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The Chairman, Senate Committee on Police Affairs, Sen. Abu Ibrahim, says the fear of indiscriminate arrest and detention by state governors may kill passage of the State and Community Police Bill. Ibrahim, who made this known in an interview with newsmen in Abuja, said the read more |
Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has stated that the tempo of the killings arising from farmers-herders crisis was going down. He also said that the government was committed to ending the incessant clashes once and for all. Mohammed urged Nigerians in read more |
The Media Office of the Ekiti State Governor-elect, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has asked the outgoing Governor, Ayodele Fayose, to devote the June 2018 federal allocation of N5.52bn to the payment of salaries and other entitlements of workers. A statement by the Director of the Office, Wole Olujobi said that henceforth, Fayose must make accountability a read more |
Senator Ovie Omo-Agege’s N200,000 largesse to members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State has torn the party apart. It was learnt the aforementioned amount of money is the share allotted to the Warri South LGA from the N5million doled out to the 25 LGAs in read more |
There was a mild drama on Tuesday along Katsina Jibia road as Police officers attached to the convoy of Vice President Yemi Osinbanjo attacked and beat up three customs officials in Katsina state. The incident occurred at Daddara village in Jibia council area, when the vice president was in the state to condole with victims of the natural disaster which left more than 50 people dead. Trouble started when the customs officials had apprehended a vehicle of which a couple of youths had read more |
National President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ayuba Wabba, on Tuesday, urged Ekiti State governor-elect, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, not to renege on his electioneering campaign promises of prompt settlement of workers’ backlog of salaries. Wabba observed that one of the major factors that worked against the outgoing government in the state during the July 14 governorship election was its failure to offset the more than six months salary arrears and read more |
The Mega Party of Nigeria, MPN, has vowed to use all constitutional means to ensure that the governor-elect of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi delivers dividends of democracy to the people of the state. Chairman of MPN in Ekiti State, Dare Adekolu, also said the party will accept the result of the Saturday’s election and move on. He added that Mega Party, through adequate preparation for read more |
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has, Tuesday, formally served the Department of State Services, DSS, and the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, AGF, with a warrant of release of the Former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki Rtd. Recall that Dasuki was on July read more |
Isaac Fayose, brother to the outgoing Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has urged people of the state not watch and allow the governor to die. He made the appeal while alleging that over 1,000 security operatives have blocked the state’s Government House while holding Fayose hostage. He also alleged that all mobile lines of the read more |
Rampaging youths in Jalingo on Monday pelted Taraba Commissioner of Police, Mr David Akinremi, with stones, injuring him on the head. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP David Misal, who confirmed the incident to newsmen in Jalingo, said the Commissioner had gone to the Tudunwada area of the metropolis with a team of officers to restore normalcy following reports of youths unrest. ”He was hit on the read more |
The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, says President Muhammadu Buhari has shown that he lacks democratic credentials by applauding and approving what he described as “a charade that passed for the governorship election in Ekiti State last Saturday”. The governor was reacting to a statement by a media aide of Buhari, Mallam Garba Shehu, entitled: “Fayose: In the end, a high-powered nothing,” issued in reaction to Saturday’s election. Fayose, in his reaction through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi, in Ado-Ekiti on Monday, said if Buhari was a democrat, he would not have supported a situation whereby the will of the people was subverted through the use read more |
The All Progressive Congress in Edo State has said that the failure of Ayodele Fayose in last Saturday’s governorship election in Ekiti State was a signal to Governor Nyesom Wike and other PDP governors in the South South region. It said it would take the lead in read more |
Human Rights Activist, Femi Falana, SAN, on Monday commended the National Broadcasting Corporation, NBC over the closure of Ekiti Broadcasting Corporation. Falana speaking with Punch said that Ekiti State would have been plunged into crisis after the election if the National Broadcasting Corporation had not shut the Ekiti State Broadcasting Corporation on Saturday. “The NBC deserves commendation for read more |
Newly-elected governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, has explained why the people of Ekiti State voted for him and returned him into power. Fayemi, during an interview on Channels Television’s News at 10, claimed there has been “arrested development” in the last four years under Governor Ayodele Fayose. The former Minister of Solid Minerals also revealed why he is returning to power, noting that “there is unfinished business” in read more |
In what observers said was the most intense, and a most angry campaign, the people gave their verdict: Dr. Kayode Fayemi, the one-time governor, declared persona-non-grata is now persona-grata again. President Buhari has won this referendum. The people of the State have sent a clear message. The politics of brinksmanship, assaults, insults, abuses and Robin Hoodism disguised as stomach infrastructure has been read more |
The United Kingdom chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the victory of Dr Kayode Fayemi in the just-concluded Ekiti state governorship election as “a call to higher service”. The chapter stated this in a statement in Abuja on Sunday, following the announcement of the outcome of the election by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Fayemi was APC’s candidate in read more |
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it has dusted a N1.3 billion fraud case filed against outgoing Gov. Ayo Fayose of Ekiti. The anti-graft agency disclosed this in a post on its Twitter handle, @officialEFCC on Sunday. “The parri (party) is over, the cloak of immunity torn apart and read more |
Okitie tie back to politics, want APC, PDP to adopt him as presidential candidate Household of God Pastor, Chris Okotie has called on Nigeria’s two political parties APC and PDP to adopt him as their presidential candidate. Speaking at a press conference in his church during read more |
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has said the governorship election in the state was 90 percent successful. INEC’s Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Prof. Abdulganih Olayinka said this while assessing the electoral process. Addressing journalists in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, Olayinka said reports from the eight INEC Commissioners in the field indicated that the read more |
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and human rights activist, Chief Mike Ozekhome has accused the Federal Government of paying lip services in its fight against corruption. He alleged that those in the ruling All Progressives Congress involved in one corrupt practice or the other were handled as sacred cows. Ozekhome also called for a radical overhauling of the institutional structures so as to enable democracy thrive in the read more |
President Muhamadu Buhari on Tuesday asked the electorate in Ekiti not to waste their votes in Saturday’s governorship election. Rather, the president urged voters to read more |
The All Progressives Congress, APC, members of the National Assembly from the North-West have clashed with the Arewa Youth Forum over President Muhammadu Buhari’s second term ambition. Some senators and members of the House of Representatives from read more |
Buba Galadima, leader of Reformed All Progressives Congress (R-APC), has claimed that its members were ready to lay down their lives for the country. Galadima read more |
The Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM), Monday said it was not part of a coalition of opposition political parties that agreed to present a common presidential candidate to contest against President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 presidential election.https://www.google.com.ng/amp/s/www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2018/07/09/were-not-part-of-coalition-against-buhari-says-pdm/amp/
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A constitutional lawyer, Mr. Francis Obalim, has approached the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, asking it to sack the Minister of Finance, Mrs [url =https://dammylink.com/certificate-forgery-court-asked-to-sack-adeosun-orders-refund-of-salaries/]read more[/url] |
The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State has described the state Governor, Nyesom Wike as a liar who operates a fraudulent government. Ojukaye Flag-Amachree read more |
Senate Deputy Chief Whip, Francis Alimikhena has described members of the Reformed All Progressives Congress (R-APC) as attention seekers. Alimekhena, who is representing Edo North read more |
Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has tasked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and all security agencies deployed to Ekiti State ahead of the read more |
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former governor of Abia State, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu, has disclosed that the leadership of the read more |
Fayose and PDP are raising alarm because of tell-tale signs that APC and Fayemi are plotting to rig the election. The statements by top APC leaders including its former chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun that they must capture Ekiti, by all means, are very instructive in this regard. “Nigerians witnessed the blatant rigging of Ondo and Edo governorship elections by the APC. In Ondo, it was shameless vote buying. In Edo they read more |
Members of the All Progressives Congress in the Senate and House of Representatives may defect en mass to the Peoples Democratic Party shortly before July 31 , SUNDAY PUNCH has gathered. Investigations on Saturday showed that the Reformed All Progressives Congress split from the main read more |
Popular Nigerian singer, Ayo Balogun, popularly known as Wizkid, has revealed that he has been booked for shows for the next three years. The ‘Soc read more |