The chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State, Chief Gboyega Oguntuwase, has berated the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress and the state governor, Kayode Fayemi, for suspending a former governor of the state, Segun Oni. Oguntuwase, who said the suspension was a fallout of lack of …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Monday conducted a supplementary Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination for 490 candidates whose computer based Test centres were earlier suspended for malpractices and other infractions. The UTME was held in JAMB CBT centre in Kogo, Abuja, JAMB Bayelsa State office, Yenagoa and JAMB National …

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Warman Ogoriba, on Monday said Bayelsa State stakeholders had never adopted a particular rotational method for the office of a governor. Warman, who was recently appointed the Director-General of the Henieken Lokpobiri Campaign Organisation, spoke in Yenagoa, the state capital. He said those …

Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, has said there will be no room for apprenticeship in his second term cabinet. He said only men and women who are conversant with governance would be appointed into the cabinet. Okowa said this while swearing in Chiedu Ebie as the Secretary to the State …

The Imo State House of Assembly led by Chinedu Offor suspended the 27 local government chairmen and 645 councilors in the state indefinitely. In a motion moved by Bruno Ukoha (Ezin-Ihitte Mbaise Constituency), the House directed the suspended council bosses to immediately handover to directors of administration in their councils. …

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, sentenced to 42 years imprisonment, the convicted former acting Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Calistus Obi, for N136 million fraud. The court handed Obi a seven-year imprisonment on six of the counts he was convicted and …

THE Presidency has denied that President Muhammadu Buhari approved the establishment of State, Local Government Police. The Presidency said that President Buhari had requested that the report would be studied and white paper produced within three months. A statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and …

THE All Progressives Congress, APC, Zamfara State Chapter, Monday, expelled the immediate past governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari. Also expel was the Deputy National Chairman (North) of the APC, Lawali Shuaibu for conniving with Yari to sabotage the National Working Committee of the party during the botched primary Elections …

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta Central Senatorial District has appealed to other ethnic nationalities at the Senate to support the bid of Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege for Deputy Senate President. The APC Vice-Chairman in Delta, Adelabu Bodjor, read the party’s resolutions at a press briefing/solidarity support meeting for Omo-Agege …

The lingering legal tussle over the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State has moved to the Supreme Court as the Chief Cyril Ogodo led leadership of the party has asked the apex court to set aside the judgment of the Court of Appeal which had sacked …