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ABUJA‑ THE Presidency yesterday tongue-lashed the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) for asking President Goodluck Jonathan to forget about contesting in 2015 if by October, he fails to produce the Chibok secondary school students kidnapped by the Boko Haram sect in April. The presidency said Jonathan does not require any threat or ultimatum from the north or any group of persons …

It was a battle they inherited from their ancestors. The faceoff that emerged yesterday between Afenifere, the Yoruba Socio Cultural group and the Northern Elders Forum, NEF over the feasibility and competence of President Goodluck Jonathan’s reelection was a recall of the mutual suspicion that existed between Nigeria’s first indigenous regional leaders. While the conflict of the forefathers was essentially …

Speaker Aminu Waziri Tambuwal was, yesterday, locked in a meeting with former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta in a 30 minute encounter that flagged off his nationwide consultations on prospecting his candidacy in the 2015 presidential election. The meeting, meanwhile, stirred concern about a possible pull-out of the number four man from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Tambuwal and …

Boston – By Emman Okuns. Nigeria’s National Security Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan, Retired Colonel Mohammed Dasuki Sambo told the world in Boston Friday that the central casualty of the lingering Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria was government’s diversion of scarce resources that could better support the development needs of the country to security issues. He also said that government …

Ondo State Governor, Olusegun Mimiko will, on Thursday, August 14, 2014, collapse his political structure, ‘Iroko Frontiers,’ for a new structure to support President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election in 2015. The new platform has been named ‘Believe Nigeria, Trust Goodluck’. Mr Idris Usman, National Coordinator of the new structure, said the mission of the political group is to promote Mimiko’s commitment …

LAGOS — IT is no longer news that Governor Rauf Aregbesola of the All Progressives Congress (APC) comfortably beat Senator Iyiola Omisore of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to retain his seat for another 48 months in power in weekend’s Osun State polls. What perhaps is news is the avalanche of reasons for Aregbesola’s convincing victory. The reasons include: Aregbesola’s …

OSUN GUBER – RESULTS FROM #OSUNDECIDES S/N LGA APC PDP Winner 1 Aiyedaade 12,801 11,255 APC 2 Aiyedire 7,724 7,813 PDP 3 Atakunmosa East 9,287 6,294 APC 4 Atakunmosa West 6,928 5,142 APC 5 Boluwaduro 4,891 5,035 PDP 6 Boripe 12,723 9,344 APC 7 Ede North 15,403 10,427 APC 8 Ede South 11,738 7,462 APC 9 Egbedore 10,615 7,024 APC 10 …

Osun state governor and the candidate of the All Progressives Congress APC has been declared winner of saturday’s governorship election. In the result announced early this morning by the returning officer who is also the VC Obafemi Awolowo University OAU Ile-Ife, Professor Bamitale Omole, Aregbesola won majority of the poll with 394,684 votes against Senator Iyiola Omisore of PDP who …

Osun state governor and the candidate of the All Progressives Congress,APC, has won Saturday’s governorship election. In the announced results by the returning officer, who is also the Vice Chancellor Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, Professor Bamitale Omole, Aregbesola won the poll in 22 Local Government Areas against Senator Iyiola Omisore of PDP who won in 8 Councils in the …

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has accused the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, of planning to subvert Saturday’s governorship election in Osun State by declaring a false result. The APC said while its candidate, incumbent Governor Rauf Aregbesola, leads in the polls, there are plans by the PDP to declare Iyiola Omisore as winner. Mr. Omisore is the PDP candidate. “Credible information at …