By Kunle Adedoyin Dr. Kayode Fayemi, Ekiti State Governor, on Tuesday forwarded a list of 14 Commissioners- nominees to the House of Assembly for screening and confirmation. Fayemi transmitted a letter to the Assembly, requesting for legislative approval to constitute the state executive council. Adeniran Alagbada, the Speaker, who read […]
South South
By Andy Chukwu The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory on Tuesday, nullified the nomination of Senator Ademola Adeleke as the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in September 2018 governorship election in Osun State. Justice Othman Musa, in his judgment in the suit challenging Adeleke’s qualification […]
By Andy Chukwu Nyesom Wike, governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers state, has opened up a wide leading in the results of 15 local government areas announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the first day of resumption of the collation of the controversial […]
By Andy Chukwu Two serving members of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) have been shot dead in Bayelsa. They were killed Wednesday night in Swali area of Yenagoa, the state capital, when a gang of suspected cultists invaded a Corps members’ residence along School Road, Swali, Yenagoa. Several people […]
By Andy Chukwu A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has declined to grant an injunction to restrain the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from taking further action on the Rivers State gubernatorial elections. The African Action Congress and its governorship candidate in Rivers State, Biokpomabo Awara, had approached the […]
By Andy Chukwu The Delta State Government has suspended the head teacher of Okotie-Eboh Primary School in Sapele Local Government Area, Mrs Vero Igbigwe, for allegedly collecting unauthorised fees including examination levies from schoolchildren. A viral video showing a schoolgirl, Success Adebor, protesting against the school’s decision to send her […]
By Andy Chukwu The Nigerian Army has stated that it sacrificed so much to assist the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) towards a very successful conduct of election but INEC turned its back against it. The 6 Division of the Nigerian Army, in a statement by its spokesman, Colonel Aminu […]
By Andy Chukwu The African Action Congress (AAC) has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of conniving with Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers state, in manipulating results from the governorship election in Rivers state. The election was suspended due to violence and invasion of the state collation center by […]
By Andy Chukwu Rivers State is now surrounded by an atmosphere of anxiety as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)’s fact-finding committee on the suspended Rivers State elections completed its work in Port Harcourt. Sources at INEC revealed that the committee has finished its task in the state and was […]
By Andy Chukwu A Federal High Court, in Abuja on Friday, declined to disqualify Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State from participating in Saturday’s governorship election, following allegation that he tendered forged documents to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The plaintiff, one Elvis Chinda, had in the suit marked […]
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