…Says almost N3 trillion expended with no result The Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs is upbeat about the dissolution of the erstwhile Pius Odubu-led board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. Minister of State for the ministry, Senator Tayo Alasoadura, who accused some people he did not name of having rushed to constitute the…
Illegal Detention: Single Mother Demands N350 million from DSS, Lebanese biz man
A single mother, Odegua Okojie, has slammed a N350 million suit on the Department of State Security, DSS, and a Lebanese businessman, Charles Makhoul for alleged illegal detention for nine days. In the suit No. FHC/B/cs/120/2019 filed at the Federal High Court, Benin City, Edo State, Okojie is demanding N300 million as compensation/damages over the…
We want return of Peace, Unity to our Party, says Coalition of APC Guber Aspirants
…Accuse Obaseki of attempt to Close Political Space Ahead of the 2020 governorship election in Edo State, a coalition of gubernatorial aspirants on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, with the exception of the state governor, Godwin Obaseki, has thrown its weight behind the Senator Ahmed Lawan National Reconciliation Committee of the…
19 Years After, Edo holds Sports Festival
…As Obaseki Lights Festival Torch After 19 years that the last sports festival was held in Edo State, the state governor, Godwin Nogheghase Obaseki Wednesday lit the festival torch in Benin to herald the third in the series of what was intended to be a regular sports fiesta. The premier sports festival was held in…
Second Term: Leadership Crisis Rocks Edo CAN
Crisis is brewing in the Edo State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, as an attempt by the current Oyonnude Kure leadership to get a renewed mandate for another term on a platter of gold failed on Monday at a state executive committee meeting of the Association. Consequent upon the degeneration of the…
Edo Assembly Crisis: Confusion over Court Decision on Restraining Order
With all attention now focused on the judiciary in resolving the legislative log-jam in the Edo State House of Assembly, Tuesday’s decision by the Federal High Court, Abuja has sparked off fresh controversy between the feuding parties – the minority group of 10 members loyal to the governor, Godwin Obaseki, who are carrying on legislative…
Uduaghan Cites Regional Development as Reason for Defection
The most commonly advanced reason for Emmanuel Uduaghan, immediate past governor of Delta State to dump the People’s Democratic Party, PDP for the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC has been his ambition to go to the Senate. At least that is the refrain from his associates and sympathisers. But those who say this perhaps forgot…
Femi Falana Blows Hot: Says Nigeria’s Human Rights Record Very Bad
Rails against Fellow Lawyers, Accuses them of being Comfortable with Impunity. Radical Lagos lawyer and dogged human rights activist, Femi Falana, senior advocate of Nigeria, SAN, has written off the human rights record of the Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress, APC administration in Nigeria as abysmally low. Falana, in a no-holds-barred conversation Wednesday morning on…
You are a Colossal Failure and don’t Deserve our Support – Oshiomhole’s Kinsmen
Oshiomhole’s Kinsmen Tell Obaseki As loyalists of incumbent governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki and the national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Adams Oshiomhole, continue hot exchanges of verbal abuses following the worsening of their political differences, the latter’s political camp has debunked the claim that the governor had been endorsed for…
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