Ondo state Governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko has vowed to give a good legacy on road network in the state even as he commissioned a 22.3km re- constructed Apata/ modern Market Ikare, Ugbe – Iboropa Ise Akoko roads and Afira bridge amidst wild jubilation by the natives. . Speaking at the commissioning of the road projects, Mimiko said his administration is progressively moving forward in giving the people of the State a better road network which he described as expensive but inevitable. . He vowed that his administration will continue to pay more premium on new roads construction and rehabilitation of…
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The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, yesterday, ordered members of the Interim State Executive Committee of the All Progressive Congress, APC, in Rivers State, to appear before it on February 20, to show cause why the party should not be restrained from registering new members in the state. . Ruling on an ex-parte motion that was filed by an aggrieved chieftain of the party in the state, Barrister Otonye Briggs, Justice Gabriel Kolawole, specifically ordered the Interim Chairman and Secretary of APC in Rivers state, Chief Davis Ikanya and Mr Emeka Beke, respectively, to ensure that they appear…
A group, Southern Kaduna Indigenes Progressive Forum (SKIPFo) yesterday said it has compiled enough documentary and other relevant information enough to drag Governor Mukhtar Ramalan Yero to the Internal Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague for what it said was genocide against the Atakad people of Kaura Local Government Area in the southgern part of Kaduna State. . A Press Statement signed by the Chairman of the registered group, Major George Asake (rtd) said that its lawyers were working in concert with other experts to file genocide charges against Yero, and possibly seek his extradition to stand prosecution even after…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has cautioned the senate President, Chief David Mark to stop playing politics with the issue of 11 defecting members of senate, saying the senators are free to join the party of their choice. . The senate president is yet to read the letter of former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senators who defected to All Progressive Congress. . Fayemi made the statement in reaction to the brouhaha dogging the defection of Senator Bukola Saraki and other ten Peoples Democratic Party senators on Thursday at his country home, Isan Ekiti in Oye Local Government while participating…
National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Adamu Muazu Thursday told the former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, G5 Governors who dumped the party for All Progressives Congress, APC that they were embarking on what he described as an unsuccessful sojourn. . Speaking at Wadata Plaza, PDP National Secretariat when he received the Katsina State delegation of the PDP led by the governor Ibrahim Shema, Muazu who pleaded with them to return to PDP family, said, “I appeal to those our members who have been wronged and decided to embark on a journey that is not successful to come…
Young Patriots, the youth wing of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has urged Nigerian youths to identify with the political process by participating fully in it. . Its National Coordinator, Mr Echezona Asuzu, said this at a world news conference in Abuja on Friday. . According to Asuzu, there is the need to hear the voice of Nigerian youths in every matter of national development because they are the most affected by the government policies. . He said, “the youths constitute more than 62 per cent of Nigeria’s population and they should rise up and speak for themselves by taking…
A cross-section of Nigerians on Friday appealed to the nation’s electricity generation and distribution companies to make energy consumption people- friendly. . They said that their expectations after the unbundling of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) have been dashed following the subsisting “crazy bills and the fixed rate billing of electricity.” . They made their appeals in separate interviews during the National Conscience Party (NCP’s) rally protest against the management of electricity providers in Lagos. . Mr Friday Arinze, who resides at Iyana-Ipaja, decried the what he termed the exorbitant bills of the new energy providers. .…
Gov. Jonah Jang of Plateau on Friday called on the people of the state to ensure a peaceful conduct of the Feb. 25 local government polls. . The governor made the call while inaugurating the campaign rally of Mr Caleb Mutfwang, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chairmanship candidate for the election in Mangu Local Government Area. . Jang, who spoke through the Secretary to State Government, Prof. Shadrach Best, said that the peaceful conduct of the local government polls would prepare the ground for further growth and development in the state. . “It is my belief that if we can…
Special Adviser to President on Ethics and Values, Mrs Sarah Jubril, has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to continue with transformation agenda to ensure electoral victory in 2015 general elections. . The chairman of the Caretaker Committee of PDP in Kwara, Mr. Christopher Edoja assured the people that the party will set the people of Kwara free from the ruling dynasty of the ‘Sarakis’. . Jubril made the call at a rally organised by the Kwara chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ilorin on Friday . Jubril assured the President of the unflinching support of members of the PDP…
Lagos State Government has concluded arrangements to issue license to prospective private companies to upgrade existing slaughtering slabs in the state to international standard. . Also, the state government has commenced transformation of the Oko-Oba Abattoir, Agege from its traditional operations. . Commissioner for Agriculture and Cooperatives, Prince Gbolahan Lawal, disclosed this yesterday, after a stakeholders’ meeting with the operators of Oko- Oba abattoir, Agege. . According to him, as part of improving the conditions at the Lagos abattoir, the following remedies were being given attention: licensing private companies to avert all existing slaughtering slab locations to mechanized process and…
The five ‘rebel’ Governors that defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, stalled hearing of the suit before the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court seeking to declare their seats vacant. . The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had gone before the high court, praying it to declare the seats of the five Governors vacant following their defection to the opposition APC, and order that the Deputy Governor or Speaker of the State Houses of Assembly of the respective states, be sworn-in to replace the defendants. . Those PDP urged the court to sack from office were Governors Murtala…
Alhaji Garba Abubakar, the Comptroller of Prisons in Kaduna State, has said that 56 prisoners had been freed from the Zaria prison by the state government. . Abubakar shortly after the release of the inmates said that the gesture was aimed at decongesting prisons across the state. . “When I assumed duty as comptroller I told the state Governor that our prisons are truly congested and by the power bestowed on him he should look into the problem. . “I thank God, the governor accepted the initiative and constituted a committee under the chairmanship of the state Attorney-General, Justice Shehu…
CHAIRMAN, Board of Trustees, BoT of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Tony Anenih said yesterday that with Adamu Muazu as National Chairman of PDP, there was now hope in the party and team work in the National Working Committee, just he stressed that leaders, stakeholders, members of PDP can now have their eyes closed. . Speaking yesterday when he led members of BoT on a solidarity visit to Muazu, told him that his predecessor, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur criticised him and other members of BoT for going round the country as part of moves to reconcile aggrieved members of the…
President Goodluck Jonathan Thursday in Abuja urged foreign ambassadors serving in Nigeria to do their best to convey the positive realities of the country to the world. . Speaking at an audience with the outgoing Italian Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Roberto Colamine, President Jonathan said that by doing so, the envoys will help immensely in correcting current misconceptions and adverse misrepresentations of Nigeria in the international community. . “The knowledge you have acquired here should be used positively to help us as you go back home,” the President told the ambassador. . President Jonathan commended Mr. Colamine for his untiring…
A tricyclist, who allegedly caused the death of a retired custom officer, Ibukun Oniremi, was on Thursday charged before an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. . The accused, 25-year-old Akeem Adeoye is facing a charge of manslaughter. . The prosecutor, Insp. George Nwosu said the accused committed the offence on Jan. 20 at 10.00 a.m. on Marwa Road, Ijegun, a Lagos suburb. . According to him, the accused hit the deceased’s car with his tricycle in the traffic. . “The deceased came out of his car with his belt to flog the accused. . “The accused in a…
An Abeokuta High Court on Thursday fixed April 3 and April 4 for the continuation of the trial of a former governor of Ogun, Chief Gbenga Daniel. . Daniel is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a 38-count charge bordering on fraudulent conversion of land and diversion of public funds. . The former governor however filed an appeal at the Court of Appeal, Ibadan, challenging a ruling of the lower court which dismissed his plea to quash counts 1-13 of the charges. . Justice Olanrewaju Mabekoje of the Abeokuta High Court consequently adjourned the case…
The PDP Board of Trustee (BoT) Chairman, Chief Tony Anenih, said there was hope for the party with the emergence Alhaji Adamu Mu`azu as PDP Chairman. . Anenih made this known on Thursday in Abuja when he led a delegation of the party`s BoT members on a courtesy call on Mu`azu. . He said that the visible effort of Mu`azu to re-build the party since he assumed office was an indication that there was hope for the PDP and the country generally. . “I want to thank you for being a team player. Today we have a National Working Committee…
Alhaji Gani Ola-Oluwa, the Chairman of the PDP in Osun, said on Thursday that the party had postponed its membership registration exercise. Ola Oluwa said in Osogbo that a new date for the exercise would soon be communicated to members. . It has been reported that the party had earlier announced that it would commence registration of members across the state last Monday. . “The party decided to shift the registration of members due to increased political activities. . “When it is time to register our members, we shall let them know because we are of the belief that membership…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers on Thursday condemned the alleged killing of some registration officers in the state. . This is contained in a statement signed by Chief Eze Chuwuemeka, the Media and Public Affairs Officer of the party in Port Harcourt. . “Some of the registration officers and innocent people of Rivers, who turned out to be registered by the APC, were attacked by thugs to destablize the exercise. . “Our registration units in Tombia, old Bakana and Woji ward 6 were attacked. . “The Chairman, Degema Local Government Supervisory Committee for the registration exercise and former…
Controversial Rivers State Commissioner, Joseph Mbu has been removed. . The Police Service Commission (PSC), Thursday, announced the redeployment of the police boss to Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. . According to the PSC, Johnson Ogunsakin of the Special Fraud Investigations Unit, Lagos is the new Rivers Commissioner of Police. . The PSC also said 12 other Commissioners were affected by the shake up based on the recommendations of the Inspector General of Police.