Former Governor of Bayelsa state, Chief Diepreye Peter Solomon Alamieyesiegha, a delegate to the GEJ CONfab, representing the Ijaw nation joins the growing list of conferees who have rejected the N12 million honorarium. According to the ebullient Governor General, his conscience will not allow him to rest if he takes that much for a 3 month national assignment. He however ... Read More »
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday asked 37 former members of PDP to resign their seats at the House of Representatives for defecting to the opposition APC. The court perpetually restrained the legislators from effecting any leadership change in the assembly. The court was delivering judgment in a matter brought by PDP asking that the legislators should not ... Read More »
Leah Foundation fights cancer in Kwara The Leah Charity Foundation, an Ilorin, Kwara State based non-governmental organisation has intensified its effort at reducing the incidence of breast and cervical cancers in women through a sensitisation of the women all over the state. According to the Founding Trustee of the NGO, Mrs. Omolewa Ahmed, who addressed a press conference on ... Read More »
The Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, at the weekend stressed the need for the various ethnic groups in the country to forge a common front towards making Nigeria a great a prosperous nation. Besides, Uduaghan disclosed that the state government would soon tackle the traffic and sanitation problems in some part of the state. Governor Uduaghan, who spoke at ... Read More »
AHEAD of the 2015 governorship election in Rivers State, the Peoples Democratic Party has dismissed speculations in some quarters that the Supervising Minister of Education, Chief Nyesom Wike, has resigned his appointment and membership of the Federal Executive Council. The state chapter of the PDP said in a statement issues in Port Harcourt on Monday that Wike was still in ... Read More »
Fayose spoke with sunday punch Mr. Ayo Fayose A former governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayo Fayose, in this interview with OLUSOLA FABIYI and FRIDAY OLOKOR, responds to issues arising from his victory at the recent primary election conducted by the Peoples Democratic Party for governorship aspirants in Ekiti State How would you explain your recent victory at the Ekiti ... Read More »
A sixty-year-old man, Malam Umaru of Jerin Duwatsu Village, Wanke district of Gusau local government has slapped his wife, Inno, to death following a matrimonial disagreement. The incidence according to the village head, Magaji Hamidu, occurred when the deceased protested against the alleged perpetual injustice shown by the husband in favouring the senior wife on issues relating to matrimonial affairs. ... Read More »
AHEAD of June 21 Ekiti State gubernatorial election, the National leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP yesterday presented former governor of the state, Chief Ayo Fayose with the Certificate of Return as the party’s Standard bearer, just as he declared that twelve years after as governor, he has become wiser, more responsible and disciplined now. Fayose also disclosed that ... Read More »
Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State on Friday told commercial motorcyclists, popularly known as Okada riders, not to allow themselves to be used by the opposition to disrupt the peace currently being enjoyed in the state. He stated this while receiving the Okada riders under the aegis of the Amalgamated Commercial Motorcycle Operators and Riders Association of Nigeria (ACOMORAN) ... Read More »
A Federal High Court sitting in Ado- Ekiti, Ekiti State, on Thursday, March 27, 2014, refused the request by the governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Part in Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose to delay his trial to enable him concentrate in prosecuting his gubernatorial ambition. Fayose, a former governor of the state is standing trial for allegedly misappropriating state ... Read More »
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