Story by Nwaorgu Faustinus Interim Chairman of the Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Dr Davies Ikanya, has hailed the decision of the party’s National leadership to frontally confront the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, and the government of President Goodluck Jonathan. Dr Ikanya was reacting to the directive given by the APC…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has released the timetable for the 2015 general elections. This was made known in Abuja on Friday by the Commission. The Commission also released the dates for the Ekiti and Osun States governorship polls holding the respective states in 2014. INEC disclosed further that the Presidential and National Assembly…
The Lagos State House of Assembly has asked the management of the Lagos State University, LASU, Ojo, to re-open its registration portal to some students who have not yet registered. This followed the closure of the school on Thursday by the school authorities after some aggrieved students staged a violent protest in the school. The…
The Supreme Court, on Friday, affirmed the election of Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State. The governor had filed an appeal challenging the decision of an Appeal Court in Owerri, the state capital, which granted a joinder to his predecessor, Ikedi Ohakim, in an appeal instituted by a candidate of the defunct Action Congress of…
The Lagos State government, on Thursday, expressed dismay over the continuous failure of traders at the popular Ladipo Auto Spare Parts Market in Mushin area of the state to keep to environmental laws in the market. This followed an on-the-spot assessment carried out by the state Commissioner of Environment, Tunji Bello, at the market on…
President of the Student Union Government of the Lagos State University, Ojo, Mojirade Hassan, revealed on Friday that the violent protest that marred the school’s examination on Thursday was hijacked by some thugs. Mojirade made this revelation at the public hearing held at the Lagos State House of Assembly to look into the crisis with…
The Ondo State House of Assembly has pardoned a female lawmaker, Fola Olasehinde-Vincent, suspended in 2013 for allegedly being in possession of some fetish substances. Addressing newsmen on Thursday in Akure, the state capital, the Deputy Speaker of the House, Dare Emiola, revealed that the Olasehinde-Vincent was recalled to the Assembly on December 31, 2013.…
The home based Super Eagles presently playing at the CHAN competition in South Africa will be $100,000 (N165 million) richer if the defeat Morocco on Saturday to qualify for the semi-final of the tourney. The National Sports Commission, NSC, Sports Minister, Bolaji Abdullahi, disclosed this in a statement. Abdullahi expressed optimism that the cash reward…
South Sudan’s government and rebels have signed a ceasefire deal that many hopes will put a pause to five weeks of fighting that has killed thousands of soldiers and civilians in the world’s newest country. The peace deal, signed in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Thursday by representatives of President Salva Kiir and Riek…
Director General of National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Alhaji Muhammad Sani Sidi, has described the disaster management institute operated by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, in Katsina as the best in Africa. The Corps runs the Institute of Peace and Disaster Management, IPDM. The NEMA boss asserted that with the level of…