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The National Secretariat of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), on Monday, dissolved its Ondo State Working Committee (SWC) ahead the forthcoming October 10 governorship election. This was contained in a letter signed by the National Secretary of the party, Shehu Musa Gabam, addressed to the State Chairman, Chief Korede Duyile and made available to BusinessDay in Akure, the state capital. Musa Gabam said the dissolution of the SWC was one of the measures to strengthen the party’s administration and activities of the Ondo State chapter in order to maintain the position of the SDP in the political landscape of the…
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Monday stopped the Edo State Government and Governor Godwin Obaseki, from arresting and prosecuting the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, over indictment contained in a white paper submitted to the state government. A panel of inquiry set up by the state government and headed by Justice J. Oyomire, had in a white paper indicted Oshiomhole of allegations bordering on corruption. In addition, the document recommended the arrest and prosecution of Oshiomhole. Justice Ahmed Muhammed after listening to an Exparte motion moved by counsel to the APC national…
A Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere Monday sentenced an EX- Exxon Mobil engineer, James Onuoha to 15 years imprisonment for raping his tenant’s 14-year- old niece. Justice Adedayo Akintoye sentenced him without an option of fine. At the last adjourned date, on January 14, 2020, the court had adjourned the case until March 25, for judgment, after the parties adopted their final written addresses. But the judgment could not be delivered due to the COVID- 19 pandemic which led to lockdown in March. At the resumed hearing of the matter, the Lagos State Prosecuting counsel Mr Babatunde Sunmonu announced…
With the gruesome murder of an African-American by a ‘white’ cop still causing widespread outrage across the world, some Nigerians in Lagos, on Monday, staged a walk in condemnation of the dastardly act. The Black Lives Matter Movement in Nigeria (BLMMN), stormed the streets of Nigeria’s commercial capital despite the heavy downpour, in total condemnation of the indiscriminate killing of coloured people in the United States of America. George Floyd died on May 25th after Derek Chauvin, then an officer with the Minneapolis Police Department, pressed his knee into his neck for nearly nine minutes. On May 29th Mr Chauvin…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has directed political parties wishing to adopt the Direct Primary mode to elect their candidates for the Edo and Ondo governorship elections to submit their membership register to the Commission. The Commission noted this will allow for effective monitoring of the party primaries. It also requested to be furnished with the list of delegates by the political parties that opted for the Indirect Primary mode. INEC National Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, who announced the request during a virtual meeting with political party leaders, charged the parties to ensure rancour-free primaries, adding that party primaries…
As part of steps to curtail the spread of COVID-19 in Ekiti State, the state government on Monday commissioned a mobile laboratory to facilitate COVID-19 testing in the state. The Molecular Laboratory is installed at the Ekiti State Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti in partnership with 54gene, a company set up to provide genomic data for Africa. This comes barely a month after the State unveiled the Ekiti State COVID-19 Response Hub, a Geographic Information System-based application created to manage data on the pandemic in the state. The COVID-19 mobile laboratory acquired by the State Government is fully equipped with vital testing…
The Abia State Government has directed members of the State Executive Council and Inter-Ministerial Committee on COVID-19 to undergo COVID-19 tests. The Commissioner for Information, John Okiyi-Kalu, made the disclosure in a statement in Umuahia on Sunday. Okiyi-Kalu said the directive followed the outcome of tests conducted on the close family members of a late commissioner in the state and member of the inter-ministerial committee on COVID-19. He said: “Abia State Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, has directed all members of the committee and those of the Executive Council, who might have recently come in contact with the late commissioner, to…
Hundreds of people protested, in solidarity with demonstrations in the United States over the death of a black man, George Floyd, shown on video gasping for breath as a white policeman knelt on his neck in Minneapolis, stormed the streets of London in United Kingdom (UK) and Berlin in Germany to express their displeasure. The protesters knelt in central London’s Trafalgar Square, chanting “No justice, no peace”, and then marched past the Houses of Parliament and finished up outside the U.S. Embassy. Several hundred protesters also staged a rally outside the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, holding up posters saying “Justice…
In celebration of this year’s special June 12 anniversary, the Special Adviser to the President on Political matters, Babafemi Ojudu, Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, Chief Olisa Agbakoba, Aare Ona Kankanfo, Gani Adams and Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin will lead several other pro-democracy activists to recount their contribution towards the return of democracy to Nigeria.Others expected to join the discussion on activities before and after June 12, 1993, presidential election won by Late Chief Moshood Abiola were: Chief Frank Kokori, daughter of the deceased, Dr. Hafsat Abiola, Bashorun Dele Momodu, Lanre Suraj, Wale Okunniyi, Kayode Ogundamisi, Dr. Ayo Obe, former commissioner…
