Month: September 2015

Creative Ways To Talk With Loved One When Travelling, By Ogunfowoke Adeniyi

A concern for travellers is the expensive cost of making calls especially during international travel. In spite of the efforts made by telecommunication companies to beat down prices by roaming your number, the telephone bills for travellers keep piling. As to providing some reprieve, Jovago.com, Africa’s No.1 hotel booking portal roundup cost effective ways to…

CCT: Trial Resumes October 21

Justice Danladi Yakubu Umar of the Code of Conduct Tribunal sitting in Abuja has fixed Wednesday, October 21, 2015 for commencement of trial of the Senate President, Olubukola Saraki. Saraki is standing trial before the CCT over allegation of false declaration of assets while he was the governor of Kwara State and thereafter as a…

BREAKING: Saraki Arrives Tribunal

Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has arrived venue of the Code of Conduct Tribunal in Abuja for his trial over alleged false declaration of assets. He was expected to appear on Monday, but failed to do so, which prompted the Tribunal to give a fresh arrest warrant. He was accompanied to the Tribunal by the Deputy…

Ambode Forwards List Of Commissioners To Assembly

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has sent names of his would-be Commissioners and Special Advisers to the state House of Assembly for approval. In the list are 23 Commissioners and 13 Special Advisers, who are mainly technocrats and the governor hopes to work with them to move the state forward. At the moment, Ambode…

Wike Spending Last Days In Office—APC

By Nwaorgu Faustinus The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has said Nyesom Wike of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is spending his last days in office as governor of Rivers State. The party, reacting to the statement credited to the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, that even if counsels to…

Olu Falae Abducted In Ondo

A former presidential candidate and Afenifere leader, Olu Falae has been kidnapped in his farm in Akure, the Ondo State capital. The former Secretary to the Government of the Federation was said to have been abducted on Monday, September 21, 2015. Details of the abduction of the 76 years old former Minister of Finance is…

Tribunal Victory: Senator Adeola Describes Petition As ‘Frivolous Distraction’

Following the judgment of the Lagos State National and State Assembly Election Petition Tribunal dismissing the petition against his victory over the weekend, the senator representing Lagos West Senatorial District, Solomon Adeola has stated that the petition against his victory is a frivolous distraction against his popular mandate from the people. The senator, who was…