The chairman of Nigeria Governors Forum, and the outgoing governor of Kwara State, Dr Bukola Saraki, yesterday picked the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) ticket for Kwara Central Senatorial District. He emerged as the winner of the re-run primary election. Saraki polled 1,044 votes to beat Mallam Yonus Abdulrahman who scored 13 votes and Alhaji LAK […]
THE senatorial ambition of Senator Iyiola Omisore, Chairman Senate Committee on Appropriation may have suffered a setback as the Electoral Appeal Panel set up by the National Secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) disqualified him from the re-run senatorial race in Osun State. Also, a retrial Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Osogbo has nullified […]
Governors from three geo-political zones rose yesterday from a meeting, chaired by their Kwara State counterpart and leader of the Governors’ Forum, Bukola Saraki, with a firm resolve to ensure the stability of the country and support the presidential aspiration of President Goodluck Jonathan in the April, 2011 elections. The meeting, which is a continuation […]
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has threatened to destroy the oil industry in protest against the appointment of Mr. Kingsley Kuku as Special Adviser, Niger Delta Affairs, by President Goodluck Jonathan. The group in a statement yesterday did not, however, give any reasons for its opposition to Kuku’s appointment. Kuku, […]
European countries and their financial institutions may no longer be a safe haven for corrupt public officials in Nigeria and their family members. The European Union (EU) is said to be considering measures, including visa ban, on Nigerian officials found to have enriched themselves through the public till, akin to the Proclamation Act 7750 passed […]
A deadly spate of sectarian violence in Nigeria’s central Plateau State since December 24, 2010, has killed more than 200 people, Human Rights Watch said today. The victims, including children, have been hacked to death, burned alive, “disappeared,” or dragged off buses and murdered in tit-for-tat killings. The Nigerian government should act swiftly to protect […]
All is not well at the Northern Governors Forum as a bitter fight over the nomination of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan as Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has engulfed the forum. The Northern Governors Forum is made up of all the 19 northern state governors irrespective of their political affiliations. There are […]
At a historic public hearing, yesterday, at The Hague, Netherlands, the country’s Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Bert Ronhaar, defended the operations of oil multinational, Shell, in the Niger Delta, saying the Nigerian government should be held responsible for past crises in the oil rich region. The envoy also said corruption was killing the country’s oil […]
Soldiers in a central Nigerian city opened fire Saturday on university students protesting continuing violence between Christians and Muslims, witnesses said, with at least five people killed in the ensuing violence. The shooting came as gas stations and a farmer’s market smouldered after late Friday violence that sparked when Christian students attacked Muslims trying to […]
Two accused persons have been sentenced to one year imprisonment by an Ibadan Magistrate court for breaking into the house of Bola Ige, the slain attorney-general of the federation and minister of justice, and carting away valuables worth about N20 million. The convicts, Felix Nwagwu (30 years) and Olajide Olumo (36) were found guilty of […]
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