Enaye Abah, Chairman of Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State was today kidnapped by unidentified gunmen. The gunmen who were said to have been two in number took Abah to an unknown destination after they trailed him, overtook his car and blocked him. According to reports from eyewitnesses, the firepower of the two gunmen,…
Rivers LG Chairman Kidnapped
The chairman of Degema Local Government Area, Rivers State, is reported kidnapped by unknown gunmen. This happened Friday night, just a few hours to today’s presidential election.
Election Time table: INEC Yet To Take A Position – Jega
Attahiru Jega, Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has said that the Commission has not taken any position yet on the debate over whether the 2015 General elections should be postponed or not. Jega made the disclosure on Friday at a workshop on “Mitigation of Violence in Election,” organized by INEC in Abuja. “I don’t…
ASUU chairman’s wife Abducted
Funmilayo Abiona, wife of the Chairman, Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Osun State University chapter, Oluseye Abiona, was on Friday kidnapped by Gunmen in Osogbo.She was abducted on her way home from her shop around Oke Bale area of Osogbo.Abiona, who was said to be driving a Lexus car, was with her two children…
FRC Pioneer Chairman Dies at 78
Aliyu Yelwa, pioneer Chairman of the Fiscal Responsibility Commission, FRC, on Monday, died in his hometown in Yauri, Kebbi State, aged 78. Yelwa who was appointed Chairman of FRC in 2008 served out his tenure in December 2013. He had earlier served as Federal Cabinet Minister in the Ministries of Water Resources and Rural Development…