Today’s Headlines: Why We Dumped Obi for Tinubu — Former Obidients; Trump asks US Supreme Court to allow Big Bend border wall construction

A group of former members of the 2023 Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi have announced their decision to dump the former Anambra State governor and support President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s re-election bid in 2027.

The group, which described itself as comprising professionals who worked within Obi’s campaign organisation, also adopted the All Progressives Congress (APC) as its political platform for the 2027 general election.

The group, which has now taken up a new name, ‘Batified Obidients’ at a press conference in Abuja, cited concerns about Obi’s leadership capacity and their convictions that the Tinubu administration’s economic reforms and policies, though painful, are necessary for taking Nigeria out of economic doldrums as reasons for their action.

The statement read at the press conference was prepared by Adesina Fagbenro-Byron who is the National Coordinator of the Batified Obidients and former Director of Operations in Peter Obi’s 2023 campaign council.

Oct 21 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration asked the US Supreme Court ​on Wednesday to let it proceed with a plan to build a US-Mexico border ‌barrier in a remote region in West Texas that includes Big Bend National Park.

The Justice Department filed an emergency request for the court to lift a federal judge’s order halting wall construction in the region while a lawsuit against ​the project brought by an environmental group and other challengers plays out.

The Republican president has ​long touted building or reinforcing barriers along the US-Mexico border as a signature part ⁠of his anti-immigration policies. But his administration’s push to extend border infrastructure into the national park, ​around 250 miles (400 km) southeast of El Paso, has faced opposition from local officials, conservationists and some ​Texas Republicans.

The lawsuit was brought by the Center for Biological Diversity, a Big Bend-area river guide and a group seeking to preserve a historic church in Ruidosa, Texas, that says its fragile adobe structure is threatened by the ​border construction.

𝐄𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬

Rescue efforts to recover the bodies of persons who drowned in a boat mishap along the Robertkiri waterways in Kula, Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State have intensified on Thursday.

Recall that about ten persons were feared dead when a tugboat and a speedboat carrying over 15 persons from the community collided on Tuesday evening.

It was gathered that the tugboat, manned by some security personnel, attempted to pull out a 200,000-barrel capacity oil vessel operated by a firm, ‘Ibeto Group ’, which had been operating in the area before the incident occurred.

𝗙𝗖𝗧 𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀, 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗡𝗡𝗣𝗖 𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁

Some motorists and commuters in FCT have expressed mixed reactions to the N66-per-litre petrol discount offered by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd. as the Oct. 31 deadline approaches.

Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday, some of them commended the initiative while others expressed reservations about its impact.

NAN reports that the Federal Government announced a 30-day discount on petrol sold by the NNPC Ltd., with public transport operators to receive priority under the arrangement.

The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr Taiwo Oyedele, said the arrangement was not a return to petrol subsidy.

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