Month: June 2019

The People’s Democratic Party’s candidate for September 22, 2018 governorship election, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has called on his supporters to prayerfully and peacefully await verdict of the Supreme Court on the governorship tussle. A statement by his media consultant, Olumide Lawal, said as a man at peace with himself, he would want  his teeming supporters…

A disagreement between the Federal Government and Organised Labour in the Public Service on the template to work out consequential adjustment in wages may delay the implementation of the new National Minimum Wage. President of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), Comrade Bobboi Kaigama told The Nation on the sideline of the International Labour…

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has lamented that nepotism in Nigeria is obstructing the fight against corruption.In what seemed like reporting the country’s leadership to the world, the elder statesman, before a gathering of investors at the ongoing yearly meeting of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) in Moscow, accused the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari of…

No fewer than 500 vultures had been killed in Botswana’s central district after consuming three elephants laced with the poisonous chemical. Authorities at the country’s Department of Wildlife and National Parks said on Friday that a total of 537 vultures and two tawny eagles were found dead at the site. “The breakdown included 10 cape…

Here is a  list of things President Muhammadu Buhari promised during his second term campaign. Promise to take Nigeria to the next level. To engage 1 million N-Power graduates. To train 10 million Nigerians in various skills. Give 1 million farmers inputs and jobs via Anchor borrowers scheme. Create 1.5 million jobs through livestock, beef,…

An Akure high court has struck out the suit filled by the former Deputy Governor of Ondo state, Lasisi Oluboyo over unpaid emoluments and pension arrears. In his judgement, the presiding judge, Justice Bode Adegbehingbe said Oluboyo was not entitled to any pension since he was appointed contrary to the provision of the constitution that…

Olusola Oke, Mimiko, Others Show interest to replace Daramola As Buhari Rejects recommendations from APC Southwest Leaders President Muhammadu has taken personal decision to appoint a minister for Ondo State without consulting any members of the party in the state due to internal wrangling within the State chapter of the ruling APC, Starnews has learnt.…

Sola Amodeni, former commissioner for urban and physical planning in Ondo state, says Rotimi Akeredolu, governor of the state, instructed all his cabinet members to work for Action Alliance (AA) candidates during the last national assembly elections. Tunji Abayomi, an associate of Akeredolu, who was elected under the platform of the the All Progressives Congress…

President Muhammadu Buhari says it is now a crime for parents to deny their children basic education in the country. The president stated this when he inaugurated the National Economic Council for the year 2019/2023 at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He also stressed the need to take seriously and enforce the statutory provisions on free…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is launching investigation into the role played by its members in the election of leadership of the National Assembly. PDP had adopted Senator Ali Ndume and Hon. Umar Bago as President of the Senate and Speaker of House of Representatives respectively, and directed its members in the National Assembly to…

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan zonal office, on Thursday, June 20, 2019, swept on hideouts of suspected internet fraudsters in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, and smoked out 27 suspects among whom were four ladies suspected to be their girlfriends. Officials of the Commission have embarked on weeks of surveillance,…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reviewed the party’s cost of nomination forms for governorship position from five million naira to twenty million naira.  This comes ahead of the November 16 governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states. According to the party, the increase is as a result of the rising cost of printing and…