Politics

Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo has met with aggrieved All Progressives Congress (APC) aspirants who participated in the party’s 2019 primary election. Addressing the aspirants at government house in Benin, the governor said that the meeting was inline with the recommendation of the Theophilus Okoh Committee set up to reconcile …

The Peoples Democratic Party stakeholders in Abia State faulted a former governor of the state, Chief Orji Kalu, over his claim that he funded the state for the first six months into his tenure as governor in 1999. While giving his testimony at the resumed hearing in a case of …

Salmot Badru, a former deputy to ex-Governor Gbenga Daniel of Ogun (2007-2011), on Tuesday led over 1,000 supporters into the All Progressives Congress in the state. Badru, who was a deputy governor in the state on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, declared for APC with followers who were …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will distribute 49,819 Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) in Bayelsa so as not to disfranchise some people during the Nov. 16 gubernatorial poll. Mr Monday Udoh, INEC’s Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Bayelsa, said this in Yenagoa on Tuesday, during an election stakeholders …

Mr Jarry Ossai, Senior Special Assistant to Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta, said that the state had since its creation, 28 years ago, witnessed steady rise and development especially, in youths empowerment, education, health, roads and infrastructure. Ossai, a former Commissioner for Agriculture in the state, said this in an …

The National Assembly/State Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Lokoja on Friday sacked Senator Dino Melaye as the Senator for Kogi West. In its judgement, the tribunal ordered that fresh elections should be held in the senatorial district, reports. Meanwhile, the Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Senator Dino Melaye,today …

President Muhammadu Buhari has re-appointed Mr Ade Ipaye as Deputy Chief of Staff to the President, Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity Office of the Vice President, says. Akande, in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, said that Ipaye was a former Attorney-General and …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday assigned portfolios to the newly sworn-in ministers. The full list is below: Dr. Ikechukwu Ogah (Abia State) -Minister of State, Mines and Steel Development 2. Mohammed Musa Bello (Adamawa State) -Minister of the Federal Capital Territory 3. Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom State)- Minister of Niger …

President Muhammadu Buhari is presiding over the second day of the retreat for ministers designate coordinated by the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation in Abuja. But as it happened on the first day of the retreat on Monday, the Head of Civil Service of the …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today (Tuesday) morning raided the residence of former Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, located at Oloja Estate, Papa, Epe, Lagos over alleged N9.92 billion fraud. It was revealed that the operatives of the anti-graft agency entered into Ambode’s residence at about 9:00 …