It was yet another victory for Rivers State Governor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, as he once more floored arch-rival, Sir Celestine Omehia, this morning at the Nigerian apex court in Abuja. Omehia, candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) during the 2011 governorship election in Rivers State, had approached the Supreme Court, praying it to declare that he ... Read More »
As the controversy over the same school uniform introduced by Governor Rauf Aregbesola-led administration degenerates, the Osun Baptist Conference, on Thursday, said students of the Baptist High School should continue to wear religious garments to school in protest. It also directed parents of 92 students invited by the state government to a meeting over the issue of hijab and crisis ... Read More »
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan yesterday called on the International Oil Companies (IOCs) operating in Nigeria to adopt the Global Memorandum of Understanding (GMoU) model of Chevron Nigeria Limited as part of measures to ensure peace in the oil bearing communities of the country. Delivering a keynote address at the GMoU Fair and Best Practices Exhibition holding at Abuja, ... Read More »
Kinsmen of one-time Defence Minister, Lt.-Gen. Theophillus Y. Danjuma (rtd.) have petitioned President Goodluck Jonathan, appealing to him to prevail on Danjuma to stop violating the rights former Executive Director, Tita-Kuru Petrochemicals Limited, one of the companies chaired by the retired General. The Concerned Citizens of Taraba in an Open Letter signed by the Chairman, Adi Yohanna, and Secretary, Bulus ... Read More »
.BY TOLA OLAIYA The All Progressive Congress (APC) government of Dr. Kayode Fayemi in Ekiti State has singled out its social security programme in the state as a major dividend of democracy to the people. The Governor during his recent visit to some local government headquarters claimed that the social security programme was part of his campaign promises to the ... Read More »
Erstwhile deputy governor of Osun State and subsequently, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriation, Senator Iyiola Omisore is in the front of the campaign by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to unseat the incumbent All Progressives Congress, APC administration in Osun State. In this interview, Senator Omisore reviews the situation in the state and gives reasons why the PDP ... Read More »
Apapa has never seen the kind of developments it is getting during the tenure of the present Chairman Hon Ayodeji Joseph who has made huge developments in infrastructure and just when you think you have heard the last,Hon Joseph once again dazzled when on Monday he signed a bilateral working relationship with a Swedish club,Here is how a Swedish Newspaper ... Read More »
The lawmaker representing Ekiti Central in the Senate, Babafemi Ojudu, may have uncovered a serious fraud in this year’s budget. At Tuesday’s plenary, Ojudu explained to his colleagues that after receiving his copy of the budget, he compared it with those of 2012 and 2013 only to discover that there is no marked difference between the 2014 budget and the ... Read More »
•‘Allahu Akbar’, church songs and incantations boom at assembly ground There was commotion and confusion in Baptist High School, Iwo, Osun State, on yesterday, as students of the school abandoned the general uniform provided by Governor Rauf Aregbesola-led administration and wore hijabs, purdah and choir garments to the school. The development disrupted the usual assembly prayer, as the students declined ... Read More »
The Osun State Government, on Tuesday, berated the critics of its computer tablet, otherwise called ‘Opon Imon’, distributed to senior secondary school students in the state, saying its critics are suffering from attention deficiency syndrome. It would be recalled that Iyiola Omisore criticised the educational programme and policies of the state, saying the government only distributed 900 computer tablets to ... Read More »
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