The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) demands the Inspector General ofPolice, Mohammed Adamu, to immediately reverse the provocative andbrazen deployment of Governor Yahaya Bello’s former ADC, CSP Usman Musa,to coordinate security in the November 16 governorship election. The party says the IGP should be ready to accept responsibility for anybreakdown of law and order as well […]
Continue Reading…Commends Jonathan for shunning PDP Former Nigerian president, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, has been been commended for aligning with the people of Bayelsa State by shunning the People’s Democratic Party’s (PDP) gubernatorial campaign grand finale and subsequent activities of the party in the state. Former National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) […]
Continue ReadingAhead of 2020 governorship election in Edo State, there seems no end in sight with the crisis rocking the ruling All Progressives Congress as brouhaha between National Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole and his successor, incumbent governor of the State, Godwin Obaseki, continues to take fresh dimensions everyday, IDOWU ISAMOTU writes The power-play cum rift between […]
Continue ReadingThe Nigerian Guild of Editors has elected Mr Mustapha Isah as the new acting President to fill the presidential vacant position following the appointment of Mrs Funke Egbemode as the Commissioner for Inforin Osun state. The full statement from the guild is published below: COMMUNIQUÉ OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE MEETING OF THE NIGERIAN GUILD OF […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Senate Proceedings for Thursday 7th November 2019 Welcome to a new Legislative Day in the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria! Senate President, Dr. Ahmad Lawan PhD, CON led the Principal Officers into the chambers; took the official prayers; and began the day’s proceedings at 10:25 am. Senator Michael Nnachi moved for the […]
Continue ReadingThe current issue of Great Insights,a magazine of EDCPM looks at climate change not as a global phenomenon but rather at how it is or it isn’t a trigger to violent conflicts. In an editorial previewing the content and written by Vera Mazzara,Policy Officer,Security and Resilience Programme, ECDPM,”climate risks are recognised as transboundary and they […]
Continue ReadingA chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the South-South, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has lamented the rate at which beneficiaries of the large-heartedness of the Minister of Transportation and former Rivers State governor, Dr Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, are plotting against their benefactor. Eze, spokesman of the defunct New People’s Democratic Party (nPDP), in […]
Continue ReadingAnnouncing my decision to drop the title, “Your Excellency” In the last five months that I have been privileged to exercise the mandate freely given to me by the great and hardworking people of Lagos State, it has come to my consciousness to review certain features of citizen-government relations which impede the genuine expression of […]
Continue ReadingBy Idowu Isamotu, Abuja A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers state, Senator Magnus Abe, on Tuesday attributed the crisis rocking the state to a unilateral decision to expel him and others from the party. The former senator, who specifically pointed accusing fingers at the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Ameachi, for the […]
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