•Governor Monday Okpebholo of Edo State The Edo State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Caretaker Committee has berated the state Governor Monday Okpebholo, and his Deputy, Dennis Idahosa, over their failure to officially resign from their respective seats in the Senate and the House of Representatives two weeks after their inauguration. Their fa...
•Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki Kenyan President William Ruto today nominated his interior minister as deputy to replace Rigathi Gachagua who was sacked in a historic impeachment. Kithuri Kindiki, a 52-year-old academic turned political heavyweight, was among front-runners for the post floated by Kenyan media after the Senate voted...
•Zainab Yakubu Niger State deputy governor, Garba Yakubu, today, lost his wife, Zainab Yakubu, in Minna, the state capital. Confirming the incident to our correspondent through a telephone call, a spokesperson for the deputy governor, Ummikaltumi Kuta, said Zainab died after a brief illness in Minna, reports Channels TV. Meanwhile, Niger State...
•Late Professor Yusuf Saidu Suspected bandits have killed the current Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research, Innovation and Development of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Professor Yusuf Saidu. The deceased, who was a Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry, was attacked and shot dead on his way to Kaduna from Sokoto State. The University, in a ...
Omobayo Godwins has been inaugurated as the Edo deputy governor, hours after Philip Shaibu was impeached by the state house of assembly. The 37-year-old who was beaming with a smile, was sworn in around 1:40 pm today by the Chief Judge of Edo State Justice Daniel Okungbowa, reports Channels TV. In a day that began […]
•Late DCP Gbolahan Oyedemi A Deputy Commissioner of Police serving with the Force Criminal and Investigation Department, Alagbon, Lagos State, Gbolahan Oyedemi, yesterday, reportedly committed suicide in his private house in his hometown, Ogbomoso, Oyo State. Oyedemi was the Aide de Camp to the late former Governor of the state, Adebayo Alao-A...
•Gunmen The Deputy Vice Chancellor of the Abia State University, Uturu, Professor Godwin Emezue, was yesterday abducted by hoodlums in Umuekwu Amachara, Umuahia South Local Government Area of the state. Disclosing this in a statement, the Public Relations Officer of the Abia State Police Command, ASP Maureen Chinaka, said the DVC was in compan...
•Olayide Owolabi Adelami Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State has nominated former Deputy Clerk to the National Assembly, Chief Olayide Owolabi Adelami, as the new deputy governor of the state. Adelami’s nomination was submitted some six hours after the dissolution of the State Executive by the governor, Ayedatiwa, reports Nigerian Tribune....
•Adebutu and Abiodun Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State and his cabinet members have resorted to prayers ahead of the final judgement of the Supreme Court in the state governorship election battle. Abiodun, his deputy, Mrs. Noimot Salako-Oyedele, Speaker of the House of Assembly, Olakunle Oluomo, his aides, and other members of the APC were [...
•Mourners carry coffin of late Hamas deputy leader, Saleh al-Aruri Hundreds of people attended the funeral in Beirut today of Hamas number two Saleh al-Aruri who was killed in a Lebanon strike blamed on Israel. Calling on Hamas to avenge his death and the killing of five other members of the Palestinian militant group on […]

