Jimi Agbaje, PDP governorship candidate in Lagos State, on Saturday urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to repeat the Permanent Voters Card, PVC registration exercise in Lagos. Agbaje made the appeal at an endorsement rally put together by Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Support Group to canvass for President Jonathan and Agbaje at the 2015 polls.…
APC Berates Dankwambo Over Attack On Party
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has described as “despicable and barbaric,” the removal of its party posters and billboards in Gombe State allegedly on the orders of the state governor, Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo. It was reported that during his visit to Kashere, the hometown of Danjuma Goje, a serving Senator and political rival on Thursday,…
Fashola Presents Lagos Development Plan
Governor Babatunde Fashola has said that the continuous fall in crude oil price at the international market will not ground the Lagos State economy. The governor disclosed this on Tuesday, December 16 at the formal presentation of the state`s 2012-2025 Development Plan in Ikeja, the state capital. “Whatever happens to oil, the state will survive.…
Buhari Names Osinbajo As Running Mate
Muhammadu Buhari, Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has named Yemi Osinbajo, a professor of law, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN and former Commissioner of Justice and Attorney-General of Lagos State, as his running mate for the February 14, 2015 general election. Osinbajo’s nomination came exactly seven days after the party held its…
Cocoa Production Still A Family Enterprise In Nigeria –US
The United States, US says it is worried by the fact that cocoa production is still raised by hand, not by machine, and remains a very labor-intensive commodity to produce in Nigeria. The US said despite the physical labor involved in the production of Cocoa in the West African country, farmers are realising very limited…
APC Guber Primaries: Voting Still Ongoing In Lagos
Delegates from seven out of the twenty local government areas of Lagos State have so far voted in the ongoing primary election of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the state. The local government areas that have voted and the number of delegates from each one is Epe: 291; Badagry: 305; Ikorodu: 498; Ibeju-Lekki: 189;…
NOA sensitises voters
Voters in Lagos State have been advised to secure their permanent voter’s card, PVC in readiness for the 2015 general elections. The advice was given during a sensitisation campaign by the national orientation agency, NOA in Somolu/Bariga local government area, on November 26. At the programme, which was attended by dignitaries from the local government,…
Lagos Guber Race: Shasore As A Game Changer
The race for the exalted office of the governor of Lagos State has taken a new twist with the recent emergence of Olasupo Shasore, a former Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General in Lagos State who served between 2007 and 2011. Shasore, who recently picked his nomination and expression of interest forms at the state…
APC Primaries: Desmond Elliot wins, Dayo Adeneye Loses
Desmond Elliot, popular Nollywood actor, has won the All Progressives Congress, APC, primary ticket to represent Surulere constituency 1 in the Lagos State House of Assembly on December 2. He defeated a two-term incumbent, Kabiru Lawal with a wide margin. In another development, Kenny Saint Brown lost Ikeja constituency primary election for the Lagos State…
Fashola Signs Sex Offenders Register
Babatunde Fashola, Lagos State governor has signed an executive order establishing a sex offenders’ register on December 1, at the Lagos House, Ikeja. Rahman Ipaye, Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Lagos State while speaking at the event expressed concerns that the growing rate of sexual abuse and child abuse in the state call for…