Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, in conjunction with some clerics from various denominations in the state, during a prayer session held at governor’s office open ground, prayed against those they claimed were plotting his impeachment in 2016, saying they shall be put to shame if they don’t back down on their plot. Governor Fayose, who led the prayer meeting, asked the clerics to pray against calamity befalling the country next year, saying he foresaw certain events happening in the country in 2016 that would shake the country to its foundation. The event, which was in collaboration with Ekiti State chapter…
Author: Wale Adebayo
Dr. Fredrick Fasehun, the founder of Odua People’s Congress (OPC), has called on President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to offset its debt to him and his organization for the protection of oil pipelines. The OPC leader, who is also the national chairman of the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN), said this at a quarterly interactive media round-table in Lagos yesterday. Dr. Fasehun recalled that the Goodluck Jonathan administration awarded contracts to six companies to guard pipelines belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). According to him, a total of 18,000 personnel were sent to the field out of which 4,000 belonged to…
A non-profit making organization named “Access to Justice (A2J)” has urged the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Burutai to step aside while investigation into how the military killed Shi’ite protesters in Zaria, Kaduna State, over a week ago, was been conducted by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). A2J Director, Joseph Otteh, in statement yesterday, said that it would be difficult to conduct an investigation or hold officers responsible while the people who ordered and shot members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, are still in office. “While we are not unmindful of the fact that Nigeria is engaged in a…
Governor Abubakar Sani Bello of Niger State has said that it will not be derailed from ensuring that the people of the state enjoy the change they voted for, but enjoined the people to be committed to the sustenance of peace in the state. This was confirmed in a statement signed by Mr Jonathan Vatsa, the Commissioner of Information, Culture and Tourism in the state. The statement further stated that the government was also ever committed to the security of lives and properties. He declared, “It is within the framework of the change agenda that the needed peaceful environment should be…
Bayelsa State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Esueme Dan-Kikile, on Tuesday, said that the recent revelation by the state Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Baritor Kpagih, that he was put under pressure by some unnamed politicians to induce him to rig the inconclusive December 5 governorship election, had vindicated the position of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state. Dan-Kikile said that though the series of alarm raised by PDP on plots by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to rig the governorship election in the state were dismissed by security agencies, the recent revelation by Mr. Kpagih, had confirmed fears raised by the…
The national chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has said that the removal of fuel subsidy is only a matter of time. The APC chair said the gradual removal of subsidy is inevitable in view of emerging and current realities. Mr. Odigie-Oyegun made the disclosure on Tuesday when he received a delegation of the APC National Coalition for Peace and Mobilization on a courtesy visit to him at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja. According to him, the current administration inherited an “infected system of subsidy run by corrupt cartels”. “In one way or the other, subsidy…
The former Board Chairman of Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC), Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje, on Tuesday, absolved himself from complicity in the award of contracts during his tenure in the corporation. He stated that no past chairman of the corporation was involved in the award of contracts running into billions of naira. The former acting national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s clarification came on the heels of the ongoing probe into the past activities of the railway corporation by the House of Representatives ad hoc committee set up to investigate the matter. Speaking with newsmen in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital shortly…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Taraba State has stated it would probe the state governor, Darius Dickson Ishaku of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), if the Appeal or Supreme Court declares the APC candidate, Senator Aisha Alhassan winner. The appeal court recently reserved judgment in the appeal filed by Gov. Ishaku challenging the governorship election petitions tribunal ruling that sacked him from office and declared Alhassan, who is currently the Minister for Women Affairs, Governor of Taraba. Briefing journalists yesterday in Jalingo, the state capital, the Taraba chairman of APC, Alhaji Hassan Jika Ardo, accused the present government of siphoning…
Hon. Beni Lar, a member of House of Representatives representing Langtang North/South federal constituency, has said the unimpressive performance of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) government in the country has put the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in vantage position to bounce back in the 2019. Beni Lar, who is the eldest daughter of the pioneer chairman of PDP, late Chief Solomon Lar, also decried the continued defection of her party members to the APC, saying it was necessary for party men to remain loyal to the principles and ideologies of their parties, no matter the challenges. Speaking to newsmen today in Abuja, during…
All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has accused Governor Ayo Fayose of being economical with the truth about the financial situation of the state. The opposition party said the governor’s message to civil servants that they should not expect salary in January was a mark of his uncaring attitude to workers, despite the fact that the current allocation to the state is enough to offset workers’ salaries. The Ekiti APC pointed out that since the governor had refused to embark on any infrastructure development programme in the state, he should explain what he does with the federal allocation accruing…