Politics

An Akure based lawyer and activist, Sola Ajisafe has accused the Ondo State Deputy Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa and the Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources, Rasaq Obe, of causing crisis in the state. Ajisafe was reacting to the allegation made by Rasaq Obe that Governor Rotimi Akeredolu’s signature was being forged on some documents. Ajisafe, who spoke on Fresh FM …

Twenty seven members of the Rivers State House of Assembly loyal to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, on Monday, dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC). The lawmakers announced their defection on Monday morning in Port-Harcourt, the state capital while reaffirming their total loyalty to the former governor of Rivers …

A few days after the House of Representatives denied claims by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), that its members received the sum of N100 million as palliatives from the Federal Government to cushion the effects of the fuel subsidy removal, the Senate has also refuted receiving such amount. The NLC had, in a statement announcing its intention to embark on …

A former federal commissioner for information, Edwin Clark, has counseled President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on how to resolve the political crisis in Ondo State. The state appeared to be at a standstill following the inability of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu to resume work three months after he returned from his medical vacation to Germany. The president last resolved month resolved the …

  The New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) has tasked the United Nations agencies and other international stakeholders on the need to help deepen Nigeria’s democracy. Speaking when he received at the party’s headquarters in Abuja on Thursday National Vice Chairman of the NNPP Prince Onu Nwaeze told the Office of Internal Oversight Services for the  United Nations Secretariat that the …

President Bola Tinubu has withdrawn the nomination of Imam Kashim Ibrahim Imam as the chairman of the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA). President Tinubu nominated the 24-year-old as FERMA chairman on October 13. The Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, Ajuri Ngelale, who confirmed the news in a statement on Thursday in Abuja, said the withdrawal of …

The former Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomhole, said on Tuesday President Bola Tinubu’s administration inherited an economy in “terrible shape.” Oshiomhole, who stated this in a chat with State House correspondents after a meeting with Vice President Kashim Shettima in Abuja, urged Nigerians to give the president time to fix the economy. He stressed that there was no quick fix …

The national leadership of the Labour Party on Thursday slammed the Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, over the statement credited to him on the party and the last general election. Soyinka had on Wednesday accused the LP leadership of trying to force “a lie” on Nigerians on the outcome of the February 25 election. The playwright, who spoke at an event …

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on Mele Kyari, the Group Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited to “promptly publish details of barrels of oil Nigeria produces and exports every day. The group also called on him to disclose the total amounts of revenues generated from oil since the removal of subsidy on petrol in …

On Monday the 16th of October 2023, the media space was agog with reports of how a detachment of operatives of the Nigeria Police Force and the Department of State Services (DSS) stormed the Ondo State secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) sealing it off. The action of the security agencies, according to reports, was to forestall a planned …