Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola yesterday challenged the Yoruba race on the need to sustain the nation’s democratic principles. Aregbesola, who was delivering his keynote address at an interactive forum with the theme: “Yoruba Nation: Agenda for National Politics of Development”, said the move became necessary because the Yoruba race constitutes a formidable force with […]
GOVERNOR Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State may have proved wrong critics of his administration as he inaugurated 20,000 volunteers in the Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme (OYES) yesterday. When the government introduced the scheme, opposition party picked holes in the project, describing the exercise as a ploy to train a militia group in readiness for the […]
President Goodluck Jonathan has stressed the critical nature of the South-West to his administration, saying that the zone will not be left to “rascals” to rule. Specifically, the President noted that Lagos State, being the commercial and industrial hub of the country, must be governed by the PDP. Jonathan spoke on Tuesday in Ibadan, […]
Hon Adejare Bello An Election Petition Retrial Tribunal sitting in Osogbo on Saturday nullified the election of the Speaker, Osun State House of Assembly, Chief Adejare Bello. Delivering its judgment, the retrial tribunal, led by Justice Patrick Elechi, held that election into the Ede-North state constituency, in which the Speaker represented in the House, […]
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 […]
Confusion on Wednesday trailed the primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party for the Osun State House of Assembly aspirants just as anxiety has mounted over today’s primaries to select candidates for House of Representatives and Senate contests. Addressing a news conference in Osogbo, the state capital, on Wednesday, a retired Superintendent of Customs, Chief […]
The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) at an emergency meeting yesterday in Abuja, shared $1billion from the Excess Crude Account. With the disbursement of the amount, the balance in the ECA account now stands at $3million. The meeting, which was held behind closed doors, lasted for only 29 minutes (11:10am and ended at about 11:39am). […]
Some aggrieved members of the Peoples Democratic Party in Kwara State on Thursday protested what they described as the allocation of votes in the state congresses conducted on Tuesday. The PDP supporters also alleged that in some places, like Kwara Central, elections never took place but results were written by certain individuals in their private […]
Thousands of activists led by the United Action for Democracy, UAD, Justice Now Foundation, JNF, Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, CACOL, and Youth Solidarity, YS, yesterday marched through the major streets of Osogbo, the Osun State capital protesting the alleged plans by the Senate President David Mark and Senator Iyiola Omisore to instigate members of the […]
Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, on Wednesday replied Senate President, David Mark, over the latter’s alleged involvement in a plot to destabilise the state. Mark had in a statement on Tuesday dismissed Aregbesola’s allegations that Vice-President Namadi Sambo and the Senate president were involved in a plot to raise N1bn for the purpose of […]
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