GOVERNOR Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola of Osun State has promised to redirect the course of governance in the State in the direction of human and social development of the people after what he claims to be seven and a half years of directionless administration.
On a day that the Court of Appeal declared Engr. Rauf Aregbesola as the winner of the 2007 Osun State governorship elections, six months to the end of his supposed tenure after three and a half years of legal fisticuffs, President Goodluck Jonathan, former President of Pakistan, Gen. Pervez Musharaf and former Ambassador to the United Nations, Chief Arthur Mbanefo, have urged Nigerians to end election rigging by protecting their votes in the 2011 polls.
For the family of Alhaji and Alhaja Tunde Busari both natives of Ilorin in Kwara state , it has been decades of nightmares, agonies, pains, humiliation and disappointments over their state of childlessness until early this month when a set of twins silently crept into the family. The family got married in 1986.
The acceptance of the PDP’s de cision to field Atiku Abubakar by his rivals is a model of democratic practice at the highest level. Pardon me if, even as a Nigerian, I affirm that it is “unNigerian”. Perhaps it presages a brighter future for our national politics
Papa Herbert Unegbu was a first generation Nigerian journalist. He was News Editor, Daily Times, Editor, West African Pilot, Eastern Regional Editor, Radio Nigeria and Head of News, Biafran Broadcasting Corporation.
At long last, Lagos doctors have called off their three and half months’old strike. And gradually life is picking up at the Lagos hospitals.
Chief Barnabas Gemade, former National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party does not agree Atiku Abubakar is the consensus candidate of the North as he is being projected. ‘I am a Northerner and he does not represent me or my political views’. He dismisses consensus as a reflection of political interest of Mallam Adamu Ciroma and says Atiku is no match for Jonathan’s candidacy.
THE Spate of kidnappings in Edo state reared up its head yesterday in Benin as the General Manager of Edo Broadcasting Service (EBS), Mr. Tunde Ebozoje was abducted by unknown gunmen.
FORMER Vice President Atiku Abubakar yesterday fired back at President Goodluck Jonathan, asking him to take bold and accept responsibility as the leader of the country, just as he said that accusing him was a show of shame.
AFTER over three years of legal battle, Engineer Rauf Aregbesola, who contested on the platform of the Action Congress, AC has been declared winner of the April 14, 2007 governorship election.
Rotimi Amaechi versus Celestine Omehia, 26 Oct. 2007In a unanimous judgment read by the presiding judge, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu, the Supreme Court, in Abuja sacked the Celestine Omehia-led administration in Rivers State and ordered that Rotimi Amaechi be sworn in immediately as governor of Rivers State.
EMINENT Nigerians yesterday described the Court of Appeal verdict on Osun State governorship tussle between Engineer Rauf Aregbesola and Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola as victory for democracy.
Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan was born on November 20 1957 to a peasant farmer named Jonathan and his wife at their humble homestead in Otuoke, in Bayelsa State . He worked as a Preventive Officer with the Department of Customs and Excise before he secured admission into the Department of Zoology in 1977 as a pioneer student of the newly established University of Port Harcourt where he bagged a Bachelor of Science degree in 1981, graduating with a Second Class Honours (Upper Division).
Lillian Chukwu, a 32 year-old working class lady at the Victoria Island, Lagos, rose on Monday 22, November 2010, in a very high spirit to start her work.Little did she know her hopes for a better day at work would be truncated by a notorious fraud syndicate, that almost swindled her of all her life earnings. It was mother luck that saved her from becoming a victim of fraudsters.
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