Oil probe: Reps assure of live broadcast
The 26-member Ad-hoc Committee, set up to investigate all transactions in the oil industry from May 1999 to date, has adopted guidelines to carry out the assignment with assurance that proceedings of the panel would be beamed live to Nigerian homes. |
Oseni, Ogun Speaker, deputy impeached
Government activities were paralyzed yesterday in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital as news of the impeachment of the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Hon. Titi Oseni filtered into town. |
Hope dashed at Imo PDP peace meeting
Hope for the eventual resolution of the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Imo State by the Senator Jim Nwobodo-led South East Peace and Reconciliation Committee, has suffered a major setback, following the absence of the major gladiators at the three-day reconciliation held in the Owerri, the State capital. |
GNU: ANPP warns FG
National Secretary of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Senator Saidu Kumo, has warned that his party would withdraw from the Government of National Unity (GNU) if the Federal Government does not remain focused and committed to the cause of the masses. |
We’ve no hands in Fayose’s suspension –Afao Ekiti leaders
The Afao Ekiti leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party have denied their involvement in the alleged suspension of former Governor Ayo Fayose from the party, noting that “the news came to us as a shock and great embarrassment, as no responsible leader, irrespective of his political party in Afao ward will ever be part of such illegality. The former governor hails from Afao Ekiti. |
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Ekiti PDP suspends Fayose...They are jokers –Ex-gov
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ekiti State chapter, has suspended former governor of the state, Ayo Fayose, from the party for anti-party activities, and called for the withdrawal of his security aides. |
Explosion in PDP secretariat
Forty-eight hours to the flag-off of campaign for the governorship election re-run in Bayelsa State, a dynamite explosion has rocked the state secretariat of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) situated at Yenezue-Gene, along Mbiama/Yenagoa road. |
We’ll not disappoint Nigerians –Mark
The Senate President, Senator David Mark, has declared that the upper legislative chamber of the National Assembly would continue to discharge its constitutional duties without fear or favour, irrespective of whose ox is gored. |
PDP ’ll drag Nigeria into bloody revolution –Moji Obasanjo
Presidential candidate of the Masses Movement of Nigeria (MMN) in the 2007 election, Major Mojisola Adekunle-Obasanjo (retd), has dissociated herself from the Obasanjo’s family, saying, “I am just one of his wives and never a member of Obasanjo’s family.” |
PPA is in control of Imo State –Ohakim
Governor Ikedi Ohakim of Imo State has re-affirmed that his party, the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA), enjoys an absolute control of the state in all its ramifications. |
DPA accuses Lagos govt of insensitivity
The Democratic Peoples Alliance (DPA) has accused the Lagos State government of ignoring quality counsel in matters of public interest and failing to undertake impact assessments in implementing policies. |
Tribunal nullifies PDP election in Ondo
The election petition tribunal sitting in Akure, Ondo State, has nullified the election of Obagbemi Olagundoye of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), representing Okitipupa Constituency II in the State House of Assembly. |
Adamawa polls result: Atiku’s finished, says Waku
The dismal performance of Action Congress (AC) at the re-run governorship election in Adamawa, the home state of its national leader and former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, may be an indication of an end to the political mastery of the former number two citizen. |
Fresh crisis brews in Ekiti over state electoral commission
Action Congress, (AC) governorship candidate in Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has raised an alarm that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members in the state House of Assembly were planning to subvert the rule of law by trying to pass the State Independent Electoral Commission (EKIEC) bill through the back door. |
Pa Abraham Adesanya… His life and times
His demise at about midday on Sunday wouldn’t have jolted too many people. At 85, not too many people would consider the late Yoruba leader too young to die. What would sadden many minds, however, is the realization that, with his death, the nation has lost yet another member of the fast depleting tribe of authentic heroes. |
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Yoruba leadership: Ex-guber candidate rules out politicians
Former governorship candidate of the Action Alliance (AA) in Lagos State, Chief Olufemi Ojo, has cautioned the Yoruba nation against seeking its leaders from among members of the political class, asserting that politicians could not provide qualitative leadership for the race. |
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Senator in divorce mess
A distinguished member of the upper chamber of the National Assembly, Senator Stephen Olusola Akinyede, has found himself in an undistinguished situation as he is presently enmeshed in a messy divorce case with his wife of over seven years. |
Tribunal upholds Edo Assembly Minority Whip’s election
Edo state second election petition tribunal ,headed by Justice Beatrice Iliya, yesterday upheld the election of the Minority Whip in the State House of Assembly, Honourable Philip Shuaibu, of the Action Congress (AC), who represents Etsako West Constituency 11 Peoples Democratic Party. |
Behold, PDP’s founding mother
The cliché “Founding Fathers” of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) came into prominence around 2001 when the marriage of convenience that bounded some “strange political bedfellows” together in the wake of the return to civil democracy, began to collapse. |
…As Aregbesola tenders 19 more sacks of documents before tribunal
The Action Congress (AC) governorship candidate in the April 14, 2007 election, Engineer Rauf Aregbesola at the weekend continued the tendering of his documentary evidences before the Election Petitions Tribunal with the ballot papers for the remaining Ife Central and Odo-Otin Local Governments admitted as exhibits. |
Revealed!! How Reps milk Nigeria
Like poisoned mushrooms, more surprises are springing up from the House of Representatives and what it would cost Nigerians to keep them in the style they are accustomed to. |
Labour Party warns INEC against Adamawa fresh election
The Labour Party has warned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) against going ahead with the fresh governorship election in Adamawa State this Saturday, April 26, given that a case about that election is before the Supreme Court. |
2007 polls: AC taunts Iwu over confession
The Action Congress (AC) has said the statement credited to INEC , Maurice Iwu, blaming the EFCC and the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) for the failed 2007 general elections amounts to a confession of a man who lacks the courage of his conviction. |
Senate shuns N19bn aviation probe
The Senate yesterday stalled moves by its Aviation Committee to probe how N19 billion special intervention funds provided for the improvement of aviation sector was spent. |
Bayelsa governorship by-election: Plot to stop Sylva from contesting thickens
The plot to stop the former governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva from featuring in the governorship election re-run as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate has thickened, with moves to invite the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to probe allegations of financial impropriety, especially the alleged loans he obtained without due process. |
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