2027: Non-release of N371bn to INEC threatens polls
With 111 days to the January 16, 2027 presidential and National Assembly elections, concerns are mounting over the non-release of the balance of about N371 billion of the N873.78 billion budget projected for the polls, with the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, warning that sustained funding is critical to effective planning, logistics and security.
Breaking: Soldier sentenced to death for allegedly killing Boko Haram suspect
A Soldier, Lance Corporal Hillary Joel has been sentenced to death by the Army General Court Martial in Borno State for killing a Boko Haram terrorist suspect in Borno state.
Ondo APC crisis: Akeredolu still bitter over primaries – Kekemeke
RATHER than wane, the post governorship primary crisis in the All Progressive Congress, APC, in Ondo State has continued to fester. The crisis took a new twist last week with the suspension of Hon. Isaac Kekemeke as the state chairman of the party. In this interview, Kekemeke, among others, fingered Governor Rotimi Akeredolu as the brain behind his removal insisting that he remains “the unshakeable elected chairman.”
$5.8bn loan: S-East states included in rail projects— Amaechi
Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, yesterday, debunked the allegation of non-inclusion of South-East states in the rail line projects of the railway networks across the country for which $5.8 billion loan is being sought from China.
Dogara’s house at halftime: 166 Bills after much bickering
By Emman Ovuakporie The inauguration of the 9th House of Representatives on June 9, 2015, was laced with many intrigues with political stakeholders across the polity engaging one another in many political conspiracies. The leadership election pitched Yakubu Dogara from Bauchi State against the party’s favourite, Femi Gbajabiamila. Dogara, who won the election despite the […]
AKEREDOLU: Kudos, knocks in 100 days of foundation laying
NO doubt, the traditional hundred days in office of Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN, as the sixth governor of Ondo State since the creation of the state in 1976 was used to lay foundation for the development of the state with the hope of delivering the dividend of democracy to the people who gave him the mandate in no distant future. Akeredolu was sworn in on February 24, making Friday, June 2, his 100th day in office.
