Politics

ASK President Muhammadu Buhari what he thinks is the chief reason for the violence and insecurity in Nigeria, including the Boko Haram terrorism in the north-east, bloody wars between cattle herdsman and farmers in central Nigeria, erosion in the east and the environmental catastrophe in the costal regions and he will say, almost upon instinct…

FORMER Director-General of Nigeria Sports Commission (NSC), Hon. Gbenga Elegbeleye has expressed support for the quest by the people of the Northern Senatorial District of Ondo State to produce the next governor of the state.

STILL reeling from the Court of Appeal’s annulment of his election last Saturday, Senator David Mark Campaign Organization yesterday expressed the belief that the Idoma people will support his strong character to represent their cause in the Senate.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has again petitioned the Attorney General and Minister of Justice of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, urging him to prosecute suspects in the alleged June 21, 2014 governorship election fraud in the State as captured in an audio tape secretly recorded by Captain Sagir Koli.

As part of efforts to boost cancer treatment in the country, an expert in Radiotheraphy and Oncology, Prof. Aderemi Tajudeen Ajekigbe yesterday advocated the allocation of 51 percent of the gross income of all members of the executive and legislature at Federal, State and Local Government levels to the cause.

With a police strength of over 14,000 in addition to other security agencies that would be involved in strategic roles, it would be foolhardy for anyone to brazenly come out tomorrow to cause mayhem or chaos in a bid to disrupt the governorship elections. The question however is whether the rabble-rousers who have been causing…

A civil society organization, the Center for Youth Empowerment and Development has advised the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to stop engaging as defence counsel private legal practitioners who are already engaged to defend candidates who have been declared winners in various elections.

AHEAD of Saturday’s governorship election in Bayelsa and the supplementary election in Kogi State, the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) has appealed to the people of the affected to shun any form of violence and come out to elect the person of their choices.

THE Kwara State House of Assembly (KSHA) yesterday granted the request of the State Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed to suspend eight out of the existing 16 Local Government Council chairmen in the state over allegations of reckless spending of resources and misconduct.

As people with disabilities in Benue State joined their colleagues across the globe to mark their day, wife of the governor, Mrs. Eunice Ortom yesterday expressed government commitment to the welfare of the less-privileged and vulnerable members of the society.

The Acting Director of Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Usman, has said that an 11-year Boko Haram wanted terrorist and a commander of the terror group have been arrested by the eagled-eye troops of 7 Division Garrison at Dalori Internally Displaced Persons Camp, Maiduguri.

LIKE Kogi state, attention is now gradually being focused on Taraba state following the recent election tribunal ruling, which sacked Governor Darius Dickson Ishaku of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the governorship candidate of the All Progresses Congress (APC), Senator Aisha Jumai Alhassan. From the standpoint of history both PDP and APC are no…