Akwa Ibom State Governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio has sacked his entire 26-member cabinet as he prepares for a second term swearing-in this weekend. DailySun learnt that the governor announced the resolution of the cabinet in a valedictory executive council meeting with the erstwhile commissioners and special advisers, on Wednesday. The outgoing commissioner for information and […]
Former governor of Enugu State, Dr. Chimaroke Nnamani was arraigned yesterday and later remanded in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on the orders of an Enugu High Court pending a bail application which is due for hearing on Wednesday next week. The anti-corruption body arraigned the former governor in the […]
By Agatha Okoroiwu, NNP, May 25, 2011 – In spite of manipulations, vile propaganda and outright violence, the opposition in Imo State last week failed woefully to rout and remove Governor Ikedi Ohakim as they had boasted. In spite of their undisguised desperation and their utopian promises to Imo people, the voters still showed their […]
Anambra State government, yesterday, called on the Federal Government to review upwards its monthly allocation from N2 billion to N5 billion to enable it pay the N18,000 national minimum wage. In a statement by the Commissioner for Information, Chief Maja Umeh, government said the present wage bill with the N7,500 minimum wage paid workers stood […]
Attempts by some defeated governors and governorship candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party to become ministers may have hit a brick wall. Top among them are Imo State Governor Ikedi Ohakim, his Nasarawa State counterpart, Akwe Doma, and the governorship candidate in Lagos State, Dr. Ade Dosunmu. Their names were said to have been […]
Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has emerged as the new chairman of the Nigerian Governors‘ Forum. Amaechi was a late entrant into the race to succeed the outgoing NGF Chairman, Kwara State Governor Bukola Saraki. The election was held at the Kwara State Government House in Ilorin. The Rivers State governor beat Peter […]
The governor-elect of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) in Imo Chief Rochas Okorocha, Monday reassured people of the state of his commitment toward achieving the Rescue Mission Agenda (RMA) which was his campaign manifesto. Okorocha told newsmen at a news conference in Owerri that his four-year administration would fight to eradicate poverty and unemployment […]
Six weeks after their arrest and detention over alleged involvement in the violence that engulfed parts of Kaduna following the release of the last presidential election results, the Congress for progressive Change, CPC, in Kaduna state, yesterday, said it has so far secured the bail of over 600 suspects. The CPC said it is still […]
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has said that President Goodluck Jonathan’s inability to act urgently to stop the serial killings of members of its party in Benue State may be taken as a green light by the killers to continue such dastardly act. The party, in a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by […]
President Goodluck Jonathan is expected to launch a new transport scheme for Abuja tomorrow in a renewed bid by the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Administration to revamp the comatose sector. The new scheme, which comes under Greater FCT Operators’ License Scheme, is a new plan to inject over 100 high capacity mini bus and taxi […]
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