archive2023

Leaders of Labour Party (LP) in Oyo State have dumped the party’s governorship candidate, Mr Tawfiq Akinwale, and adopted Governor Seyi Makinde of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Saturday’s governorship election in the state. However, Akinwale has said he has not stepped down for Makinde despite the position of...

    *Archbishop to VP: "You serve well, we are proud of you." Appointment to an important position is not just one to be celebrated with pomp and pageantry, but a high call of service and responsibility to God and the people, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN. Prof....

President Muhammadu Buhari has called on developed and developing nations to grant duty-free and quota-free market access for products originating from the world’s 46 least-developed countries to ensure their integration in regional and global value chains. Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s spokesman in a statement, said Buhari, who made the...

There are indications that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will approach the Court of Appeal seeking to set aside its earlier ruling concerning the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS). A senior official of the commission, who did not want his name mentioned, informed Daily Trust about the development over...

  The Presidential Candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has described the promise by  the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu to deliver credible governorship elections on Saturday, March 11, as a medicine given after death Yakubu, had in a meeting with Resident...

President Muhammadu Buhari has departed the Umar Musa Yar’Adua International Airport, Katsina, for Doha, Qatar, for the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LCDs). Gov. Aminu Masari of Katsina State and some other government officials were at the airport to bid the president farewell. A statement by...

Abdullahi, one of the sons of former Head of State, General Sani Abacha, is dead. He was said to have died in his sleep at the age of 36. His sister, Mrs Fatimah Gumsu Abacha-Buni, the wife of Governor, Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State wrote on her Instagram page...

...says Oyo State residents will see more infrastructure devt if he's re-elected ...tells residents to vote for him, PDP Assembly candidates on March 11 Oyo State governor, 'Seyi Makinde, on Saturday, revealed the lofty programmes his administration has in store for residents of the state if he is re-elected for...

The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has called on officers and men of the Nigerian Correctional Service to shun all corrupt practices. He warned that such an act was capable of leading to security breaches at the Custodial Centres in the country. Aregbesola spoke at the Passing out Parade of...

  The leader of the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, has congratulated the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on his victory in the just concluded presidential election in the country. Fasoranti advised Tinubu to avoid making mistakes made by his predecessors by ensuring that every ethnic group was united...