The face-off between Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti and the All Progressives Congress, APC, members in the state House of Assembly assumed a different dimension as the State Government on Tuesday sacked all aides to the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the State House of Assembly. This is contained in a statement issued by the Secretary to the State Government, SSG, Modupe Alade in Ado-Ekiti. The Speaker and his deputy, Dr. Adewale Omirin and Adetunji Orisalade respectively, are of the APC. The statement listed those relieved of their appointment to include: Wole Olujobi, Special Adviser (SA) (Media), Ojobamikan Dele, SA…
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Former Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, was on Tuesday named chairman of the 27-member All Progressives Congress convention planning committee. Former acting national chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Kawu Baraje was named as deputy chairman of the committee. The committee was given the task of planning the convention as well as fashioning out the modality of electing the party’s presidential candidate for the 2015 presidential poll. The committee has 21 days within which to deliver complete its assignment. While inaugurating the committee, national chairman of the party, Chief John Oyegun, said members were carefully chosen after…
The Senate on Tuesday suspended the consideration of President Goodluck Jonathan’s letter requesting the extension of a state of emergency in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe, after divisions over whether or not to approve the request. The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reports that shortly after the introduction of the motion by the Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egbe, the mood among a section of the senate changed. Some of the senators were obviously against another extension of the emergency in the region. NAN further reports that a swift intervention of the Senate President, David Mark, to ensure consideration of the letter was…
Aganga, Jonathan, Baroness Lynda Chalker at the 15th HIIC meeting in 2013 President Goodluck Jonathan is going to London to preside over a meeting of Nigeria’s Honorary International Investment Council (HIIC) which opens on Friday. He will be joined by the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke, the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Olusegun Aganga, the Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo, the Minister of Defence, Gen Aliyu Gusau (rtd.) and the Minister of Transport, Senator Idris Umar. Established in 2004, the HIIC advises…
‘Operation No Mercy’ embarked on by the Nigerian military to drive out Boko Haram terrorists from towns taken over in Nigeria’s north east is recording success as three more communities have now been recaptured. The Defence Headquarters disclosed this on Wednesday via its website. The hard-fighting security operatives were said to have taken full control of Gombi, Pelia and Hong communities in Adamawa State. “The Nigerian troops in their daring exploit have taken full control of more communities in Adamawa State, including Gombi, Pelia and Hong,” the message on the DHq website read. “The ongoing military operations in the North-Eastern…
State governments want the federal government to pay them an extra $2 billion to cover shortfalls caused by falling global oil prices, as Nigeria’s revenue crunch continues becoming evident. According to Vanguard, a panel of finance commissioners representing all 36 states had asked that the money be dispersed by mid-December, saying that if the FG fails to oblige, the state governments may not be able to pay salaries and meet contract obligations. Chairman of the States’ Commissioners of Finance Forum, Timothy Odaah, while highlighting the country’s financial troubles said that FG may even find it difficult to provide sufficient funding…
Questions bordering around the ownership of the aircraft alleged by Prophet T.B. Joshua to have caused the collapse of a guest house at the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), where 116 persons died has been answered at a coroner’s inquest on Wednesday. Although several experts have dismissed the claims of Joshua, many have argued that the validity of his allegation, there is need for people to know where the aircraft came from. It has now been revealed that the aircraft was an air force plane. “We have found out that the aircraft belongs to the NAF (Nigerian Air Force)…
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has inaugurated a 27-man National Convention Committee (NCC) chaired by ex-Governor Kayode Fayemi, that will conduct primaries for all its presidential aspirants in the next 22 days. Oyegun, who inaugurated the committee at the APC National Secretariat in Abuja yesterday, challenged the committee to prove critics who say the party is a gathering of strange bedfellows wrong. “I have had the benefit of organizing and running a convention before. I am aware that I had more time to accomplish the assignment. You have about 21 or 22 days…
Finally, award wining rapper, Ice Prince, confirmed that he dated Ghanaian Actress, Yvonne Nelson. There has been rumours that both dated but there has not been any actual proof to these. When Olisa asked him on “The Truth” why the couple parted company, he said “it just didn’t work. She’s a very very busy person. She was way busier than I was at the time”.
The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has dissolved the party’s executives in Ebonyi and Adamawa States. The decision to sack the executives was taken at the meeting of the National Working Committee of the party, which was held in Abuja on Tuesday. Speaking at a press briefing at the end of the meeting, the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, said the move was to ensure discipline in the party and a demonstration of party supremacy. He said, “In order to maintain discipline and to show the supremacy of the party and in furtherance of running a…
Gov. Sullivan Chime of Enugu State said on Tuesday that the PDP congresses in the state were “totally unacceptable” to its members and the people of the state. Chime made the declaration at a PDP stakeholders meeting in Enugu on Tuesday, saying the congresses were not subjected to the will of the people of the state. On the current crisis rocking the party in the state, the governor said it was a result of contrary decisions by some members of the party. He said that going out of the PDP was the easiest way to retire from politics and that…
PHOTO CREDIT: DAILY POST Former Governor of Old Anambra State, Senator Jim Nwobodo, yesterday narrated how his son, Dr. Ifeanyichukwu Nwobodo jnr died following the alleged negligence of a doctor. Nwobodo said his son was treated at the Anderson Medical Cancer Centre in Houston, Texas, United States but rather than stay longer in the U.S. returned to Nigeria because he was feeling homesick. The former governor said his son developed pains in the legs and was taken to a consultant oncologist at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Enugu. However, rather than take his son to the UNTH, which…
The Oyo State Director of National Orientation Agency, Mr Remi Omowon, has warned politicians in the state against buying voter cards or amassing them by fraudulent means, saying the system put in place by the Independent National Electoral Commission for the 2015 general election would checkmate any attempt to vote by proxy. Omowon spoke on Tuesday at the Oyo State House of Chiefs, Ibadan, during the agency’s Voter Education and Security Awareness Campaign. He said, “Politicians should not bother to buy voter cards as the arrangement put in place by INEC will not allow for voting by proxy or using…
Marriages are like the biggest moment in most people’s lives. Sister to Beyonce — Solange, has had that experience twice already in her short life. The day would be remembered by her for some major reasons, most of which ain’t too good. On that day, Solange unfortunately experienced an allergic reaction to something she ate, this left her face swollen and filled with rashes. The wedding was one of the oldies styled wedding and Solange suffered a major wardrobe malfunction as her b**bs busted out in a plunging pantsuit as she danced away at a Mardi Gras style parade in…
The Commissioner of Police in charge of the Federal Capital Territory, Wilson Inalegwu, has assured that the Police would be fair to all political parties in the FCT during the 2015 general elections. The police boss, however, warned that all political parties must apply for permit before they can organize rallies, campaigns, assembly, meetings and processions for security reasons. Speaking when he met with all political party leaders and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Resident Electoral Commissioner, FCT, Godwin Kwanga, on Tuesday in Abuja, CP Inalegwu said all approvals must be given by his office. “The essence of applying…
OUTGOING CJN, ALOMA MUKHTAR (L) AND Justice MAHMUD MOHAMMED The Senate, yesterday, confirmed the nomination of Justice Mahmud Mohammed for appointment as Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), as Justice Aloma Mukhtar retires tomorrow. The lawmakers confirmed Mohammed’s nomination, following his successful screening during plenary. President Goodluck Jonathan had last week forwarded the name of Justice Mohammed to the Senate for confirmation as the new CJN, after nominating him for the position. In a letter dated November 10, written to the Senate, Jonathan noted that the nomination of Mohammed was in line with Section 231 (1) of the 1999 Constitution of…
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, on Tuesday finally withdrew from the presidential race on the platform of All Progressives Congress. The Speaker made his decision public in a statement he signed and made available to journalists in Abuja. Tambuwal said the decision to suspend his presidential bid was taken after due consultations and considerations of the overall interest of the APC. He equally noted that going ahead with such a bid at this time, would alter calculations on the political chessboard of the party. The Speaker also commended his associates and colleagues, who had faith in…
A civil society group, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, has asked the two major political parties in the country, the Peoples Democratic Party and All Progressives Congress, to disclose their sources of funding for the 2015 elections campaigns. The group, which served the political parties a Freedom of Information requests, asked them to “urgently provide information about their spending on the electoral campaigns and other operations linked to the February 2015 general elections”. This was contained in a statement signed by the Executive Director of SERAP, Mr. Adetokunbo Mumuni, on Tuesday. The group said, “By virtue of Section 1…
I bet most of you never knew Will Smith had been married before. Will married Sheree Fletcher and divorced her nearly 20 years ago, but Will’s current wife Jada Pinkett Smith is still very protective of her man. The 46-year-old actor and Jada came out to celebrate the 22nd birthday of Will and Sheree’s son Trey Smith, also known as DJ AcE, last Saturday at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. And Jada, 43, made sure to stake her claim by placing her hand gently on Will’s left thigh, as he sat in between the two ladies. See…
Residents of northern states that have suffered Boko Haram attacks are increasingly taking the security of their communities into their own hands, as a mob Tuesday beat a suspected terrorist carrying explosives, to death. The suspect was said to have been stopped at a bus station in Gombe, capital city of Gombe State, where at least eight people were killed in a series of blasts last month. “There was a scuffle. He was overpowered by the onlookers who pounced on him in order to assist in making sure his bag was searched,” Vanguard quoted State Police Commissioner Abdullahi Kudu as…