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Hardship: No sign your economic team is proactive – Tinubu to Tinubu

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January 13, 2025

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The presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, in the last general election, Oluwole Adebayo, has insisted that President Bola Tinubu did not assemble the best economic team.

Speaking on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, Adebayo said that the President’s economic team is not sharp enough and that it was far from being proactive.

The outspoken lawyer believes that Tinubu does not need to go outside the All Progressives Congress, APC, to get the people to turn things in his administration.

“The problem is that the way he has set up his economic team, there is no sign that they are proactive, they are only reacting to the consequences of their earlier actions,” Adebayo said.

“So, they are perpetually defending, perpetually behind. So, the economic team is not nimble enough, it’s not sharp enough.

“Even if he doesn’t go outside his party to look for people to run his economic team, within his party he has a lot of talents there within the rubric of their own belief. He has not even used the best of APC people,” he added.

The former presidential candidate expressed surprise that even with all the money the current government claims to be saving from fuel subsidy removal, it is still borrowing to fund the budget.

Ekwutosblog reported that in an open letter on Sunday, a founding member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Osita Okechukwu, had charged the Presidential Economic Team against derailing Tinubu’s renewed hope agenda meant to uplift millions of Nigerians.

Okechukwu said the Presidential Economic Team should assist Tinubu to succeed and pull out of the adverse economic condition.

He informed the economic team that Tinubu aimed to seamlessly win the 2027 election, hence the need not to derail his agenda.

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UZODINMA appoints ken Onyeali Ikpe ph.D as the deputy chief of staff strategy and Communication.

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January 13, 2025

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His Excellency, Senator Hope Uzodimma CON, Governor, of Imo State has approved the appointment of ken Onyeali Ikpe ph.D as the deputy chief of staff strategy and Communication.

The appointment is with immediate effect

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IMO, STATE GOVERNMENT PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUCMENT

His Excellency, the Executive Governor of Imo State, Sen Hope Uzodimma, CON , has approved the following appointments:

1. LOCAL GOVERNMENT SERVICE COMMISSION

DR.Nick Obinatu….Chairman
Chief Ethelbert Nwachukwu… Commissioner
Chief Chukwuemeka S. Anukam… Commissioner
Hon Engr. Stanley Chibueze Okwuosha…..Commissioner

2. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION

DR. Mrs Julie Onyeukwu… Chairman
Dr. Uche Edomobi…. Commissioner
Gody O Dike…. Commissioner
Dr Romanus Ezeogu… Commissioner

3. Ken Onyeali Ikpe ph.D deputy chief of staff strategy and communication
The appointments are with immediate effect

Signed:
Declan Emelumba Commissioner for Information, public orientation, and strategy

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Please pardon me before Trump throws me in jail – Cohen begs President Biden

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January 13, 2025

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A former lawyer of United States President-elect Donald Trump, has pleaded with outgoing President Joe Biden to grant him a pardon just like he did for his son Hunter.

Cohen is claiming that Trump will punish him for testifying against the politician in his hush money conviction.

Cohen had already been convicted for his role in the case years earlier.

He was also the star witness for the prosecution as Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts in the case last year.

Cohen served as the go-between for the $130,000 payment Trump made to adult film star, Stormy before the 2016 presidential election.

With Mr Trump ready to return to the White House in a week, Mr Cohen is calling on Mr Biden to issue a presidential pardon for him before he leaves office, stating that he and others on Mr Trump’s ‘enemies list’ deserved pardons like Mr Biden’s son, who was granted full and unconditional pardon.

“I put in application for the presidential pardon because I believe Joe Biden has the same responsibility to be that he has to his son”, Cohen said. “I would expect the same exact pardon he gave his son to me and anyone that is on that enemies list whether they want it or not because solitary confinement where I did 51 days sucks.”

The disgraced lawyer, however, said he was shocked that Trump received unconditional release during his sentencing.

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Senator Sani gives reasons for poor quality of education in Northern Nigeria

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January 13, 2025

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Senator Shehu Sani, former senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, has itemized twelve factors that undermine education in Northern Nigeria, with insecurity as the topmost factor.

In a verified Facebook post on Monday, Senator Sani said that insecurity, terrorism, and banditry, including poor infrastructure, pose serious challenges.

According to him, “Cultural and religious barriers, low funding, poverty, teacher shortages, child labour, discrimination against girls, low access to technology, health challenges, and the increasing number of people living with disabilities, as well as the systemic retention of the street Almajiri system, neglect, misplacement, and mismanagement of resources by successive governments.”

He added that these issues require urgent attention.