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Bamidele adopted as Ekiti LP guber candidate

A member of  House of Representatives, Opeyemi  Bamidele, yesterday emerged the governorship candidate of the Labour Party,  LP,  in the June 21 Ekiti State governorship election. This came as the Director-General of the Kayode Fayemi Campaign Organisation, Bimbo Daramola, said Governor Kayode Fayemi, still remains an aspirant of the party, arguing that  the ticket of the All Progressives Congress, APC, ... Read More »

2015: APC DECLARES SEVEN DAYS FAST TO PRAY FOR WIKE’S EMERGENCE AS RIVERS PDP GUBER CANDIDATE

  We have read with profound gratitude reports of the adoption by the leadership of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State, of Chief Nyesome Wike, the Supervising Minister of Education, as the party’s candidate for the 2015 gubernatorial election in the State. We are aware of the opposition of some camps in the disunited party to the ... Read More »

Fire guts PDP secretariat in Ekiti

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the incident came  barely five days after the governorship primaries that produced former Gov.  Ayo Fayose as the party’s flag bearer in the June 21 election.   Although the cause  of the incident was unknown, the state’s  Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Victor Babayemi, confirmed  the development  to newsmen.   Babayemi, however, said ... Read More »

APC must stop imposition of candidates to succeed -Okorocha

The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress Governors’ Forum, Rochas Okorocha, has urged the party to stop the culture of imposition of candidates to move ahead of the competition. Okorocha said this in his remarks at the 1st Progressive Governors-Legislative-Civil Society Roundtable, with the theme: ‘Improving Governance through transparent budgeting, accountability and effective public financial management’, in Abuja, on Monday. ... Read More »

Fayose inaugurates campaign team

  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday constituted a five-member team to handle the campaign of its candidate, Mr Ayo Fayose, for the June 21 governorship election Ekiti State. The Ekiti State Chapter of the party made this known in a statement signed by its State Secretary, Dr Tope Aluko on Monday in Ado- Ekiti. The statement named a ... Read More »

Ogun Governor Amosun’S Office goes up in flame

A section of the office of Governor Ibikunle Amosun at Okemosan, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, was gutted by fire this evening, Monday. The fire destroyed computers and other office equipment. But for the timely intervention of the men of the Fire Service, the incident would have caused a major havoc. The incident, which occurred at about 12 noon affected ... Read More »

Ajimobi, at Ibadan horror forest, vows to fish out perpetrators

  Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State, on Monday, led members of the State Executive Council and all the arms of the security agencies in the state and a forensic expert on an on-the-spot assessment of the forest where several decomposing bodies were found and several victims of a kidnap syndicate were rescued at the week-end in Ibadan. The governor, ... Read More »