Top Newspaper Headlines In Nigeria Today 11th November, 2017

NATION

*Chairmanship: PDP in dilemma over aspirants on trial

*11 governors storm Kano as Ajimobi’s son, Ganduje’s daughter begin marital journey

*Threat to resume bombings: Avengers bow to pressure, extend ceasefire by 3 months

Buhari Appoints Moji Christianah Adeyeye New DG NAFDAC

@NGRSenate members wife appointed 

DG NAFDAC @MBuhari confirms appointment

of Moji Christianah Adeyeye wife of Professor 

Sola Adeyeye as new NAFDAC DG.

Professor Moji Christianah Adeyeye, the wife of Senator Olusola Adeyeye representing Osun Central constituency at the National Assembly, has been appointed as the Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, by the Federal Government, Nigeria’s burgeoning online integrated media, ALEDEH can authoritatively report.

Biography & Profile : Moji Christianah Adeyeye – DG NAFDAC

Let’s use this medium to discuss the Biography and Profile of Moji Christianah Adeyeye , the Current Director General Of NAFDAC , who is the Wife of Senator Olusola Adeyeye representing Osun Central constituency at the National Assembly.

Professor Mrs. Adeyeye who is the founder of Drugs for AIDS and HIV Patients, a nonprofit organization committed to prevention, education, care and treatment of HIV/AIDS children in Nigeria, takes over from Mr. Ademola Andrew Magbojuri who was appointed as the Acting Director-General of NAFDAC in September.

PDP Convention: We Are Seeking the Best Candidates, Says Gana ……Kola has the qualities for NPS

Former Minister of Information, Professor Jerry Gana, at the weekend, assured that the forthcoming Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) convention will not be about “allocation of offices.”

“This is not the time for allocation of offices in PDP. The party needs the best capable hands to occupy the various offices zoned to us. Kola is one of the best hands we have around,” Gana said while addressing a group of young professionals who were in his residence to seek support for Kola Ologbondiyan in the race for the PDP’s national publicity secretary.

According to him, “I have been a Minister of Information in the past. I know how difficult it is to navigate the terrain of Nigerian media. Kola had been a Special Adviser to our President of the Senate for eight years and did it well.

“I have taken serious note of your letter of intention and you are coming from people that I respect tremendously. This is not the time to go into details. Let me just say that I will do my best.

"I will see the right people in the right places and I pray that God will guide us,” he further said.

Earlier, Ologbondiyan had told Prof Gana of his intention to contest the position of national publicity secretary assuring the party leader of his  plans for the party which he said includes re-inventing the narratives of the party to address the hearts and minds of Nigerians as well as rebranding and repositioning the party to meet the challenges of the 21st Century.

WHY KOLA OLOGBONDIYAN SHOULD BECOME PDP NATIONAL PUBLICITY SECRETARY

The opposition status conferred on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over two years ago necessitated a change in media approach and strategy. At a time when the party is at its lowest ebb & struggling with a protracted battle for its soul the people who love it cannot afford to get this decision wrong.

Being an opposition spokesperson requires an eye for detail, a memory that recalls forgotten details and promises as well as a mind that can see connections between events before they appear and thus become a political prophet, making his statements look like predictions of what is to come. It also requires an ability to work through third party perspective to highlight what a partisan spokesperson can not. I have no doubt in my mind that #KolaOlogbondiyan fits this bill most perfectly and I urge everyone who believes in our cause to support him in any way they can.

Over the next four (4) years, the person who gets elected as NPS will be the face of the party. At a time when the image of the party is in tatters because of allegations of corruption, real /or false; when the story of the party is not being told in the manner it should; when the deluge of lies & propaganda from the ruling party refuses to stop; the party cannot afford to make the costly decision of electing the wrong person as NPS.

Any PDP chairman who works with Kola OLOGBONDIYAN will be our luckiest in history – Kola knows how to adapt his journalistic style to anybody he works with. Right now, our opposition needs a publicity secretary who understands the art and science of opposition, a professional and one who knows how to sell his own party. We also need a man who can carry a team along and ensure that every voice of the opposition speaks from the same political playbook.

This is because whoever emerges as NPS of the party bears the responsibility of not only representing the party but also of aggregating facts, the many stories of the party, its many voices and making them speak as one, making them tell one story.

A lot of people have made these contests about the individuals and say things like maturity, experience & so on. But not many people have addressed the fundamental issue. This election is not about the voices or persons of any of the contestants. It is about who can position the voice of the party & make it louder than all these individual voices.

This is why I support Kola Ologbondiyan;
1) He is experienced, mature and has a network among the political and media class

2) Served as a Special Adviser, Media & Publicity to the  6th & 7th President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, between 2007- 2015, a responsibility he discharged creditably.

3) His journalism journey of 25 years which cruised through news reporting to the image and perception manager of the number three citizen for eight uninterrupted years has placed him in the best stead to manage and project the corporate image of our great party, the PDP.

4) He is endowed with a huge capacity to deliver on rebranding our party

5) He can swing narratives to suit the mindset of Nigerians

6) He is at home with the traditional and social Media

It is for this reason I have decided to support him. He is the best bet for this job from the contestants. This is what PDP party deserves – a new way of doing things. I really hope he gets the support he requires to win this as a professional with the right experience.

-Olayinka Samuel writes from Abuja

VIDEO: Fulani Herdsmen Declares South Conquered Territory, Threatens More Attacks

A video has surfaced, showing armed fulani herdsmen boastfully discussing their plans and actions against other Nigerians.

The discussion was in Hausa language but I have translated it to English.

Read translation below and watch video:

"We are Fulani Herdsmen declaring war against any tribe be it Hausa or any Language that has being subdueing us. We are out everywhere in Nigeria... he mentioned some states in the North and South and also said, we are in Sokoro, Kwara etc."

"Our mission is to destroy souls and claim their properties especially from the Hausas and other minority tribes that has ganged up agaisnt us by stealing our cows"

"We will spill the blood of everyone in any community that will one Fulani man

"We are in the Millitary, the Police and the DSS etc"

"We are everywhere. We are not ignorant as they thought we are. I am educated and knowledgeable of my Islamic rights."

"We have what it takes to defend ourselves at any time. We also have beautiful women that will satisfy our sexual arousal. We have money, enough bullets and etc. I lack nothing. I have enough weeds to smoke."

He ordered that the Video be sent to the Governor of Zamfara State and that if the Governor fails to cooperate with him, that they will begin onslaught on farmers in Zamfara state that stole their cows.

He said that an Hausa man is not suppose to own a cow in the first place. That all the cows they have were stolen from them.

This is the much I was able to pick from the not too fluent Hausa they spoke.

Watch video:

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PDP National Convention: Will the party survive the looming catastrophe?

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has scheduled to hold its Elective National Convention from December 9 – 10, 2017, in Abuja, Nigeria. The Convention is supposed to elect officers of the party at the National level to pilot the affairs of the party for a period of four years.

As the major opposition political party in the country and a party that has also been in power since the birth of the forth republic in 1999 till 2015, Nigerians are of the opinion that the success of the PDP Convention in December will end the APC regime of misgovernance, maladministration and total failure to deliver on its campaign promises.

It is however worrisome that the PDP has not leant any lessons from the fourteen months leadership crisis that began on May 21st 2016 and ended at the Supreme Court on July 12, 2017, after some governors on the platform of the party imposed one of their own, the former Governor of Borno state, Senator Ali Sheriff on the Party.  

The PDP is once again enmeshed in some serious power-game, involving different stakeholders, zones and organs of the party competing for who becomes the National Chairman of the party and other positions come December 9, 2017. The most worrisome aspect of these power tussles includes and not limited to the following:

1.     Culture of impunity and imposition of candidate

2.     Influx of immediate past National Working Committee (NWC) members into the race and the records of misappropriation of funds by the same NWC in recent past. 

3.     Endorsement of some aspirants by the zones and party leaders without recourse to merit and capacity to deliver.

4.     Threat by some zones to leave the party if election does not favour them at the convention.  

Another disturbing development is the revelation that the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), has concluded plans to plant aspirants for key and sensitive offices in the PDP, like the National Chairman, National Secretary, National Organizing Secretary and National Publicity Secretary, in order to destroy the party from within as it did on the wake of the 2015 General Elections.

It is therefore incumbent on the founding fathers of the party and other elders to intervene urgently to rest these ugly developments before the scheduled National convention of the party; otherwise, the PDP is heading for another dangerous implosion that may end the life of the party if proper care is not taken.

Some concerned members of the party are calling on the former Head of States, Gen. Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar and other Generals behind the formation of the party to quickly intervene on these issues to restore peace in the party before the Convention.

Others are also inviting the founding fathers of the PDP that are still alive, e.g former Vice President, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, Dr. Bamanga Tukur and Alhaji Adamu Ciroma to call the rampaging members to order before it is too late.  

Some stakeholders have also mooted the option of convening meetings of Major critical stakeholders of the party to brainstorm on the way forward to resolving these issues in order to carry everybody along, to give them sense of belonging and inclusion.  

Nigerians are waiting with great expectations that the PDP will conduct a very successful, free, fair and credible Elective National Convention in December 2017, that will end the misery of the failed APC led administrations at all levels. 

Dimgba Okonkwo is writing from Ebonyi State