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Area Fada (CharlyBoy) By NewsBits Nigeria’s Maverick entertainer and social critic, Charles Chukwuemeka Oputa aka CharlyBoy, also known as the AreaFada, has predicted the impossibility of conducting general elections in 2023 due to the current state of the nation. Worried about hunger, poverty, the dollar rise, attacks on the offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and a host of other challenges ravaging the entire country, CharlyBoy declared that the 2023 election is currently under threat. He spoke exclusively to DAILY POST from the United Kingdom where he is…

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By NewsBits The Federal Government has assured Nigerians that the signing into law of the Startups Act and other legal frame­work by the Muhammadu Buhari ad­ministration would go a long way in protecting youths in the innovative sector against harassment and other abuses by security personnel. Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Pantami, made the assertion while briefing State House correspondents on the Nigeria Startups Act 2022, which President Buhari accented to at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Wednesday. Pantami also disclosed that the new Act will be…

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L-R: Governor Nyesom Wike (Rivers); Governor Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia), and Governor Samuel Ortom (Benue) By NewsBits Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has vowed to expose some persons who had surreptitiously stopped the release of the loan from the Central Bank of Nigeria to Abia and Benue States. Governor Wike said that the motive was to punish Governor Samuel Ortom and Governor Okezie Ikpeazu for standing with him to demand the resignation of the National Chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, Iyorchia Ayu. Wike spoke at the 58th birthday celebration of…

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Nigeria’s Defence Minister, Maj. Gen. Bashir Magashi (retd), has said that all the Boko Haram high-profile suspects that were hitherto held in Kuje prison, which is located within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja escaped when their fighters bombed the facility on Tuesday night. For those who do not understand the position of Abuja in the schemen of things in Nigeria, Abuja is where Nigeria’s seat of government is situated. It is where Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari the Commander-in-Chief resides, with the full complement of the entire security arms of…

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The management of Air Peace has concluded plans to extend its operations to Guangzhou, China and Mumbai, India, with scheduled flight operations in July 2022. The airline has also disclosed that Israel operations kick-off is underway. Stanley Olisa the airline’s spokesperson who made the development known to the public stated that these new destinations were further testimony to the airline’s determination to connect Nigerians seamlessly to other parts of the world and deepen socio-economic ties between Nigeria and the countries. The airline will be launching its initial one weekly flight…

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New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) presidential flagbearer and former governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has urged Nigerians to reject the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and as well as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the forthcoming 2023 general elections. He said the call had become necessary because of what he called the combined failure of the two political parties in mismanaging the affairs of Nigeria since 1999 when the country returned to democratic rule. The PDP was in charge of Nigeria from 1999 to 2015, while…

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Arik Air is partnering with the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) for the 2022 Annual General Meeting (AGM)/Citizens Summit tagged ‘Abuja 2022’ to provide flight services for participants at the AGM. The NIPR 2022 AGM and grand finale of the Citizens Summit on National Integration will be held in Abuja from August 22 – 25, 2022 at the International Conference Centre, Abuja. Arik Air, as the Official Airline for the AGM/Citizens Summit is expected to fly members of the institute and other delegates to and fro Abuja at a…

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has questioned the judgement of an Abuja High Court that retroactively extended for one year, the tenure of office of six area council chairmen and councilors, whose tenure of office, was expected to end today, Friday May 20, 2022. Surprisingly, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mohammed Bello, also rejected the court judgement, and appealed for calm, stating that the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) intended to appeal the judgement. The PDP, however, threatened to petition the judge, Justice Ibrahim Mohammed, to the National…

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The Former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, has urged the head of state Volodymyr Zelensky to give up in the war against Russia. He said, “You personally are obliged to stop the bloodshed and reach a peace agreement at any cost,” the pro-Moscow politician wrote in a message circulated by Russian state agency Ria Novosti on Tuesday. “This is what Ukraine, the Donbas, and Russia expect from you,” he said, adding that Kiev’s partners in the West would also welcome such a move. Yanukovych, who is considered extremely corrupt, was toppled…

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