The Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole, on Saturday, fired at the former Chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Tony Anenih, asking him to return his share of the $2.2 billion arms deal bazaar collected from embattled former National Security Adviser, NSA, Sambo Dasuki. Speaking at a rally of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Benin City where prominent PDP leaders and their followers including two former members of the Federal House of Representatives, Patrick Ikhariale and Abbas Braimah, defected to the APC, Oshiomhole said: “We have seen even the godfather’s name being mentioned. Even at…
Author: Wale Adebayo
The stakeholders in the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi West have commenced process for replacement of Hon. James Faleke due to his insistence not to present himself for swearing-in as Deputy Governor of Kogi State. The stakeholders also called on the Kogi State governor-elect, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, and the national leadership of the party to accept a suitable replacement from them. While insisting that party supremacy must prevail at all times, the stakeholders in a communiqué read yesterday in Abuja, advised Governor-elect Bello to be careful of some political jobbers, who they said have constituted a nuisance to APC in Kogi West.…
A former national legal adviser to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olusola Oke, has called on the Governor of Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, to account for the N14.6billion received as bailout from the Federal Government for the payment of workers’ salaries. He also said that despite the fact that the state government received a N7.8billion loan in addition to the bailout, the government was still owing workers’ salaries. In a statement issued by his media aide, Rotimi Ogunleye, on Friday, Mr. Oke, who defected to All Progressives Congress, APC, earlier this year, said he was concerned about an attempt…
All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned what it described as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors Forum’s attempt to polarise the country along oil-producing and non-producing lines. The APC National Secretary, Mai Mala Buni, in a statement on Saturday, said all geo-political regions of the country are important and equal partners in progress in efforts by the APC and President Muhammadu Buhari to return Nigeria to her respected position in the comity of nations. The APC scribe also described as hogwash, Friday’s outburst by the PDP governors Forum that the nullification of elections of PDP governors was a plot by the governing…
The Nigerian Army has disclosed that the Leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheik Ibrahim El-Zakzaky is alive and well. The Army Spokesperson, Colonel Sani Usman, said this in an interview aired on Channels TV last week. Narrating how the the bloody confrontation between members of the Islamic sect and the Army started, Usman said there was no procession by the group that day but a deliberate attack on the convoy of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai. “One thing I want you to understand is that there wasn’t any procession that day,” he said. “Sometime…
The leadership of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has insisted that the N18,000 minimum wage for Nigerian workers was not fixed, but was negotiated through a tripartite system. Therefore, NLC warned that any governor reneging on that agreement is breaking the law of the land and called on such state chief executive to resign from his position. The NLC also hailed the ongoing war against corruption by President Muhammadu Buhari, saying that the menace had killed more people in the country than road accidents. NLC President, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, told reporters at the weekend in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital, shortly after…
ECOWAS leaders are currently studying a proposal to “forbid” women wearing full-face veils in a bid to curtail the growing number of female suicide bombers. The leaders, who met last week in Abuja, are considering a ban of the full-face veils in the region, popular with Muslim women, following the use of teenage girls dressed in such outfits, as suicide bombers by Boko Haram terrorists. As it loses swathes of previously held territories in the North-East to the Nigerian Army, Boko Haram have in recent months started launching guerilla-style attacks, using young women and girls as suicide bombers by hiding explosives…
The United Nations (UN) has pledged support for Federal Republic of Nigeria in its effort to conquer the twin menace of corruption and terrorism. In view of this, the UN Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki Moon, weekend, sent a high-powered delegation to have a meeting with the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, at his office in Abuja. A statement by the Director of Information at the Federal Ministry of Justice, Mr. Nwodo Charles, revealed that the delegation was led by UN Special envoy on ECOWAS, Dr. Mohammed Ibn Chambas. Chambers said the UN will…
Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, on Saturday, said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) under President Goodluck Jonathan squandered the resources of the country. However, he pointed out that things have changed positively since the coming of President Muhammadu Buhari, although it will take time “to clean up the mess of the past”. “For the first time, big people are being asked to account, in the past we only hear of governors, local government people, commissioners but this time we are seeing Minister of Finance confessing like a witch craft how they took money and even co-opt their children…
More than500,000 residents of Iponri Low-Cost Housing Estate, Surulere Local Government Area, Lagos State, today appealed to the Lagos State Government to save their lives from epidemic looming in the area. The sewage plant that usually drains dirty water from the soak-away of more than 400 housing units with 500,000 residents had been disconnected by Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) due to unpaid bills. Due to the development, the sewage plant had flooded the estate by dirty water from the soak away. President, Iponri Housing Estate Residents’ Association, Mr Abdul-Rasak Osho, told newsmen that the sewage plant constructed by the Lagos State…