Speaker of the Osun State House of Assembly, Hon. Najeem Salaam, has said nothing will stop the All Progressives Congress APC from zoning the next governorship seat to Osun West Senatorial District.
The tenure of Governor Rauf Aregbesola ends in few months. Salaam told newsmen in Osogbo on Thursday, that zoning had become a convention in the nation, and not only in Osun State.
Federal Government empowerment scheme, N-Power, has revealed what beneficiaries who wish to resign from the programme should do.
Noble laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has revealed how President Muhammadu Buhari has caused the successive killing in Benue State.
The renowned professor of Literature paid a courtesy visit to the Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom earlier this week.
Alhaji Tanko Yakasai A Third Republic Presidential Adviser, and former governor of Kaduna State, Balarabe Musa have fire back at Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka for describing the killings in some parts of the country as ethnic cleansing.
The Nobel Laureate, who led a delegation of Association of Nigerian Authors to a meeting with Governor, Samuel Ortom, yesterday at the Government House in Makurdi, called for a quick military response over the ongoing killings in the country.
Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has warned against the killings of clerics and Christians across Nigeria.
He said there will be war in Nigeria, the likes of which the world has never seen if the killings continue.
The African Development Bank AfDB, said earlier today in Busan, South Korea, that it was assisting the Transmission Company of Nigeria TCN to invest in modernization of its transmission network to improve the energy sector of the country.
The AfDB President, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, told the News Agency of Nigeria NAN on the sideline of the bank’s Annual Meetings that it was also investing in the private sector of the country by providing the commercial banks with significant lines of credit to drive economic development. He said this was necessary because many of the African countries faced insufficient foreign exchange challenges.
Secretary to Government of the Federation SGF, Boss Mustapha, has urged governors on the platform of the All Progressives Congress APC to align with policies and programmes of Federal Government.
Mustapha, who made the call at the 6th Quarterly Meeting of Secretaries to State Governments SSGs of APC states, said that such alignments would engender effective delivery of the party’s manifestos.
Fatima Bukari, one of the alleged victims of rape by soldiers and Civilian Joint TaskForce CJTF, has revealed the ordeal they have had to endure in exchange for food in the North-East.
Bukari said apart from the fact that her husband was beaten and taken away on the pretext that he was a Boko Haram member, they have had to endure repeated rape, in exchange for food, resulting in them having children without fathers.
President Trump granted a rare and historic posthumous pardon to Jack Johnson 72 years after death Thursday, clearing the first African-American heavyweight boxing champion of racially motivated charges resulting from his relationships with white women in 1912.
Advocates for Johnson — including boxers, historians, academics and senators — had been pushing for a pardon for 14 years through the George W. Bush and Barack Obama presidencies.
Governor of Imo State Rochas Okorocha, has spoken on the rumour flying about that he was set to dump the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
The Governor vowed not to leave the party which he claimed to be one of its founders in the state.
