Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, it is indeed my pleasure to address you today at this 10th Convocation of our dear University, Achievers University, Owo. This is the first convocation after my installation as the Chancellor of this prestigious university. I still savour the splendor and pageantry with which my investiture was carried out about a…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has warned that it may not recognise the outcome of violent party congresses. In a statement on Monday in Abuja, spokesman of the commission, Mr. Festus Okoye, threatened that any political party that cannot conduct peaceful congresses would be blacklisted. Okoye lamented that the level of violence in the…
Jonah Jang, a former governor of state, has reacted to claims by Babangida Aliyu, also a former governor of Niger state that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors in the north worked against the reelection former President Good Luck Jonathan in 2015. In a statement on Saturday in Jos, Jang who was governor at that…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Sunday blamed annulment of the June 12, 1993 Presidential election presumably won by late business mogul, Moshood Kashimawo Abiola, on “bad belle.” The regime of military President Ibrahim Babangida (IBB) annulled the election. Speaking shortly after his investiture as a Trustee of the Abeokuta Club, a sociocultural organisation of Egba…
The Zonal Congresses of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the North West Zone ended in fracas on Saturday in at the International Trade Centre, Kaduna. There was pandemonium as fighting broke out when voting commenced, leading to the destruction of ballot boxes and voting materials. It was learnt that supporters of two candidates from…
