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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has announced his formal return to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He did the switch in the format of the information age: by announcing it Live on Facebook on Sunday following what he called his consultations with party leaders and stakeholders from across the country. Atiku was a member of the All Progressives Congress until last week when he announced his departure. The party said he would not be sorely missed. The PDP has a national convention scheduled for 9 December in Port Harcourt. He read a statement live on Facebook and photographs later distributed by the Atiku Media Office showed the former Vice President fiddling with his smartphone as he responded to questions from his Facebook followers. Atiku, who is  very active in the social media, including Twitter has 580,111 people following him on Facebook. On Twitter, he has 1.06m followers, which is below the fan base of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo who  has 1.32m followers on

It is a verifiable and a known fact, that youths and women empowerment and implementable Agricultural policy are some of the powerful instrument of war against hunger and poverty in any society. The Governor of Ebonyi state, Engnr David Nweze Umahi , in a quest to ensure that hunger and poverty is eradicated in the state, quickly adopted a systematic youth and women empowerment and strategic agricultural policy framework to tackle the ugly scourge. In a bid to aggressively pursue this course, Gov. Umahi in June 2016, set up and inaugurated a 29-man think-tank working committee, chaired by the Hon. Commissioner for youths and sports development, Mr Charles Akpuenika. The Governor however, charged the committee to, among other things, carry out a vivid census of all the unemployed youths and women from the 197 electoral wards in the state with the view of empowering them, having secured the approval  of the sum of 130 million naira from the state House of Assembly to that effect. the

Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River has inaugurated the `Calabar Municipal Garden’ which will serve as the 2017 Calabar Carnival village. Ayade who inaugurated the garden on Friday, said that the village was chosen because it was central and accessible to residents and tourists. The governor was represented by Dr Inyang Asibong, the State Commissioner for Health, He said the village would serve as venue for funfair and market for Christmas shopping. He said that adequate security measures had been taken to safeguard tourists and fun seekers at the village. “It is to the glory of God that we have witnessed the first and second dry run of the 2017 Calabar carnival. “I wish to declare the 2017 Calabar carnival village open to all. The 2017 carnival will be better and bigger. “We have put in place more convenient facilities in this village that would serve the taste of our expected tourists. I wish to assure all those coming in for the carnival of adequate security.’’ He

Former Governor of Delta, Chief James Ibori, on Friday described Chief Raymond Dokpesi as a passionate loyalist of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), saying he had toiled for the party. Ibori said in Oghara when he received Dokpesi, a national chairmanship aspirant of the party, that the aspirant was enjoying huge confidence of party members because of his record and commitment. He pledged to give necessary support to the aspiration and prayed that God would guide him. Earlier, Dokpesi had told the former governor that his visit was to solicit support for his aspiration, saying that Ibori was a stakeholder in the PDP. In Benin, Edo, Dokpesi visited Chief Gabriel Igbinedion, who said that the aspirant was a dogged democrat and fighter for enthronement of internal democracy and equity in the party. Similarly, a chieftain of PDP in the state, Mr Ben Edo-Osagie, described Dokpesi as a “brave man with credibility”, adding that in spite of all intimidations, he remained in the part

I was somewhere in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital recently, having a conversation with a group of people, which was centred on the achievements of Gov. David Nweze Umahi so far as the Executive Governor of Ebonyi state. A lady among us asked me, could all these things that Gov. Umahi has done and still doing are just because of 2019? and i ask, Are all these developmental achievements recorded by Umahi's administration are just because he wants to be re-elected come 2019? and the answer is no. To put the record straight, Engnr David Umahi of  Ebonyi state has performed beyond the expectation of ALL, even his detractors and critiques has lost thought of what to say against him. it is not worthwhile filling up the space listing all his achievements in less than Three years in office, ranging from infrastructure to Agriculture; Health to Education; Economic empowerment to security etc, as all these achievements are there for all to see, even the blind can feel it. Gov. Um