Four Ondo State lawmakers, including the newly-elected House of Assembly speaker, Bamidele Oloyelogun, defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday. The legislators defected from the Malachi Coker faction of the Ondo State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) after Bamidele Oloyelogun was elected as the new State Assembly speaker …
Read More »Former Senate President, Chief Ken Nnamani, on Sunday joined the All Progressives Congress. Nnamani was a member of the Peoples Democratic Party. The former Senate President, who is currently the head of the Electoral Reform Committee set up by President Muhammadu Buhari, registered as a member of the APC at …
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SIr, I am pleased to write to you today, the first day of the Year 2017. Do accept my best wishes and prayers for a wonderful and fulfilling new year. By February 24th you would be inaugurated as the 6th civilian Governor of our Sunshine State. It has pleased God …
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A chieftain of APC in Rivers, Mr Augustine Wokocha, has condemned recent resurgence of killings in Omoku, Ogba/Egbema/ Ndoni local councils of Rivers. Wokocha, former Power Commissioner in Rivers made the condemnation while speaking to newsmen in Port Harcourt on Monday. There have been reports of renewed violent attacks …
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Director General of SSS, Lawan Daura. The State Security Service (SSS) sent two different and contradictory security reports to the Nigerian Senate on the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), PREMIUM TIMES can authoritatively report today. While both reports stated that Mr. Magu had some …
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been commended on the success of the just conducted gubernatorial election in Ondo state. A monitoring group, INDEPENDENT SERVICE DELIVERY MONITORING GROUP (Centre for Transparency and Advocacy) that deployed observers to all the Local Government Areas in the state,praised INEC on the initiative. …
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Oke The governorship candidate of the Alliance for Democracy in Ondo State, Chief Olusola Oke has debunked his purported arrest by the military. Oke said that the news of his arrest was the handiwork of his political detractors, particularly the Peoples Democratic Party in the state, to tarnish his …
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Governorship Hopeful under the Platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the November 26 2016 Governorship election in Ondo State, Eyitayo Jegede SAN has called for calm among his supporters following the indefinite adjournment of the case by the Appeal Court justices sitting on the party’s governorship candidate tussle earlier scheduled for …
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A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday granted bail to a former Minister of Aviation, Mr. Femi Fani- Kayode, in the sum of N50m after he was arraigned on five counts of N26m fraud. Fani-Kayode, a Director of Media and Publicity in the campaign organisation of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, …
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The Factional candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the November 20 Ondo State governorship election, Jimoh Ibrahim, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission of trying to exclude him from the election by not accepting his papers as the authentic candidate of the PDP. Addressing a press conference …
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