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"Buhari Must Go," Atiku Tells North East Youth Group By Billy Graham Abel Yola The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,  and former vice president of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has urged Nigerian youths to vote out the president Muhammadu Buhari led government in order to secure a better future for themselves. Atiku made the remarks, Wednesday, during a rally organized by the north east chapter of the Atiku/Obi vanguard for good governance group, in Yola, Adamawa. Atiku said, "The 2019 elections is about you and your future because everything the APC led government promised Nigerians are things that affects the youths today and would affect their future. "The 2019 elections is about the future and destiny of the youths in Nigeria. "I and my generation have lived and this elections is not about what we will get and our stakes are not as high as that of young Nigerians, many of you have a future before you but with  so many unfulfilled...

BUHARI STRATEGIST DAZZLES ATIKU IN ADAMAWA. BY COMRADE ESTHER BABA. The name Babazango certainly does not ring a bell in Lagos, Abuja or Port Harcourt but here in the North East it certainly does especially in Adamawa State the name Abubakar Babazango ring a thousand bells.  Panutimate week the name caused an uproar for the Peoples Democratic Party PDP and its Presidential flag bearer Atiku Abubakar, the Waziri Adamawa. Abubakar Babazango is a master strategist of President Muhammadu Buhari in Adamawa State and he went to work in promoting the President and Governor Mohammed Umaru Jibrilla Bindow when news broke that Atiku Abubakar was coming to the State. As a thinker he began lining up the whole streets of Adamawa State capital with latests billboards of President Buhari and Governor Jibrilla Bindow from the Yola Airport, in Yola North all the way to the Lamido Palace in Yola South Local Governments and proceeding to Bakin  Kogi. When the PDP Presidential Aspirant Atik...

Atiku Promises Three Million Jobs Each Year The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar, has promised to create three million jobs every year if he is elected as president in the 2019 election. This is one of the key points in the policy document released by the PDP flagbearer today (Sunday), which details a seven-year timeline in which he intends to deliver on his campaign promises. Apart from job creation, the document also lists three other areas of priority namely infrastructure development, human capital development and poverty eradication. According to the former Vice President, he has plans to lift 50 million Nigerians out of poverty, by 2025. Furthermore, he stated that he has plans to privatise the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and also sell all four national refineries. Other areas of focus in terms of infrastructure is the construction of 5,000 kilometres of roads, and 5,000 kilometres of modern railway. A state...

PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI SIGNS BILL FOR AN ACT TO ESTABLISH NCDC As a demonstration of his commitment to national health security, the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, has signed the Bill for an Act to establish the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). Since its establishment in 2011, NCDC has demonstrated its capacity to protect the health of Nigerians by delivering on its core functions of preparedness, detection and response to outbreaks of infectious diseases. This new Act which will establish NCDC as a full-fledged parastatal, will also ensure that its valuable work is sustained and supported. The Chief Executive of the agency, Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu said “We are very grateful for Mr. President’s support in the passage of the Executive Bill. This Bill will provide Nigerians with an institute that has the capacity to ensure the country’s health security. We are also grateful to the Honourable Minister and Minister of State...

Adamawa 2019: Bindow is a Risk APC Cannot Afford To Take- Modi By Billy Graham Abel Yola Sequel to the huge controversy  that trailed the emergence of Umaru Mohammed Jibrilla Bindow as the flag bearer of the APC in Adamawa state, the governor is yet again embroiled in another scandal, a case of certificate forgery in which the governor's entire political career has been thrown into a huge intergrity question, as the cousel to one of the aspirants, Mahmood Halilu Ahmed, has demanded for the arrest and prosecution of the embattled governor describing Bindow as, "A serial academic forger and a habitual criminal perjurer," whose entire political career is a, "criminal enterprise." This is contained in a letter forwarded by Ugbon Akpan of Ugon Akpam Chambers on behalf of Mohamood Halilu Ahmad (Modi), addressed to the National Chairman of All Progressive Congress and copied to the president of Nigeria and the Attorney General of the Federation. The letter titled ...