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In the build-up to the 2015 general elections, the country was divided right down the middle. On one side were the Jonathanians, who supported the then incumbent President, Goodluck Jonathan, and wanted him to continue in office for another term of four years.    On the flip side were the Buharists (I was one, and […]

  Inadequate access to personal protective equipment or weak infection prevention and control measures raise the risk of health worker infection The World Health Organization (WHO)(https://www.afro.who.int/) Thursday warned of the threat posed by COVID-19 to health workers across Africa. More than 10 000 health workers in the 40 countries which have reported on such infections […]

The Minister for Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio on Thursday denied claiming that members of the National Assembly get 60 percent of contracts awarded by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).   In a letter read by Femi Gbajabiamila, the Speaker, Akpabio claimed that his reference to 60 percent was in respect of old contracts […]

Nigeria’s House of Representatives on Thursday resolved to sue Godswill Akpabio, Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, for perjury and defamation.    On its part, the Senate proposed scrapping of the Interim Management Committee of the Niger Delta Development Commission.   The resolution of the House followed the expiration of a 48-hour ultimatum it gave to […]

Eyitayo Jegede, a former Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Ondo State, on Wednesday, won the governorship primary of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).   Jegede scored 888 votes to beat to the second place, Agboola Ajayi, the deputy governor, who had 657 votes.   Jegede will face governor Rotimi Akeredolu on October 10 […]

  The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday confirmed the appointments of two journalists and 38 others as ambassadors, following their nomination by President Muhammadu Buhari.   The journalists are Debo Adesina (representing Oyo State) and Oma Djebah (Delta).   Buhari had submitted 42 names for confirmation but two nominees, from Niger and Niger States were dropped […]

Still smarting from the public humiliation it received from the sordid spectacle of the current Acting Chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Professor Keme Pondei walking out on the House Committee on the NDDC, after accusing the committee chair of having vested interests in the ongoing corruption investigation, and the same committee issuing […]

After bringing a motion to the floor of the red chamber, amid the rising crescendo of calls for the sack of the nation’s security heads over their failure to combat the rising insecurity in the country, Senator Ali Ndume (APC-Borno) and chairman, Senate Committee on Army, has come out to distance himself from the motion […]

Nigeria on Tuesday recorded 576 new cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total infections in the country to 37, 801. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) made this known on its official twitter handle.   The centre also said that four deaths were recorded in the country. It said that the 576 new […]

Ekiti State governor, Kayode Fayemi, has tested positive for the coronavirus, he disclosed early Wednesday.   Fayemi announced this via tweet o his official Twitter handle, @kfayemi   “I took my third Covid-19 test yesterday and it came back positive,” he tweeted.    “I’m generally ok and I’m already self- isolating at home and receiving […]