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YEMI ADEBOWALE: WHY NOT LEAVE BICHI AND DSS ALONE

Since the Omoyele Sowore Saga, I have read several commentaries and recently, attacks on the DSS. A more recent one was that of...

Rights group tasks National Assembly on Ogoni clean-up process

Wants VAT on Renewable Energy Reduced to 2%   The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), has urged the National Assembly...

Bayelsa Polls: Sporadic Gunshots as INEC Collates Results In Jonathan’s Home Town

Barely few hours to the declaration of the Bayelsa gubernatorial election results, fresh violent activities have been reported in Ogbia local government area,...

Kogi polls: “Missing” 30 INEC ad hoc officials found, safe and sound

The 30 missing Ad-hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), engaged in the 2019 Kogi Governorship election, have been found. Earlier,...

Bayelsa Nov. 16 gov. poll: APC candidate, Lyon, disqualified

Three days to the Nov. 16 Bayelsa governorship elections, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), David Lyon, has been disqualified by...

PDP’s Olujimi, takes APC’s Adeyeye’s seat in 9th Senate after oath of office

…increases number of female senators to eight   Sen. Abiodun Olujimi (PDP-Ekiti South), whose mandate was restored by Court of Appeal, was on...

NCPC Flags Off 2019 Pilgrimage To Israel, Rome December 1st

By Amos Dunia, Persecond News   Abuja – The Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), has concluded plans to formally flag off the 2019...

Lawyers, dons, NBA, activists, Atiku slam hate speech bill

… bill is hate speech itself, draconian   Eminent lawyers, well-meaning Nigerians, politicians and civil rights organizations have reacted to the death penalty...

NEC meeting: Accept your inability to manage party, resign, APC govs to Oshiomhole

  Following the various crisis rocking the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF) has asked the party’s National Chairman,...

Senate approves N10bn loan refund to Kogi State two days to Guber poll

  With just two days to the Kogi state gubernatorial election, the Senate has approved the loan refund of N10.069 billion to Kogi...

Kyari Tasks NNPC Retail Board on Sustenance of Unadulterated Petroleum Products

  The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, has urged the Board of Directors and Management...

BREAKING: Prof. Tam David-West, Buhari’s ex-Oil minister, dies at 83

    Prof. Tamunoemi Sokari David-West, erstwhile Minister of Petroleum Resources, has passed on at the age of 83.   The deceased had...

Abia: Ikpeazu Retools Govt Machinery

Simon Nwachukwu   Undoubtedly, the task of governance in a state as Abia is a daunting challenge. Residents of a state like Abia...

Resign now, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youths tell Osinbajo

…Don’t resign, Yoruba elders   In spite of the humiliation and sidelining of the Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, the Yoruba Council of Elders...

Chief MKO Abiola’s personal physician, Dr Ore Falomo, is dead

Chief MKO Abiola’s personal physician, Dr Ore Falomo, is dead. It was reported that Falomo died in the early hours of Saturday after...

Falana: Buhari’s 3rd term agenda in the offing, swipes Oshiomohole over “Buhari can operate from anywhere’’

  A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Femi Falana, has raised alarm about drafting President Muhammadu Buhari for a third-term run in 2023...