Johnson's blog

  I don't care about positions in the National Assembly but it seems some people don't care about justice and balance in how positions are held by the zones. Speaker Dogara is from the North-east (Northern Nigeria) and still wants the House Leader to come from the North-West (a zone that has already produced the President) - he says he is doing it for the sake of justice and zonal balancing. The APC leaders want the House Leader to come from the South-West (a zone that has pr oduced the Vice President and the Deputy Speaker). They say they are doing it for the sake of party supremacy over elected officials. One would have thought that simple logic and fairness would have made these two groups to zone the House Leader position to the South-South, given that the zone does not have the Presidency or VP, Senate Presidency or DSP, Speakership or DS, or office of the Chief Justice of Nigeria. But nobody is even considering it, For the first time in Nigeria...

A campaign group for the missing Chibok girls just launched an online petition to put pressure on President Muhammadu Buhari to visit the northeastern town of Chibok. Chibok town was were more a year ago the Boko Haram militant tormenting the northeastern part of Nigeria, kidnapped more than 200 school girls, who have still not been found. Those signing the petition are " asking him to meet and hear the mothers of the stolen girls, giving him inspiration to finally end this nightmare."

  Recently N ational brodcasting commission (NBC) through its permanent secretary, Shade Temi-Esan, had said the National Broadcasting Corporation, NBC, had jammed the radio’s frequency, describing it as illegal in the first place. She spoke at the presidential villa shortly after briefing President Muhammadu Buhari on the activities of her ministry. This led to radio denouncing the claim, saying, "Radio Biafra is live in BiafraLand. They cannot even jam our local station, do they even know we also transmit via satellite and online as well?" The permanent secretary, Shade Temi-Esan, had said the National Broadcasting Corporation, NBC, had jammed the radio’s frequency, describing it as illegal in the first place. She spoke at the presidential villa shortly after briefing President Muhammadu Buhari on the activities of her ministry. Following this recent confrontation, former House of reps member Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa took to her twitter handle to blast the...