The Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Olamide Oladiji, has blamed Deputy Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa for the lingering crisis in the state adding that the Deputy Governor is not yet ready for genuine reconciliation to warrant quashing the impeachment saga between him and the state legislators. Oladiji, who disclosed this in Akure, the…
The Appeal Court sitting in Abuja has fixed Monday November 6 2023 for hearing in the appeal of Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) against his All Progressive Congress (APC) rival, Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna. The governor had filed an appeal to challenge the nullification of his election by the Kano…
Ahead of Saturday’s governorship elections in Imo, Kogi and Bayelsa states, the Inspector-General of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun, has deployed undercover agents, who are currently carrying out covert operations to identify criminals’ hideouts and clamp down on them in the three states and neighbouring states According to reports, President Bola Tinubu had approved the allowances for…
Reports reaching our news desk has it that the plane that crashed on Friday night in Ibadan was carrying the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu. It was gathered that the private jet operated by Flint Aero crash-landed on Friday night at the Samuel Ladoke Akintola Airport. Having departed the Abuja airport on Friday evening, the…
Minister of Aviation and Aerospace, Festus Keyamo has threatened to sack chief executives of the aviation agencies under his ministry than lose his own job. Keyamo spoke in Lagos at the one-day stakeholders’ meeting, the first to be held since he assumed office. Recall the ministers serving in the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government had…
Bruno Fernandes scored a stoppage-time winner against Fulham to alleviate the pressure on Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag. United were heading for another game without a win or a goal when Fernandes drilled low past Bernd Leno from the edge of the box following a poor clearance. alScott McTominay thought he had given the…
A public policy think tank, group, the Neo Africana Centre, NAC, has expressed satisfaction with the decision of the Supreme Court to revisit the December 20, 2019 judgment on the Imo State governorship election of 2019. The unsettled issues around that election have led to disruptions and instability in the State political landscape, culminating in…
Ahead of the off-cycle governorship election in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi state next weekend, a civil society organization (CSO), the Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Center, (RULAAC) has questioned the prospects of a fair and credible election in Imo state The CSO also raised alarm over the recent attack on the President, Nigeria Labour…
Rescue efforts are ongoing in Nepal after Fridays devastating earthquake which left 150 people dead Security forces have been deployed to help rescue efforts in the rugged districts of Jajarkot and West Rukum, 500km (310 miles) west of Kathmandu. Strong tremors were felt far away in the Nepalese capital and in cities in neighbouring India,…
The Federal Government has commenced investigation into the private jet accident that occurred at the Ibadan Airport on Friday night. Officials of the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau confirmed on Saturday morning that there was a plane Crash at the airport the previous night, but fortunately no live was lost They stated that investigators from the…
