DELTA State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan has assured workers in the state of improved welfare, better working conditions and extra pay at the end of the year to enable them meet the financial strains during the yuletide season. Giving the assurance on Thursday at the 2014 Workers’ Day (May Day) celebration in Asaba, Governor Uduaghan observed that workers deserved to ... Read More »
The first civilian Governor of Kwara State, Alhaji Adamu Atah is dead. He was said to have died at Abuja on Thursday. Our correspondent gathered that he could be buried today according to islamic rites. It was also learnt that a Kogi State Government’s delegation led by the deputy Governor, Yomi Awoniyi had gone to Abuja to convey the remains ... Read More »
The family of the late Dr Ayo Daramola, a governorship aspirant who was killed in Ijan-Ekiti in 2006, has expressed disappointment over the visit of the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ayo Fayose, to the Onijan of Ijan, Oba Samuel Oyewole. The family, in a statement by Dare Daramola, the late Daramola’s younger brother, said the ... Read More »
Mr. Ayo Fayose, the PDP candidate has threatened to disown and hand over to the police, any of his supporters that runs foul of good behaviour during the campaign. Speaking at Ipoti, Iloro and Ijunrin Ekiti in Ijero Local Government, Fayose warned miscreants and party thugs within the party to stop their acts or else be thrown out. The gubernatorial ... Read More »
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan will on Wednesday perform the ground breaking ceremony for the N960 billion housing scheme that would be made affordable for Nigerian workers to reduce homelessness some of them face after a meritorious service to their father land. President of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Abdulwahed Omar and the Managing Director of Kriston Lally EPC, Alhaji Mustapha Madawaki ... Read More »
A major loss seems set to befallen the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as former Governor Segun Oni is set to join the All Progressives Congress (APC). An aide of the former governor, Chief Taiwo Olatubosin, who disclosed this to reporters in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital in a telephone interaction at the weekend, said Oni’s decision to join APC was based ... Read More »
A resident of Bale village in the neighborhood of Sambisa Forest told us that there was increased deployment of troops in the area some days ago and heavy gunshots were heard coming from inside the forest. Confirming the development to us yesterday on phone, director of defence information Major General Chris Olukolade said, “Yes, you got your gist right; we ... Read More »
To end the current violent insurgency in the country, all hands must be on deck, so says the Kwara State Governor, Dr. Abdulfatah Ahmed who made the charge while receiving a group of women protesting the kidnap of secondary school girls in Borno State at Government House, Ilorin on Tuesday. Dr Ahmed described the insurgents’ activities as a test of ... Read More »
A Federal High Court, Lagos, which declared toll collection on Lekki-Ikoyi bridge illegal, has ordered a stay of execution of the judgment. Justice Saliu Saidu, in a ruling on Friday, granted the application for stay of execution filed by the Lagos State Government, on March 28, the day after the judgment was delivered. With the court’s ruling, toll collection will ... Read More »
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