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The military authority in Egypt is once more in power having forced defiant President Mohammed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood out of power less than one year after he was sworn in. General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced suspension of the constitution and a road map to democratic rule to a cherry crowd but with a revised constitution. President of the Supreme Constitutional Court will now act as Interim Head of State but will be assisted by an interim council until new presidential and parliamentary elections will be held. The military leader made the announcement after an extensive consultation with politicians…
The Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) has berated the Imo State Governor, Mr. Rochas Okorocha over what it called a desperate attempt to truncate the wish of the people in Imo State, describing his actions as undemocratic. A statement signed by Acting Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr. Tony Okeke said it is unfortunate that Okorocha deployed thugs that violently disrupted activities during the election adding that the governor went ahead to unilaterally declare results of election when the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared the election inconclusive. According to the party, the Imo state governor needs to urgently retrace his…
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has slammed the presidency for seeking to usurp the role of INEC by describing the rerun election to the Imo House of Assembly in Oguta as inconclusive. In a statement issued in Ado-Ekiti on Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said it was up to INEC to determine whether the election was ‘inconclusive’ or marred by ‘violence and irregularities’, not the presidency. ”To the best of our knowledge, it is either the candidates or the parties involved in an election that can take a legal recourse over any perceived…
The Lagos State Government has said that the asset base of the state co-operative society has hit N60 billion. Commissioner of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Prince Gbolahan Lawal who made the revelation today at an occasion to celebrate the 2013 International Day of Co-operative, said the state government will soon begin the production of 60 million eggs annually through Agric-Yes initiative. He said that plans are on to achieve the target of one million tons of fish per year and 25 percent increase in food production by 2015. Lawal who added that more communities would also be empowered to achieve the…
President Goodluck Jonathan Tuesday in Abuja condemned the irregularities which characterized the rerun election to the Imo State of Assembly in Oguta last Saturday, saying that the conduct of certain persons and groups involved in the election totally negated the spirit of one man, one vote which his administration is trying to foster in Nigeria. Speaking at an audience with a delegation from the Nigerian Senators’ Forum, President Jonathan urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the nation’s security agencies to take immediate steps to bring all those who played any role in the violence and electoral irregularities that…
A former director in the department of Press and Public Relations in the Lagos State Ministry of Information and Strategy, Mr. Kunle Oshodi-Glover is dead. He died on Sunday, 30th of June, 2013 after a brief illness. He was 65. Born on the 31st of March, 1948, he and indigene of Lagos Island, Lagos State. He had his early education at St. Paul’s Primary School in 1955 -1962 and Igbobi College, Lagos between 1963 and 1967. From there he proceeded to the Federal School of Science, Lagos between 1966- 1968. After successfully completing his studies there, he was given scholarship…
Lagos State chapter of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) has sworn in Mr. Don Pedro Aganbi as new chairman of the association after the union unanimously adopted him as winner of the election held few weeks back. The association adopted him at the monthly meeting of the Lagos state chapter after a motion was moved on the floor of the house in Surulere, Lagos. The election that brought Aganbi in was characterized by ballot snatching, with President of union, Ms. Ibinabo Fiberesima alleged to have physically snatched the ballot box when it became clear to her that her candidate,…
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Nigeria has said that it has received reports that the Joint Task Force (JTF) carried out extra-judicial killings, torture, rape and arbitrary detention in an efforts to fish out members of the Islamic sect, Boko Haram from their areas of operation. A report credited to Reuters quoted the NHRC as saying that the violence had forced thousands of farmers to flee their land and warned that the exodus could trigger a food crisis. The NHRC was however not categorical on where and when the alleged abused took place. “Thousands have been forcibly displaced both within…
There are indications that the Federal Government will soon merge the Independent and Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in a move to implement the Stephen Oronsaye-led Presidential Committee on Rationalisation and Restructuring of Federal Government Parastatals. The committee had the mandate to look into over 220 parastatals in the country and recommend merger for those with overlapping functions. We gathered that the committee’s report was tabled extensively at the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting yesterday and major decisions reached on the issue. A review committee on the draft White Paper, chaired by President…
Lagos state government says it has so far screened no fewer than 65,000 primary schools pupils in its public primary schools for eye defects and impairments under her School Health Programme. The screening exercise, according to the State Commissioner for Health, Dr Jide Idris who spoke in Lagos over the weekend, is one of the strategies employed by government to reduce the incidence of childhood blindness and pupils dropping out of school or performing poorly as a result of poor vision. Idris explained that in addition to the eye screening exercise, the pupils benefitted from health education on environmental sanitation,…
