A new prime minister has been appointed in Mali to succeed Oumar Tatam Ly, who has resigned from office – along with his entire government. Mr Ly was elected last year after a French-led military intervention ended an Islamist takeover. His successor is a former presidential hopeful, Moussa Mara, who had also served as minister […]
Search teams looking for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 are investigating a number of sounds detected by ships in the southern Indian Ocean, authorities said Sunday, but it’s not yet clear if any of them are from the missing plane’s so-called black box. A British Royal Navy vessel is on its way to an area where […]
The Soun of Ogbomoso, Oba Jimoh Oladunni Oyewumi, Ajagungbade III, has heaped encomium on eminent businessman and former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, describing him as an uncommon politician. Oba Oyewumi made the remark on Friday when Kalu paid him a visit. Kalu, who was installed as the Aro of Ogbomoso by […]
Agabus Pwanagba, Jos The Minister of Water Resources, Mrs. Sarah Ochekpe said politics in the Northern part of the country is done on the basis of religion. Ochekpe disclosed this in Jos on Saturday at the opening ceremony of the first Conference of the King David Generation Movement, which had in attendance, Christian grassroot politicians, […]
Introduction A pall of darkness has suddenly descended on the judiciary in Nigeria. Its genesis is the brouhaha surrounding the appointment of a substantive Chief Judge for Rivers State. The institutions and persons charged by the Constitution with roles to play in the appointment of a Chief Judge are at daggers drawn. The National Judicial […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu Imo and Zamfara states emerged with highest cases of examination malpractice in the 2013 November/December Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) conducted by the National Examination Council (NECO). Registrar of NECO, Professor Promise Okpala, disclosed this Friday while releasing the 2013 NECO result in Minna, the Niger state capital. Professor Okpala, in a […]
Kayode Adelowokan, Osogbo The former Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriation, Senator Iyiola Omisore, has emerged the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the August 9 gubernatorial election in Osun State. Senator Omisore who emerged in a peaceful election conducted by the PDP official led by Alhaji Muhammed Adamu Aliero, with a total […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Umuahia Governor Theodore Orji of Abia state on Friday signed the 2014 budget of N115.3 billion into law. African Examiner reports that the governor, had on the 30th of December, 2013 presented a budget proposal of 149.6 billion naira to the state House of Assembly, which was later followed by its breakdown by […]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said there is no truth in the rumours that the party’s congress, starting nationwide today, has been postponed In a statement issued in London, England, on Saturday, by its interim National Publicity Secretary. Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the congress is going on as planned nationwide. “We urge […]
By Femi Kehinde Former Governor of Osun State and one of the aspirants in tomorrow’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial primaries, Isiaka Adeleke has backed out of the election. Addressing journalists in his Ede hometown Friday’s evening, Isiaka Adeleke said his life and those of his supporters are under constant threat. “I have decided to […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Owerri, The Police in Imo State on Thursday smashed two notorious car-snatching gangs that have been making life unbearable for residents of the state, just as they send two of them to their untimely graves. During the operation, the security men, also killed two members of the syndicates and arrested four. Parading the […]
The Chairman of PDP in Osun State, Alhaji Gani OlaOluwa, said on Friday that the state chapter of the party is set to conduct credible primary election, adding that the election will be broadcast live. OlaOluwa said this when he spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria at the proposed venue of the primaries, 1,100 […]
Oyewale Oyelola Kogi state government is set to raise N20 billion bond at the Nigerian Stock Exchange to embark on infrastructural development in the state. Governor Idris Wada of Kogi state disclosed this during his visit to Nigerian Stock Exchange in Lagos on Thursday. According to the governor, “the state government will use the fund […]
Vice President Namadi Sambo on Thursday lauded the Debt Management Office (DMO) for effective utilisation of the proceeds from the ‘well-subscribed’ one billion dollars Eurobond issued last year. Sambo, who was speaking at the 15th Supervisory Board Meeting of the DMO at the State House, Abuja, expressed optimism that the proceeds would impact positively on […]
Kayode Adelowokan The Nigeria Ministry of Defence has vowed to investigate allegations of human right abuse and war crime in the northeast leveled against it by the Amnesty International. The rights group on Monday accused both the insurgent group, Boko Haram and the armed forces of war crimes and extra-judicial killing in its report entitled: […]
Kayode Adelowokan The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) has censured the some delegates at the ongoing National Conference for complaining about the feeding arrangement by the leadership of the conference. This came on the heels of the heated argument that ensued over the lunch being served by the conference secretariat. While some of the delegates […]
Kayode Adelowokan Following the ruling of the Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday over the enforcement of fundamental rights of the suspended Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Governor, Mr Lamido Sanusi, the Department of State Services has appealed the judgment. In the ruling, Justice Ibrahim Buba, declared the seizure of Sanusi’s passport unlawful and […]
President Goodluck Jonathan is to storm Ekiti with other members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to flag off the governorship campaign in the state, the PDP governorship Candidate in Ekiti, Ayo Fayose has said. He made this known in Ado Ekiti when addressing a crowd of supporters who trooped out to welcome him from […]
By Femi Ayelabowo As a political party peopled by strange bed-fellows with well-stated, often-divergent interests, many people have always seen the All Progressives Congress (APC) as a disaster waiting to happen. From day one, it was obvious the party did not hold together all the political tendencies that conveniently find shelter within its fold, though […]
