By Danlami Nmodu The conduct of Ondo State Governor Olusegun Mimiko with regards to the crisis rocking the Nigeria Governors’ Forum ,NGF is a source of embarrassment to members of the Labour Party  and the Labour Movement in Nigeria.Comrade Issa Aremu, deputy secretary, Labour Party and vice president, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) made this remark in a statement  made available to Newsdiaryonline.com on Tu ...

Former Governor of Abia State, Governor Orji Uzor Kalu, has praised the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party for its decision to recall the suspended Governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Aliyu Wamakko. Kalu, a foundation member of the PDP, in a statement on Tuesday by his Special Adviser, Oyekunle Oyewumi, said the decision showed that the leadership of the party was a listening one. He particularly prais ...

Governor Adams Oshiomhole  has described the late Deputy Senate President, Senator Albert Legogie, as a true democrat who gave his all for the growth  of Nigeria’s democracy. In a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Peter Okhiria, Comrade Oshiomhole said “news of the death of Senator Albert Legogie came to me as a rude shock. I offer my personal commiserations and the condolence of the people ...

It is exactly a week today, (Tuesday, June 18th, 2013) that Peter Anyang’ Nyongo’o, a Professor of Political Science and a Senator of the Republic of Kenya came to Nigeria, delivered a paper on a weighty, all-inclusive topic as “Governance in Africa: The Challenges of the Next 50 Years” but without his intervention becoming a subject of critical reviews and a huge debate in the Nigerian media. The first 50 ...

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Tuesday in Abuja restated his call for greater global cooperation and coordination in the war against terrorism. Speaking at separate audiences with the new ambassadors of Israel, Russia, Greece and Algeria who presented their letters of credence to him at the Presidential Villa, President Jonathan said that Nigeria and other countries will benefit immensely from greater co ...

The Chairman of the House Committee on Diaspora Affairs Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has condemned the gruesome murder of two Nigerian cab drivers in the American states of Washington DC and New York. In Less than two weeks after a Nigerian cab driver Solomon James Okoro was shot dead in Washington DC by armed robbers, another one has been killed this time in Brooklyn , New York. It was reported that 54 year old ...

By Danlami Nmodu The National  Human Rights Commission,NHRC  will within this month   release its  interim report on the situation in the embattled  North- East Nigeria.The region is the hotbed bed of Boko Haram crisis where a state of emergency has been imposed on three states-Adamawa, Borno and Yobe.The Commission  decided recently to embark on its independent assessment of the crisis in the region. The G ...

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan declared Monday in Abuja that the present administration will never allow itself to be derailed from pursuing the Transformation Agenda to its logical conclusion. Receiving a high-powered delegation of Middle-Belt and South-South Elders under the aegis of the Congress for Equality and Change led by elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark and former Senate President, Ameh Ebute,P ...

Reports reaching our newsroom said the Peoples Democratic Party has recalled Governor  Magatakarda Wamakko of Sokoto State  back to the party. A correspondent said PDP National Chairman,Bamanga Tukur  “personally confirmed the recall of the Sokoto State Governor." He was suspended about two weeks ago in what was described as a strange wave rocking the party. But the remained silent about the fate of Rivers ...

Former Deputy Senate President,Senator Albert Legogie  from Edo state is dead.Newsdiaryonline.com learnt that he died in a Benin hospital Monday evening. Before his death,he had been hospitalised in a private hospital for about two weeks in Benin City , a source said . He was deputy senate president in the Third Republic. ...