.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 »
¨Ijaw leader and former Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark, has upbraided the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu, describing him as someone that is afraid of his identity. Clark also accused Tinubu of denying the Yorubas of their political identity with the formation of the APC. In a letter addressed to Tinubu by ... Read More »
The Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, on Monday (yesterday) in Abeokuta declared ‘war’ on journalists in the state. Journalists, who had waited for over an hour at the Gateway Hall venue of the meeting between the governor, National Assembly members and other stakeholders in the All Progressives Congress (APC) were taken aback when Amosun told the newsmen that he had ... Read More »
A former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, may have hit it big with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), as his quantitysurveying firm has landed a multi billion-naira contract with the apex bank. El-Rufai joined critics of the Federal Government shortly after he left the economic team of Ex President Olusegun Obasanjo and his exit ... Read More »
The Council of State meeting, the first in 2014, has commenced at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. It is being presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan. Conspicuously absent at the meeting are former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano State and Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State. Ajimobi was sited at the meeting ... Read More »
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