OYO State government’s decision to reopen schools from June 29 is insensitive, the Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba said on Monday. He warned that such decision if taken could raise COVID-19 infection figures in the state. As of 10pm on Monday, Oyo ranked fourth on the table with 621 active cases from the […]

APC NWC inaugurates Boms as Giadom’s replacement My victory signals end of Edo APC crisis, says Ize-Iyamu THREE All Progressives Congress (APC) governors on Monday presented a position paper on the party crisis to President Muhammadu Buhari. Governor Atiku Bagudu (Kebbi), Simon Lalong (Plateau) and Abubakar Badaru (Jigawa), who met with the President at the […]

THE Southeast should not be denied the chance to produce the president in 2023, a former old Anambra State Governor Chief Jim Nwobodo said on Monday. He said it was the turn of the Igbo to produce the president, the West and the North having had shots at the top job since 1999. Nwobodo, also […]

A 17-year-old girl, Ayisat, was on Monday swept away by flood at Alapafuja Close in Surulere Low-Cost Housing Estate after the heavy rainfall. This is coming less than a week after flash flood swept a four-year-old child at Orile-Agege while they were fleeing their home that was submerged in water. Monday’s incident, it was gathered […]

Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has relieved Mr Allen Sowore, Special Assistant on New Media to the embattled Deputy Governor, Agboola Ajayi, of his appointment with immediate effect. This is contained in a statement issued on Tuesday in Akure by Mr Olusegun Ajiboye, Chief Press Secretary to the Governor and made available to newsmen. […]

A GROUP of 16 senior citizens from the South has sued President Muhammadu Buhari and three others for alleged discrimination in the administration’s appointments into key positions and application of externally obtained loans for infrastructure development. In the suit, the plaintiffs, led by Chief Edwin Clark, averred that since the inception of the Buhari administration […]

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), will today, launch an investigation into fraudulent procurement practices in the award of contracts for the constituency and executive projects across 16 states of the federation. Its spokesperson, Rasheedat Okoduwa, who made the disclosure yesterday in Abuja, listed the affected states to include Rivers, Delta, […]

Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu on Monday emerged the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the September 19, Edo Governorship Election. In the party’s primaries conducted across the 18 Local Government Areas of the state, Ize-Iyamu, defected two other aspirants to clinch the APC ticket. He scored 27,838 votes to beat the state former deputy […]

A federal high court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, has stopped Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki, from participating in the Peoples Democratic Party governorship primary. Omoregie Ogbeide-Ihama, one of the PDP aspirants, filed the suit seeking exclusion of the governor from contesting in the PDP primary election rescheduled to hold on Thursday, June 25. […]

In protest against incessant kidnappings in Cross River State, traders in Calabar and environs yesterday shut their shops in a two-day walkout. Under the auspices of Calabar Traders Union (CTU), the traders lamented that over 18 of their members had been kidnapped in the last 10 months, adding that the development came to a head […]

A fire outbreak early Monday morning at a section of the popular Oba Market, Benin, has consumed hundreds of shops and goods worth millions of naira. The incident happened barely few days after the Edo Government had ordered traders to return to the market from various primary schools that served as makeshift markets in the […]

The defection of the Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki to the People’s Democratic Party ahead of the governorship election has riled some members of the party. Obaseks defected to the PDP after the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC) disqualified him from participating its primary on the basis of “defective qualifications”. His defection was heralded by a […]