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…
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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…