IT was a grim verdict yesterday on the fate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) by one of its governors. The ruling party is dead, waiting to be buried, declared Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido. Lamido, one of the founding fathers of the PDP in 1998, was one of the Group of Seven (G7) aggrieved…
The Speaker, House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal, is set to clash with the leadership of his party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, following the party’s request, yesterday, that he declare the seats of all 37 House members that defected from the party to the All Progressives Congress, APC, vacant. Meanwhile, the national chairman of the…
Clark-OBJ-300x300Former Federal Commissioner of Information and elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to reply and address the allegations contained in a letter former President Olusegun Obasanjo wrote to him in the national interest.Clark, who was speaking with journalists at the Nigeria Centenary Lecture in London on Tuesday, said that the allegations,…
Federal High Court sitting in Abuja yesterday stopped the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, the Senate President David Mark, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from declaring their seats vacant when they eventually defect to another political party.The…
Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha has commended journalists in Imo for being objective in the reportage of events and issues since the inception of the current administration in the state.Governor Okorocha gave the pass mark at the 2013 NUJ Press Week held at the NUJ Press Centre Owerri.He described journalists as vehicles of information…
THE United States has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to fulfil his promises to implement developmental projects in the troubled states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa in order to curb Boko Haram insurgency in the region. The three states have been under the emergency rule since May. US Permanent Representatives to the United Nations, Samantha Power,…
Abuja (AFP) – Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan lost his majority in parliament on Wednesday after 37 lawmakers bolted his party for a new opposition coalition, the latest political blow to hit the embattled leader. In a letter presented to the speaker of the lower house, the lawmakers elected under Jonathan’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) declared…
WE are all currently witnessing the inhuman and heinous destruction of precious lives of people and property across the country, Igbos inclusive and targeted. But what vey many of us today, weren’t witnesses to, were the HELLACAUSTAL pogroms, ethnic cleansings and genocidal perpetrations, months preceding the full-blown civil war between BIAFRA and NIGERIA, which claimed…
The National Coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Otunba Gani Adams, yesterday said the group was prepared to assist the Itsekiri
AHEAD of 2015 Presidential election, leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, stormed the Asokoro residence of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as part of moves to woo him into the family of the opposition party. Meanwhile, the leadership of the APC disclosed that it has concluded arrangements to meet with former President and…