According to the source, the gunmen, who opened fire on the bus, whisked away their victims, including the driver, into the bush. He however said some of them managed to escape somewhere along the way. The magazine gathered that the hoodlums have made contacts with the families of three prominent ones among the victims demanding…
APC’s Oyebanji Wins Ekiti Polls
Abayomi Oyebanji, candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC has been declared winner of the Saturday June 18, governorship election in Ekiti State. He scored 187,057 votes to defeat his closest rival Segun Oni, a former governor of the state who ran on the platform of the Social Democratic Party, SDP who scored 82,211 votes…
Atiku Settles for Okowa As Running Mate
Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP has announced that Governor Arthur Okowa of Delta State will be on the same ticket with him for the forthcoming presidential election. He made the announcement at a ceremony in Abuja. For about two weeks there have been meetings and consultations among leaders of the…
Senior Public Official, Seven Others in Attempted $2 billion Dollars Fraud in Edo
The long arms of the law have caught up with eight suspects in Edo State who allegedly attempted to defraud the federal government of a whopping $2 billion (USD). The arrest, according to the State Police Command, was sequel to a complaint received by its crack team April 25, 2022, via a petition from one…
Obaseki Clamps Down on Union Activities in State-Owned Tertiary Institutions, Suspends Operations by ASUU, ASUP, NASU, SSANU
…Invokes No Work, No Pay Policy Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki, has ordered the immediate resumption of academic activities in all state-owned tertiary institutions, even as he came down hard on the various academic and non- academic staff unions in the universities and polytechnics, suspending their operations. The government’s sledge hammer followed the protest by…
How Tinubu Triumphed Over APC intrigues
He is a cat with nine lives. The plots against him were deep and varied. A lot of people believed he was finished for daring the Presidency, the party and the cabal. But like a sphinx, the world watched Bola Ahmed Tinubu rise from the ashes of his multiple battles to clinch the presidential ticket…
You Have No Power to Ban ASUU, Defiant AAU Lecturers Fire Back at Obaseki
The embattled members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, in Edo State-owned Ambrose Alli University, AAU, Ekpoma, has described as “condemnable” the suspension of activities of the union by the state government. The state governor, Godwin Obaseki, Wednesday evening after the state’s security council meeting, ordered the striking workers of all government-owned tertiary…
Tinubu Beats Osinbajo, Amaechi to Win APC Ticket
Ahmed Bola Tinubu, former governor of Lagos State and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC has emerged the winner of the primaries to elect the flagbearer of the party for the 2023 election. he scored 1, 271 votes to defeat Rotimi Amaechi, former minister of Transportation who scored 316 votes, while Vice President…
Obaseki Sympathises With Victims of Edo Multiple Accident Which Claimed Seven Lives
The governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, has described as “most regrettable”, Sundays gory multiple accidents at Agbede, Etsako West local government area of the state, in which seven persons were burnt beyond recognition. Obaseki, who on Tuesday expressed his heart-felt sympathy for victims of the accident, said the cause of the crash had been…
Isa Baba Buji APC Delegate Dies Before Primaries in Abuja
A delegate for the presidential primaries of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC has died before the conclusion of the exercise that started yesterday. Isa Baba Buji, a delegate from Jigawa State, according to report, died in Abuja on Tuesday while preparations for the presidential primaries were approaching the final stage. Laolu Akande, spokesperson for…
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