The Ondo State Commissioner for Information, Ranti Akerele, has raised an alarm over plans to assassinate him. The commissioner at a news conference in Akure yesterday, alleged that a senator from the state was the brain behind the assassination plot. Mr Akerele's allegation is coming a week after he was allegedly slapped by a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader at…

Twenty-five Labour Party candidates who contested and lost in the state Assembly election in Adamawa State say they will not challenge the results. The spokesman of the candidates, Saidu Bako, said in Yola that though they observed some irregularities in the election, they had resolved not to go to the tribunal but start preparation for 2015 elections. Mr Saidu alleged…

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Residents of 2nd Ewasede Crescent, Benin City, Edo State have decried the alleged ill-treatment meted out to them by the deputy governor of the state, Pius Odubu. The residents appealed to the state government to take steps to address what they called the deliberate neglect of their area by the government. According to them, Mr Odubu in his bid to…

An Abeokuta-based legal practitioner and former member of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Benjamin Ogunmodede raised alarm that some foreign investors in the state are in the habit of dislodging rural dwellers under the guise of bringing development projects to the communities. "Our rural inhabitants are being cheated and dislodged from their inheritance and God-given gifts by Chinese and…

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The Chief Medical Director of Roding Reproductive Centre, Lagos, Adewunmi Adeyemi-Bero, on Thursday, recommended a relatively new and cheaper method of artificial insemination, known as “vitrification”, to couples who had the challenge of infertility. “The survival rate of vitrified embryos is much higher than that of cryo-preserved embryos,” he said. He explained that embryo survival rate, using the vitrification method,…

Yusuf Maitama Tuggar is the CPC governorship candidate in Bauchi State. He speaks on why he believes the election on Thursday was a sham. In your petition to INEC you alleged that security personnel stopped your party agents from escorting electoral materials to the polling units. How did this happen? Our party agents witnessed the giving of materials to the…

It was not completely unexpected, but the flurry of rejections and protests that have trailed the national elections must have taken officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) aback. Despite the near-universal acclaim of the organisation of the elections and their claim to fairness, hundreds of politicians who lost have faulted the polls. Some of them appear headed for…

In a competition, someone has to lose for a winner to emerge. Olusegun Obasanjo’s ‘do or die’ political sentiment is re-echoing where ‘Baba’ does not have a base, and even outside political discourse. Some people will stop at nothing to exploit any and every opportunity to stir up commotion. The spate of violence, particularly in places that can be described…

A youth corps member, Tunde Felix, volunteered to join the Red Cross Society while in the National Youth Service Corps orientation camp and found it quite fascinating to be so engaged in the service of humanity. He enthuses about his experience in the camp, saying it motivates him to willingly be at the service of humanity whenever the need arises.…

But for other guests who stepped in to broker peace, a heated argument between two groups of youth at a bar in a Lagos suburb was on the verge of degenerating into a brawl. “The smokes from their cigarettes were coming in our direction and we told them politely that since we came here before them, they should change their…

“Are you not an Ibo?” I sat in one of those red LTC buses on the way from Ikeja to my job at the Central Bank in Tinubu Square, Lagos, in April 1967. At Ojora, armed soldiers had sauntered into the vehicle at a checkpoint. A dozen men and women earlier bagged at the checkpoint lay face down in a…

The groundswell of opposition against the ruling People's Democratic Party in the north seemed to have petered out. Although voting for the gubernatorial election did not take place in Kaduna, Bauchi, Sokoto, Adamawa and Kogi states, in most of the north where it did take place, the apathy was pervasive. Of course, a major reason for this is fear--as many…