Saturday May 17th was spent by kwara women lead by the 1st lady to pray for Nigeria,kwara and the safe return of the Chibuok girls,watch out for our interview with her Read More »
B The interim national chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Bisi Akande, is to remove himself from seeking the office in the forthcoming national convention of the party. His decision not to contest despite appeals from senior party figures, including a prominent national leader, would open the way for the implementation of the recommendation of the party’s governors that ... Read More »
FAYEMI GOVERNMENT CLUELESS ON EKITI INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT. Labour Party Governorship Candidate, Hon Opeyemi Bamidele, has accused Governor Kayode Fayemi-led administration of paying lip service to industrial development in Ekiti State. Bamidele, said Fayemi’s boast on the day of his inauguration on October 16, 2010 that he would diversify the State from its present monolithic economy through industrialization , being a ... Read More »
Hon. Justice Akintayo of the Ado Ekiti High Court while ruling on the preliminary objection filed by the Labour Party held that the case of Onile Adams as formulated was not justifiable and as such the court lacks the jurisdiction to entertain the case. Reacting to this judgement, Hon. Michael Opeyemi Bamidele who is the Labour Party standard flagbearer described the judgement ... Read More »
The group wrote to Oba Akiolu says it’s been vindicated Irked by the reported endorsement of Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode by the Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, a political group in the state, the Visioners for New Lagos (VNL) insisted at the weekend that the Lagos monarch did not have the kind of powers he arrogated to himself but ... Read More »
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is “packaging” ex-warlord Ateke Tom as the next governor of Rivers State, the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has alleged. The party in a statement issued this morning in Port Harcourt also dismissed rumours making the rounds that it plans, in concert with Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, to release and recruit militants ... Read More »
The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, yesterday, urged President Goodluck Jonathan not to foreclose the option of dialogue with the Boko Haram Islamic sect, with a view to securing the release of over 200 schoolgirls kidnapped in Chibok, Borno State. The association, at the end of an executive committee meeting in Abuja, insisted that Jonathan should not sleep with his two ... Read More »
The Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, has expressed support for a former Accountant General of the state, Mr. Akinwunmi Abode, as governor in 2015. Akiolu said this at the launch of a biography of Ambode titled, ‘The Art of Selfless Service’ in Lagos on Thursday. He said while addressing guests at the event that there was no more room for ... Read More »
THE Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, on Thursday, responded to a statement credited to the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu, that “there were three good traditional rulers in Yorubaland,” saying it was the traditional rulers in the South West that held their subjects together, giving room for people like him (Tinubu) to actualise ... Read More »
A top U.S. Defense Department official criticized Nigeria on Thursday for being too slow to adapt in response to the threat of Boko Haram, but said Washington is committed to helping fight the group and safely return more than 200 girls taken from their school a month ago. “In general Nigeria has failed to mount an effective campaign against Boko ... Read More »
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