A former Governor of Ogun State and Director-General of the Atiku Campaign Organisation, Gbenga Daniel, has announced his resignation from partisan politics. The announcement was made in a letter by Mr Daniel to the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Uche Secondus, dated March 14, 2019. According to him, the decision is based on the […]

The recent collapse of a school building in Lagos which led to the killing of no less than 18 pupils while several others were severely injured was avoidable, hence those that have hands in the gory occurrence must be brought to book to stem the rising trend of avoidable deaths in Lagos State This was […]

The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership (CACOL), has hailed last recent order issued by Justice F.O. Giwa, of the Federal High Court Abuja, over a N2.5bn fraud case involving the Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission, Modibbo Kawu. This was contained in a press release issued by CACOL, signed by the Executive Chairman Mr. […]

The political drama in the ancient pyramid city of Kano continues Thursday morning as Governor Ganduje’s senior special assistant on urban beautification, Hashim Dungurawa, resigned his appointment. He tendered his resignation to the secretary to the governor’s office, Usman Alhaji, but did not state any reason for the resignation in the letter. “I am writing […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has been barred from conducting the supplementary governorship election scheduled for March 23 in Adamawa State. The Adamawa State High Court, presided by Justice Abdulaziz Waziri, granted an interim injunction barring INEC from conducting the re-scheduled polls in the 44 polling units where voting either did not hold or […]

Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha was conspicuously absent as the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, issued certificates of return to senators-elect at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, on Thursday. Reporters roved, people searched, but in vain they all searched for the outgoing governor. With Okorocha’s loud absence, it soon dawned on everyone that INEC had, […]

An 11-year-old victim of the 3-storey building that collapsed in Lagos yesterday narrowly escaped being taken into the mortuary alive at the Lagos Island General Hospital. It was learnt that the unconscious victim, Taofeekat Rasheed, was about to be wheeled to the morgue, when her family insisted that she should be handed over to them […]

The All Progressives Congress, APC, Bayelsa State Chapter has taken a swipe at the Elders Group, led by Chief Edwin Clark, over its position on the lingering political crisis in the Niger Delta region, describing the stance as biased, myopic and unpatriotic. In a statement signed by the Publicity Secretary of the APC, Bayelsa Chapter, […]