Kingsley Femi Fanwo, Kogi State Commissioner for Information and Communications has said that the administration of Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo has turned the state into a “massive construction site,” with landmark projects springing up across key sectors. The Commissioner in a press statement on Friday, highlighted the completion of the Audit House, one of the biggest in the country, which is now set for commissioning. According to him, the government has also embarked on extensive...

Former president of Centre for Committee of Defence of Human Rights (CDHR), Malachy Ugwumadu has said that the electorate should decide the leadership recruitment at the polling booths and not at the courts. Ugwumadu stated this on Arise TV yesterday when he gave reasons why the call for electoral and judicial reforms should be supported ahead of the 2027 general elections. He said, “Leadership recruitment process must be a function of the direct participation of the...

The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has sought urgent intervention over the onslaught by bandits in parts of Kwara State, leading to the kidnapping of a monarch’s family members and the sacking of about 16 communities, as well as the kidnapping of Pastor Ayodeji Akesinro from his home in Upenme, Owo, Ondo State, on Thursday. The organisation’s National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Jare Ajayi, in a release yesterday, lamented over the kidnap of a 7-year-old boy in...

Ahead of the 2027 general elections, members of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have declared their support for the Presidential aspiration of Dr. Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim The group at a stakeholders meeting on Wednesday attended by about 170 critical Stakeholders of the party from various area councils, which included Local Government, Party Ward Chairmen, Council Chairmanship Flag bearers, Councilorship candidates, Executive Chairmen, Secretaries of Area Councils and other stakeholders, the...