Yiaga Africa, a civil society organisation, on Sunday, said it had concluded plans to deploy 500 election observers to 250 polling units in the upcoming governorship election in Edo. Mr Samson Itodo, Executive Director of the organisation, said during a virtual meeting held with journalists in Benin that 24 long term observers and 18 collation observers would also be deployed for the election. Itodo said the organisation would be using the Watch The Vote (WTV)...
Gov. David Umahi of Ebonyi has openly acknowledged the existence of moles in his government but insisted that his administration had nothing to hide. Umahi’s position is contained in a social media comment posted on Sunday. He was reacting to a post by a WhatsApp group participant accusing the former Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Bernard Odoh, of “unholy alliance with a particular incumbent governor of a South-Eastern state”. Umahi, who reiterated his earlier...
The ad-hoc committee set up by the Lagos State House of Assembly to probe allegations of financial misconduct against the speaker Rt. Honourable Mudashiru Obasa, called-off its meeting, as persons and parties invited to substantiate their claims, did not show up. Persons invited include Mr. Babajide Otitoju of Television Continental; Mr. Bayo Oluwasanmi, Budgit, Concerned Nigerians; Adeola Fayehun of Keeping It Real, according to The Nation. Others are The Independent Diaspora Nigerians Against Corruption and...
The Lagos State Commissioner for Agriculture, Prince Gbolahan Lawal, has been appointed as the Oniru-elect of Iruland. His appointment has been approved by the Lagos State Government. Lawal is a former aide-de-camp to the National Leader of the All Progressive Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. According to the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos, Mr. Gboyega Akosile, Lawal’s appointment was approved during the State Executive Council meeting on Friday where final ratification on...
The Federal High Court in Abuja has been asked to disqualify the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki from contesting in the state governorship election scheduled to hold on September 19, 2020, for allegedly forging his certificate. The report has it that the suit was filed by Edabor Williams, Ugesia Godwin and Amedu Anakhu on May 29, 2020. Also, respondents to the suit were the All Progressive Congress which is the party of the Governor, the...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila, says he will engage Speakers of State Houses of Assemblies on domestications of laws against rape. Gbajabiamila said this while receiving a delegation of 12 Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), in his office on Friday in Abuja. Gbajabimila said that he would engage state assembly speakers on the urgent need to domesticate the Child Right Act and the Violence Against Persons Act. “I am aware that...
Former vice president Joe Biden on Friday claimed victory in the Democratic Party race to take on President Donald Trump in the November election. “It was an honor to compete alongside one of the most talented groups of candidates the Democratic party has ever fielded – and I am proud to say that we are going into this general election a united party,” Biden said in a statement. Biden passed the 1,991-delegate threshold required to...
ABUJA –– Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has described the stoppage of subsidy and price-fixing for petrol as a right move by the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration led by President Muhammadu Buhari. Abubakar is also the leading opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate in the 2019 general elections. In his verified Twitter handle on Friday, he called on Federal and State Governments to remove other impediments and roll out incentives to spur investments in the oil sector. Also, DPR warns petrol...
In Nigeria, as elsewhere in Africa (and the world, for that matter), there is often a large disconnect between what the federal government says in its press statements and what actually happens at the local level. Most observers comment on developments in the Lagos-Ibadan corridor, Abuja, Kano, Kaduna, and Port Harcourt, not least because they are media centers and the most developed parts of the country. It is difficult to know the views of people outside of...
