The Independent National Electoral Commission has decided to shift Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections till next week 23 February. The Governorship and state assembly elections will take place on 9 March, instead of 2 March as initially scheduled. It was one of the decisions reached early today in a crunch talk between between INEC…
The attention of Opposition Coalition CUPP has been drawn to a statement credited to the rabble rousing National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, that the Independent National Electoral Commission is working for the Peoples Democratic Party, especially in Rivers and Zamfara States where his party has been barred from presenting candidates. We…
The Court of Appeal and Supreme Court in Abuja have upheld the ruling of a High Court restraining Senator Aidoko from contesting the Kogi East senatorial seat in the forthcoming election. A High Court judgement which Aidoko challenged at the Appellate and Supreme courts and lost means he has been disqualified from contesting at this…
Former Nigerian football administrator, Taiwo Ogunjobi, has died, his death was confirmed by his media aide, Tunde Shamsudeen, during an interview with Brila.net on Monday morning. A former footballer, Mr. Ogunjobi made his name with WNDC (now Shooting Stars Sports Club.) He was a one-time General Secretary of thde Nigeria Football Federation. Ogunjobi passed on…
Contrary to the news making the rounds that the invitation of Dr Tunde Ayeni by the EFCC has some political motive, his office last Friday cleared the air stating emphatically that the entrepreneur has no political affiliations and holds the Muhammadu Buhari’s government in high esteem. “Our attention has been drawn to the attempt to…
..PAN-NIGERIAN ENDORSEMENT OF ATIKU WILL BRING ABOUT A PRESIDENCY OF NATIONAL UNITY AND COHESION … ASSERTS ENDORSEMENTS ARE A FATAL BLOW TO PRESIDENT BUHARI’S AMBITION … CALLS ON BUHARI TO QUIT RACE NOW OR FACE VERY HUMILIATING DEFEAT … ADVISES PRESIDENT BUHARI TO SEE HIS DOCTORS AND CHECK HIS BLOOD PRESSURE TO…
The Israel Oladele Ministries, founded by Prophet Israel Oladele Ogundipe of Genesis Global, is set to create new standards with an event tagged ‘Standout Conference. ‘ The event, scheduled to hold at Grandiour Hall, Ikeja on 10 March, will feature Tim Godfrey as guest artist. ‘Standout Conference’ promises to live up to its billings as…
Following an audacious move by the Legislative Probity and Accountability (LPA), a Civil Society Organisation (CSO) calling on the Lagos State House of Assembly to account for its N28.8b running cost, an old generation bank, WEMA Bank, has been fingered as one of the financial institutions used by the lawmakers to launder tax payers’ money….
“Sharafa is many things to me. He loves Alaafin so dearly and exhibited it on many occasions in the past. I have no doubt recommending him to you, the Oyomesis,” Alaafin said in Yoruba language. Where does the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III stand on 2019 gubernatorial election? This poser follows a…
Rising from its meeting over the weekend in Abuja, an interest group (Dekina/Bassa for Consolidation -DBC) comprising of professionals and elites of Dekina-Bassa extraction has thrown its weight behind the Kogi-East APC Senatorial candidate to contest the Governorship of Kogi State in 2019. The group argues that if Dekina/Bassa is not given the opportunity to…
