Governor Ayodele Fayose has accused the Federal Government of deliberately withholding states’ Paris Club loan refunds to prevent him from paying salary arrears before the election.He disclosed this yesterday in Ado-Ekiti through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Idowu Adelusi.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, yesterday told the people not to be intimidated by the ruling party.Fayemi gave the charge yesterday during his campaign at communities in Ido/Osi Local Government Area.

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has forwarded list of two Commissioner nominees to the Imo State House of Assembly for approval. All of them were appointed into the Imo State Independent Electoral Commission (ISIEC). They are Chiefs Luis Adebionu and Ferdinand Uzodinma. In a statement signed by the governor’s Principal Secretary, Dr. Paschal Obi,…

Former National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Caretaker Committee and a presidential aspirant on the platform of the party, Malam Ahmed Makarfi, has urged Nigerians to support his aspiration to emerge as the president of the country. Makarfi, who spoke with journalists in Jos yesterday after a meeting with the delegates of the…

The Chairman, Akwa Ibom State Assembly Service Commission, Andrew Unwanta, has said granting autonomy to states Houses of Assembly was not tantamount to creating a rift between the legislature and executive. He made the assertion while speaking with The Guardian in Uyo, insisting that any state House of Assembly that misinterpreted financial autonomy for a…

Governor Ayodele Fayose and the former Minister of Works, Dayo Adeyeye, yesterday traded words over the job placement initiated by the governor. Adeyeye urged the people to be weary of the offer by the governor, less than three weeks to the election. But Fayose accused Adeyeye of displaying favouritism by employing over 100 of his…

Ahead of Saturday’s National Convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chairman of the planning committee and Governor of Jigawa State, Abubakar Badaru, will today inspect the Eagle Square, venue of the exercise. The Badaru-led panel will be accompanied by his team to also meet with 48 aspirants who would jostle for various positions at…

A Non-Governmental Organisation, the Ekiti Development Front (EDF), has boosted Kayode Fayemi’s campaign by empowering 150 residents of Ikere Ekiti, and five other local councils. Convener of the event, Adeoye Aribasoye, yesterday distributed various items to 90 beneficiaries at Odo Oja, in Ikere-Ekiti. He promised that more people would benefit, if they vote for Fayemi,…

As the 2019 election is approaching, more women are beginning to express interest in contesting the presidential election on different political platforms. One of such women, Princess Oyenike Oyedele Roberts, who recently expressed willingness to run for the apex political post in the country on the platform of the major opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),…

Governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Prof. Kolapo Olusola, has charged teachers and local government workers to secure their future by voting for him. He stated this at Osan community during the PDP ward-to-ward campaign in Moba Local Government Area of the state. The campaign took Olusola to Osan, Iro and Otun, where…

One is still reeling from the euphoria of the June 12 celebration, the day proclaimed as Democracy Day by President Muhammadu Buhari. June 12, 1993, the presidential election day, was a great day for Nigeria. Though it was in the middle of the rainy season, no rain fell throughout the country. Chief Moshood Abiola, the…

The campaign organisation of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s governorship candidate, Prof Kolapo Olusola has berated the All Progressives Congress (APC) for isolating the palace of the Ewi of Ado-Ekiti, Oba Rufus Adejugbe. This followed the leaders failure to pay homage to the monarch when they visited the state yesterday to kick off its campaign…