Opinion: 10 Reasons APC May lose 2023 Elections

 

With the 2023 General Elections heating up, permutations have gone up and down. Here a Nairalander highlight 10 reasons he think APC will be kicked out come 2023

1.Presidential flag bearer: Of the two contenders, Atiku and Tinubu, only Atiku has a national appeal. Atiku is popular in the North, SE, SS, NC, and SW. With 11 million votes in 2019, Atiku would be polling over 22 million in 2023

2. Buhari not on the ballot: With Buhari out of APC ballot, the core North would not be motivated as they were in 2015 and 2019. This time, NE, NW, and NC will be fully Atikulated. The North will rather prefer 16 years of an uninterrupted rule than 8 years of Buhari's disappointing rule, it is common sense. The North wants to know that Atiku would achieve what Buhari failed to do in 8 years.

HUNGRY PILE MORE MISERY ON ENGLAND

 

Hungry win at the Molineux ensure England remain bottom and winless in the Nations League 

Roland Salla goal in each half was all Hungary needed for their first victory in this fixture on English soil since the historic 6-3 win at Wembley in 1953. 

Zsolt Nagy and Daniel Gazdag added a goal each to spark angry boos from the crowd.

NAF APPOINTS NEW BRANCH CHIEFS, REDEPLOYS AIR OFFICERS COMMANDING, OTHER SENIOR OFFICERS

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has redeployed a total of 36 Air Vice Marshals (AVMs) and 40 Air Commodores (Air Cdres) including some Branch Chiefs, Air Officers Commanding (AOCs), Commandants of Tri-Service Institutions, Directors and Commanders. The appointments and redeployments, which followed the recent promotion of some senior officers to the next higher ranks as well as the retirement of some senior officers, is a routine exercise aimed at further re-invigorating operational efficiency and enhancing service delivery.

Signs That He's Interested in You

The best relationships are those that you never saw coming. They normally are based on a strong friendship bond.

Despite what people might tell you, men and women can be friends and there are multiple reasons to have a male best friend.

But what is also possible is that there comes a point in your friendship when one person begins to grow romantic feelings for the other and that is something that can ruin a friendship or transform into something bigger.

So, how do you know if he likes you more than a friend?

How to Manage Stress Effectively

A human regardless of the gender, age, economic class, location and occupation experience some changes or situations that his body naturally reacts to – Stress. But how do we manage stress?

According to Wikipedia, stress is an organism’s response to a stressor such as an environmental condition. To human beings, stress is a feeling of physical or emotional tension. It is your body’s reaction to a challenge or demand which can come from any event or thought which consequentially makes you feel nervous, angry and ultimately, frustrated.

Stress as much as it sounds negative is a normal part of life. It is one of the things that makes us human. Different ways in which you can experience stress include your environment (people and places), your body, thoughts, and circumstances.

Your body is designed to experience stress, making stress unavoidable. However, there is a need to find your way around managing it.

Elections 2019: IGP Orders restriction of vehicular movement

With two days to the Presidential elections in Nigeria,  the acting Inspector General of Police, Adamu Mohammed has ordered restriction of vehicular movement from 6am to 6pm on Saturday, the 16^th February 2019.

In a press release signed by the Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Frank Mba, and make available to Crime Fighters, it states that the restriction is in the overall interest of public order, public well-being and safety and national security as it relates to the general elections.

Two INEC staff in court for electoral offences

Two staff of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Monday Ifiesimama and Beesor Sorle were on Thursday arraigned by the Department of State Services (DSS) before a Chief Magistrate Court in Port Harcourt for alleged electoral offences.

Also arraigned alongside the INEC officials was Darlington Ogolo.

The two INEC staff were accused of attempting to steal 3,097 Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) and selling them to Ogolo, whose identity was still under investigation.

AFCON: CAF disqualifies Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone have been disqualified from the 2019 African Cup of Nations qualifying competition, the Confederation of African Football said on Monday.

Football’s world governing body FIFA had suspended the Sierra Leone Football Association in October due to “government interference”.

CAF’s decision means Kenya and Ghana are assured of first and second place in Sierra Leone’s Group F and have therefore booked their place in next year’s finals.

“Sierra Leone is disqualified from the qualifiers and all its matches are annulled,” CAF said in a statement.

Kidnapping: Police arrest 59 suspected kidnappers in Niger State

The Inspector General of Police, Special Strike Force attached to Operation Absolute Sanity in Gawu Babaginda, Niger State have arrested seven suspected kidnapping suspects allegedly responsible for the kidnap of the Vice Chairman of Abaji Area Council and four others.

The suspects were arrested on 24^th November, 2018 after a gun battle that lasted over an hour in their hideout at Tunga Maje Forest and have confessed to the crime.

Abraham Onoja - One for the Future!

An emerging light from the down North, but who is Abraham John Onoja a.k.a Diplomat Onoja? He is the one to look out for in the future!

This young man is an enthusiastic and insightful with vast experience in creative and critical thinking, leadership, team management and interpersonal skills, he has excelled against all odds.

Abraham hails from Olamaboro Local Government Area of Kogi State born, he’s a determined, committed and hardworking citizen, who earned his B.Sc. in International Studies from the prestigious Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 2014.

I will not allow him to create a wrong, false and mischievous impression about me - Saraki Replies Tinubu

The President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has condemn the allegation made by the All Progressive Congress (APC) leader Asiwaju Tinubu that he left the APC to PDP because of promise of automatic ticket for the Senate.

In a Facebook post he tagged; The Tinubu Rhetoric: My Response, the Senate President said he will not allow him to create a wrong, false and mischievous impression about the reasons for his decision to exit the All Progressives Congress (APC) and present his prejudice as facts for public consumption.

Suspected Kidnappers of Chibok Schools arrested by Police

Police in Borno State has arrested 22 suspected Boko Haram Commanders and Fighters responsible for the kidnap of Chibok girls, suicide attacks, series of bombings and other heinous crimes in the State.

According to the State Commissioner of Police, Damian Chukwu, the reinvigorated operational strategies of the Force with the deployment of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) by IGP Ibrahim Idris to squarely confront and arrest Boko Haram Commanders and fighters paid off this week, as identities of those behind the series of suicide bombings, mass killings of innocent persons and abductions/kidnap of hundreds of schoolgirls, boys and adults in the Northeast were unmasked.

The CP said the IGP after his 5-day operational tour of the Northeast in March 2018, decided to deploy the Force Intelligence Response Team to work in synergy with Commissioners of Police in the affected States.

NDLEA Foils Attempt to Smuggle Drugs, Arrests Suspect

Operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency [NDLEA] have foiled an attempt to smuggle cannabis on one of the buses of Edo City Transport Service.

A 40-year-old graduate of Political Science and suspected member of a notorious cannabis smuggling cartel was also apprehended by the Agency.

The agency said the suspect was found with forty-eight blocks of compressed dried weed of cannabis sativa weighing 37 kilogrammes packed in two bags in the passenger bus.

The drug has an estimated street value of three hundred and seventy thousand naira [₦370,000].