Abdullahi dismissed any insinuations that Sani’s colleague were unhappy with him and said if people had looked critically at the budget of the National Assembly, which has since been made public, they would have seen that various line items like traveling, medicals, consultancy and the rest were captured in the budget and they were the funds divided for each senator’s use.
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Prof. Francis Ezeonu, the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Imo State, said this at a Town Hall Meeting/Sensitisation Campaign of the commission on Continuous Voter Registration in Ohaji/Egbema Local Government area of Imo State.
In a press statement released by his media office in Abuja on Sunday, the former Vice President recalled that the late Michika had the honour of pioneering Adamawa State into its democratic journey in 1992 as its first civilian governor under the then governing National Republican Convention in the state.
Macaulay Hunohashi, the Special Adviser on Media to Governor Muhammadu Bindow, confirmed the death of of the ex-governor in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Yola on Sunday
Babatope, a former Minister of Transport, made the statement in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria.
The PDP said Nigerians have been wondering how weapons and other military equipment get into the hands of marauders, who have been ravaging the nation, adding that this discovery could be an unfolding clue for which an open investigation must be conducted.
Oyegun made the declaration on Saturday in Katsina during a grand reception organized by the state APC chapter to receive prominent politicians who defected to his party from the PDP.
Olayinka challenged Ojudu to tell Ekiti State people one benefit that was derived from his four years as a senator.
The PDP, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbodiyan, on Saturday said it had watched the full video of Senator Ekweremadu’s contribution on the floor of the Senate severally and saw nothing that could have warranted the statement issued by the Defence Headquarters on the matter.
The accused, who appeared before Senior Magistrate Ojoma Rachael Haruna, are facing a two-count charge of criminal conspiracy and mischief punishable under section 97(2) of the Penal Code
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that party leaders from the zone, led by Chief Rabiu Oluwa and other members endorsed Ambode at a special assembly in Ikeja.
Although the country’s land mine clearance started in earnest in 1982, only two years after independence, Zimbabwe is still grappling with the challenge of land mines due to shortage of funding.
The party said the whole world was shocked when the Ambassador of Thailand to Nigeria, Wattana Kuwongse, publicly denied ever informing Ogbeh that major rice mills were shutting down in Thailand as a result of drop in importation of rice by Nigeria as claimed by the minister.
The mentally ill 53-year-old was deemed to present a “significant risk” by a judge on Friday.
Ojudu, who is the Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Political Matters, disclosed this on Friday at Ado-Ekiti at his declaration ceremony for the July 14 governorship poll.
Ojudu, who will formally declare his aspiration on Friday, in his home town Ado-Ekiti, said the motivation for his aspiration was to extend his contribution to humanity on a larger scale.
Wike said this on Thursday at the flagging off of the reconstruction of Egbelu Street and construction of link roads in East-West in Rumuodara, Obio Akpor Local Government Area
The decampees, from Yewa North and Imeko Afon Federal Constituency, who were loyal to the PDP faction of former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, were received by Governor Ibikunle Amosun in Abeokuta on Thursday
Adamu in a statement in response to allegations raised against him by Senator Obinna Ogba that he is planning to destabilize the Senate, said he had every right to contest for the seat of the Senate president when the eighth senate was inaugurated but decided to back out
The state Chairman of the party, Moshood Salvador, gave the description while speaking at the party’s “General Assembly” in Lagos on Thursday