By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA—- The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, on Friday, declined to disqualify Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State from participating in Saturday’s governorship election, following allegation that he tendered forged documents to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. It was alleged that the birthday certificate governor Wike attached to the Form CF001 he submitted to ... Read More »
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Poll: Two feared dead, property destroyed as APC, RTEAN members clash in Lagos
By Monsuru Olowoopejo The crisis rocking All Progressives Congress, APC in Ojo Local Government, Lagos snowballed, resulting into a clash between two factions of the party on Lagos-Badagry Expressway, Friday. Vanguard gathered that two persons were feared killed during the clash that lasted for several minutes and resulted in destruction of atleast 35 cars and other goods worth millions of ... Read More »
NUJ/NAWOJ Housing Fraud: Hearing comes up March 13th as Court summons Tunji Ogunwusi, Ifeyinwa Omowole, Deji Elumoye, Tosin Odusola
Lagos, 8, March, 2019 The case between some Lagos journalists and other claimants versus Prince Tunji Ogunwusi’s Primewaterview Holdings, NAWOJ’s National President, Ifeyinwa Omowole, Deji Elumoye, Tosin Odusola and NUJ will come up for hearing next Wednesday, 13th of March, 2019 at the Lagos Multidoor ADR, Igbosere-Lagos with the mediator, Mrs. Dupe Ogunsanwo urging all interested parties to appear at ... Read More »
YORUBA PRESIDENCY: AFENIFERE LEADERS PUSH FAYEMI FOR 2023
National leader of Pan Yoruba group, Afenifere, Senator Ayo Fasanmi and an elder statesman and historian, Prof Banji Akintoye have urged Yoruba people to brace up for the presidency in 2023. Speaking in Ado Ekiti at a colloquium marking the 110th posthumous birthday of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the Afenifere leader said Yoruba people must unite to ... Read More »
Accord party candidate withdraws for obasa
The Official Press Release by Hon. Jubreel Abdulkareem Withdrawing From Saturday’s State Assembly Election In Agege Constituency 01 I find it neccessary to take the most difficult decision of my lifetime. Today I yielded to pressures from notable quarters to drop my ambition of contesting for the Lagos State House of Assembly elections in Agege Constituency 01 under the ... Read More »
HON SOB AGUNBIADE: THE PRODUCTIVE EARTHQUAKE OF UNCOMMON PROGRESS IN IKORODU CONSTITUENCY 1
_By Shakiru Seidu._ Silence cannot be tagged a sign of weakness but strength in disguise. There have been heated arguments about tenure of several representation from local to the federal level. I really couldn’t phantom or decipher if it is outrightly wrong to maintain a tenure for a long period of time or not. It was Martin Luther King ... Read More »
KESSINTON ADEBUTU DISOWNS SON’S ENDORSEMENT OF AMOSUN’S APM GUBER CANDIDATE
..Says He’s On His Own Recent move by factional governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Ogun State, and lawmaker representing the Remo Federal Constituency, Hon. Ladi Adebutu adopting opposition Allied Peoples Movement, APM candidate Abdulkabir Akinlade has drawn the wrath of his (Ladi) biological father who pronounced that he is on his own. In his reaction to ... Read More »
Police in Akwa Ibom confirm arrest of 153 suspected thugs ‘imported’ from Edo State
The Commissioner of Police, Akwa Ibom State command, Mr Ibrahim Kaoje, has finally confirmed the arrest of 153 suspected thugs from Edo State who stormed the state on the invitation of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Kaoje who spoke through the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the command, Mr Odiko MacDon, told the press on Thursday at the ... Read More »
BREAKING : Awujale, Remo Monarchs adopt Dapo Abiodun
The Paramount ruler of Ijebu Kingdom, His Imperial Majesty, Awujale Sikiru Adetona has endorsed the Governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Prince Dapo Abiodun and directed all monarchs in Ijebuland to follow suite. This development came few hours after the former Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, threw his weight behind the APC Governorship candidate. Similarly, ... Read More »
Ogun Gov Election: We Won’t Follow You To APM, PDP Youths Tell Ladi Adebutu
A youth group in the Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ogun PDP Youths Vanguard has expressed its unwillingness to follow the directive of a governorship aspirant in under the party in the state, Hon. Ladi Adebutu to support the candidate of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), Hon. Abdulkabir Akinlade for the Saturday 9th March, 2019 ... Read More »