Former Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar will declare interest in the 2023 Presidential election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the first quarter of 2022, Vanguard exclusively gathered.
Atiku, who piped 11 other aspirants to the sole ticket of the party in the Presidential convention held in Port Harcourt, Rivers State in 2018, has not hidden his craving for the office having gone round the country in consultation for the exalted office in the past few months.
Although the leadership of the party last week dismissed media reports it had zoned the Presidency to the North, an associate of the former Vice President, who does not want his name in print told our correspondent that barring any dramatic twist, “The Wazirin Adamawa will talk to Nigerians once again about his intention to run for the Office of the President in the next general election. He will do so in the first quarter of 2022.”
According to him, insinuations that governors were likely to back one of their colleagues for the Presidential ticket was nothing new, adding that the party knows “exactly the candidate that can win a Presidential election on its platform.”
Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s government has directed all Kaduna public schools to migrate to a four-day working week to enable workers to focus on agriculture.
The government said the development would enhance productivity, allow workers to focus on their families, and improve work-life balance.
The directive came just as schools reopened on January 10 for the second term of the 2021/2022 academic session.
The Commissioner for Education, Halima Lawal, gave the directive in Kaduna on Sunday in a notice for school resumption for the second term of the new academic session.
At least three policemen lost their lives when a van they were patrolling in crashed along Kubwa-Zuba Expressway, opposite Gwarinpa Estate in Abuja.
SaharaReporters gathered that the accident involving personnel of the Special Tactical Squad of the Nigeria Police occurred when one of the tyres of the speeding police van burst.
According to a source, the police van veered off the road and entered a drainage where the three officers died instantly, leaving others with serious injuries.
“I was about crossing to the next lane when the police escort van on speed suddenly lost control and crashed into the drainage, leaving three policemen dead,” the source noted.
The Lagos chapter of the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) is expected to call off its strike which was billed to commence on Monday.
The association had issued a notice of a three-day warning strike, starting from January 10, to press home its demands for improved working conditions.
But the nurses promised to shelve the strike after meeting with Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Lagos state governor, on Sunday evening.
The meeting, which took place at the state house, Marina, was to address the grievances of the nursing workforce in the state.
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