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In a nation (Nigeria) where most politicians see politics as an avenue to defraud the people who elected them and whom they swore to represent conscientiously, there are still few who try every day with the interests of the generality of the public in their hearts to deliver the great dividends of democracy. Alltimepost.com has created a column: Good Governance …

Benin, Edo State, Nigeria – By Sonde Ojeikere. As the dust over the agitations for the removal of the Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Benin, Edo State Most Reverend Augustine Akubueze seems to be abating, another crisis is apparently brewing at the Iguobazuwa Catholic Deanery. Insider sources told Alltimepost.com in Benin City that the brewing crisis, if not urgently …

Asaba, Delta State Nigeria – By Sonde Ojeikere. The Ibori/Uduaghan political dynasty may be heading on a collision course with President Goodluck Jonathan over the choice of who succeeds Dr. Uduaghan in 2015 as the Governor of Delta State. Insider’s source said it is a situation now threatening the once savoring relationship between Dr. Uduaghan and President Jonathan. It was …

By Gbenga Olarinoye & Dapo Akinrefon. The All Progressives Congress (APC) has alerted Nigerians to what it described as a plan involving an official of the  Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stalwarts to rig Saturday’s gubernatorial election in Osun State. INEC immediately dismissed the allegation. The allegation came on a day the APC also said …

Newly-appointed Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba, today assumed office, promising to intensify the fight against crime in Nigeria. President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan tipped Mr. Abba, a former Assistant Inspector General of Police, to succeed Mohammed Abubakar as the new head of the Nigerian police. Mr. Abba becomes the 17th Nigerian Inspector General of Police. Mr. Abubakar served as the head of the …

Asaba, Delta State, Nigeria – By Sunny Ojeihomon. It was chaotic last weekend in Asaba, the Delta State capital, when the Special Adviser on Intergovernmental Affairs to President Goodluck Jonathan, Mrs. Mariam Ali, and the State Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Peter Nwaobosyi, engaged in a free-for-all fight at the secretariat of the party. The secretariat was …

President Goodluck Jonathan has sacked the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s General Managing Director, Andrew Yakubu and replaced him with Dr Joseph Thlama Dawha. According to a State House Press Release, President Jonathan approved the following appointments and changes in the management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC): 1. Dr Joseph Thlama Dawha …

Senator Aniete Okon, a delegate representing Akwa Ibom at the National Conference, and a Peoples Democratic Party chieftain has said that President Goodluck Jonathan should be granted an automatic ticket to contest the 2015 elections. He said the President’s development strides against the backdrop of Boko Haram terror in the country necessitated his coming back for a second term. “In …

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Friday commended the Chairman, Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote for investing one billion dollars ($1billion) in rice production in the country. The President made the commendation during the signing of the $1 billion-dollar Rice Investment Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), between the Federal Government and Dangote Group at the State House, Abuja. The Minister of Agriculture, Adewunmi …

Lawyers representing the embattled Governor Tanko Al-Makura of Nasarawa State‎ have described as unconstitutional the call on the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Suleiman Dikko, by the State House of Assembly, to dissolve the seven-man panel set up by him to investigate the impeachment allegations leveled against the governor. Governor Makura’s lead counsel, Chief Udechukwu (SAN), submitted in Nasarawa …