With the party primaries for the September 21 Edo State governorship election concluded, The PUNCH reports the chaos generated by the exercise which may take some time to clear up. The just concluded primary elections by the major political parties in Edo State to choose their candidates for the September 21 governorship election were chaotic,...
Police in Plateau State, yesterday, cordoned off the road leading to the state House of Assembly within the Jos metropolis. This came as supporters of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party and their rivals from the All Progressives Congress kept vigil in front of the Assembly complex yesterday, reports The PUNCH. The Spokesman for the police [&h...
•Peter Obi The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in last year’s elections, Peter Obi, has stated that he is not desperate to be Nigeria’s president, but rather, he only wants the country to work. Obi made this statement yesterday in Abuja at the 16th annual LEADERSHIP Conference and Awards 2023, where he received […]
•Obasanjo and Soludo Anambra State governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has congratulated former President Olusegun Obasanjo on his 87th birthday. The governor said Obasanjo remained a towering figure in Nigerian and African history. This was disclosed in a press statement issued by Soludo’s Press Secretary, Christian Aburime, today. The governor ...
Despite the All Progressives Congress (APC) declaration and issuance of Certificate of Return to Senator Monday Okpebholo, another contestant in the primary election, Honourable Dennis Idahosa, has insisted that he is the valid candidate of the party for the September governorship election in Edo state. Idahosa, who wrote to the Independent Na...
•Lucky Aiyedatiwa Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu, wife of the late governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu, has tackled her late husband’s niece, Funke Akeredolu-Aruna, for supporting the governorship aspiration of incumbent Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa. Akeredolu-Aruna who served as former Deputy Chief of Protocol in the administration of late Governo...
•Nigerian Governors Forum Following the order by President Bola Tínubu for the full implementation of the Oronsaye report, especially as it pertains to cutting down the cost of governance, the state governors are under pressure to toe the same line. The pressure is coming from Civil Society Organizations, CSOs, who have challenged the state go...
•Akpabio About a week ago, the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, caused his media office to issue a statement indicating his apologies to the 36 state governors, whom he had earlier accused of collecting N30 billion from the federal government to end the food crisis in the country. Akpabio, during plenary on Wednesday, February [&hell...
•Wariboko and Tinubu A Professor of Social Ethics at Boston University, Nimi Wariboko, says President Bola Tinubu has not produced any result so far to show that he came prepared into office. “Eight months into a government system is too long not to have a plan,” the author and investment banker said on Channels Television […]
Ondo State Governor, Lucky Ayedatiwa, inaugurated six new commissioners and seven new special advisers for the state on Friday, charging them to see the appointment as a call to service and the delivery of good governance to our people. The governor, who also inaugurated a new Head of Service for the state civil service, Mr […]

