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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the Directorate of Security Services (DSS) of resorting to the use of torture to obtain forced confessions from the workers who were arrested during the first raid on the party’s Data Centre in Ikeja, calling it a contravention of the UN Convention against Torture to which Nigeria is […]

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has described the visit of five Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to former President Olusegun Obasanjo as unwarranted,  unnecessary and uncalled for. The governor said PDP as a party must stop condoning indiscipline, saying nobody should be treated as being bigger than the party. He added that Obasanjo who does not […]

I am no economist. Then again, neither are a whole lot of the people who have written or spoken in recent times on the economic issues prevalent in our nation today. We are, however, stakeholders; after all, it is our country. We live here, earn a living here; our children attend schools here and what […]

One of the defeated governorship aspirants in Lagos State on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Barrister Tokunbo Wahab, has protested the result of the just concluded primary election of the party in the state. A statement he released on Friday, after the result of the election was delivered, said the election had […]

Delta State, Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan has announced his withdrawal from the Delta South Senatorial race. Uduaghan made the surprise announcement on Friday, saying he made the move in order to ensure that peace reigns in the state. The withdrawal is coming less than 48 hours to the primary, meaning that the incumbent holder of the […]

All Progressives Congress has declared former Accountant-General of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode, winner of the gubernatorial primaries for Lagos state. He polled 3735 to beat his closest rival, and Commissioner for Works, Dr. Femi Hamzat, who polled 1201 votes. Senator Ganiyu Olanrewaju Solomon polled 272 votes to come third Speaker of the Lagos State House […]

In a bid to return President Goodluck Jonathan to Aso Rock in the 2015 general elections several Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors have made the pilgrimage to the Hilltop residence of former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta the capital of Ogun State, curry his support for the incumbent president. On Thursday, Governor of Cross River […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday held its primaries to select candidates for the 2015 governorship election across the country with some states recording violence, anger and boycott. In some of the states where the governors on the platform of the party are serving their first terms, such governors were mostly unanimously endorsed by […]

The National Working Committee of  ruling Peoples Democratic, (PDP) has suspended Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, former National Chairman of the party. A statement issued, Thursday, by Victor Kwon, PDP`s 
National Legal Adviser, said,  “The NWC hereby suspends Dr. Bamanga Tukur and Aliyu Abuba Gurin for one month and refers them to the National Disciplinary Committee for […]

Edward Nnaji, an actor in the Nollywood movie, Friday Night and who is also the music director at Christ Embassy Church, Zone 1, Idimangoro Parish, Agege, Lagos, western Nigeria has been arrested for armed robbery by operatives of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS)  in Lagos Island. The 25-year-old and two others were arrested two years […]

I shall not insist that the historic/biblical figure of Nebuchadnezzar is uniquely apt for the pivotal figure of the ‘democratic’ history in the making at this moment — for one thing, Nebu was a nation builder and a warrior. One could argue, even more convincingly for the figure of Balthazar, his successor, or indeed, Emperor […]

What would have amounted as tragedy was averted in the Ikosi-Isheri area of Lagos State on Wednesday when the Police rescued a leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abiodun Sunmola, from angry youths in the area. However the party chieftain had been beaten to a pulp before rescue came his way. Chief Sunmola, who […]