Ifeanyi Aniagoh As Obiano Receives the 2015 Zik Prize for Good Governance… Here’s a Little Why! Just as captured by James Eze, “While it is true that positive change usually takes place in degrees, it is even truer that negative change usually sweeps across the land like a hurricane. That is why it is so…
Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, had occupied an enviable position in Nigeria’s political scene. He shot to national limelight at age 37, following the removal of the former Speaker, Patricia Etteh, over an alleged financial malfeasance. However, in what may be described as an anti- climax, he lost the bid to…
Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has embarked on an indefinite strike in solidarity with public workers in the state who are on strike over unpaid five months salaries. The governor made the declaration in Ado Ekiti in a broadcast on the state owned television in Ekiti State. In the broadcast, the governor disclosed that he…
As things are getting tough in Nigeria, several Nigerians have decided to call upon Nigerians in diaspora to assist in fixing Nigeria problems together One of the prominent Nigerians in diaspora, Mr Tunde Salam has went ahead to respond their call, social media platform. In his response he said: “But why do we need to…
The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has condemned the arrest and detention of the President, Ekiti State Market Women Association, Mrs. Waye Oso, by the police. Osho was arrested on Monday evening in her Akute home on an allegation that she allocated land for market stalls at the Awedele area of Ado Ekiti to…
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, on Tuesday, redeemed his promise to assist victims of recent tanker fire in the Iyana-Ipaja and Idimu areas of the state with the distribution of cheques to 243 victims enumerated by the state government. The governor, who was represented by his Deputy, Dr. Oluranti Adebule, at the cheque distribution,…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday vowed to recover billions of dollars stolen under the administration of his immediate predecessor, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan. He said the Jonathan government threw the nation into a financial crisis by throwing all financial and administrative processes in parastatals and agencies to “the dogs” Promising that the era of impunity and…
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, on Tuesday wrote the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara. The chairman, in separate letters to Saraki and Dogara, presented the party’s position on the principal officers of the Senate and the House. In the letter…
President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday picked holes in the results of the March 28 presidential election, saying “the Peoples Democratic Party couldn’t have got those kinds of scores” it had in some places. Jonathan, who spoke shortly after receiving the report of the Senator Ahmadu Ali-led PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation at the Presidential Villa, Abuja,…
Following the defeat of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the recently held presidential and National Assembly elections, about 3,000 of its members in Benue state have reportedly defected. According to report, the defectors allegedthat the governor of the state, Gabriel Suswam, has disappointed them. They said he is no longer relevant in the…
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