Posted by admin
Headlines, Ogun, State News
Monday, May 30th, 2011
Senator Ibikunle Amosun yesterday took the oath of office as the fourth civilian governor of Ogun State with a pledge to transform the state beyond what his predecessors left. Amosun in his acceptance speech shortly after the state Chief Judge, Mr. Charles Oluremi Jacobs administered the oath of office on him at the MKO Abiola […]
Posted by admin
Headlines, Lagos, State News
Sunday, May 29th, 2011
The Lagos State Government has warned residents of areas prone to flooding to look for alternative accommodation on higher grounds from June to January next year. The warning, according to it, is necessary because of the anticipated unusually heavy rainfall that the state is likely to witness this year. Some of the flood prone […]
Posted by admin
Governors, Latest Politics, National Politics, Ogun, State News
Sunday, May 29th, 2011

The Ogun State Governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, has justified his decision to travel out of the country before the May 29 handing over date to a new administration, adding that his predecessor, Chief Olusegun Osoba, never attended his swearing-in ceremony. Daniel on Friday night left the Murtala Muhammed International Airport aboard British Airways around […]
Posted by admin
Articles, Columnists, Imo, NNP Columnists, Obinna Emeka, Obinna Emeka, State News
Sunday, May 29th, 2011

By Obinna Emeka, Indianapolis. Indiana – May 29, 2011 – It is no more news that the APGA, governorship candidate, Rochas Okorocha, won the Imo state gubernatorial election and will be in charge of Douglass House for four years beginning from May 29th 2011.Okorocha defeated Ikedi Ohakim the incumbent governor . The APGA candidate (Okorocha) […]
Posted by admin
Akwa Ibom, Headlines, State News
Sunday, May 29th, 2011
The Commissioner of Police in Akwa Ibom State, Felix Uyanna, says his command has received an intelligence report on a planned bomb threat ahead of the inauguration of Governor Godswill Akpabio for a second term in office and has since taken appropriate measures to foil such possible plans. CP Uyanna, who briefed the media on […]
Posted by admin
Headlines, Kwara, State News
Sunday, May 29th, 2011
TRAGEDY struck on Friday night in Ilorin, Kwara State, as about 30 people, mostly women, lost their lives in a stampede during the valedictory party held for the outgoing governor, Dr Bukola Saraki. Dr Saraki met his political supporters, about 5, 000 of them at the Mandate House around 6 pm on Friday, where he […]
Posted by admin
Headlines, Ogun, State News
Sunday, May 29th, 2011
The deputy governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the last elections in Ogun State, Comrade Tunde Oladunjoye, has described the escape of the out-going governor of the state, Otunba Gbenga Daniel to United Kingdom as a vindication that he had skeleton in his cupboard. The PDP deputy governorship candidate whose council was […]
Posted by admin
Headlines, Imo, State News
Saturday, May 28th, 2011
The outgoing Governor of Imo State, Chief Ikedi Ohakim, on Friday officially handed over to his successor and governor-elect, Chief Rochas Okorocha, two days ahead of schedule. The News Agency of Nigeria reported that Ohakim lost to Okorocha of the All Progressives Grand Alliance in the general elections in April. In his remark at […]
Posted by admin
Governors, Headlines, Lagos, State News
Friday, May 27th, 2011
The children in Lagos are in for a swell time this Children’s Day celebration as the Lagos State governor, Mr Raji Fashiola, SAN, has concluded plans to host over 500 of them in the Rafiaji area of Lagos. The event scheduled to hold on Saturday, May 28, 2011 at the Community Center, Onikan aims among […]
Posted by admin
Enugu, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency, Top Stories
Thursday, May 26th, 2011

President Goodluck Jonathan, has lambasted those lobbying for ministerial appointments, saying less than 10 per cent of them are genuine. He disclosed this during the presidential inauguration lecture in Abuja, which was delivered by Prof. Ladipo Adamolekun, even as the independent scholar urged the President to declare and make public, his assets and those of […]