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  • Kano Gov reacts to alleged rift between him and Kwankwaso, says it’s unimaginable

    Kano Gov reacts to alleged rift between him and Kwankwaso, says it’s unimaginable

    Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf has denied having any form of rift between him and his political leader, Rafiu Kwankwaso.

    TheNewsGuru.com, TNG recalls that the media was agog barely two days ago that the governor snubbed Kwankwaso’s 34 calls, this gave credence to the fact that things were falling apart.

    In response to the rising tensions within the party, the NNPP’s state leadership recently suspended Abdullahi Baffa Bichi, Secretary to the State Government, and Muhammad Diggol, Commissioner of Transportation, accusing them of involvement in the “Abba Tsaya da Kafarka” campaign. Both officials have denied these allegations.

    As support for this faction grows, other prominent members of the Kwankwasiyya movement, including House representatives Aliyu Sani Madakin Gini and Alhassan Rurum, have publicly distanced themselves from Kwankwaso, encouraging Yusuf to assert his independence. Governor Yusuf, however, stood firm in his loyalty.

    “It’s as if people do not understand the role Kwankwaso has played. Where were these critics when he was laying the foundation for what we are doing now?” he questioned.

    Yusuf also expressed frustration with media reports suggesting that he had ignored multiple calls from Kwankwaso. “They said Kwankwaso called me more than 30 times, and I refused to answer. Where did they get this from?” Yusuf asked. “If not for my respect for journalists, I would have taken the person who wrote that to court. But I know, and Kwankwaso knows, that it’s all lies. There is no rift.”

    Finally, he appealed to his supporters to reject divisive slogans, urging respect and unity within the party. “As of today, I don’t want to hear ‘stand on your own’ in Kano State or anywhere in Nigeria,” he said. “We were raised to respect elders, not to insult them.”

  • Civil society coalition condemns Dangote, NMDPRA, rift

    Civil society coalition condemns Dangote, NMDPRA, rift

    The Centre for Credible Leadership and Citizens Awareness (CCLCA) has condemned the rift between the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) and the Dangote Refinery, saying it is regrettable.

    The coalition comprising no fewer than 100 civil rights organisations made this known in a statement signed by its Director-General, Dr Gabriel Nwambu, on Wednesday in Abuja.

    “We hereby condemn the actions of the alleged fifth columnists who are determined to destroy the Nigerian State.

    “We, therefore, express our concern over the disquiet caused by the outbursts of the Chief Executive of NMDPRA, Farouk Ahmed, regarding the quality of products and allegations of monopolistic tendencies against Aliko Dangote’’, he said.

    He said it would be in the interest of the nation’s economy if all impediments to the smooth operation of oil and gas sector were addressed.

    “In light of these concerning developments, the coalition in collaboration with selected civil society organisations, plans to visit the Dangote Refinery next week.

    “This delegation, comprised of seven members, aims to assess the situation firsthand and stand in solidarity with Aliko Dangote against the unfair and damaging actions of the cabal.

    “We urge the media and the public to pay close attention to this matter. The coalition is committed to promoting accountability, transparency, and fairness in the Nigerian oil sector.

    “Our delegation’s visit to the Dangote Refinery aims to highlight the importance of supporting progressive initiatives that have the potential to drive positive change in our nation,” Nwambu said.

    He called for peaceful resolution of the conflict in a manner that it would be a win-win- for all parties involved.

    NAN recalls that while conducting media executives round the facility, Dangote complained of institutional obstacles to seamless operation of the refinery located in Lekki, Lagos State.

  • Basketmouth finally opens up on age-long rift with AY

    Basketmouth finally opens up on age-long rift with AY

    Popular comedian, Bright Okpocha, aka Basketmouth, has finally broken his silence on the rift between him and fellow comedian Ayo Makun known as AY.

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that AY said that he started having issues with Basketmouth over N30,000 wedding MC money that wasn;t paid to him as and when due by Basketmouth.

    He said he stood-in for Basketmouth at an event but he attempted to outsmart him by lying that the client has not paid for the gig, which he later found out from the client to be false.

    But while featuring on the latest episode of The Honest Bunch podcast, hosted by media personality, Nedu, Basketmouth debunked AY’s claim, insisting that there was no client involved.

    According to him, he was never friends with AY, and that the working relationship they had was a one-off deal.

    He said, “It’s 2023, my kids don grow. My son is going to be 14 next month. Everybody don dey grow.

    “It is so sad say na this kind gist [my beef with AY] dey social media. 2023, after elections. After all these things. Ukraine dey fight war, we dey talk of 30 thousand [naira].

    “I been no want talk about this thing [my beef with AY]. Many people don ask questions and I don ignore. But just to set the record straight. Number 1, AY is not my friend. We have never been friends. I have never visited his house. I have never personally invited him to my house.

    “I never ever call am one day say ‘o boy, where you dey? Make we hangout’. Nothing like that don ever happen.

    “And it’s easy to tell, if you look around social media, you will never find a picture of him and me. So, we were never friends.

    “Make I talk the truth. The reason I used style mind my business, na because of when there was that coming together [between AY and I], I heard something that threw me off. I heard some things wey I no supposed hear or know. As I hear am, I was like ‘what the f*ck! Really?’ I no supposed know. And I no fit tell am [AY] so I kept quiet.

    “The kind of person I’m, I go wait make you do something first. All these ones wey him [AY] dey talk, no be wettin make me give am space be that. It’s something else!

    “That incident [30k] sef, I don forget. But I dey use that one as distractions because you know the kind person wey I be. If I dey talk right, I dey talk left because I no dey like make person know my moves.

    “That matter, no client dey involved o. In actual fact, when this matter come outside, when I first hear the thing I said ‘what?’ Like say na 20 per cent of wettin him talk be lie, I for don vex sef say you know what let me set it. But when 90 per cent of wettin him talk na lie. I still dey in shock. All my men dey laugh me because they warned me say ‘guy, be careful o’. And see wettin happen. The one job. And na one job. Him even come make am feel like say there was a tutorship or mentorship. You know the kind men wey dey around me, the funnymen. How I go jump them come dey give this guy [AY] show?

    “So, it was only one job. And that job when I heard say them never pay am. I told Magnums, ‘please, pay him’. And they paid him. He omitted that information. I know the move. The guy [AY] dey promote shows; he needs to sell tickets. That’s the truth.” (sic)

  • Singer Portable settles rift with death threat issuer Ija-Omode

    Singer Portable settles rift with death threat issuer Ija-Omode

    In another viral video, singer Portable has disclosed that he has settled rift with death threat issuer Yusuf Ija -Omode.

    Recall that Portable released a video on his social media handles alleging threat to his live. In the video portable was seen saying that Ija-Omode had threatened to kill him in 7 days time.

    ” On my way home today, my car was attcked and damaged. I was inside it in the company of my girlfriend”He said

     

    “They want to kill me. They have given me seven days. He has asked them to kill me. He went to report me to the police, he doesn’t know policemen are my fans. He reported me to soldiers, soldiers guard me.”

    The singer has now claimed that prominent individuals have intervened in the crisis between them and the issues causing disagreement have been settled .

    However, in a new video shared on his Instagram page, the singer said notable individuals had intervened in the crisis and that all the issues causing misunderstanding had been resolved.

  • MI Abaga slams Yung6ix after being accused of being manipulative

    MI Abaga slams Yung6ix after being accused of being manipulative

    Yung6ix, Nigerian rapper, and MI Abaga, his colleague have reignited their lingering dispute.

    The drama started after a recent interview wherein Abaga appeared to have taken a swipe at Yung6ix.

    In the interview, the rapper said he remains “the guy” in the country’s rap industry while talking about his past face-off with Vector.

    He also reflected on his beef with Yung6ix, saying he was pained by his own action.

     

    “If you don’t say I’m the guy, that’s a lie because I’m the guy, if I beef with you is gonna make you rich so you got to pay me. Even Yung6ix coming for the MC, that thing pained me, Me and Vector are cool even though we don’t chat on a daily,” he had said.

    But in an Instagram video on Tuesday, Yung6ix fired back at MI, accusing him of being “manipulative.”

    Recounting how the duo fell apart, Yung6ix said Abaga disappointed him on his first industry nite by failing to show up after they both agreed to perform together.

    “MI and I are supposed to perform at my first industry nite. He told me he will come at the end but wanted all his artistes to perform. When all Chocolate City artistes performed, he switched off his phone and never came for the industry nite, we went past that,” he said.

    The rapper added that the ‘Crown of Clay’ rapper also supported artistes who were constantly dissing him.

    “What the f**k are you saying, MI? I hate it when people try to play wise and you have always done this. That’s why Vector called you a rat, you always feel that you can outsmart people and find your words to manipulate people thinking something is happening…,” he added.

    “I won’t take that again, I have been quiet all this while because of the love I have for you.”

    Reacting to the video on Wednesday, Abaga said he does not care about Yung6ix’s rant.

     

    “Nobody cares, and to you Yung6ix, I don’t care,” he said in short clips shared via his Instagram stories.

     

  • Obaseki’s deputy, Shaibu opens up on rift with governor, plans to dump PDP

    Obaseki’s deputy, Shaibu opens up on rift with governor, plans to dump PDP

    The Edo State Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, has denied having any rift with his principal, Governor Godwin Obaseki.

    He denied any disagreement between him and the governor and restated his unalloyed loyalty to the latter.

    “I am happy with my governor; I don’t have any problem with my governor,” said the deputy governor who is rumoured of planning to leave the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

    “So, the issue of not being happy with my governor is not there. I remain absolutely loyal to my governor,” the deputy governor said on Monday during an interview on a monitored Channels Television programme.

    When asked what went wrong with the PDP on whose platform he was re-elected into office, Shaibu admitted there were some issues within the ruling party in the state.

    “There are issues we need to resolve over PDP,” he said, although he did not categorically state whether he would leave the party or not.

    TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that the deputy governor’s remarks come amid reports that he had purportedly concluded arrangements to dump the PDP for an undisclosed party, as a result of a rift over matters bothering on the running of the state.

    He was said to have held a series of meetings with some party bigwigs outside the country last week where the supposed plans were finalised.

    But the Chief Press Secretary of the deputy governor, Ebomhiana Musa, denied the reports in a statement on Monday, saying they were mere speculations.

    According to Musa, claims that Shaibu plans to leave the PDP are complete falsehood and the figment of the authors’ imagination.

    TNG recalls that Governor Obaseki, with Shaibu as the running mate, first contested the governorship election in the state on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and won, defeating Mr Osagia Ize-Iyamu who was the PDP candidate at the time.

    Four years into office, the governor and his deputy sought to be re-elected in the September 2020 election and won again.

    In what can be described as a dramatic turn, they defeated Ize-Iyamu who had later joined the APC while they ran on the PDP platform, following a disagreement with the former APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole.

  • Sad! Delta man stabs brother settling marital rift to death, flees

    Sad! Delta man stabs brother settling marital rift to death, flees

    A certain Mr Daniel Agbayigolo, has been stabbed to death by his younger brother in Ughoton community, in the Okpe Local Government Area of Delta State.

    The tragic incident, which happened on Monday, threw the community into mourning and misery.

    According to an observer, the deceased went to settle a dispute between his younger brother and the wife.

    He said, “Daniel went to settle a quarrel between his younger brother and the wife. Unfortunately, his younger brother stabbed him to death. A doctor confirmed him dead at a hospital.”

    The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Onome Onovwakpoyeya, confirmed the incident on Wednesday, adding that the suspect had gone into hiding.

    “It is true, but the suspect has gone into hiding; our men are on top of the situation,” the PPRO said

     

     

     

  • No rift between Buhari and NASS – Dogara

    The Speaker, House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, says the National Assembly does not hate President Muhammadu Buhari.

    Dogara said this on Saturday at the kick-off of the Peoples Democratic Party campaign for the governorship and National Assembly candidates in Bununu, Bauchi State.

    “None of us hates President Buhari and we are not against him, but we are only exercising our independence as contained in the Constitution.

    “We are all looking at the plight of our people, especially insurgency, poverty and other vices that have continued to bedevil the masses.

    “You can see what is happening between the American president and the legislature which is normal,” he said.

    Dogara recalled that NASS had, sometime last year, initiated a bill for the autonomy of Local Government Areas but regretted that it was aborted by State Assemblies.

    He emphasised that the autonomy would have brought development to rural areas where the majority of the people lived.

    Dogara stated that Alhaji Abdulkadir Muhammed, the Bauchi State governorship candidate of the PDP would decentralise the local government system in the state, even without the approval of the Federal Government.

    The Speaker said that personal efforts made by him to reconstruct mosques and schools in his counstituency were scuttled by some individuals.

    He warned the people against trying to instigate trouble in the areas, saying that “it is always retrogressive.”

    The governorship candidate, Mohammed while addressing the gathering, called on the people of the area to resist the proposal by Independent National Electoral Commission to relocate collation centre from Zwall to Dass.

    Mohammed, who stressed the need for people to change the present administration in the state, assured them that PDP would take over the state in the 2019 general elections.

    He pledged to provide functional education, infrastructure and agriculture, if elected into office.

  • Ex-Governor’s daughter seeks financial help online

    Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo, a social media enthusiast and daughter of a former governor of Old Oyo State, Omololu Olunloyo is a year older today.

    The controversial media personality known for her several social media feuds, took to her Twitter account announcing her birthday and also seeking financial help. She urged her followers to send cash gifts to her bank account.

    She wrote on Twitter:”Today August 6th marks my 53rd birthday, send me a cash gift to 3020832750 First Bank Of Nigeria, opened 48 years on my 5th birthday”.

     

     

    Olunloyo has had social media spats with Dayo Amusa, Angela Okorie, Georgina Onuoha, Seyi Law, Iyabo Ojo, Cossy Orjiakor amongst others.

     

     

  • Anti-corruption war: AGF denies rift with EFCC

    Anti-corruption war: AGF denies rift with EFCC

    The Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) Abubakar Malami (SAN), on Thursday denied speculations making the rounds about a rift between him and Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ibrahim Magu, on the handling of high profile criminal cases.

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that a recent letter from the office of the AGF directed the EFCC to forward files on about 35 high profile cases, involving ex-governors and other prominent individuals to his office for vetting and further directive.

    The directive ignited speculation about a possible rift between the AGF and Magu, with many expressing doubt about the AGF’ true intention. Some even claimed the directive was a prelude to the AGF’s office’s eventual take over of the cases.

    Speaking in Abuja on Thursday, Malami said there was no rift between his office and the EFCC leadership.

    Malami, who was reacting to questions after an event held in his office, said he did not believe the letter to the EFCC was an evidence of a right between his office and the EFCC or that his office intended to take over the cases.

    Malami spoke on a forthcoming “national summit on justice,” slated for August 8 and 10 in Abuja. He also unveiled the upgraded Federal Ministry of Justice’s website and Freedom of Information (FOI) Compliance portal.

    Malami said the summit, to be attended by stakeholders in the justice sector, was intended to consider, adopt and validate the draft National Policy on Justice (NPJ), developed by a technical committee constituted by the Federal Ministry of Justice in 2016.

    On the need for a national justice policy, the AGF said: “Given the challenges militating against an effective administration of justice and the peculiarity of our federal system, there is the need to harmonize and integrate the various reforms initiatives into a clearly articulated National Justice Policy.

    “The policy is expected to clearly define Nigeria’s political philosophy with respect to justice delivery and provide a common direction for the justice sector stakeholders across the nation.

    “The policy, in broad term, is expected to set out a common vision and provide the guidelines for promoting an effective justice system that guarantees the freedom of the people and socio-economic development of the nation.

    “This policy will therefore, serve as a policy framework upon which relevant institutions can situate regulations and legislation in line with best practices and principles,” Malami said.