The Enugu State Governor-elect, Dr. Peter Mbah, has revealed a 60-man transition committee ahead of May 29th handover. In a press release signed by the Head of the Peter Mbah Media Office, Dan Nwomeh said, “The Transition Committee will help articulate and fine-tune the incoming administration’s implementable and impactful development plan; they will streamline the State development plan in line with Mbah’s Social Charter with Ndi Enugu.” “The Charter aims at repositioning the state as...

President-elect Bola Tinubu returned to Nigeria yesterday after being away for 34 days. The West African Pilot News reports that the President-elect left the country on March 21 for Paris, France to rest after a hectic campaign and election season and plan his transition programme ahead of his inauguration on May 29. Upon his arrival, Tinubu, who was accompanied by his wife, Senator Oluremi, was welcomed by a crowd of supporters and some high-ranking members...

The Inspector-General of Police (IG), Usman Alkali, has ordered an investigation and possible prosecution of the suspended Adamawa State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Hudu Yunusa-Ari. This follows the receipt of an April 18 letter from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), detailing the alleged impropriety of Ari’s actions. A statement on Sunday by the Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said IG Alkali had directed an investigative team to work with INEC in the investigation...

Osita Okechukwu, Director General, Voice of Nigeria (VON) and founding member of All Progressives Congress (APC),  has described former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s attack on President-elect Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s transition as political hypocrisy. Recall that Atiku, the presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the just concluded general elections decried the absence of any Igbo person on the membership list of Tinubu’s transition committee. While reaction to the former Vice President’s Reacting to Atiku’s...