Politics

Makinde, Fayose, Oyinlola, Mimiko, Bode George, Others Insist On Southern President For Nigeria. The extended zonal caucus of the Southwest zone of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday resolved that the PDP candidate for the 2023 presidential election should come from the South. The resolutions reached at the end of the meeting of the Southwest extended zonal caucus of the party, which was held at the Government House, Agodi, Ibadan. The zonal chairman of the party, Chief Soji Adagunodo, in a communique he read at the end of the meeting, explained that the Southwest zone of the party was…

A Federal High Court, Abuja, will on Friday, deliver judgment in a suit filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State. The PDP, through its counsel Emmanuel Ukala, SAN, had filed the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/975/2021 before Justice Taiwo Taiwo to seek for an order sacking the governor and his deputy over their defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC) among others. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Tuesday, gathered from Court 7, where Justice Taiwo presided that the judgment in suit number: FHC/ABJ/CS/975/2021 filed by the PDP against Cross River governor and…

The Anambra State Governor, Charles Chukwuma Soludo, has made another three appointments days after he was sworn in as the state governor. Those appointed include Chief of Staff, Chairman, Anambra State Internal Revenue Service, and Special Adviser on Security to the Governor. The appointees are Mr Ernest Ezeajughi, Chief of Staff; Mr Richard Nwora Madiebo, Chairman, Anambra State Internal Revenue Service (AIRS); (AVM Ben Chiobi (Rtd.), Special Adviser on Security to the Governor. Mr Soludo, a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, was sworn-in earlier on Thursday, 17th March, 2021 in a low-key ceremony in Awka. The governor,…

Abia state governorship aspirant under the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr. Kalu Ijomah Ukeh has vowed to tackle unemployment in the state if elected as the next governor of the state. According to Mr. Ukeh, his administration will invest heavily in manufacturing and agriculture, thereby engaging thousands of Abia youths. Ukeh, stated this in an interview with newsmen in Umuahia, Sunday morning, noting that Agriculture can solve the issue of unemployment when made attractive to young people. He said, "Given that the Nigeria’s exports are dominated by crude oil, Nigeria’s agricultural sector provides an estimated 65% of…