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 »
President Goodluck Jonathan has commended the United Kingdom, France, United States and China for indicating interest to help Nigeria to fight terrorism and ensure stability in country. Jonathan commended the four world super powers at the ongoing 24th World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa on Thursday in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Nigeria was the first ... Read More »
-Umana Okon Umana Lose Out Following weeks of speculation on the position of the apex socio cultural organization in Ibibio nation, Ifim Ibom Ibibio on the zoning principle and stand of the Ibibio people, The Oku Ibom Ibibio 111 and paramount ruler of Donna Local Government, Edidem Akpabio Udo Ukpa has thrown his weight behind the zoning principle and the ... Read More »
Governor of Ekiti State and Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, Gubernatorial candidate in the forthcoming governorship election in Ekiti State, Mr. Ayo Fayose, yesterday said he remained unshaken by the defection to All Progressive Congress, APC, by the immediate past governor of the state and former Vice Chairman of PDP in the South West, Segun Oni, an engineer by profession. Fayose-campaignAt ... Read More »
Build ups to the August 9, 2014 governorship poll in Osun State took a new turn on Tuesday, when the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state alleged that students of Osun State University (UNIOSUN), Ejigbo campus, were selling their voter cards to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) agents for N10,000 each. Describing the development “as a shame and tragedy ... Read More »
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has welcomed a U.S. offer to send an American team to Nigeria to support the government’s response to the kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls by an Islamist militant group, the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the American embassy in Nigeria is “prepared to form a coordination cell” that ... Read More »
On behalf of himself, the federal government, President Goodluck Jonathan Tuesday extended his heartfelt condolences to Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, the government and people of the state on the passing away of former governor of the state, Sir Michael Otedola. The president also conveyed sincere commiserations to all members of Sir Michael’s immediate family as well as his ... Read More »
The Alafao of Afao,Oba Joseph Adebare Ademilua has said it was not true that the former governor of the state, Mr Ayodele Fayose locked him inside his palace to prevent him from attending to Governor Kayode Fayemi during the governorfs campaign tour to Afao Ekiti last weekend. The Kayode Fayemi Campaign Organisation had at the weekend accused the Fayose of ... Read More »
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