By Abimbola Ogunnaike The National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), Senator Samuel Anyanwu, has emerged the party’s governorship candidate for the November 11 Imo State gubernatorial election. His emergence followed the PDP primary election held on Wednesday, 12 April, 2023 at the party’s secretariat along the Okigwe Road in Owerri, the Imo State capital. Anyanwu is expected to challenge the re-election of the incumbent Governor of the state, Hope Uzodimma of the All Progressives Congress(APC). The State Organising Secretary of the opposition party, Lawrence Biado, said the seven-man electoral panel constituted by the National Working Committee headed by Kenneth…
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By Abimbola Ogunnaike The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, was detained by the United Kingdom’s immigration authorities during the Easter break over offences believed to have been committed by an imposter, the party’s Presidential Campaign Council said on Wednesday, 12 April 2023. The LP PCC, in a statement by the Head of the Obi-Datti media team, Diran Onifade, said Obi was detained for questioning on Good Friday, April 7, 2023, when he arrived at Heathrow Airport in London from Nigeria. The statement added that he was later let go after Nigerians, who witnessed the incident, raised an…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Kogi State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has denied media reports that it has suspended former lawmaker, Dino Melaye from the party. The PDP in a statement signed by Farouk Yahaya, State Secretary of the Party noted that at no time did it contemplate suspension of the Governorship Aspirant. Yahaya, in the statement, warned trouble and mischief makers who are bent on causing a crisis in the PDP to desist, pointing out that the party remains focused going into the primary election. He urged members of the Party and the general public to discountenance…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike A youth leader in Agbarho community, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State, Chief Sylvester Eferhobo was axed to death on the night of Sunday, 9 April, 2023. It was gathered that the deceased was called out of his house by his assailants only to be killed. “Immediately he came out, his killers who were fully armed, shot at him several times, but the bullets could not penetrate him. “The assailants dragged him to a nearby bush where they axed him to death,” a source said. Chief Efethobo was a strong member of the All Progressives…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike A member-elect of the House of Representatives, Princess Miriam Onuoha, has joined the race for the Office of Speaker in the coming 10th National Assembly. The current member of the House officially declared her speakership ambition at a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday, April 11, 2023. Onuoha, who is representing Onuimo/Isiala Mbano/Okigwe Federal Constituency in Imo State on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress, is the first female to openly declare a bid for the office in the 10th Assembly. The lawmaker, who has been reelected for a second term in the House, is…
A three storey building under construction has collapsed in Lagos, reports thegazellenews.com The building located at First Avenue, Banana Island, Lagos reportedly collapsed on Wednesday, 12 April, 2023, with many workers trapped under the rubbles. The news of the building collapse was broken by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) at about 6.12pm on Wednesday, 12 April, 2023. As at the time of writing this report, details about the building collapse are still sketchy.
Federal Government has expressed its readiness to partner with relevant stakeholders to decongest Correctional facilities in Nigeria. The Minister of Interior Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola made the disclosure during a round table conversation with Prisoner Rehabilitation And Welfare Action (PRAWA) and representatives of Donors participating development Agencies on Wednesday, 12 April, 2023, in Abuja. He said Correctional centres in the country are highly congested with inmates awaiting trials, those on death rolls, those unable to pay debt and fines and some on minor offences. According to the Minister, the people in jail houses as first offenders are less than 20%. “Correctional…
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has set a 90-day completion target for its 132/33kv sub-station in Okitipupa, Ondo State. Speaking during an inspection visit to the project site at Okitipupa, the NDDC Executive Director, Projects, Mr. Charles Ogunmola, stressed that the contractor must work towards meeting the completion target since the project has hit 95 percent execution.” Ogunmola stated that the NDDC is committed to providing electricity to oil-producing communities in Ondo South Senatorial District that have been without electricity for the past 15 years, adding that the speedy completion of the sub-station in Okitipupa will help achieve that…
Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has commended all the service providers engaged by the Ministry and its services/Board for their dedications to using the public-private partnership (PPP) arrangements towards improving service delivery; and for making it revenue generating means to Federal Government of Nigeria. Ogbeni made this known in Abuja during his opening remarks at the Quarterly Performance Review meeting of the service providers engaged by the Ministry and its Services/Board from January to December 2022 held at Nigeria Immigration Service Headquarters, Sauka Abuja . Aregbesola stated that governments across the World are very keen on using the Public…
The Labour Party candidate in the just concluded Enugu State governorship election, Barr Chijioke Edeoga today in Enugu revealed how Mr Peter Obi, the party’s Presidential Candidate, fought against his emergence as governorship candidate, accusing Obi of serial deceits and betrayal. Edeoga at a meeting of the Coalition of Support Groups for Okaome held at his Enugu residence, accused Obi of engineering the intra-party infighting and litigations between him and Capt. Evarest Nnaji (aka Odengene), maintaining that Obi wanted the Labour Party ticket given to Capt. Nnaji because of his promises to make available the fleet of helicopters and executive…