Press Conference Osun: PDP Rejects INEC Declaration of Osun Guber as Inconclusive The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rejects in its entirety, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC’s) declaration of the September 22, 2018 Osun State Governorship election as inconclusive. The PDP insists that the process was conclusive and that its candidate, Senator Ademola Adeleke, who…
• Twenty Two (22) Suspects now in Police Custody. • Senate President, Sen. Bukola Saraki is being invited to report to the Police to answer allegations indicting him from confessions of Five (5) Gang leaders arrested for active participation in Offa Bank Robbery and Killings of THIRTY THREE (33) Innocent persons. SUSPECTS i. Ayoade Akinnibosun…
Niger Delta militants have issued an October 1 ultimatum for northerners to leave their region, in response to the quit notice given to the Igbo by some Arewa youth groups. The militants also said the federal government should hand over all oil blocs controlled by northerners to the people of Niger Delta. In a joint…
A Federal High Court in Lagos has fixed May 25 to rule on whether it has jurisdiction in hearing the suit involving the Chairman, Capital Oil and Gas Limited, Ifeanyi Ubah, and the State Security Service alongside others. Justice Idris Mohammed adjourned the matter after hearing counter affidavits filed by counsel to the 4th and…
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar says Nigeria will continue to grapple with the crisis of severe and debilitating socio-economic problems unless it gets the structures of the federalism and governance right. Atiku stated this in a paper titled; “The Challenge of Unity, Diversity and National Development: Nigeria at a Crossroads’’, which he delivered at the formal…
The Nigerian police has successfully effected the arrest of a Notorious Niger Delta Avenger militant and kidnapper, Anthony Pepple AKA “Urban Gorrilla” and other members of his kidnapping syndicate, known for targeting Medical Doctors and Pharmacists in Port-Harcourt, Rivers state. After several reported cases of kidnapping in Port Harcourt, IGP Ibrahim K Idris instructed the…
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibadan Zonal office have arrested one Okiribiti Adunola Aminat over an alleged case of conspiracy and obtaining money under false pretence. In a rehash of the old infamous advance fee fraud tact of spiritual help and solution to all problems, a victim has recounted her ordeal in…
A former governor of Lagos state, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has said that he cannot rule out the possibility of fighting for presidential office in Nigeria. He said this on Friday during the inauguration of Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN) as the newly elected governor of Ondo state. Tinubu said vying for any office in Nigeria is…
