the Peoples Democratic Party regains the Presidency in 2019.” He said this when one of the aspirants for the national chairmanship position of the PDP, Chief Olabode George, paid him a courtesy visit in his countryhome in Otuoke, Bayelsa State. The former President said it was his responsibility to ensure that the PDP rose again as a strong political platform to win the next elections. Jonathan said, “Whether I like it or not, I mu st take responsibility for the defeat because I led the party to the election. The only thing that will make me sleep well is to ensure that the PDP comes back to power.” He further explained that he was ...

TURN YOUR IDEAS IN REALITY. Often times, IDENTITY is a major challenge, why people remain stagnant. Not being aware of their abilities, strength, values , interest , more so, not paying attention to weaknesses and avoid building skills with which we have been endowed. Gone are those days where we live on a specific pattern of life over and over without having anything to show for it. It is time for each and everyone to start focus on skills that will consciously cause us to advance in life , that we may be a blessing to one another. That brings us to the question: WHO ARE YOU? You are what you think, What you can do that people around you know you for, You are your interest, You are the value placed on you. If no one can describe you positively in relation to the solutions you can provide, then permit me to say your are no body yet. But you can actually build your identity today. No Nation can provide help for every citizen but you can actually help yourself , your generation an...

Download Audio    Here’s the official audio for Mr. P’s latest single titled “For My Head”. The single drops same day he celebrates his wedding anniversary.