Commuters groan, businesses shut as Sango-Ota road collapses (Punch) The deplorable condition of the Sango-Ota end of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, Ogun State, has continued to compound the woes of residents and business owners in the area. Our correspondent, who visited…
Soludo, Ludo game, and Anambra politics – Magnus Onyibe
The notion of politics as a game is as old as politics itself. As most of us already know, politics originated in ancient Greece with the philosopher Plato who wrote about the nature of justice, what constitutes good government and…
Conflicting court judgements, and NJC’s intervention as medicine after death -Magnus Onyibe
While it has long been suspected by Nigerians that court judgements are often given in favour of the highest bidder, a series of embarrassing judgements by courts with concurrent jurisdictions over the tenure of the chairmanship of Peoples Democratic Party…
Name of PDP’s candidate missing on INEC list for Anambra governorship poll
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has published the list of candidates for the November 6 Governorship Election in Anambra State. The electoral umpire, in the list published on Friday, dropped the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr…
Obi hails Ozigbo for clinching Anambra PDP ticket, commends aspirants and party faithful
Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections, Mr Peter Obi, has congratulated a technocrat and politician, Mr Valentine Ozigbo, for emerging as the party’s candidate for the November 6, 2021 governorship election in Anambra…
Anambra Guber: Valentine Ozigbo emerges PDP candidate amidst parallel congresses
Mr Valentine Ozigbo, former CEO Transcorp PLC has emerged winner of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primary election for the Nov. 6 governorship election in Anambra. Mr Philip Shuaibu, Deputy Governor of Edo State and Head of the Electoral Panel…
Obi bemoans destruction during governorship aspirant’s event at Nnewi
Former Governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi, has expressed shock and disbelief over the reported disruption of the programme of a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant, Mr Valentine Ozigbo, on Saturday at Nnewi. In a release from his…
Anambra 2021 Guber: Group assesses aspirants, lists woes bedevilling state
A non-partisan pressure group comprising lecturers in tertiary institutions in Nigeria, Academic Frontiers Initiative (AFI), has expressed satisfaction over the quality of aspirants for the Anambra 2021 gubernatorial elections, even as it bemoaned the woes bedeviling the state as a…
Winners emerge in Valentine Ozigbo’s COVID-19 Ogene Message contest
Following the COVID-19 Ogene Message Competition launched by business icon and philanthropist, Mr. Valentine Ozigbo, the winners have received their prizes. A total of N365,000 was distributed as cash prizes to the winners of the competition. The competition which ran…
Unusual Entrepreneur programme empowers 251 entrepreneurs with N40m
The Unusual Entrepreneur, a faith-based entrepreneurship initiative by the Catholic Church of Divine Mercy, has committed N40 million seed funding for 251 entrepreneurs across different walks of life in its 2019 cohort. This announcement was made by the Chairman of…