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ONDO State governor, who is also a factional Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, on Wednesday, faulted the video clips recorded during the NGF election held last Friday in Abuja. Speaking at the Democracy Day lecture delivered by the Director-General of the Nigerian Institute for International Affairs, Professor Bola Akinterinwa, in Akure, Mimiko said the video ... Read More »

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President Goodluck Jonathan’s political witch-hunt of Rivers State governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has reached a dramatic stage, with the Presidency approving and funding a plan to impeach the governor with the help of only five state lawmakers. A source within the Presidency told SaharaReporters that President Jonathan’s men have given the go-ahead to the Rivers State Commissioner of Police Mbu ... Read More »

This is According to Sahara reporters Two top level political sources in Taraba State have told SaharaReporters that the days of Danbaba Suntai as governor of the state may be numbered. “Alhaji Danbaba Suntai will be replaced soon,” said one of the sources. As a first step towards Mr. Suntai’s removal, the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ... Read More »

A Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, who is representing Oyo North Senatorial District, Senator Hosea Ayoola Agboola, is enmeshed in a sex scandal with a married woman. An insider exclusively disclosed to First Weekly that the lady at the centre of the storm is a married a woman, who has been having secret affair with the senator for ... Read More »

There are strong indications that the Federal Government may take the concept of Democracy Day beyond mere ceremonies and parades, come Wednesday, May 29. Sources close to the Presidency and the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) disclosed that President Jonathan would like to use the occasion to emphasise that democracy is as much about ... Read More »

The Governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has faulted the position of the Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, that he (Uduaghan) was the Returning Officer during the now controversial Nigeria Governors’ Forum election. Uduaghan said contrary to Fayemi’s claim in a statement issued on Sunday, it was the Director General of the NGF, Asishana Bayo Okauru, who was ... Read More »

PRESS RELEASE The attention of the leadership of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) has been drawn to the distortion of the events leading to the election of Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State as Chairman of the Forum at its election held in Abuja on Friday. We are particularly worried about the deliberate misrepresentation of events at the election in ... Read More »

Woolwich suspect Michael  Adebolajo came to the attention of MI5 after he appeared in court in Kenya on suspicion of planning to fight for a terrorist group. The Mail on Sunday has learned he was arrested with five others in November 2010. All were said to have been heading for neighbouring Somalia, where they had been recruited by Al-Shabaab, the ... Read More »

We have noted with regret the mischievous effort by sections of the mass media to portray President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan as an interested party and the main loser in yesterday’s election of the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF). Contrary to the impression of Presidential partisanship and interference in the affairs of the Governors Forum erroneously conveyed by some ... Read More »