The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Chief Ayo Arise as winner of Saturday’s senatorial re-run election which took place in all the five local governments of the state making up the senatorial district, having scored 36,674 votes.

LEADERSHIP of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State weekend described the N117b debt allegedly left by the immediate past Governor Olusegun Agagu as falsehood and a calculated attempt to blackmail him by the governor Olusegun Mimiko.

By Chidi Nkwopara Owerri – Imo State government says it will throw open its financial books to the investigation panel set up by the State House of Assembly to probe alleged “financial recklessness and misdemeanor” leveled against Governor Ikedi Ohakim by some politicians. Ohakim’s Special Adviser on Politics, Chief Rex Anunobi, who made this disclosure […]

Abakaliki – The Ebonyi Government has banned the operation on commercial motorcyclists on dualised roads in the Abakaliki metropolis. The Commissioner for Information, Mr Ken Ohuo, told journalists in Abakaliki that this was one of the decisions reached at the State Executive Council meeting. He said the government had also barred commercial motorcyclists from operating […]

The Minister of State for Finance, Mr. Remi Babalola, said at the weekend that full deregulation of the oil and gas sector had become necessary, arguing that the $4.6 billion subsidy per annum on fuel was not sustainable.