Tokunbo Awolowo-Dosunmu, the daughter of Nigerian nationalist and statesman, Obafemi Awolowo has alleged of plot to do away with Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, if he wins the 2023 election.
She alleged that there has been a plot to remove Tinubu and set up his strolling mate, Kashim Shettima as President.
Awolowo-Dosunmu claimed that the plot can be perfected at once after the 2023 swearing-in.
She stated the ones at the back of the plot might take benefit of Tinubu’s clinical condition.
Awolowo-Dosunmu appealed to Yorubas to prevent being sentimental and tribalist approximately the 3 most important applicants contesting for the workplace of the presidency.
“They are plotting in opposition to Tinubu; Yorubas need to awaken. They are privy to Tinubu’s clinical condition.
“All they’re making plans is, straight away after turning in and swearing-in, they’re going to put off Tinubu and Shettima may be your subsequent president in case you aren’t careful.
“Yorubas must awaken and now no longer permit feelings to guide us,” she instructed newsmen in Lagos.
Truss, 47, will be the third UK female Prime Minister following Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May.
Liz Truss was on Monday voted as the new Prime Minister of UK.
She emerged as the new UK Prime Minister/leader of the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party after defeating her rival, Rishi Sunak, in a Tory vote where she polled 81,326 votes to beat Sunak who polled 60,399 votes.
As the leader of the ruling Conservative Party, Truss is now British Prime Minister, replacing Boris Johnson who resigned early July after a scandal-hit government.
Before her emergence as Tory leader and British PM, Truss was UK’s Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs since 2021 and Minister for Women and Equalities since 2019.
Here are some things to know about the third female British Prime Minister:
1 – Liz Truss (Mary Elizabeth Truss) was born on July 26, 1975 in Oxford, England, to John Kenneth and Priscilla Mary Truss.
2 – Truss attended West Primary School in Paisley, Scotland. She then attended Roundhay School, in the Roundhay area of Leeds.
3 – She read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Merton College, Oxford, graduating in 1996.
4 – Truss was active in the Liberal Democrats. She was president of Oxford University Liberal Democrats and a member of the national executive committee of Liberal Democrat Youth and Students. During her time as a Liberal Democrat, Truss supported the legalisation of cannabis and the abolition of the monarchy.
5 – She joined the Conservative Party in 1996.
6 – Truss worked for Shell from 1996 t0 2000, during which time she qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant in 1999.
7 – She was employed by Cable & Wireless in 2000 and rose to economic director before leaving in 2005.
8 – Truss served as the chair of the Lewisham Deptford Conservative Association from 1998 to 2000.
9 – She unsuccessfully contested the Greenwich London Borough Council elections in 1998 (for Vanbrugh ward) and 2002 (in Blackheath Westcombe).
10 – She was elected as a councillor for Eltham South in the Greenwich London Borough Council election on May 4, 2026.
11 – Under David Cameron as Conservative leader, Truss was added to the party’s ‘A List’.
12 – On September 4, 2012, Truss was appointed as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Education, with responsibility for childcare and early learning, assessment, qualifications and curriculum reform, behaviour and attendance, and school food review.
13 – In a July 15, 2014 cabinet reshuffle, Truss was appointed Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, replacing Owen Paterson.
14 – On July 14, 2016, Truss was appointed as Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor in Theresa May’s first ministry. She became the first woman to hold either position and the first female Lord Chancellor in the thousand-year history of the office.
15 – On June 11, 2017, following the general election, she was moved to the position of Chief Secretary to the Treasury.
16 – She was promoted by Boris Johnson to the position of Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade. Following the resignation of Amber Rudd, Truss was additionally appointed Minister for Women and Equalities.
17 – On September 15, 2021, during a cabinet reshuffle, Johnson promoted Truss from International Trade Secretary to Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, thus becoming the second woman to hold the position after Margaret Beckett.
18 – On July 10, 2022, Truss announced her intention to run in the Conservative Party leadership election to replace Boris Johnson after the latter’s resignation.
19 – On September 5, 2022, Truss won the Conservative Party’s election as party leader, beating her rival, Sunak.
20 – On September 6, 2022, Liz Truss officially made the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, becoming the third female to occupy that position.
The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, alongside stakeholders such as the registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Professor Ishaq Oloyede; Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, Professor Abubakar Rasheed; Emeritus Professors Peter Okebukola and Nimi-Briggs; alongside all vice-chancellors and pro-chancellors of federal universities have commenced a special closed-door session over the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities.
“I will like to ask respectfully that the gentlemen of the press excuse us so that we can start our deliberations,” Adamu Adamu had said.
Earlier, the minister had lamented the failure of ASUU to call off its strike despite interventions by the government.
ASUU had embarked on a strike on Monday, February 14,2022 following what the union tagged as failure of the government to meet lingering demands.
I even have simply back from a experience to Turkey, wherein I turned into on a pilgrimage to a number of the seven church buildings of Asia, additionally referred to as the seven church buildings of Revelations.
I visited Smyrna (now called Izmir), Pergamum (now referred to as Bergama, and Ephesus (now called Efes).
Prior to this go to, I had visited Laodicea (now referred to as Laodikeia). There aren’t anyt any remnants of a number of the opposite church buildings, however I did get to look Cappadocia.
And then I went to Istanbul and the metropolis blew my mind. It turned into my 0.33 go to to Istanbul, however my first time staying at the Asian side.
Istanbul has a wealthy records that may likely carry you to tears. This town was referred to as Constantinople, and become the middle of orthodox Christianity, till on 29 May 1453, whilst it turned into conquered via way of means of the Muslim Ottoman Empire. Note I stated Muslim Ottoman Empire, now no longer Islamic Ottoman Empire.
The Ottomans have been Muslims, however they have been now no longer clearly Islamic. In fact, they even conquered the Arabs, and from the sixteenth Century to their liberation with the aid of using the British thru Lawrence of Arabia, Saudi Arabia become beneathneath Ottoman rule.
The fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire intended that Cristian Europe not had a buffer towards Muslim (now no longer Islamic), enlargement into Europe, and one via way of means of one, European Christian town states and countries started out to fall one after the opposite.
And why did the conquest appear? It occurred due to the fact there has been no cohesion In Christendom (political Christianity). The Byzantines had been Orthodox. The Roman Catholic Church taken into consideration them rivals, instead of brothers. And the Balkan Christians could now no longer even assist them. Rather, they had been suspicious of them.
When the Byzantines had been beneathneath siege through the Ottomans, the Roman Catholic Church, in place of assist them, insisted that they have to first receive their dogmas (Trinity, Mary veneration, Christmas, purgatory, idols, the alternate from the fish because the real image of Christianity, to the pagan Ankh (disguised as a Cross) etc) as a circumstance for his or her assist. Out of desperation, the Orthodox Church voted to just accept the Pope’s terms, however the humans of Constantinople refused and rioted, as opposed to be given what they believed to be an adulteration in their religion via way of means of the adoption of pagan European doctrines masquerading as Christian doctrines.
There are approximately 20,000 of those pure, Orthodox Christians left in Turkey and I even have had the honor of preaching to them and getting to know from them.
A comparable loss of team spirit had in advance brought about the Islamic (now no longer Muslim) conquest of a lot of Spain in 711 AD, which caused 800 years of Islamic rule in Iberia.
And the Byzantines had been additionally partially guilty for his or her personal destruction. While the Byzantines had been busy constructing awe inspiring church buildings, basilicas, theatres and marble roads, the Muslim Ottomans had been razor centered on constructing a political motion and an army.
And after they have been ready, they descended at the Byzantines, and militarily defeated them, and now, all their awe inspiring church buildings, basilicas, theatres and marble roads belong to the Muslim Ottomans, and feature so belonged to them for nearly six hundred years.
Fast ahead to 2022, and the All Progressives Congress is imparting Nigerians with a Muslim-Muslim price price tag, of which Kashim Shettima, the Borno Governor below whom Boko Haram thrived and metastasised into the global terror institution that it now is, and once more below whom they invaded the Christian enclave of Chibok, due to the fact Shettima refused the Federal Government’s suggest now no longer to keep WAEC examinations at Chibok, is now assuring us that he can be in fee of protection, successfully making Bola Tinubu a puppet, if in any respect he’s elected.
If you do now no longer see parallels among what took place to Constantinople and the Byzantine empire and what the All Progressives Congress desires to serve Nigerians, then you definitely have glaringly now no longer been paying attention.
In the final seven years of just about demonic mis-governance with the aid of using the All Progressives Congress management of Muhammadu Buhari, we’ve visible a sudden, unapologetic and 0 sum like shutting of the authorities area to human beings of the Christian persuasion.
Never withinside the records of this kingdom have we ever had the pinnacle of the executive (the President), the top of the Legislature (the Senate President), and the pinnacle of the judiciary (the Chief Justice of Nigeria), all Muslims. I imply the imbalance is unprecedented.
And you then definately visit the subsequent layer of authorities, that’s the navy and safety services. The heads of the Ministry of Defence, Army, Navy, Police, NSA, DMI, EFCC, DSS, DIA, NPS, NCS, NIS, NIA are all Northern Muslims. Where is the stability?
And withinside the midst of this, the All Progressives Congress desires to boom the quantity with a Muslim-Muslim price price tag? Think of the mental harm it’ll do to the minds of Christians. Even if it isn’t always uttered, it’s miles already clean that the All Progressives Congress sees us as a conquered those who do now no longer depend and who ought to receive their 2d magnificence citizenship fame with out elevating dust.
And do now no longer assume the All Progressives Congress will forestall at their Muslim-Muslim price price tag. Did the Ottomans forestall in Constantinople? No. They conquered the Arabs, who have been Muslims like them. They took Jerusalem. They moved into Europe. Greece fell to them. Then the complete Balkan Peninsula. Then modern-day Romania. And on and on till they took over Hungary and had been stopped on the borders of Austria.
If everyone had instructed you Imo, Ebonyi and Cross River could be All Progressives Congress states, might you’ve got got believed it? But there it’s miles.
Nigerians ought to open their eyes and prevent believing that it can’t occur here. Are we higher than Lebanon? Lebanon changed into the most effective solid democratic and multi non secular us of a withinside the Middle East, till the Christians there slept on their rights, and have been quickly beaten via way of means of big immigration from Islamic countries that made them a minority of their personal us of a.
What is to prevent the equal from taking place here? Tinubu and Shettima can open the borders Nigeria stocks with Niger Republic and Chad to alternate Nigeria’s demographics and make it not possible to vote out their birthday birthday celebration in destiny elections, in the event that they win in 2023.
I became in Bethlehem in 2018. The identical factor came about to that metropolis in which our Lord and Savour changed into born.
You see, records does now no longer repeat itself. Men repeat records and blame records for repeating itself.
Nigeria have to maintain its spiritual stability via way of means of respecting every religion and balancing our authorities and public sector. The Peoples Democratic Party respects that stability. The Labour Party respects it. But the Muslim-Muslim price price tag of Bola Tinubu’s All Progressives Congress does now no longer appreciate our non secular diversity. And a vote for Tinubu may also lead Nigerian Christians to the equal destiny of the historic Christians of Asia Minor (now called Turkey).
So, allow us to overlook our divisions and unite in opposition to this imbalance. Whether or now no longer you’re Roman Catholic, Anglican, Methodist, Baptist, Pentecost, Evangelical, Charismatic, Celestial, or another denomination I actually have now no longer noted here. No that people who need to whittle down your religion see you as one. Therefore, you higher additionally see yourselves as one. Or you pass the manner of the Byzantines.
May that by no means befall us in Yeshua’s Name.
Reno’s Nuggets
Before you purchase an iPhone 14 for a woman you aren’t married to, as a signal of your love, ask your self those three questions:
Do I even have a business? Do I even have a home? Have I ever sold my mother and father such an pricey present?
If you’ve got got 3 nos, then your present is an indication of your foolishness, now no longer a signal of your love! The first sacrificial giving wisemen make is usually to God. The 2nd is continually to their mother and father. But the primary sacrificial giving that a idiot makes is usually to his girlfriend. Why? Because instant pride is extra essential to him than limitless treasure!
2023: APC May Lose North As Some Of Our Members Are Working For Atiku – APC Chieftain Laments
A chieftain of the party, Chief Jackson Lekan Ojo, told newsmen in a telephone interview yesterday that, “There is palpable fear that the APC will lose in the North. And if they lose, where are they going to get their votes from to retain the presidency?
“Ethnicity and religion will play key roles in the emergence of President Buhari’s successor. For me, I have not seen the light at the end of the tunnel; I’m seeing only darkness in the APC.
“The core Fulani people will not vote the APC. The core Hausa people will not vote the APC, because Shettima is not their brother; he is a Kanuri man and they are in the minority. And remember, the Hausa/Fulani people are united.
“This will affect the chances of the APC. I know some staunch members of the APC who are working for the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. What it means is that Atiku will get the majority of votes from the North, and especially from the Hausa/Fulani structure.”
Former president of Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa has returned after seven weeks from Thailand after fleeing the country amid national crisis.
The 73 year old former leader fled the country in July after tens of thousands of protesters stormed his home and office in a display of anger over ravaging economic hardship
Rajapaksa flew into Colombo’s Bandaranaike international airport around midnight Friday from Bangkok via Singapore. On being welcomed by lawmakers in his party, Rajapaksa left the airport in a motorcade heavily guarded by armed soldiers and reached a government-owned house allocated to him as a former president, at the center of the capital, Colombo.
On July 13, the ousted leader, his wife and two bodyguards left aboard an air force plane for the Maldives, before traveling to Singapore from where he officially resigned. He flew to Thailand two weeks later.
Rajapaksa has no court case or arrest warrant pending against him. The only court case he was facing for alleged corruption during his time as the secretary to the ministry of defense under his older brother’s presidency was withdrawn when he was elected president in 2019 because of constitutional immunity.
For months, Sri Lanka has been in the grips of its worst economic crisis, which triggered extraordinary protests and unprecedented public rage that ultimately forced Rajapaksa and his brother, the former prime minister, to step down. The situation in the bankrupt country was made worse by global factors like the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but many hold the once-powerful Rajapaksa family as responsible for severely mismanaging the economy and tipping it into crisis.
The economic meltdown has seen monthslong shortages of essentials such as fuel, medicine and cooking gas due to a severe shortage of foreign currency. Though cooking gas supplies were restored through World Bank support, shortages of fuel, critical medicines and some food items continue.
The island nation has suspended repayment of nearly $7 billion in foreign debt due this year. The country’s total foreign debt amounts to more than $51 billion, of which $28 billion has to be repaid by 2027.
On Tuesday, President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who took over after Rajapaksa resigned, and his administration reached a preliminary agreement with the International Monetary Fund for a $2.9 billion bailout package over four years to help the country recover.
Rajapaksa, a former military officer, was elected on promises to uplift the country’s economy and ensure national security after Islamic State-inspired bomb attacks killed some 270 people in churches and hotels on Easter Sunday 2019. He relinquished his American citizenship when he contested the election because laws at the time made dual citizens ineligible from holding political office.
As a top defense official he is accused of overseeing human rights violations by the military during the country’s three-decade civil war with the now-defeated Tamil Tiger rebels who fought for an independent state for the country’s ethnic minority Tamils.
In April, protesters started camping outside the president’s office in the heart of Colombo and chanted “Gota, go home,” a demand for Rajapaksa to quit, which quickly became the rallying cry of the movement.
The demonstrations dismantled the Rajapaksa family’s grip on politics. Before Rajapaksa resigned, his older brother stepped down as prime minister and three more close family members quit their Cabinet positions.
But the country’s new president, Wickremesinghe, has since cracked down on protests. His first action as leader included dismantling the protest tents in the middle of the night as police forcibly removed demonstrators from the site and attacked them.
There is genuine fear among people who want to protest now, said Bhavani Fonseksa, with the independent think tank Center for Policy Alternatives.
“Whether people will take to the streets to demonstrate again is still to be seen, especially since there’s been so much repression since Ranil Wickremesinghe came to power. Several protesters have been arrested so there is genuine fear,” she said.
“There is no way Gotabaya will be forgiven for his transgressions but I think now there is more bitterness than public rage that awaits him,” Jayatilleka added.
For Nazly Hameem, an organizer who helped lead the protest movement, the former president’s return isn’t an issue “as long as he is held accountable.”
“He is a Sri Lankan citizen so no one can prevent him from coming back. But as someone who wants justice against the corrupt system, I would like to see action taken there should be justice, they should file cases against him and hold him accountable for what he did to the country.”
“Our slogan was ‘Gota, go home’ we didn’t expect him to flee, we wanted him to resign. As long as he doesn’t involve himself in active politics, it won’t be a problem.”
The Peoples Democratic Party,PDP, Osun State chapter, has expelled a 2022 governorship aspirant, Dotun Babayemi from the party.
Babayemi, who emerged governorship candidate in a parallel congress and currently contesting the emergence of the state governor – elect, Senator Ademola Adeleke as the flag bearer of the party at the supreme court, was accused of anti-party activities by local executives of PDP.
The Ward Executive members of Otun Balogun 2, Ayedaade local government area of the State made the pronouncement during a press briefing at the State Party secretariat in Osogbo.
Presenting the decision of the Ward EXCO, the Secretary, Ogunleye Bukayo said the factional governorship candidate was expelled as a result of a petition filed against him by some party members.
The Ward Executive Committee of the party stated that Dotun Babayemi seizes to be member of the party at his Ward and local government, forthwith.
A group based in the southeast called Committee of Friends G5 South East Zone, has concluded plans to deliver one million votes for the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, in Abia State.
The group has also vowed to sway the entire South-East voters for the PDP during the presidential election.
According to a press statement made to journalists in Abuja, the Coordinator of the group, Barr. Chinyere Chigbu who was the former Abia State PDP Vice Chairman, Abia Central Senatorial Zone, said that the Committee of Friends G5 South East Zone is determined to ensure that Atiku Abubakar wins not only Abia State but the entire Southeastern states.
He recalled that during the 2019 presidential election, the PDP scored 219, 698 votes in Abia State, which, according to him, was abysmal considering the over 1,932,892 eligible voters who could have voted to sway the election in favor of Atiku Abubakar.
Bar. Chigbu however, noted that “to this end, our sensitization and campaign drive will focus on the grassroots through village-to-village and ward to ward aggressive mobilization to ensure that Atiku Abubakar secures over 1.2 million votes in Abia state and over 85 percent of the votes cast in the South East in 2023.
“We don’t see any threat to us achieving this target because the Presidential candidate of the PDP is the most experienced and most prepared to take the country out of its current woes.
“Among all the top presidential candidates, Atiku Abubakar has the capacity, the network, and the know-how to take the country to the next level and salvage Nigeria from total collapse.”
I have taken pains to profile the traditional rulers in Nigeria particularly those in the South South , South East , South West and North Central Zones of Nigeria affected by the water resources bill and I discover that they are all well lettered . By my findings they all can read and write and are well exposed in life . From my findings , it is safe to say that our traditional rulers are literate enough to know what the devious and devilish water resources is all about .
Our traditional rulers cannot feign ignorance of the fact that the said evil bill has once again been introduced on the floor of the 9th Assembly after its rejection by the 8th Assembly .
Our traditional rulers cannot claim not to understand that if the bill is passed into law their people will loss the right to their land , ground and surface water to the federal government of Nigeria.
Our traditional rulers cannot say that they are not aware that if the bill goes through it will be mandatory for their people to obtain a license before using water that will then be considered public asset for domestic, social or commercial purposes from the federal government in Abuja.
Our traditional rulers cannot play the ostrich to the fact that once the satanic bill is passed into law their fertile land and water will be handed over to foreign fulani herdsmen for habitation just like they are currently forcefully and illegally occupying all the federal government of Nigeria forest reserves nation wide .
As Custodians of our history , identity , tradition, customs , culture and heritage our traditional rulers must in unism and unequivocally condemn the water resources bill.
At this junction our traditional rulers must speak out as their silence over the water resources bill at this point in time is no longer golden. If truly that they represents their people and are on the side of their people they must fight against the enslavement , subjugation and repression of their people which the bill is bound to occasion on their people.
The Jigawa State authorities says it spent N192.ninety six billion to put in force its Maternal and Child Cash Transfer (MCCT) programme among November 2021 and June 2022.
Ibrahim Rabakaya, government secretary, Jigawa State Rehabilitation Board, disclosed this throughout a three-day validation of Kaduna country’s Graduation Youth-Focused Social Protection programme on Wednesday in Kano.
Mr Rabakaya stated the programme became delivered in 2021 primarily based totally at the successes of the coins switch programme that become carried out withinside the nation through a Non-Governmental Organisation, Action Against Hunger (AAH).
He defined that the MCCT, which turned into carried out beneathneath the Child Development Grant programme, furnished the wanted proof approximately the effectiveness of coins switch in addressing poverty and vulnerability.
Mr Rabakaya stated the intervention focused 5,740 beneficiaries – pregnant girls and lactating mothers, for conditional coins switch throughout the 287 political wards withinside the kingdom.
He delivered that 20 beneficiaries have been decided on from every of the 287 political wards to deal with stunting amongst kids beneathneath five.
According to Mr Rabakaya, each 5,740 beneficiaries acquired 32,000, N4,000 month-to-month from November 2021 to June 2022, amounting to N183.sixty eight billion.
He brought that N4 million became expended as more charges, N688.eight million on financial institution charges, and N4.fifty nine million on automatic teller machines cards.
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