Chairman of APC United Front, a group in All Progressives Congress, APC, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa, has described as laughable, calls by Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu on the National Chairman of APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, to resign as chairman of the party.

Mr. Godwin Obaseki of the All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, emerged governor-elect of Edo State upon his declaration as the candidate with the highest number of votes in the governorship election held Wednesday.

Nigeria’s foreign exchange market was tension-soaked yesterday, as the Naira raced towards N500/USD1. It closed at N490/ USD1 in the parallel market, with dealers expecting further rise today to hit the dreaded N500 mark.

Recession: FORMER Lagos State Governor and National Leader, All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has said that the economic recession the country is going through requires sacrifice from all Nigerians to see the country through.

THE Federal Government has constituted a committee to screen shipping operators interested in acquiring part of the 60 percent holding for Nigerians in the proposed National fleet.

The Nigerian Auto Journalists Association, NAJA, has released the list of finalists in different categories for the 2016 Nigeria Auto Journalists Award. According to a press statement by the Organising Committee, this year’s event which takes place at the EKO Hotel & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos on Thursday, November 24, 2016 has about 25 Award categories.

The South East governors have been accused of complacency, as rampaging herdsmen kidnap, kill, maim and senselessly destroy and takeover people’s farmlands in the geopolitical zone.

Pasto: ABEOKUTA—The pastor who allegedly got stuck in a shrine in Ketu community, Ayetoro, in Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun State, Prince Wale Fagbire, has denied being struck by idols while destroying their shrines. Pastor Fagbire, who presides over Christ Apostolic Church, Ona-Iye, Ayetoro, said he was instructed not to utter a word after he destroyed the shrines.

Training: ASABA—AS part of his efforts to meaningfully engage the unemployed, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has flagged off the 2016 Skill Training and Entrepreneurship Programme, STEP, Youth Agricultural Entrepreneurs Programme, YAGEP, and Graduate Employment Enhancement Programme, GEEP for the training of youths in their areas of interests.

Femi Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria has described as a joke the demand for an apology by former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Charles Chukwuma Soludo, over his questioning of the management of the country’s foreign reserves during his tenure at the apex bank.

ONE of the governorship aspirants in the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state, Dr Tunji Abayomi, has lashed out at the National Leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu for calling on the party’s National Chairman, Chief John Oyegun to resign over the choice of Akeredolu.

My response has not changed. We indicated that since the party has followed that perfidious direction, we are leaders of the people. We have defined territory of aspiration which is Ondo State, we know the desire of our people, they want change, this change is desirable because they want a government whose priority would be the welfare of the people.

Echoes of the Kiriji war between Ibadan and Ekiti Parapos, which ended on September 23, 1886 resonated again, last week, as prominent sons and daughters of Yorubaland including traditional rulers gathered at the International Conference Centre, University of Ibadan, to review what led to the war and the lessons the South West geopolitical zone should learn from it.

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THERE was a political earth tremor in the camp of Governor Ayodele Fayose during the week and by the time the dust settled, the fate of two of his trusted allies and disciples in the Ekiti State House of Assembly were hanging in the balance.