Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has described the death of Ambassador Ralph Uwechue as a big loss to Federal Government and Delta State explaining that they would miss his sincere advise on developmental issues. Dr. Uduaghan who stated this Friday when the Federal Government delegation paid him a condolence visit in Asaba before proceeding to Ogwashi-Uku for the burial, ... Read More »
First Lady Michelle Obama is to speak out against the kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls by Islamic militants when she gives the weekly presidential address instead of her husband, the White House said Friday. White House deputy spokesman Eric Schultz said Michelle Obama would focus on the issue of the mass abductions in an address on Saturday to ... Read More »
There were indications yesterday that the 230 female students abducted by Boko Haram terrorists from the Government Girls’ Secondary School, GGSS, Chibok, Borno State, have been sited at the Sambisa Forest in Borno State, by the Special Forces of the United States Marines. The girls who were abducted on April 14, were part of the 250 students boarded at the ... Read More »
A faction loyal to the former governor of Ogun State and national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Aremo Segun Osoba has accused Amosun’s faction of squandering N750 million on the botched inauguration of his state executive council. The Secretary of the faction loyal to Chief Osoba, Chief Abimbola Awofeso stated this during a consultative meeting held within the private ... Read More »
DSP Ngozi Braide, the Public Relations Officer of Lagos State Police Command, has said that the rumour about activities of Boko Haram members in some parts of the state on Friday was false. Braide said this while briefing the press on Friday at Premier College Group of Schools, Palm Avenue, Mushin, where the sect members purportedly invaded. “It is not ... Read More »
Dr. Kayode Fayemi yesterday alleged a double pronged rigging strategy supposedly adopted by his political foes in the PDP and Labour to frustrate his re-election. Fayemi in a statement said the thrust of the strategy was centered around the recruitment of fake policemen who would put away strategic leaders of the APC on Election Day and also help to foment ... Read More »
All three major candidates, Kayode Fayemi, Opeyemi Bamidele and Ayodele Fayose yesterday pledged to be of good behaviour for the rest of the campaign. The three who were at a meeting summoned by the Council of Traditional Rulers where 13 other candidates of the other political parties were also invited. Former governor Ayo Fayose who came late to the meeting ... Read More »
Students of the Lagos State University (LASU) have ruled out the possibility of any of them paying the hiked school fees announced by the Governor Babatunde Fashola aministration. Their position was made known by President of the Lagos State University Students Union (LASUSU), Comrade Nurudeen Yusuf. Addressing a press briefing at the Ojuelegba Campus of LASU, Comrade Yusuf said: “The ... Read More »
THE former governor of Ogun State and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Olusegun Osoba yesterday broke his long silence on the crisis rocking the ruling party in the state since the conduct of parallel congresses by the two major factions. Osoba, who returned from his over one week trip to London at about 4:00am yesterday, spoke for ... Read More »
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