SHE IS RUNNING….. Nationwide, there’s an unprecedented wave of female candidates — many of them first-timers — running for office up and down the ballot this year. A special fature on ekiti state, spotlighting women in Progressive Politics. It is an empirical fact that women in Nigeria haven’t been nearing their optimal potential regards contributing to the development of Nationhood simply because of low level participation in politics. This is particularly surprisingly so in southwest Nigeria as the usual mitigating factors to their participation in politics as readily experienced in other regions of Nigeria are at minimal in the southwest.…
Author: Mr Abiodun Borisade
PDP THUGS STABS APC PARTY AGENT ADEBIYI AJIBADE TO DEATH IN ESA-ODOby The sad story of how Adebiyi Ajibade (APC Esa-Odo Party Agent) was hacked to death by PDP thugs after the elections on Saturday 22 Sept. 2018. The ugly incident started from Polling Booth Unit 05 Ward 09, United Primary School, Esa Odo around 12:00 noon on Saturday 22nd September 2018. Some Esa Odo PDP & ADP members who are also cult members, their names include the following : 1. Oladele Seye. 2. Oladele Kunle, 3. Arubiewe Kunle, 4. Arubiewe Ayo, 5. Ayegbusi Abiodun, 6. Ajayi Iseoluwa, 7. Oyewole…
INDEED FAYEMI HAS UNFINISHED BUSINESS By ADL It is indeed true that Fayemi has unfinished business in Ekiti. The business is basically to bring back the good old days and make the people to take ownership of government. A lot of works were left unfinished or undone. The old days of good governance is all gone. Just look around you, it’s a total abandonment. Take a look at this. When he came on board in 2010, he started the restructuring of government activities in an holistic manner. With this restructuring, government spent less on consultancy services from private institutions and…
Osun Governorship Re-Run: CUPP Alleges Plot by INEC To Manipulate Election * Demands Immediate Release of list of Collected PVCs in Affected Polling Units Opposition political parties under the banner of Coalition of United Political Parties, (CUPP) has said it has uncovered plans by some national officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission {INEC} to tamper and manipulate Thursday’s governorship re-run election in Osun State in favour of the ruling All Progressives Congress {APC} with uncollected Permanent Voter Cards{PVCs}. Addressing journalists in Abuja on Monday, National Publicity Secretary, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere said the plot is being coordinated by a Senior…
2019: Ekiti PDP aspirants vandalize party secretariat, reject alleged imposition by fayose Ekiti State People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Secretariat was on Sunday vandalized by angry National Assembly aspirants protesting alleged imposition of candidates by Governor Ayo Fayose. The aspirants and their supporters staged a violent protest at the secretariat at about 11.25 am changing war songs and demanding the conduct of free and fair primaries. They smashed the louvre windows of the party secretariat in protest against their denial of being denied tickets for the six House of Representatives seats in the state. They alleged that the Appeal Panel sent…
Senator Daisy Ehanire Danjuma celebrates her grandchild…. #Reflection Many people wouldn’t know what we have been through together.. Nobody sees your struggle until you’re successful.. Thank you for the woman you have made me become, my Role Model. I’m so lucky to have your type as my husband. Together we live forever- Sen. Daisy Danjuma Blessed indeed you are distinguished senator Federal Republic of Nigeria. hi
Indications high that Katsina’s longest serving Senator will resign from active politics before the scheduled APC October 2018 primary!! Senatorial Abu Ibrahim representing Katsina South senatorial district is an indigene of Katsina State. Once chairman of the Katsina branch of the People’s Democratic Party(PDP). Principled in dealings and a pious muslim by nature, in 2002, after unsubstantiated allegations were made against him, he resigned from the party at their National Convention. In the 2003 senatorial elections he contested for the senatorial seat in Katsina South (Funtua) senatorial district and won under the platform of the All Nigeria Peoples Party(ANPP). In…
Solidarity visit to fully recuperated Michael Opeyemi Bamidele months after gunshot incident. On hand was Akogun Tai Oguntayo, publisher Fountain News Breakers an ekiti state based community magazine
#OsunDecides2018 remains undecided hours after counting process; 3498 votes to be contested. #Reflection The Appeal Court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State declared Engr. Rauf Aregbesola of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) winner of the 2007 governorship election in Osun state, awarding him 198,799 votes, against the ousted incumbent’s 172,880. APC also emerged winner of 2014 governorship election in Osun State. Aregbesola won majority of the poll with 394,684 votes against Senator Iyiola Omisore of PDP who polled 292,747 votes. Today, 2018, Aregbesola is struggling to survive after 8 years in power. Don’t also forget that he polled 299,711 for…
MULTIPLE boreholes and the daily extraction of 330,000 metric tonnes of water have been blamed for the tremor that shook some parts of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) between September 5 and 8, the panel mandated to look into the matter has said in its report. The Presidential Committee also predicted the possibility of more tremors in the country unless the indiscriminate sinking of boreholes was controlled. Relying on the results obtained, using the probability of recurrence theory, the committee warned that the probability of recurrence in the near future remained “fairly high in Nigeria”. Chairman of the committee and…
