Observers rate Ekiti LG elections free, fair
Gov. Yahaya approves additional N550m for payment of gratuities to retirees
Why we are in a hurry to perform – Senate President
Ekiti LG Poll: APC Wins All 16 Chairmanship Seats
Gov Akeredolu Appoints Three New Aides
PDP sweeps Adamawa LG chairmanship election
Lagos Assembly says won’t repeal ex-govs’ pension law
Salome Abuh, PDP woman leader burnt to death, buried amid tears
The Coalition of Civil Society Domestic Election Observer Groups has described the Saturday’s local government elections in Ekiti as free and fair. The coalition’s team leader, Mr Muhammad Al-Jameel Hashidu, told newsmen in Ado Ekiti on Monday that voting materials arrived in the 2,195 polling units...
Gov. Inuwa Yahaya of Gombe State has approved the release of additional N550 million for the payment of gratuities to the state retirees. Mr Ismaila Misilli, the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the governor, said this in a statement he released on Monday in Gombe. He said that the governor...
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Sunday advanced reasons why the ninth Senate is in a hurry to deliver on some of the targets set in its legislative agenda. Lawan said the Senate is conscious of the need to act very fast before the 2023 politics start to slow down governance. The Senate President...
The Ekiti State Independent Electoral Commission (EKSIEC) on Sunday declared the candidates of the All Progressives Congress (NAN) winners of all the 16 Chairmanship seats in the local government election conducted on Saturday. Results of the 177 Councillorship seats were, however, still being awaited...
AKURE – Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, on Sunday, approved the appointment of Messrs Dapo Adepoju, Adebiyi Mayowa and Olufunmi Felix as his Special Assistants on Youth Mobilisation. This was contained in a statement issued in Akure by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr Olusegun...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has won all the 21 local government council chairmanship position in the Saturday’s LG elections in Adamawa. Mr. Isa Shetima, chairman, Adamawa State Independent Electoral Commission (ADSIEC), who declared the results on Sunday in Yola, said the result of councilors...
Lagos State House of Assembly says it will not repeal the state’s pension law permitting former governors and other public office holders to receive juicy pensions from state coffers. Mr Tunde Braimoh, Chairman, House Committee on Information and Strategy, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday...
The charred remains of Mrs. Salome Abuh, the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) woman leader, who was burnt alive at Ochadamu, Kogi State, on Nov. 18, have been committed to mother earth. Abuh was laid to rest amid tears and wailings by relations, friends and associates on Saturday at her village, Aji-Obala,...
A coalition of Niger Delta activists has described the campaign to invalidate the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and sack the Senate committee on Niger Delta as a calculated attempt to perpetuate the illegality at the commission. The coalition was reacting to a protest by a handful...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has “strongly condemned the violent re-arrest today of Omoyele Sowore and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare by officials of the State Security Service (SSS), and the apparent harassment and intimidation of Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu.” Armed SSS officials...
