Over 500 members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ajeromi/Ifelodun Local Government Area of Lagos State on Tuesday reunited with party leaders ahead of the July 24 council poll in the state. The reunification was presided over by the party’s LGA Chairman, Elder Mathew Abogunde, at the unveiling of PDP candidates for the forthcoming […]

—Inaugurates steering committee  By Johnbosco Agbakwuru  PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday approved the setting up of a private equity fund known as the Nigeria Investment and Growth Fund (NIG-Fund), to lead in resource mobilization drive and management for the poverty reduction initiative of his administration in a sustainable manner.  Meanwhile, the National Steering Committee (NSC) of […]

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru  The National Association of Seadogs, NAS, Lekki Branch, Lagos, in conjunction with the Atlantis Deck has performed free eye services to indigent people with severe eye defects in the area.  The services carried out during the medical outreach at Alpha Beach and Igbo Efon Communities and environs included free eye test, treatment, […]

…partners Private Coy to manage, turn waste to wealth By Bashir Bello Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State has on Tuesday vowed to complete an abandoned road project, Gorondutse – Jakara road initiated by his predecessor, the former governor Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso. The road project, from Gorondutse Junction/Aminu Kano Way to Jakara, called Sheik Mahmud […]

Five days after the federal government banned Twitter activities in the country, the microblogging platform is still unfazed and carries on as if nothing has happened. It has neither issued an official statement nor allowed its officials to entertain discussions around the ban

By Emma Amaize FORMER Minister of State for Education and Governorship Aspirant in Delta State, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi and Chairman, Senate Committee on Niger-Delta, Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, both ranking members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, fell out, yesterday, over the performance of Delta Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, who has done six years in office. […]

By Levinus Nwabughiogu Senate Minority Leader, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe Tuesday wore “The Dot Nation” T-Shirt to his office in the national assembly to showcase his Igboness. It will be recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari had in a recent interview with Arise TV in Abuja described the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB as “a dot in […]

By Dayo Johnson – Akure A Chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Ondo state and a member of the state Executive Committee of the party, Honourable Bamidele Emmanuel Isibor, has been shot dead by suspected kidnappers. Isibor, aged 62, a father of five, was attacked in company of three others on their way from Imoru […]

Nweze cannot be replaced ― Umahi By Peter Okutu GOVERNOR David Umahi of Ebonyi State, Tuesday lost one of his “Super Commissioners” in an auto crash at Enugu State. The Commissioner for Infrastructure and Concession, Engr Fidelis Kings Nweze, died in Turkish Hospital, Abuja after having a successful intestinal surgery. The vehicle he was traveling […]

Some aggrieved members of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun on Tuesday staged a protest to express their displeasure over alleged imposition of candidate ahead of the July 24 council polls in the state. The APC members from Abeokuta-North Local Government Area staged the protest at the premises of Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) at […]