Challenges PDP to publish details of companies linked to Governor’s family, report to EFCC Akeredolu’s family on looting spree – PDP Ondo State Government has debunked the alleged looting of the state by the family of Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu as it challenged the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to publish the details of the 13 […]
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A screengrab taken on January 4, 2022, shows Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu pointing to the police officer who defied his order to vacate the Magodo Phase II Estate in Lagos The lingering land dispute at the Magodo Phase II Estate in Lagos took a different dimension on Tuesday as a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) publicly […]
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Over 15 million Nigerians have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. This is according to the national daily call-in data from the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA). The agency said 10,813,596 of the total eligible persons targeted for COVID-19 vaccination were reached with the first dose. It said 4,590,263 were […]
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Residents of Magodo Phase II Estate in Lagos are protesting the presence of over 50 armed policemen in their estate. The management early Tuesday shut the two gates leading into the estate. The closure led to the disruption of vehicular movement. People were allowed to exit the estate, but were restricted from entering. Residents bore […]
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By Chud Uchegbu On December 28, while many were reveling in Christmas festivities, President Olusegun Obasanjo, as he used to be, was at his desk writing a letter to Chief Edwin Clark, acclaimed leader of the Ijaw nation. Obasanjo’s letter was in response to allegations against him contained in a Chief Clark’s earlier letter titled […]
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OBJ’s statement inflammatory, unfair to Niger Delta, say Akpomudje, Okrika ‘If you go strictly by the constitution, that is what it is’ Dust raised by ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s response to a letter to him by Ijaw leader and former information minister, Chief Edwin Clark, over who owns mineral resources in the region and indeed Nigeria, […]
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Ex-President tackles Clark Says: ‘I bear no grudge against Niger Delta’ Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday took an exception to Chief Edwin Clark’s reaction to his (Obasanjo’s) insistence that Niger Delta cannot lay claim to the crude oil found in the region. He reminded the leader of Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) and Chairman of […]
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By Anthony Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie The inquiry Sonny Okosun made four decades ago in his song “Papa’s Land”, remains a task. “We want to know who owns the land,” he sang. Today, we still need to ask ourselves that question: Who owns the land? It has once again come to fore in former President Olusegun […]
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The leader of Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Chief Edwin Clark, has described as unstatesmanly and disappointing, the comment by former President Olusegun Obasanjo that oil found in the Niger Delta region does not belong to the people of the Niger Delta. The former federal commissioner for information and South-South leader, in a personal letter to […]
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Unlike the previous year when political activities were slowed down by the lockdown occasioned by the outbreak of the COVID-19, 2021 witnessed a flurry of events within Nigeria’s political space. The activities were carried out by the political parties, the National Assembly, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and other political actors and institutions. From […]
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