No fewer than 5,000 members of the Labour Party (LP) in Kwara State have defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as the party’s campaign train stopped at Offa in Kwara State on Tuesday. The visibly-excited defectors were received into the APC by a national leader and senator representing Kwara Central senatorial district at the National Assembly, Senator (Dr) ... Read More »
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Uduaghan Bemoans Nigerians’ Attitude towards Elections
DELTA State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan has said negative attitude of Nigerians towards the forthcoming general elections was militating against Nigeria’s economic growth. Uduaghan who stated this in Warri, Tuesday, at a town hall meeting with professional groups and civil society organizations based in Delta South and Central Senatorial districts of the State, noted that the attitude of Nigerians was ... Read More »
Opinion KA ROCHAS OKOROCHA PUO (PART 2)Kenneth Uwadi
I have told you the story of Ali Baba of Imo State before. Situation demands that I say it again. Ali Baba is a character from medieval Arabic literature. He is described in the adventure tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. This story has been used as a popular story pantomime plot such as in the pantomime/musical Chu ... Read More »
FASHOLA HOSTS BRITISH DEPUTY HIGH COMMISSIONER, OPTIMISTIC ABOUT OF SUCCESSFUL ELECTIONS IN THE COUNTRY
· “For those who think we are heading for a break, we have pulled back so many times in the past and I don’t think this will be a different occasion”, he says. Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN, Monday hosted the new British Deputy High Commissioner in Lagos, Mr. Martin Uden, expressing confidence that the country would have ... Read More »
OPC’s RAMPAGE: PRESIDENT JONATHAN MAY BE BREEDING ANOTHER BOKO-HARAM FOR THE NATION- OLULADE
The spokesperson of the Lagos State House of Assembly and Chairman of the House Committee on Information and Security Hon Segun Olulade has alerted the nation of the danger behind rampage of a sect of Odua Peoples’ Congress (OPC) as witnessed in Lagos yesterday. The release came in the wake of show of violence demonstrated by a section of OPC ... Read More »
Hausa Community lauds Ajimobi, declare support for his second term
Members of the youth wing of the Hausa Community in Oyo State on Tuesday lauded Governor Abiola Ajimobi, saying that the policy thrust of his administration has been of immense benefit to non-indigenes. The youths, including Bureau de Change operators, Okada riders and others, who thronged the Governor’s Office in their thousands, said they came to solidarize with the governor ... Read More »
Opinion Our stand against Doctor’s Strike Ibirogba speaks
THE MEDICAL GUILD (LAGOS STATE) STRIKE: MAKING AN UNLAWFUL DEMAND It has come to the attention of the State Government that some doctors under the aegis of Medical Guild have commenced yet another strike action on account of the non-payment of their wages during the period of their previous strike. It is pertinent to stress for public information that the ... Read More »
APC LISTS JONATHAN’S 25 SINS AGAINST RIVERS •Insists he won’t win 10% of the State’s votes during March 28 poll
President Goodluck Jonathan has committed gross sins against Rivers State without any justification and will pay for these sins during the 28th March, 2015 presidential election, the Rivers Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said. The party in a statement issued Tuesday in Port Harcourt by the State Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, listed 25 sins committed by ... Read More »
FASHOLA HOSTS BRITISH DEPUTY HIGH COMMISSIONER, OPTIMISTIC ABOUT OF SUCCESSFUL ELECTIONS IN THE COUNTRY
· “For those who think we are heading for a break, we have pulled back so many times in the past and I don’t think this will be a different occasion”, he says. Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN, Monday hosted the new British Deputy High Commissioner in Lagos, Mr. Martin Uden, expressing confidence that the country would have ... Read More »
LAGOS GETS NEW SURVEYOR GENERAL
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN, Monday, swore in a new Surveyor General for the State who will further the proper dimensioning of the State Land and determination of water tide. He is Joseph Olorunjuwon Agbenla a 1982 graduate of Surveying from the Institute of Road, Rail and Bridges Bucharest Romania, who succeeds Remi Olatunbosun as the 8th Surveyor ... Read More »