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NATIONAL Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Abdullahi Ganduje has inaugurated the party’s campaign council for the November 11 governorship election in Imo. Ganduje, while performing the exercise on Saturday, advised Imo people on the need for Gov. Hope Uzodinma’s reelection to consummate the future development trajectory. He …

SENATE President Godswill Akpabío has described reports of an impeachment plot against him as the handiwork of “merchants of political tar brush”. He said the reports, published in some dailies over the weekend, appear to be a syndicated media attack orchestrated from outside the National Assembly by the purveyors who …

HONOURABLE Adebo Ogundoyin, Speaker, Oyo State House of Assembly, on Saturday, emerged the new Chairman of the Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures of Nigeria. At the national meeting of the conference held in Abuja, Ogundoyin emerged following the withdrawal of the Speaker, Ogun State House of Assembly, Honourable Taiwo Oluomo. Ogundoyin’s emergence was, thereafter, confirmed …

PRESIDENT Bola Ahmed Tinubu has reportedly appointed Lagos Head of Service, Hakeem Muri-Okunola, as his principal secretary. The appointment of Muri-Okunola which is yet to be made official came alongside 15 other appointees, including Tanko Yakasai, Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, and Moremi Ojudu. Muri-Okunola is a 51-year-old lawyer, who joined the Lagos …

THE Lamidi Apapa-led faction of Labour Party (LP), on Saturday, owned up that the party truly lost the February 25 Presidential election, saying that the party’s Presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi and Mr. Julius Abure knew the truth about the performance of the party at the poll. This position was …

THE Edo state government yesterday threatened to sanction petrol stations that have adjusted their meters to under-dispense products The Commissioner for Mining and Energy, Hon. Enaholo Ojiefoh in a statement said that the Edo State Petroleum Monitoring Committee set up by the State Government would go round Petrol Stations and …

PLATEAU State Governor, His Excellency Barr. Caleb Manasseh Mutfwang has approved the appointment of Special Assistants. The appointees,whose names are listed below are the first batch. They will assume their roles and responsibilities immediately. Their portfolios will however be communicated to them in their respective Local Government Councils.

THE Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Uyo on Friday struck out the petition filed by Mr Jeremiah Akpan, the governorship candidate of Action Alliance (AA) in the election held on March 18 in Akwa Ibom. Justice Buetnaan Mandy, who read the unanimous judgement of the tribunal on behalf of …

A former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, has said the second term of former President Olusegun Obasanjo was the “most successful” in terms of economic growth, job creation, and inflation rate in Nigeria. El-Rufai, the immediate past Governor of Kaduna, said this on Friday during a session at the …

THE spokesperson of Peter Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council, Yunusa Tanko, has revealed that Peter Obi’s legal team may file an appeal at the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Obi is also said to have no plan of changing members of his legal team. Tanko and the National Legal Adviser of LP, …