All political news and viewpoints
Voting commenced on schedule in most polling units in Yola in Saturday’s governorship election. Voting commenced at exactly 12.30 p.m. in most polling units in Yola as scheduled, with the exercise going on smoothly without any hitch. At Kof...
Gov. Patrick Yakowa of Kaduna State on Saturday urged Muslim faithful to pray for peace, unity and economic growth of the state in particular and the nation in general. Yakowa made the appeal at the 2012 Eid-el-Maulud worldwide annual annual celebratio...
No less than six political parties registered for the by-election into Soba federal constituency, Alhaji Yakubu Mohammed, Electoral Officer of the council, said on Saturday Mohammed told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Soba that the parties w...
The Mega Progressive Peoples Party (MPPP) says it will not replace Chief Oduduogwu Ogbotobe, its late candidate for the Bayelsa governorship election slated for Feb. 11. The Bayelsa Chairman of the party, Chief Isaac Eze, dropped the hint in a telephon...
The Director-General of the pro-Seriake Dickson Volunteer Campaign Group in Bayelsa State, known as ‘Keme-to-Keme’, Dr. Stella Dorgu, yesterday explained that hundreds of volunteer groups, politicians and market women in the state have open...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is optimistic that it will again take over the five states where its governors were sacked by the Supreme Court judgement last week. National Legal Adviser of the party, Chief Olusola Oke, who made this comment while ...
A group, the Peoples’ Rights Organisation (PRO), has appealed to the Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi to assist it recover 300 vehicles belonging to its members seized by officials of the Rivers State Road Traffic Management Authority (TIMA-...
Governor of Katsina State, Dr. Ibrahim Shehu Shema, has approved the sum of N1, 500,553 as the State’s salary for the month of January, 2012, The figure marks the commencement of the implementation of the new minimum wage. A press release signed ...
Men of the Kogi State Police Command, Tuesday night, killed two suspected armed robbers in a gun duel. LEADERSHIP reliably gathered that the hoodlums were killed at about 11.pm at Bada village, few kilometres from the State capital on Lokoj...
Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, yesterday, launched a cattle initiative, tagged “Osun Beef (O-Beef)”, to enhance the capacity of the state to become the major supplier of cows and rams to some other states across the country. U...
In its bid to reduce the rate of crime in the country, the Zone X1 of the Nigeria Police Force in conjunction with an Abuja-based security firm,Absolute Security and Consultancy Services Limited, has trained no fewer than 300 members of the...
hairmen of Local Councils in Ondo State have joined various groups in the state calling on the people to support the state Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko for a second term in office. The council leaders under the aegis of Association of Local Government...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed Feb. 11, for the conduct of the re-run election in Dogo-Agogo polling unit of Jos North/Bassa Federal Constituency. Mr Bencyn Ikpe, INEC Chief Public Affairs Officer in Plateau State, discl...
Lawmakers at the Delta State House of Assembly have appealed to the State Commissioner of Police, Mamman Ibrahim Tsafe and Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan to look into the clash between herdsmen and Ohor and Agdamam communities, Ughelli North Lo...
The Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta, code-named Operation Pulo Shield, yesterday announced the arrest of seven persons suspected to be crude oil thieves in Bayelsa State. The suspects, according to the JTF, were nabbed by operatives during a ...