T he Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ikeja Branch, has concluded plans to hold the 19th Gani Fawehinmi Annual Lecture aimed at preserving the legacies of the late legal luminary. In a statement on Friday in Lagos, the branch said that the lecture would take place on Jan. 15 at...
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A swan lets out one last croaky cry and wild kick before giving up the ghost. That is the bird’s one last gasp of air and futile attempt to clutch to life. Governor Nyeson Wike and his G5 Governors now cut such a tragic sight. They are either going...
By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – Benue State Governo, Samuel Ortom says the G5 Governors are committed members of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and are working round the clock to ensure that the party wins all elections in their respective states. Governor Ortom stated this on Thursday, in Ibadan,...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu continued his nationwide campaign rally in Kano on Wednesday, urging the people of the state to vote him in next month’s presidential election. Tinubu who had been in Kano since midnight of Monday,...
A former Deputy Governor of Oyo State, Alhaji Hazeem Gbolarumi, has said that Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), would win the election with or without the G5 governors. He made the assertion on Tuesday during a news conference held at the Nigeria Union...
Mr Olisa Ifeajika, Chief Press Secretary to Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta, on Monday said that Okowa, Vice-Presidential Candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), did not betray anyone in the party’s presidential primary. Olisa stated this at a news conference in Asaba. He said that as a loyal partyman,...
The spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party’s Presidential Campaign Council, Senator Dino Melaye, has responded to Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State over his comments on former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s endorsement of Labour Party’s Peter Obi for the 2023 presidential election. Obasanjo had in a lengthy letter on New...
By PATRCK ABANG, Calabar – The General Overseer of Christian Central Chapel International Ikot Enobong Calabar, Bishop Emmah Isong, on Sunday said Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State will not be in the news this year. According to clergyman, the game changer will be The former Minister of Transportation,...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the oil producing states in Nigeria over “their failure to account for the spending of the oil derivation refunds of N625bn recently paid to them by the Federal Government, including details and locations...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu has debunked the rumors making the rounds that he met in with the five aggrieved People Democratic Party (PDP) governors (G-5) in London. Tinubu debunked the rumors in a statement issued on Saturday by Tunde...
Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta and Vice Presidential Candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Friday said God would determine Nigeria’s next President and not the action of G-5 governors. Okowa made the statement in Aboh, when he led Delta PDP campaign train to Ndokwa East and Ndokwa West...
Amid speculation over Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike’s preferred presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, his Sokoto State counterpart, Governor Aminu Tambuwal says the party has lawful avenues of dealing with erring members. Since his emergence as the PDP presidential candidate earlier this year, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has...
Osita Okechukwu, Director-General, Voice of Nigeria (VON) has expressed satisfaction with the consensus on power rotation among the members of the G5 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors. Okechukwu, a foundation member of All Progressives Congress (APC), said G5 governors’ position tallies with the noble and courageous stance of their...
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike says he will make his preferred presidential candidate known in January 2023. The governor, who stated this on Thursday, said he will also campaign for his adopted candidate nationwide. “From January next year, I will campaign to my people whom they will vote for,”...
Osita Okechukwu, Director-General, Voice of Nigeria (VON) says former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, cannot harvest President Muhammadu Buhari’s 12 million North Vote-Bank, because he lacked the necessary attributes. Responding to questions from journalists that Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would harvest the 12 million...
Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers on Tuesday said that the state government has renewed its scholarship for Rivers students studying medicine at the PAMO University of Medical Sciences. The governor made this known in a statement by his media chief, Mr Kelvin Ebiri, after the Second convocation of PAMO...
Did Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers intend to shame his colleagues from the Niger Delta states when he recently asked their constituents to demand accountability from their respective governors on how they spent the refunded arrears of 13 percent derivation? I doubt. But I praise his guts. However, if...
By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has charged Nigerians to rise above parochial considerations and work together for the progress of the country. Governor Ortom gave the charge on Saturday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State shortly after he received the highest honours in the state,...
Governor Nyesom Wike has told other parties to avoid campaigning in Rivers State, maintaining that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would sweep the oil-rich state in next year’s elections. He spoke during the State Honours and Awards held at the Banquet Hall, Government House in Port Harcourt on Saturday....
Presidency says nine oil-producing states have so far received a total of N625.43 billion 13 percent oil derivation, subsidy and SURE-P refunds from the Federation Account between 1999 and 2021. According to a statement on Friday in Abuja by Malam Garba Shehu, the president’s media aide, the affected states...