The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke, has queried three staff of the ministry – Lawrence Illop, Taiwo Abidogun and N.S. Odusola – for filing an affidavit seeking the stoppage of the usage of the Permanent Voter Card for the upcoming general election without his consent. Adoke, in a statement he personally signedon Wednesday night, ... Read More »
GUEST COLUMNIST: Wole Soyinka The “Advertorial” – full front page of a newspaper “ Feb 23, 2015 – sponsored by Mr. Ayo Fayose (aka “No Apology”) deserves to succeed in its aim of putting an end to all dispute surrounding the Ekiti elections of June 21, 2014. After all, its entire page is dedicated to a Press Statement from the ... Read More »
A bomb has exploded at a crowded bus station in Potiskum, Yobe State in Nigeria’s troubled North-East, killing at least 10 people in the second attack there since the weekend. A Reuters report quotes a security source as confirming the blast “and a source at the nearest hospital said 10 bodies had so far been brought in.” “It was the ... Read More »
All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.), “obviously has testicular cancer,” popular sickle cell activist Pamela Mojekwu has said. Writing yesterday afternoon (Nigerian Time) on her Facebook wall, Pamela Mojekwu, CEO of Sickle Cell United Chicago, Illinois, USA, said: “Buhari obviously has testicular cancer and is in UK receiving treatment. Why are his followers being ever so ... Read More »
A director of Keystone Bank, Yetunde Kakulu-Yusuf and her former husband. Edmund Kakulu are at daggers drawn for about four years now with no sign of improvement in relations. The estranged couple whose broken marriage is blessed with four children have not had the most civilised separation. One of the events that triggered their separation was the allegation made by ... Read More »
Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola, SAN on Monday approved the appointment of Mrs. Sherifat Folashade Jaji as the 18th Head of Service (HOS) following the retirement of the former Head of Service, Mrs. Josephine Oluseyi Williams who retired from service on Thursday (February 12, 2015). Making the announcement during a Press Conference at the Bagauda Kaltho Press Centre, Alausa, ... Read More »
The committee set up by the Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to investigate increasing cases of electoral violence in the State has indicted the rival Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Submitting the committee’s report to Rivers State APC Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, on Monday at the party’s State Secretariat in Port Harcourt, committee Chairman, Prince Peter ... Read More »
Jimi Agbaje posted this on his Facebook page this morning. It’s a response to Governor Fashola’s comments that Agbaje’s company only paid his taxes after he was publicly called out. Read below… The Honourable Governor B.R. Fashola (SAN) has lied again and I think it’s time to address his repeated blunder. With regards to my taxes, there is no truth ... Read More »
Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola, SAN on Friday held the Quarterly interactive session with media Correspondents, giving an insight into the performance of his administration in the critical sectors in the last eight years and restating that across all critical sectors, it has been a record of performances and kept promises. The Governor, who spoke at Lagos House, Marina ... Read More »
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