Plateau state governor, Caleb Mutfwang has warned unscrupulous elements plotting to cause confusion in the state to desist from such unpatriotic act. The governor sounded the warning in a broadcast on Monday evening on political developments in the state. The warning came following growing tension ahead of the the tribunal judgement on the governorship election…
Recent judgments of the Election Petition Tribunals in the Plateau State have stirred a hornet’s nest as the people who have rejected most of the tribunal judgments, alleging serious political interference. Seriki Adinoyi writes. A majority of the people of Plateau State have rejected the recent judgments delivered by the National and State Houses of Assembly…
The Plateau state governor, Caleb Mutfwang, has appointed 136 special assistants. Spokesperson to the governor, Gyang Bere, announced the appointments in a statement on Friday in Jos. The appointments show that eight people were appointed from each of the 17 Local Government Areas of the state. According to Bere, the appointments are the first batch….
President Bola Tinubu on Friday approved the nomination of Dr. Olayemi Cardoso as the new Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for a term of five years at the first instance, pending his confirmation by the Senate. “This directive is in conformity with Section 8 (1) of the Central Bank of Nigeria Act,…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that a democratic system that promotes insecurity and poverty must be abandoned. Obasanjo spoke in Oyo town on Friday during the inauguration of the rehabilitated 34.8-kilometre Oyo-Iseyin road. The former president said a democracy that nurtures poverty, unemployment and insecurity should be discarded as it only denotes backwardness. In…
The Plateau chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has criticised the National and State House Assemblies Election Petitions Tribunal judgment that declared former governor of Plateau state, Simon Lalong, as winner of the southern senatorial election of the state. The tribunal had on Monday sacked Napoleon Bali, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party…
