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Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has condemned the barring of some All Progressives Congress (APC) governors ― billed to attend their party’s last mega rally before the gubernatorial election in Ekiti State― from entering the state. NLC president Abdulwahed Omar condemned the action in a statement he released on Friday, saying it is a violation of […]

…laments high rate of building collapse Building collapse: Obiano backs SON on cement standardization Anambra State Governor Willie Obiano has expressed concern over the frequency of building collapse in Onitsha and has thrown his weight behind recent efforts by Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) to curb the menace through cement classification and uses. Obiano, while […]

The gale of appointments by President Goodluck Jonathan continued on Thursday with the appointment of Roli Bode-George, the wife of Chief Bode George, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the new Director-General of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). Her appointment, which was announced by Dr. Reuben Abati, Jonathan’s spokesperson, follows […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised alarm that its governors have been prevented by security agencies apparently acting on “orders from above” from travelling to Ado-Ekiti for the party’s final campaign for the Ekiti State governorship election. In a statement issued in Ado-Ekiti on Thursday by APC’s National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the […]Read More

Security agents in Ondo, on Thursday ambushed Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, arrested him and kept him hostage. The governor was on his way to Ekiti State to support his colleague, Kayode Fayemi in a ‘mega’ rally that was scheduled for Thursday ahead of the governorship election in the State on Saturday. At the […]

In a few days time, the people of Ekiti State will be going to the polls in South West Nigeria. The process leading to these elections offers important lessons for the rest of Nigeria and indeed for many other parts of the continent. At stake here are two sets of tendencies: one concerns the values […]

The New Justice Forum (NJF), a group within the All Progressives Congress (APC) has commended the party for showing exemplary leadership status at the just concluded national party convention where it elected its new national executives. President of the group, Taiwo Ayedun, in a statement made available to the press on Wednesday, stated that APC […]

I am not taking money from any government parastatal to fund my political ambition, The Supervising Minister of Aviation, Chief Samuel Ortom has said. Ortom denied the allegation in a statement made available to journalists in Lagos on Tuesday, describing the allegation as “malicious”. He dared anyone with evidence of such collection to publish it […]

The emergence of Chief John Odigie-Oyegun and other new members of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of All Progressives Congress (APC) is a product of transparency, democracy and compromise, former Vice President and chieftain of the party, Atiku Abubakar has said. The former vice president made the assertion in a statement of solidarity to the […]

An Otuocha High Court in Anambra State has passed a life jail sentence on a banker, Jude Onwuzuluike, who had been standing trial since February 2013 over the whereabouts of his business partner, Chinwuba Ekwenze. Onwuzuluike, a staff of United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, Ogboefere, Bridge-head, Onitsha, had first been arraigned in the court […]

Newly elected National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has sent a warning to rival Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the presidency and all other Nigerians related to the governorship election that would hold in Ekiti State on Saturday that APC would not fold its arms and allow rigging to take place […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alerted Nigerians of what it called a well orchestrated plot by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to cause confusion and set the stage for disturbances in Ekiti State following their realisation that the people have rejected them ahead of Saturday’s governorship election. “Part of this plot is the highly […]