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 »
Category Archives: Politics
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 »
Governor Sullivan Chime flown overseas over recurrent illness
Governor Sullivan Chime has been flown overseas over ill-health to enable him undergo a chemotherapy section over deteriorating cancer. It is speculated that the governor would be away for at least 90 days . When contacted on the issue Sunday, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Chukwudi Achife, said that the governor traveled overseas “as part of his routine medical checkup” but dismissed ... Read More »
Ogun Governor Taken to Court over state debt burden
Mr Adekoya Boladale has taken the Ogun State government to court over failure to make transparent the debt profile of the state. In a statement made available to elombah.com, Adekoya said that on January 14, 2014 he directed his lawyer to request on his behalf among 32 other things the debt profile of Ogun State in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act, 2011. “It’s ... Read More »
Kwara APC cautions new CP on partisanship
The All Progressive Congress (APC) in Kwara State has charged the newly posted Police Commissioner to the State, Ambrose Aisabo to discharge his responsibility without fear or favour by rising above tendencies that could make him partisan. The Interim Chairman of APC in the State, Alhaji Ishola Balogun Fulani who gave the charge at a press conference in Ilorin, added ... Read More »
How Tinubu is using President- General of Market Traders To Force Igbos To Register For APC In Lagos
(APGA) The All Progressives Grand Alliance this morning hit out hard at the All Progressives Congress (APC) for allegedly employing “guerilla style of registration” in its on-going membership drive. APGA joined issues with APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, for reportedly ordering, through his daughter, Folashade Tinubu-Ojo, whom he previously installed as the Iyaloja (President- General of Market Traders) of Lagos, ... Read More »
Gov Aregbesola pa disepears mysterious,wife and children in pains
Sola Aderibigbe was Rauf Aregbesola’s Personal Assistant (PA) until January, 2010. Indication showed that Aderibigbe was the man being used by Aregbesola, Ahmed Tinubu and Raji Fashola to siphon money from Lagos Local Governments. But sometimes in 2009, Aderibigbe accosted Aregbesola to ask for his share of the loots which he had been taken on behalf his and that of ... Read More »
Gbemisola Saraki, Kwara APC chieftains defect to PDP
SEN. Gbemisola Saraki and some chieftains of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara and their supporters, on Saturday, moved en masse to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Mr Lola Ashiru, an APC chieftain in Offa, Kwara, Prince Sunday Fagbemi, also of APC and Alhaji Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, the governorship candidate of the CPC in the 2011 elections were among those who ... Read More »
OBASANJO AND ME – JULIE COKER
Veteran broadcaster, former beauty queen, singer and business woman, Chief Julie Coker has for a long time remained a role model for many aspiring young women . At present, she runs a relationship column in Vanguard where she tackles the problems of young people in and out of marriage. Recently, a young man wrote to her column saying, “After going ... Read More »
Resolve impending Religious crisis andStop playing politics with Ige’s death-Omisore tells Aregbesola
Our attention has been drawn to a news item published on page 9 of The Punch newspaper titled “Reopen Ige murder case,Aregbesola, groups tell FG ” Ordinarily, we would not have bothered to respond to this jaundice views by Aregbesola and his cohorts parading as human rights, but in order to set the records straight and stop these falsehood, We ... Read More »