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 »
The Onijan of Ijan Ekiti, Oba Samuel Fadahunsi, has said that the Ekiti State 2014 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Mr Ayo Fayose, has no hand in the death of late Dr Ayo Daramola, an indigene of the town, who was assassinated in August 2006. The traditional ruler, who stated this at his palace on Monday, when the PDP ... Read More »
The Hon. Michael Opeyemi Bamidele Campaign Organization has debunked insinuations that it was having an alliance or pact with anybody or group. In a statement made available to newsmen in Ado Ekiti today, the campaign organization urged politicians to say the truth at all times and attributed the rumour to those whose success at the forthcoming gubernatorial elections were already damned due to the towering stature of the Labour Party standard flagbearer. According to ... Read More »
*Say it will be fight to finish Any attempt by former Lagos State governor and a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu, to impose former Accountant-General of the state, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, as the next governor of Lagos would be resisted vehemently, a group, Visioners for New Lagos (VNL) has warned. The group which ... Read More »
Former Ekiti State governor and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Mr Ayo Fayose, has accused the Ekiti State governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, of imitating him, saying that a photocopy can never be like the original. Acccording to a press statement issued by Fayose’s spokesman, Mr Idowu Adelusi, and made available to the press in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State ... Read More »
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