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Sen Borofice PRESS RELEASE on Ondo ACN gov ticket# My attention has been drawn to a Sun Newspaper Publication news of yesterday 22nd June, 2012 where I was quoted to have said that I will support Rotimi Akeredolu, the imposed candidate as the candidate of ACN in Ondo State. I wish to state categorically that I DID NOT SAY SO ... Read More »

A major group within the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Ondo State, the Sunshine Liberation Front (SLF), has rejected the choice of Mr Oluwarotimi Akeredolu as the governorship candidate. The group also condemned the process leading to the emergence of Akeredolu, saying it amounted to an imposition from Lagos State. According to Director of Media and Publicity of SLF, ... Read More »

AFTER a long wait, the process for a medical examination of the mental health of the Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, has begun, courtesy of a court order. Justice B.B. Aliyu of the Federal High Court, Abuja on Thursday summoned the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Hon. Najeem Salam and the personal physician to the Governor, after ... Read More »

The son of Nigeria’s former dictator Sani Abacha, Abba Abacha, will face a new trial in Switzerland starting July 4 on charges of participation in a criminal organisation that raided public funds, his lawyer said Friday. Abba’s lawyer, Christian Luescher, told Swiss news agency ATS that his client wanted to come to Geneva to attend the trial. During a previous ... Read More »

  The secretary general of the Nigeria Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs, Dr Lateef Adegbite, has criticised the planned naming of Boko Haram, as a terrorist organization by the American government. He enjoined the US government to be patient with the manner in which the issue is handled, so as not to endanger the lives of some other innocent Nigerians. ... Read More »

After months of investigating the mismanagement of the Police Pension Fund, the Senate yesterday began the consideration of the report of its committee, and upheld the prosecution of Abdulrasheed Maina, chairman of the Pension Task Force, as recommended. Senate president ,David Mark, was so angry with the revelations in the report, that he ordered that Maina be made to appear ... Read More »

The candidacy of the former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Chief Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN), to fly the flag of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), in the Ocotober 2012 governorship election in Ondo State has been accepted by other aspirants jostling for the ticket. The aspirants, at a crucial meeting yesterday in Lagos, after a hot debate in ... Read More »

The decomposing body of a frontline member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kabba/Bunu Local Government Area of Kogi State, Chief Aliu Raphael Olorunpomi, who was, on Saturday, abducted by five unknown gunmen, who stormed his Happy Hour Parks & Garden in Kabba, Kogi State has been found at Okehi LGA of Kogi state about four hours ago. Olorunpomi’s ... Read More »

Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola like many others high powered executives in Nigeria is bleeding the citizens of Lagos dry as the lawyer turned politician is engaged in primitive consumption and accumulation of wealth. And this he is doing either by proxy or bald-faced budget manipulation. Naijahottestgist got the inside scoop on the budget proposals for his office and his ... Read More »

After weeks of deliberations and speculations, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) yesterday endorsed former President of Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu, as its candidate for the  October 22 governorship election in Ondo State. The endorsement which took place at 3 am in the Ikoyi home of ACN’s national leader, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, followed several hours of ... Read More »