Osun Election: Oyebamiji accepts result, congratulates Adeleke
The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the August 15 Osun State governorship election, Bola Oyebamiji, has accepted the outcome of the poll and congratulated Governor Ademola Adeleke, two weeks after the election. Adeleke, who contested on the platform of the Accord Party, was declared winner of the election. In a statement on Saturday, Oyebamiji […]
Dina: Attack on govt delegation diversionary, say Ogun Elders’
The Elders’ Council of the People Democratic Party, PDP, in Ogun East, has said the attack unleashed on the delegation of Ogun State to the burial of late Dipo Dina was a ploy to divert attention of the law enforcement agencies from the real killers of the deceased.
Fire guts building, kills one
One person simply identified as Papa Oyekachi, was Sunday burnt to death and property which monetary value could not be immediately ascertained destroyed when an afternoon inferno gutted a storey building situated at No 1, Cardoso street, Kirikiri town, Lagos State.
Senators, North shop for Jonathan’s deputy
Key officials and members of the influential National Interest Group, NIG, in the Senate are meeting today to reappraise the group’s strategy in the face of increasingly desperate lobby by high-ranking northerners desiring the office of Vice-President in the post-Umaru Yar‘Adua era.
AC to Jonathan: Sack Iwu now
The Action Congress, AC, has urged Acting President Goodluck Jonathan to immediately sack the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Maurice Iwu, as a first step in the much-expected review of the nation’s electoral system ahead of the 2011 election.
14 burnt alive in Edo auto crash
NO fewer than 14 persons were weekend roasted to death in a ghastly road accident at Ikpoba Hill district in Benin on the Benin-Agbor-Onitsha carriage way.
