The Ekiti State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, took a swipe at Governor Ayodele Fayose, accusing him of being in the habit of promoting cloudy characters with several alleged crimes hanging on their necks far above Ekiti academic pride of the century, Ayodele Dada, who bagged the best graduating student award at the University of Lagos, UNILAG, with a record 5.0 CGPA.

Total budget N6.06 trillion: Recurrent expenditure: N2.6 trillion Capital expenditure: N1.5 trillion Deficit: N2.2trillion Debt service N1.4trillion Statutory transfers N351 billion National Assembly: N115 billion; Universal Basic Education: N77.110 billion; National Judicial Council: N70 billion; INEC: N45 billion Niger Delta Development Commission: N41.050 billion Public Complaints Commission: N2 billion National Human Rights Commission: N1.210 billion. […]

A member of the House of Representatives, Mr Joseph Edionwele, has said that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was ready to chase the Governor Adams Oshiomhole-led All Progressives Congress, APC, out of the state’s Government House in the coming governorship election.

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has dismissed insinuations that the state government has secured the N40 billion bailout fund from the Central Bank of Nigeria.

IN fulfillment of his electioneering campaigns, a member of the House of Representatives, Dr. Michael Enyong, has donated 18-seater Toyota Hiace buses, tricycles and generating sets to his constituents.

THE traditional ruler of Igbodo Kingdom in Ika North-East Local Government Area, Delta State, Obi Ikechukwu Osedume I, has commended the state government for building sustainable infrastructure across the state.

ANGERED by the delay in payment of compensation to Eket, which was affected by an oil spill in 2011, the youths from Eket Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom last Thursday barricaded the gates of Mobil Airstrip and Housing Estate and paralyzed activities at the facilities.

Seven Muslim leaders in Delta State have petitioned the state governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, alleging that they were forcefully imprisoned by his Executive Assistant on Religious Matters, Bishop Nmalagu Greatman, for over 30 minutes, when the latter invited them to a meeting in his office.

AS the economic situation drives deep welts into the flesh of Nigerians, there is a growing air of melancholy and despair as the Federal Government appears lost for options to bring succour to the people in the near future.

Wife of former Senate President, Mrs. Kate Mark, in collaboration with Live Healthy Organization, LHO, a Non Governmental Organization, NGO, at the weekend commenced free medical services for over 1,500 victims of the Agatu crisis camped at the Central Primary School Ugbokpo, Apa Local Government Area of Benue State.

Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello has reiterated his determination to sanitise the state’s civil service and make it more result-oriented.

Troops fighting Boko Haram terrorists in the North East have killed 29 terrorists in several clearance operations, while 72 innocent citizens taken hostage, including women and children, were rescued.

INDIGENES of Olomu Kingdom in Ughelli South Local Government Area, Delta State have every reason to celebrate their revered monarch, HRM Ovie Richard Layeguen Ogbon Ogoni-Oghoro I JP, the Ohworode of Olomu Kingdom

THE Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun, FUPRE, Delta says it has reached an advanced stage in the construction of a mini-refinery in response to the difficult challenge of fuel supply facing Nigeria.

CROSS River State House of Assembly, CRSHA, has resolved the rift between the state chapter of Nigeria Union of Teachers NUT and the State Universal Basic Education Board SUBEB and directed the latter to continue with its personnel audit of teachers in the state primary school sector.