Members of the Oyo State Council of Obas and Chiefs rose from an emergency meeting on Wednesday and rejected the Tuesday amendment of the council’s enabling law which makes its chairmanship rotational. Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala had on Tuesday signed the law which was passed by the state House of Assembly. The law stops the Alaafin […]
The Imo State political logjam has taken a strange twist as the All Progressives Grand Alliance and its governorship candidate, Chief Rochas Okorocha, on Wednesday invoked the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court in Abuja to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission from conducting supplementary elections slated for the state onFriday. They warned that […]
For those who follow the political situation in Zamfara State, it was not by surprise when son in-law, Abdulaziz Abubakar Yari, defeated his farther in-law, out-going Governor Mamuda Aliyu Shinkafi in the April 26 governorship polls. The battle was not just between the All Nigeria Peoples Party [ANPP] and the [Peoples Democratic Party [PDP], but […]
The Court of Appeal on The Court of Appeal on WednThe Court of Appeal on Wednesday granted an accelerated hearing in the appeal brought by a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and governThe Court of Appeal on Wednesday granted an accelerated hearing in the appeal brought by a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic […]
Buhari Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in the April general elections, General Muhammadu Buhari, has said that Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State is unfit to hold a responsible office in Nigeria. Governor Aliyu had lashed out at the former head of […]
SUSPECTED Boko Haram gunmen have shot and killed three prisons warders, along with a housewife, in two separate attacks on Monday and Tuesday in Abaganaram ward of Maiduguri metropolis. One of the prison warders and his wife, were ambushed on Monday night at the Abagaram ward shop at about 10.35 p.m., while the two other […]
ABAKALIKI- Barely two days to the supplementary election ordered by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in the stalemated Imo State governorship poll, the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Wednesday alleged plot by the ruling party in the state to rig the supplementary election through stuffing of ballot boxes with already thumb-printed ballot papers in favour […]
For those who knew her, it would have been better passed as an April Fool joke as the news filtered on April 1, that Ngozi Ogbe, nee Obetta, had died. Ngozi had lived in refuse dump for 25 years, where she delivered and nurtured a son, but was retrieved and rehabilitated by a Catholic sister. […]
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” – Martin Luther King Jr. By Philips Akpoviri, NNP, May 4, 2011- I am neither an Imo state resident nor an Imo state indigene. I am of Delta state extraction – a proud Deltan but a prouder Nigerian. My friend who saw this piece prior to publication […]
By Uwadi Kenneth, Imo, Nigeria – May 4, 2011 – I drove into Easy Gate Hotel in Owerri,Imo State of Nigeria, last week Friday with burning anger in my heart, hot, bitter anger. I have good reasons to be angry. It tears out my heart. The governorship election conducted on April 26, 2011 in Imo […]
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