The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has appointed respective state governors to serve as returning officers for the presidential direct primaries holding across the states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Friday, September 28, 2018. In states where there are no governors on the party’s platform, senators along with the ministers are to serve ...

Sen. Ademola Adeleke, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the Osun governorship election, has rejected the result of the rerun poll. Adeleke, in a statement in Osogbo by his campaign organisation’s spokesperson, Mr Olawale Rasheed, said he would seek legal redress. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola, the APC candidate defeated Adeleke with 482 votes ...

Gboyega Isiaka Oyetola will succeed Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola as the governor of Osun state on 27 November, 2018. The chief returning officer for the election, Professor Joseph Adeola Fuwape, vice chancellor Federal University of Technology, Akure, declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress the winner after 1.am on Friday. He said Oyetola, whose 64th birthday will be on 29 ...

NATIONAL WORKING COMMITTEE DECISIONS ON GOVERNORSHIP ASPIRANTS SCREENING COMMITTEE REPORT SOUTH SOUTH Akwa Ibom State S/N NAME DECISION 1. H.E. Obong Nsima Ekere Cleared 2. Sen. John Akpan Udoedeghe, Phd Cleared 3. Dan Abia, Esq. Cleared 4. Dr. Edet Okon Efretui Cleared Delta State S/N NAME DECISION 1. Prof. Pat Utomi Cleared 2. Dr. (Hon). Cairo Ojugbo Cleared 3. Rt. ...

…receives endorsement from APC special interest groups  …activates campaign organisation across 20 LGs   In readiness for Saturday’s direct primary election, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s team has approved specialised training for one thousand, nine hundred and sixty personnel that will serve as agents in all the 245 wards in the constitutionally recognised 20 local government areas where the primary election is ...

Gboyega Oyetola, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress on Thursday swept the two polling units in Ile-Ife, in Osun state, where rerun elections were ordered by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to determine the winner. Ife South, Oyetola got 283 votes, while the PDP candidate got 15 votes. In Ife North(Unit 2), APC got 126 votes, while the ...

The Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has rejected the results of the rerun election even before the official announcement. The candidate announced the rejection of the poll results in a statement issued on his behalf by the spokesperson for the Adeleke Campaign Organisation, Mr Olawale Rasheed. The PDP candidate vowed to seek legal redress in court, saying ...

Raymond Ozoji, Awka The nationwide industrial action embarked upon by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to press home demands of Nigerian workers for enhanced salaries and better working conditions seems to witness partial compliance in Anambra state as offices of the state civil service were opened for vital services. The Head of Service of the Anambra State Civil Service Barr. ...

…moves to set up additional dispatch centres in Ijanikin, Epe, Ikorodu General Manager of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Mr. Adesina Tiamiyu, on Thursday said the agency receives at least 100,000 calls daily from residents in the State via the emergency response number 767 and 112. Tiamiyu, who spoke to journalists in his office in Alausa, on the ...

Government offices, banks and public schools were on Thursday closed in Lagos State as the organised labour began its strike over delay by Federal Government in concluding negotiation on a new minimum wage. The enforcement teams of the organised labour set out from Ikeja to the State Secretariat, Alausa, at 7:20 am and workers who arrived for work were turned ...