Ayo Baogun, Lagos – For making comment that people are running away from Lagos State because of heavy taxation, Governor Babatunde Fashola says Vice President Namadi Sambo is simply displaying ignorance and acting diabolically for such statement. The governor spoke on Wednesday at an end of the year press conference in Lagos, saying that it […]
Greater Prosperity is coming, Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State assures in his televised New Year message as he urges youths to be agents of choice and not instruments of violence. Full Text of the New Year Message: “My good people of Kwara state, I rejoice with you as we usher in a new year. I […]
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan will deliver a new year’s day broadcast to the nation at 07:00 hours tomorrow. The broadcast will be transmitted on the network services of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) and the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN). Other television and radio stations in the country are advised to link up with […]
Ayo Balogun, Abuja – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised alarm over the plan by the Federal Government (FG) to use the security agencies, especially the DSS and the Police, to harass and intimidate the opposition with a view to decapitating it ahead of the 2015 elections. In a statement issued in Abuja Wednesday […]
Four protesting princes led by a hooded man, tried, unsuccessfully, on Tuesday to stop the conferment of the powerful kingmaker chieftaincy title of Odopetu on United States based Journalist, Mr. Oladimeji Abitogun, by Oba Peter Adetunbi Ise Oluwa Oluyede IV, the Alayede of Ayede Ogbese. The four men identified as Messrs Tunji Oluyede, Adeniji Oluyede […]
This is despite efforts by the Management of the Bank to cover up the Multi Billion naira fraud mortgage finances and deductions from Civil Servants and the frantic efforts by Kumo to retain his seat. Reports from Abuja have it that the ground is sinking around the entire management as recent payment ordered by the […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Benin-city – A 45-year-old man, identified as Osaro, is now cooling-off in police net in Benin city, the Edo state capital for allegedly raping his nine year old daughter. He was arrested on Wednesday by operatives from Ogida Police Division in Egor council Area of Edo State. African Examiner Correspondent gathered that the […]
From Mustapha Abdul Salaam – Adamawa State Governor, James Bala Ngilari has made a dramatic u-turn on his opposition to the Governorship candidature of the former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu and pledged to work with him to win next year election. Ngilari, until Tuesday when Ribadu paid […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos – The Oloto Ruling Family of Lagos has seized a N2 billion estate built by Stardust Estate Limited in Gbagada area of Lagos from the developer, laying ownership claim to the 27 plots of land the estate is being erected. Stardust Estate Limited has acquired the land from the Lagos State Government […]
Prof. R.A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin The choice of the main opposition party in Nigeria APC, to the ruling party PDP, to pick Prof Yemi Osibanjo (or simply Yemi) is a Vice Presidential candidate may turn out to be a well calculated effort from whoever brought out this joker card. In order to understand the […]
*Plans To Inaugurate Amaechi’s Campaign Committee Friday Top echelon of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are to meet in Abuja between today and Wednesday to discuss what they considered as threat from the government circles against some of their officials. Newspot learnt in Abuja that the APC leaders resolved to meet on the basis of […]
The Indonesian Navy from the sea has found no fewer than 40 bodies out of 162 aboard the missing AirAsia Flight QZ8501, as the search for others continues. The discovery justified Monday prediction of the country’s head of search and rescue agency, Bambang Soelistyo that the airbus was likely to be at the bottom of […]
The reports as published in one of the National dailies where it credited a statement made by former Governor Peter Odili to the effect that he regrets supporting Gov. Amaechi as governor has been described as that of a man who lacks what to say in the face of glaring evidence against him. The former […]
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Asaba – Youths and elders in Delta- South zone, under the auspices of “Delta Coalition for Change” (DCC) have petitioned the National secretariat of the All Progressive Congress (APC) over alleged imposition of a senatorial candidate. A protest letter addressed to the National Chairman of APC, Chief John Oyegun by a committee […]
The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has lambasted Primate Theophilus Olabayo of the Evangelical Church of Yahweh, Maryland, Lagos, for predicting that the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) Governorship candidate, Jimi Agbaje will win next year’s governorship poll in Lagos. Olabayo had said in his prediction that APC will lose next year’s […]
*May Have Been Marked For The Infamous Abiola’s Treatment Rivers State Governor and Director General of General Muhammadu Buhari Presidential Campaign Organisation, Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi’s life is in danger as the 2015 presidential election draws near. Findings have revealed that some forces uncomfortable with the governor’s appointment as DG of General Muhammadu Buhari Presidential […]
By Ayo Balogun – Lagos – The trio of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Lagos state Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu have been accused of plotting against the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration as well as installing in its place, an Interim National Government (ING). Minister of Police Affairs, Jelili Adesiyan made the accusation Monday, […]
Ignatius Okpara, Awka – The Anambra state government has appointed former Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah, to head its airport development Agency project. Stella Oduah was sacked on Feb 12, 2014 as minister of aviation following allegations of fradulent bullet proof car purchase. Briefing newsmen Sunday in Awka, Governor Willie Obiano, explained that Oduah,s […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos – The Lagos State Government has blasted the Vice President, Namadi Sambo for accusing the state of imposing heavy taxation on the people. Special Adviser to the Governor for Information and Strategy, Mr. Lateef Raji, in a statement said Sambo had recently declared that people were leaving Lagos in droves as a […]
By Funmilayo Omidiji, Abuja- For now, not less than 12 different political parties have been confirmed to have presented candidates to contest Presidential election next year. The parties and their candidates include: the People Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Goodluck Jonathan; the All Progressives Congress (APC), Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.); Action Alliance (AA), Tunde Anifowose-Kelani; Kowa […]
