The incumbent Governor of Bayelsa State and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Seriake Dickson, was on Sunday, declared winner of the State governorship election following a rerun poll. Dickson who emerged winner with a total of 134,998 votes, beat Timipre Sylva of the All Progressives Congress (APC) with... Read more

The President of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers, Malachy Agbo, has been appointed the Chairman of the Caretaker Committee of Igbo-Etiti Local Government Area of Enugu State. Agbo, alongside 16 others were appointed by the Enugu State Governor, Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, on Thursday. Ugwuanyi immediately inaugurated the chairmen... Read more

The card readers deployed for the supplimentary poll in Southern Ijaw performed optimally in places visited amidst incidents of ballot box snatching in pockets of polling units in Amasoma Southern Ija LGA.Voters who expressed their viewson commended  INEC for correcting the lapses of the card readers in December 5,... Read more

*Says it’s only panacea to human survival The Governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has said that the passion with which his administration pursues its goal in the education sector arises from the conviction that education is the fulcrum upon which life and living rest. Governor Aregbesola stated this... Read more

  …calls on people to pay their taxes. A foremost traditional ruler in Nigeria, the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi has bestowed upon the Governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola the title of “Omoluabi of Yoruband” just as he urged Osun people to pay their taxes. The Monarch... Read more

          In keeping with his  promise  to accord priority to the welfare of workers, the Ebonyi State Governor, Chief David Umahi,  has assured workers that their January  salaries would be paid  on  the 15th.     Umahi gave the assurance in his country home,   Uburu... Read more

  The Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps,(NSCDC) Bayelsa Command says its operatives apprehended 40 suspected oil thieves and destroyed 106 illegal refineries in 2015. The State Commandant, NSCDC, Mr. Desmond Agu, made the disclosure during the Command’s end of year press conference at NSCDC headquarters in Yenagoa, on... Read more

  Abductors of Bayelsa Commissioner for Local Government Madam Serefina Otazi have demanded for ransom of N40 million according to family sources.   Otazi, was abducted on December 20 in Otuoke on her way to Ewoi Community in Ogbia Local Government Area (LGA) for funeral at a gun point.... Read more

Nigerians of all walks of life have been charged to meditate on Pope Francis’ message of “Overcome Indifference and Win Peace” for the World Day of Peace 2016.    A release by the Executive Secretary of Executive Secretary, Caritas Nigeria Rev. Fr. Evaristus Bassey also charged Nigerians to “dispose... Read more

Diana Okon-Effiong, Calabar No fewer than 758 foreigners stranded at the Calabar sea port following the breakdown of a vessel conveying them have been evacuated by road.A statement by Cross River Emergency relief Agency (SEMA) Saturday in Calabar said the stranded foreigners who left Gabon to Benin Republic were... Read more