For the second time in one week, the Senate on Wednesday refused to deliberate on the ministerial nomination of Musiliu Obanikoro, former minister of State of Defence. The Senate cleared four ministerial nominees and shifted debates on another three, including Obanikoro to next week. The deferment was the second in one week for Obanikoro who…
March 28 Election, Most Important In Africa – US
Sean Mclntosh, Press Attache of the United States Embassy in Abuja has described the upcoming March 28 Presidential election in Nigeria as the most important on the African continent. McIntosh who stated this during a familiarisation visit to the Lagos corporate headquarters of TELL Communications Limited, publishers of TELL and BroadStreet Journal, BSJ, said the…
Fayose Awards N2.1bn Contract To Local Carpenters
The good times are here for members of Carpenters and Furniture Association of Ekiti State as they have secured a contract worth N2.1 billion from Ayodele Fayose, the State governor. The association on Monday evening signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MOU, with the state government on the contract. Dipo Anisulowo, the chief of Staff to…
Tinubu Threatens To Sue AIT
Bola Ahmed Tinubu, national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has threatened to sue the owners of African Independent Television, AIT, for airing a documentary he deemed defamatory “in all respects.” In a letter dated March 2, 2015, to the management of DAAR Communications Limited, owners of AIT, Tinubu gave the organization 24 hours…
Parties Sue INEC Over Electronic Card Readers
Besides the delay in the collection of the Permanent Voters Cards PVC, and insecurity the emerging headache of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC is the debate over the legality of the use of electronic card readers. Meanwhile, a Federal High Court in Abuja has refused an application filed by four political parties seeking to restrain…
Mu’azu Blames Fuel Scarcity on APC
Adamu Muazu, National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Monday, blamed the current fuel scarcity in the country on the opposition, All Progressives Congress, APC. Reacting to the fuel scarcity in a tweeter message on Monday, Mu’azu said, “Concerned Nigerians have drawn our attention to the fact that some opposition leaders and vested…
INEC Records 63 Per Cent PVC Collection in Ogun
Timothy Ibitoye, Ogun State resident electoral commissioner for the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Monday, March 2, corrected conflicting figures as far as Personal Voters Card, PVC, is concerned in Ogun State. Ibitoye said the actual number of registered voters are 1, 795, 794, while the PVC received so far from the National Headquarters…
Epe Council of Obas Endorse Ambode
Ahead of the April 11 governorship election in Lagos State, the Epe Council of Obas has unanimously endorsed the candidacy of Akinwunmi Ambode, the All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate in the state. The endorsement came on March 1, during a meeting between Ambode and the Obas at the Palace of the Alara of Ilara, His…
PDP Queries Jega’s Relationship with APC
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has expressed concern over what it described as sudden affection between the All Progressives Congress, APC and Attahiru Jega, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC in recent time. The APC’s huge interest in Jega’s stay in office ahead of the March 28 and April 11 general elections was…
Jega’s Sack, A Recipe for Disaster- Northern Elders Forum
As the alleged plot by the presidency to sack Attahiru Jega,the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, thickens,the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, has warned that such move will be a ”recipe for disaster.” Ango Abdullahi, spokesperson for the group, who stated this during a press conference on Friday, said “any attempt at this last…
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