One of the victims of the forced registration policy of the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has cried out over their ordeal and condemned the development. Lagos trader Funke Tega Phillips wrote on her Facebook wall: “I have a shop at Iponri Market in Lagos. On Saturday the Iyaloja General (Tinubu’s daughter) came with ... Read More »
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DELTA IPP TO BE COMMISSIONED BY YEAR’S END, UDUAGHAN REVEALS
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has charged leaders in the country to be transparent, sincere and run an inclusive government, just as he revealed that the State Independent Power Plant would be commissioned by the end of the year. Governor Uduaghan who stated this Monday in Abuja when he delivered a lecture titled “Leadership-My Personal Experience” to participants of ... Read More »
Defecting Senators Confront David Mark!
The atmosphere at Tuesday’s plenary reached a dramatic point as the 11 Senators who decamped from the Peoples Democratic Party took turns to officially and openly make their intentions to join the All Progressives Congress known to the Senate President and the general public. The senators made it known on the floor that their decision to declare their intentions openly ... Read More »
FG has enough funds to complete Lagos/Ibadan Express road
Minister of Works, Mike Onolememen, on Monday said that the Federal Government had enough funds to complete the ongoing construction works on the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway. The minister said the government had no plan to re-concession the project. At a meeting with the two contractors working on the road, RCC and Julius Berger, during a visit to the project site, Onolememen ... Read More »
Citizen Writes on how Imo speaker is stealing the Assembly Blind
THE THIEVING SPEAKER OF THE IMO STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY(PART 1) I write to condemn in absolute terms the silence of the Imo State House of Assembly over the heavy corruption allegations levelled against the Speaker of the Imo House of Assembly Chief Benjamin Uwajumogu by Mr Ikenna Samuelson Iwuoha. Iwuoha, an activist and former Aide of the Speaker last ... Read More »
5 southwest Senators who are Benchwarmers in the Senate
They are the benchwarmers among the Senators rep us in the senate from the south west,Read and enjoy this Sen Boriface This Senator Didn’t settle in Abuja before he started dreaming of getting the Ondo state Governor’S Seat,He has spent most of his time decamping from Labour to Acn and thereafter he has been shuttling between courts to save his ... Read More »
President Goodluck Sacks Chief Of Staff Mike Oghiadome
President Goodluck Jonathan has asked his Chief of Staff, Mike Oghiadomhe to resign with immediate effect according to a presidency source. Mr. Jonathan reportedly fired the Chief of Staff after security agencies revealed his deep involvement in the mega fraud at the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Read More »
APC now the fastest-growing party in Africa, declares Gov. Amaechi as he formally registers with opposition party
Rivers State Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi this morning formally registered as a card-carrying member of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC). He registered at about 11am in his native Ubima at Ward 8, Unit 14, in Ikwerre Local Government Area. Shortly after arriving Ubima, Governor Amaechi and his wife Dame Judith Amaechi proceeded to the registration booth where an APC ... Read More »
2015: Group mounts pressure on Uduaghan to contest Senate seat
A pressure group, Stabilizing Factors Campaign Organization, has asked Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State to contest Delta South Senatorial District seat in the 2015 general election. At a press briefing in Warri on Saturday, members of the group, comprising the General Coordinator, Victor Agbateyiniro; Jolone Ikomi; and others, said after an extraordinary general meeting of the group on January ... Read More »
Appraising Uduaghan’s Delta beyond Oil development paradigm, by Sufuyan Ojeifo
The effort being made all over the world by governments and multinational corporations to end the dominance of oil as the main source of energy is a wake-up call to states whose economies largely depend on oil. While countries, like Nigeria, have done little to prepare for the end of the oil era, one of its states, Delta, has given ... Read More »