Remember last week, Global News did a story about some top APC chieftains in Osun State who were declared wanted by the police in connection with killings during the voters’registration exercise. The Ife East executive secretary was arrested and detained while the commissioner for tourism and culture, Sikiru Ayedun was also declared wanted. This time…
The high rate of deaths in Edo State-owned hospital, Central Hospital, Benin, has been attributed to the insensitivity of Edo State government over the inadequate number of medical personnel in the hospital. Speaking to Global News in Benin, a top management staff who pleaded anonymity said that several complaints have been made to the state…
The Federal Government has accused Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote of making frantic efforts to frustrate his competitors in the cement manufacturing industry in Nigeria out of business. The government, in a counter-affidavit to a suit filed by Dangote before the Federal High Court in Lagos, accused the business mogul of indulging in anti-competition act…
Senate 2015 hopeful and Akwa Ibom State governor Godswill Akpabio has been alleged to have spent up to 15 billion naira in renting a private jet for a 25-trip, 600-hour journey of service of approximately two hours. The governor hired the Canadian Challenger 604 from Swiss-based Vista Jet. Mr. Akpabio paid the sum to the…
The threats between the incumbent governor of Osun State and candidate of the APC, Governor Rauf Aregbesola and that of the PDP, Senator Iyiola Omisore are gradually being fulfilled. At the ongoing voters’ registration exercise in Ile-Ife, a top chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Taiwo Oladele popularly known as Baba Janjala was murdered…
Senate Minority Whip, Senator Ganiyu Solomon has empowered three hundred and eighty youths and women across Lagos State to be self-employed. At the vocational training organised by the Senator who represents Lagos West in the Senate, 380 youths and women had undergone training in vocations such as: barbing, dish installation, bead making, shoe making, knitting,…
The scenario playing out between two top superpower ladies in the country’s Presidency is like a Nollywood movie scene that if released into the market would surpass the sales of foreign films like “Titanic”, “Basic Instincts”, “Spartacus”, etc. To an average Nigerian, even a layman, three women stand out in every ramification with their style…
The hottest gist in the political arena in Nigeria currently shaking the atmosphere like a colossus is the much awaited National Conference, or call it CONFAB. Many Nigerians are in the dark as to the reason for this get-together by some group of people who are expected to determine the future of the country. In…
Lagos State governor Babatunde Raji Fashola, no doubt is rated as one of Nigeria’s best performing state helmsmen. His emergence as the state governor in 2007 brought a new lease of life to the infrastructural development of the aquatic state. He rehabilitated and constructed many roads while he also embarked on other societal goodies. Fashola…
Knowing how volatile and difficult it is to hold an executive position in the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, it is very surprising that a woman could hold three different top spots in the country’s governance since 2007. The woman in contention is described as one of the two most powerful women in…
