Barring any last minute changes, Governor Timipre Sylva’s hope of retaining his seat in the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Bayelsa state, may have been foreclosed. Competent sources have revealed that Governor Timipre Sylva, who is the chief security officer of the state, has become a liability and security risk to the Nigerian security agencies and…
Nigeria’s ambassador toGhana, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, has accused the leadership of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, inLagosof trying to annul the victory of his son Babajide in the chairmanship poll for Ikoyi-Obalende, LCDA. He said his son won on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. “We have the results of the election. We…
The Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun, now known as Emperor Amosun, has named his commissioners that comprises mainly his business associates and three politicians in persons of Muyiwa Oladapo,Olu Odeyemi and Daniel Adejobi. What many people didn’t know, however, is that Stanbic IBTC Bank railroaded him to give the institution juicy appointments to safeguard its…
Surely this is not the best of times for the Pulitzer Prize winner and Publisher of NEXT newspaper, Dele Olojede who finally closed down the print version of the newspaper over his state of finances which is now in the zero region. We gathered that before Olojede started the business he took a loan of…
Hitherto hidden cracks have begun to emerge in LagosStatein the relationship between Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola and his predecessor in office, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s,Global News can exclusively confirm. Before now, there had been a bit of niggle between them but they made up in the run-up to the last gubernatorial election in the state….
It is a general belief in the South-Western part of the country that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was running the affairs of the states that fell to their party after the 2003 elections in a wasteful manner. This belief was responsible for the way the people voted the PDP out in the last elections,…
Though the new Governor of theGatewayState, Senator Ibikunle Amosun has promised to give the people of the state the good things of life, those who are in the know claim that the promises may be nothing but empty. Reason, according to them, is that the governor, despite his claim to fame and wealth, has left…
The residents of Ifako-Ijaye Local Government of Lagos are up in arms against the second term bid of the incumbent chairman, Demola Doherty, urging the party leaders not to field him again for the coming local government election. In separate letters at our disposal that were sent to the former governoer of the state, Asiwaju…
The brouhaha generated by the offensive article on the Awolowo family, written by Sam Omatseye, chairman, Editorial Board of The Nation newspaper, is yet to die down. Not surprisingly, the Awolowo believe the article was prompted by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), in furtherance of his ambition to become…
With the pace things are going, it will only be a matter of time before the immediate past governor of Lagos State , Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, gets his name listed in the Forbes world’s richest list. Recent information reaching us is that the leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has actually acquired…
