Edo PDP rejects in all its ramification the list of ad-hoc staff the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, plans to use to conduct the February 16, 2019 Presidential and National Assembly elections in Edo state. The directive was very clear and explicit. University vice-chancellors were asked to provide a list of its members of staff who would be used as ... Read More »
The Ondo State Government says it has set up an Advisory Committee for the establishment of a befitting world-class cancer treatment centre in Owo Local Government of the state. Dr Wahab Adegbenro, the state Commissioner for Health stated this at World Cancer Day celebration on Monday in Akure. Adegbenro said that the planned establishment would bring cancer treatment services close ... Read More »
It was always predictable that, given his notoriety on that score, it was a matter of time for former President Olusegun Obasanjo to resume his pastime of undermining his military and civilian successors, by making President Muhammadu Buhari his latest victim. Amusingly, the rabble Obasanjo rouses on such occasions has dignified his deplorable tactics as a sort of distinction. If ... Read More »
The Appeal Court sitting in Port Harcourt has granted the appeal filed by the APC for a Stay of Execution of the lower court order restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from recognizing any APC candidate in Rivers State for the general elections. BigPen Online reports that with the ruling, the River State APC can now feature a candidate ... Read More »
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has been alerted on the frontpage headline story in the BusinessDay newspaper on Monday, February 4, 2019 titled: “Exposed The Sleazy Face of N306/$, inside Nigeria’s racket where faceless agents pocket over N32bn annually”. The management of the CBN wishes to react to the report wherein BusinessDay newspaper alleges that faceless agents in Nigeria ... Read More »
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State has said that its governorship candidate, Oloye Adebayo Adelabu, would have fallen victims of the political violence that claimed two lives at Igboora, headquarters of Ibarapa Central local government. This is just as APC said that the opposition had resorted to using violence to tackle the ruling party because they are jittery ... Read More »
Presidency sources yesterday offered an insight into what led to the chartering of the ill-fated Caverton helicopter to fly Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and nine others at the weekend. Inquiries by The Guardian confirmed that the presidential fleet had been depleted. Consequently, it could not cater for the daily itinerary of the president and his deputy, especially during this period ... Read More »
Caverton Offshore Support Group Plc, the public limited company holding Caverton Helicopters Limited and Caverton Marine Limited, has released another helicopter to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. Osinbajo’s chartered helicopter had crash-landed in Kabba on Saturday, though the VP and nine others travelling with him escaped unhurt. Taking to its Twitter handle on Sunday evening, the Caverton Group announced that, as ... Read More »
By Peter Duru Makurdi – Elder statesman and Fourth Republic Federal Lawmaker, Senator Joseph Kennedy Waku is dead. Vanguard gathered from close family sources that Senator Waku died Sunday evening at the National Hospital in Abuja after a brief illness. Born on June 12, 1946, Senator Waku was elected Senator representing Benue North West district at the National Assembly in ... Read More »
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