•Olorunda Local Government secretariat deserted yesterday Local government administration in Osun State has remained paralysed for 11 consecutive weeks, as the leadership tussle between the state’s two major political parties — the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) — continues to deepen. What began as a cou...
•Lagos Assembly There is a heavy presence of security operatives within and around the premises of the Lagos House of Assembly. The situation is not unconnected with the leadership tussle between Hon Mudasiru Obasa and Mojisola Meranda, reports The Nation. While 36 lawmakers are backing Meranda who they elected when Obasa was away, the latter ...
•Lagos State House of Assembly The Lagos State House of Assembly has directed all staff and legislative aides to work remotely from home indefinitely to prevent potential violence arising from the ongoing leadership crisis. The directive, issued by Acting Clerk Mr. Babatunde Ottun Abubakar in a memo addressed to all staff, was aimed at ensurin...
•Chief Reuben Fasoranti The Pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has faulted the appointment of Oba Oladipo Olaitan as its new leader, insisting that there is no vacuum in the leadership of the Yoruba group. Speaking on the purported announcement of Oba Olaitan as a new leader of Afenifere, the National Publicity Secretary of th...
•Late Elder statesman, Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide says there is no leadership tussle in the group following the recent death of its former President-General, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu. Dr Alex Ogbonnia, National Publicity Secretary of the Igbo socio-cultural group, disclosed this yesterday in Enugu, stressing that such s...

