Aggrieved members of Labour Party in Imo State, on Monday, staged a protest at the state secretariat office of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Owerri, the state capital, over the alleged delay in the release of the Certified True Copy result of the just-concluded governorship election in the state. The LP Chairman in the…
Former Liberia’s Vice President Joseph Boakai has been officially declared winner of Liberia’s presidential election, beating incumbent George Weah. According to the National Electoral Commission (NEC), Boakai won with 50.64 percent of the vote, against 49.36 percent of the vote for former international football star Weah, Weah had already conceded defeat on Friday evening, based…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has faulted the kind of democracy practiced in Africa. According to Obasanjo Western Liberal Democracy has not been a system of government in Africa because it was “forced” on the continent by the colonialists. He said this in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, while delivering a keynote address at an high-level…
Aggrieved members of the People’s Democratic Party On Monday stormed the headquarters of the Party in Abuja demanding the resignation of the party’s National Working Committee. The group, under the aegis of the PDP National Back Up arrived at Wadata Plaza, the national secretariat of the party demanding the immediate resignation of the acting National…
Lagos state governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has been criticized for approving the sum of N44.8m for the clearing of vegetables within the Epe Mixed Development Scheme. According to records from the state’s Public Procurement Agency, the project was awarded in May by the Lagos State New Towns Development Authority. The governor has also been attacked for…
Japan has condemned the hijacking of a Japanese-operated, British-owned cargo ship in the Red Sea by Iran-backed Houthi rebels. The Yemeni militia claimed the vessel was Israeli, and a spokesman said the seizure was only the beginning of a “battle at sea”. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed the Houthi’s backer, Iran, for the hijacking….
As calls for the resignation of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu increases over his continued stay in Ibadan some stakeholders in the state have added their voice calling on the governor to either return home or hand over the reins of government to his deputy Lucky Aiyedatiwa Ekweanaedo reports that governor Akeredolu has been in Ibadan since…
The police in Rivers state has denied reports of an assassination attempt on the factional speaker of the state House of Assembly Edison Ehie. Commissioner of Police Olatunji Disu says preliminary investigation did not reveal there was an assassination attempt on the factional speaker. While Ehie had alleged a murder attempt on him, the CP…
The Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) has warned Leaders of the All Progressives Congress APC and All Progressives Grand Alliance APGA, to stop their supporters against attacking each other in Anambra State. The right group Chairman in Anambra State, Comrade Vincent Ezekwueme over the weekend in Enugu demanded an end to the ongoing “despicable verbal attacks”…
Tears of Joy And Jubilation rent the air as the long awaited Anambra East, West Local Government Areas In Anambra State over the week, when information filtered in that the Federal Government has approved the award of contract for the 30 kilometers long abandoned and forgotten Otuocha-Nzam-Innoma-Iheaka-Abaji Road linking many rural Communities in Anambra North…
