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The Ekiti State government is set to start exploiting the abundant mineral resources spread across the 16 local government areas of the state. The state governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, made the disclosure weekend at his Isan Ekiti country home during the ...
Former Governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, had staged a comeback to his former party, the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), following a formal declaration in Sokoto yesterday. Bafarawa, a two-term governor on the platform of the A...
Governor Adams Oshiomhole has called on civil society groups to be vigilant, because the opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has perfecting plans to rig the 2012 guber election. Speaking at a reception organised for him in Benin City b...
Bayelsa State Governor, Chief Timipre Sylva, over the weekend, appointed new aides in the wake of the unceremonious resignation of some political appointees from his administration. The resignation and appointement were a follow up to his battle with t...
Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has set up a seven-member committee to try some of its members, including former Deputy National Chairman of the party, Chief Olabode George, for anti-party activities. At statement from the par...
Edo State governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has asked his erstwhile trade union colleagues to have a rethink of their current opposition to the power sector reform and adopt a strategy that will benefit workers of PHCN and the nation at large. The go...
On December 13, General Muhammadu Buhari, presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) for the 2011 poll and also chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees inaugurated a renewal committee meant to embark on a membership dri...
The Minister of Trade and Investment, Dr. Olusegun Aganga, has noted that job creation through local manufacturing of products was critical to the economic development of Nigeria. Aganga stated this when he received in audience investors from Slovenia ...
The Gubernatorial flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State, Hon. Seriake Dickson yesterday presented his running mate, Rear Admiral John Jonah, to the leadership and members of the party in the state, saying the choice of his ...
The Gubernatorial candidate of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Rivers State, Dr. Abiye Sekibo has said the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will become a maximum security prison before the 2015 general election in the country. Sekibo, who made...
On March 22, 2012, the entire world will meet at a grand conference in France with each country presenting a score card on its performance in the supply of water to its people and the gains individual countries have recorded in Food Security. But for N...
The Imo State House of Assembly yesterday passed a motion suspending the chairman, South East Council of Traditional Rulers, Eze Cletus Ilomuanya, for alleged criminal activities, after an executive session. The State Assembly prior to the suspen...
Today, the term ‘revolution’ is being bandied about by many Nigerians. But significantly, it has also become something of a mantra being sung by politically important voices. Samplers of recent allusions or bare-knuckle calls for revolution...
Seared by the heat of insecurity, socio-economic uncertainty and mysterious dithering by the nation’s political leadership, allusions to Arab Spring-type rebellion and outright calls for a revolution to incept a new order have become something of...
Lady Margery Chuba-Okadigbo, wife of former Senate President, the late Dr. Chuba Okadigbo, was yesterday declared as the authentic candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and winner of the Anambra North Senatorial district in the April 16 Natio...