The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Ademola Adeleke, has emerged winner of the Osun governorship election which held Saturday. The result of the election was announced on Sunday morning by the returning officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Toyin Ogundipe. According to Ogundipe, Adeleke polled 403, 371 votes to defeat incumbent Governor Gboyega…
The Speaker of the Kaduna state House of Assembly, Hon. Yusuf Liman, has said that the lawmakers will not secuumb to threats and intimidation from anyone in the pursuit for justice and accountability. The speaker was reacting to threats purportedly issued by the son of former governor Nasir El-Rufai, Bello El-Rufai, a federal lawmaker representing Kaduna…
The decision to ease the lockdown is obviously more political than realistic and scientific. The economic reasons adduced for proposed easing of the lockdown are purely political excuses that do not explain much. It should be pointed out that Nigeria’s economy is a monoculture economy depending on the sale of oil. Even if we increase…
Rampaging protesters demanding the release of suspected killers of Deborah Samuel, a student of the Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto (SSCOE), on Saturday vandalised and torched two of the parishes of the Catholic Dioceses of Sokoto. The two parishes are presided over by the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Most Rev. Mathew Kukah. Deborah was…
Residents of Jos, the Plateau state capital, have lamented the deplorable state of roads in parts of the metropolis, describing them as death traps. The residents, in a report, published in the latest edition of the state owned newspaper, Sunday Standard, said car crashes occur almost on a daily basis within the metropolis as a result…
Some supporters of presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi were attacked by hoodlums in Lagos state. Some of the supporters, according to reports by TheCable, were said to have come under attack while on their way to Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS) — the venue of the party’s presidential campaign rally. The hoodlums…
