Category: News from the states

Governments of the six South-west states of Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ondo and Ekiti have unanimously declared June 12 as a public holiday to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the annulled 1993 Presidential election adjudged to have been won by the late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola. Their declaration came on the heels of a […]

  An ex President of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, and former House of Representatives member, Hon Opeyemi Bamidele, who was being treated of gun shot wounds at a Lagos hospital, has been flown to the United Kingdom for further treatment. The former activist who is also an ex governorship aspirant, and five […]

  President Muhammadu Buhari says he stopped his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina from replying former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s letter against his administration because of Adesina’s age. He explained the reasons when members of  the Buhari Support Organisation visited him at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Friday night, adding that the second […]

  Alarm by former President Olusegun Obasanjo is terrifying as it has heightened the tension in the polity and confirmed the fears that Nigeria has descended into a police state where any Nigerian, who holds a divergent view to President Muhammodu Buhari’s 2019 re-election bid, becomes endangered, the opposition People\’s Democratic Party, PDP has said. […]

  THE Federal Government has invited the major stakeholders in the struggle for the revalidation of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election to the post-humous investiture of the election’s winner, Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, as the Grand Commander of the Federal Republic, GCFR. Late human rights activist, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, will also be […]

The Senate on Thursday passed the Independent National Electoral Commission Act Amendment Bill without the clause that seeks to reshuffle the order of polls in a general election. Also referred to as the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, its passage by the Senate was in concurrence with the House of Representatives, which had earlier passed an […]

Two Nigerian students from Osun State have emerged the best again at the final examinations of the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University\’s Medical School, Kharkiv, Ukraine. The two students: Mustapha Lateefat Kemi, a native of Okuku, in Osun State had the highest mark, while Adebayo Rukayat Abiodun, a native of Ede, also in Osun State, […]