Unconfirmed Results, APC Maintains Early Lead in Kogi Elections

SaharaReporters citizen journalists have submitted unconfirmed voter tallies from across Kogi State. These early vote tabulations indicate that the All Progressives Congress (APC) has a slight lead over the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the State. 

Unconfirmed election results can be viewed below:

Kogi Governorship elections to hold tomorrow, November 21

The Kogi State governorship elections will hold tomorrow, November 21, 2015.

The two major contenders for the state’s top position are incumbent Governor, Idris Wada of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former governor, Abubakar Audu of the rulingAll Progressives Congress (APC).

Two APC Senators Argue Angrily, Pull Each Other’s Clothes

The factions in the senate are not backing down just yet and on Tuesday, their disagreements blew into the open once again.

It started from the senate plenary when Sen. Kabir Marafa (Zamfara Central) raised a point of order. He demanded just as he had done last week, that the senate committees be reconstituted because the way they were composed violated the standing orders of the senate.

Jonathan, PDP Were not Mentally Prepared for Defeat – Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has said former president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party were not mentally prepared for the defeat they suffered during the 2015 elections.

Represented at the event by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Buhari said as a result of lack of mental preparedness, the government of Jonathan could not put the structures necessary for transition in place and this nearly led to a national crisis.

See what Fashola’s office looks like [PHOTO]

Former Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola was, on November 11, 2015, appointed the Minister of Power, Works and Housing by President Muhammadu Buhari.

Fashola resumed at his new office shortly after and was welcomed by happy and cheering employees.

New Defence Minister Re-opens Buhari's Certificate Saga

Brigadier General (rtd) Monsur Dan-Ali, the new Minister of Defence, revisited the President Muhammadu Buhari’s certificate scandal yesterday, November 13.

Speaking when he assumed duty at the Ministry of Defence, Abuja, Dan-Ali criticised the immediate past Chief of Army Staff (CoAS), Lt-Gen. Kenneth Minimah (rtd) and the Nigerian Army under him for not showing respect for Buhari during his WAEC certificate controversy before the 2015 general election.

The CVs of Buhari’s ministers at a glance

In the exercise of the powers conferred on President Muhammadu Buhari by Section 147, Subsection 1, 2 and 3 of the Nigerian constitution, he nominated 36 qualified and capable Nigerians as Ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

The Senate has since confirmed the nominees and they took their oaths of office on Thursday, 12 November. Below are the Resumes of the ministers.

My target is to be best minister –Onu

Newly sworn-in Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu has said he will work assiduously to emerge as the best minister the country ever produced, assuring that he will make Ebonyi State proud with his position in President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.

Speaking at a reception organised in his honour in Abuja by Concerned Ebonyi State Indigenes, Onu said his conduct will be such that will not bring shame to the state instead he would quit politics.

Welcome our ‘change’ ministers

“And already,  the axe is lying at the root of trees; every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into fire” —- John the Baptist.

SIX months after this government was inaugurated, we are getting an administration amidst challenges created by the government through politics of body language, propaganda, and mixed messages. The president, says one thing, the media, opinion commentators, pick it up, write, shout, reason and argue over it, and the man goes ahead to do what he wants to do, no matter what the people say, and so we have a team of ministers comprising professionals, the old, the not too old, the young, the corrupt and not too corrupt, whom we must look upon to deliver the change agenda of the APC, until when we will have to assess their total performance to decide what to do with them as a political party.

Oshiomhole Promises Successor A Stable, Robust Economy

Adams Oshiomhole, the governor of Edo State, has disclosed that among his administration's core drive is to ensure that his successor in 2016 inherit a stable and robust economy to be able sustain and continue with the infrastructural development in the state.

Oshiomhole said he will shore up additional revenue in the state.

APC Senators Fault Ekweremadu Presiding Over Senate

Some factions of the All Progressives Congress (APC) senators yesterday staged a walkout from the chamberas they fault the ascension of Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu presiding over the plenary in the absence of Senate President, Bukola Saraki.

Saraki had gone to the Presidential Villa to attend the swearing in of new ministers by President Muhammadu Buhari and consequently asked Ekweremadu to preside over the plenary.