The Police in Rivers State has invited the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Rt. Honourable Otelemaba Amachree and Mr. Tony Okocha, the Chief of Staff to the Governor of Rivers State, Mr. Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, following their claim about a grand plot to assassinate Amaechi and his top supporters in the state. [...]
The Rivers Integrity Group (RIG) has joined Nigerians condemning the alleged plot to kill the Rivers State governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi and some of his political associates. “As events unfold in this lingering crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State, it is becoming crystal clear that there is a well-planned and well-coordinated [...]
The race for the governorship of Osun State hots up. Several known faces in the political skyline have thrown their hats in the ring for the epic contest. Who wears the crown? Will the incumbent prevail? JOSHUA DADA writes The race to Bola Ige House at the Osun State government secretariat started immediately the incumbent, [...]
THE opposition coalition is moving unceasingly towards the creation of a grand coalition under the All Progressives Congress to challenge the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in 2015, just as many observers are worried at the booby traps that still dot the path of the coalition, investigations by The Friday Edition, has revealed. Despite the controversy [...]
A socio-political group, Dynamic Reformers, has endorsed the governor of the State of Osun, Mr Rauf Aregbesola for second term in office. This was contained in a statement issued by the group and signed by its chairman, Dr Yinka Afolayan and secretary, Evangelist Ademola Aboluwa and made available to OSUN DEFENDER in Osogbo last Wednesday. [...]
As the industrial action embarked upon by the academic staffers of Osun State-owned Polytechnics and Colleges of Education is getting to three months, the leadership of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) in the state has been called upon to intervene and appeal to the striking lecturers Chairman of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in [...]
The Action Congress of Nigeria in the State of Osun has warned mischief makers, politicians and who it called ‘sponsored writers’ not to count the state among the terror-striking states, which need state of emergency. Reacting to a story implant’ in a national newspaper of Wednesday, May 15, the ACN stated that Osun remains one [...]
Two days after President Goodluck Jonathan declared a State of Emergency in two of its three states, the All Nigeria Peoples Party has declared support for the declaration. The party’s position was made known by its National Chairman, Ogbonnaya Onu, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday. Mr. Onu said his [...]
THERE were two meetings held sequentially: one, between the South-South and Southeast Governors, and the other among the South-South PDP Governors, Members of the National Assembly and State Party Chairmen. Still, the meetings were not well-publicised, and their agenda not placed in the public domain, as in 2011 when leaders of the South-South and Southeast [...]
“When Liliputians are in power, they get intoxicated by little things, but when giants are there, they see everything as routine that they must do for their power”, quoting Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola. The above is the statement, reportedly made by Aregbesola recently, while inspecting some of the ongoing projects across the state and the statement [...]
