The ongoing local government elections in Ondo State has witnessed a large turnout of voters. In most of the polling units visited across the local government and wards in the state by YemieFash online, the electorate came out in large number to cast their votes for the chairmanship candidates and councillors of their choice. At Unit 1 and 2, Ward 8 in Idanre Local Government Area of Ondo State, the electorate arrived the venue before the arrival of the personnel from the Ondo State Independent Electoral Commission, ODIEC. The situation was not different in Akure South Local Government as well…
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THE local government election in Ondo state kicked off today peacefully across the state with an impressive turn out across the 18 council areas of the state. Accreditation and voting commenced at about 8:30am. Although reports had it that election materials arrived some parts of the council areas late but the electorate waited patiently until the arrival of the officials of the state Independent Electoral Commission ODIEC. Distribution of election materials at Iyere ward 10 & Isaepe ward 8 in Owo LGA arrived at about 9:30am and accreditation commenced almost immediately. Recall that two major political parties, the Peoples Democratic…
The candidate of the Accord Party in the September 19 governorship election in Edo State, Godday Idahosa, has defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Idahosa announced his defection on Friday at the Ogbona Ward 8 and 9 campaign ground in Uhiele, Esan West Local Government Area of the state. He described Governor Godwin Obaseki as a great man, saying that his developmental stride prompted his defection to PDP. “I said by God’s grace that I can’t fight my people. When you are being fought outside, you run back home for refuge. “Our governor is doing well. He is a…
President Muhammadu Buhari has listed 35 policies, programmes and projects as some of his major achievements since the beginning of its second term in office. In a statement via its Twitter handle, @NGRPresident, on Friday, the Presidency listed the achievements to mark one year since President Buhari inaugurated his second-term cabinet. The statement listed the Presidential assent to Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA), the creation of new ministries, the increment of corpers’ monthly allowance to N33,000, N-power intervention scheme, among others as part of his success. The statement reads in part: “Today August 21, 2020 marks one year since…
The Ekiti State House of Assembly has suspended Femi Ayodele, the Chairman of Ikere Local Government Area, over alleged unauthorised presidential campaign publications for Governor Kayode Fayemi. The suspension was through a unanimous vote by the lawmakers during the assembly’s sitting in Ado-Ekiti on Friday. The members voted following a motion by the Majority Leader, Gboyega Aribisogan, which was supported by Tajudeen Akingbolu, representing Ekiti West Constituency I. The two legislators urged the house to investigate the chairman’s alleged involvement in the unauthorised presidential campaign posters of the governor. They held that the chairman should be suspended and investigated, stressing…
Wahab Shittu, the counsel representing the suspended EFCC chairman, Ibrahim Magu, has again written to the Ayo Salami-led investigative panel, demanding fair hearing and copies of relevant exhibits from proceedings of the committee. Mr Shittu requested that all records from the proceedings be provided to his client and his counsel ahead of the embattled EFCC boss’s defence before the ‘judicial commission of inquiry’. The lawyer also asked the panel to provide his client with adequate time and facility as he prepares to defend himself, as well as access to all exhibits tendered in the proceeding. Mr Shittu said the request…
The Special Presidential Investigation Panel on the Recovery of Public Property disbanded by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), about a year ago, has been revived by the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami (SAN), YemieFash online has learnt. Our correspondent also gathered that Malami has appointed the head of a civil society organisation, the Anti-Corruption and Research Based Data Initiative, Dennis Aghanya, as the “Lead Consultant”, who solely administers the affairs of the panel from an office allocated to him at the Federal Ministry of Justice’s headquarters in Abuja. The panel originally comprised five…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has published the final list of nominated candidates for Ondo State Governorship election scheduled for Oct. 10. Mr Festus Okoye, National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, INEC, made the disclosure in a statement on Friday in Abuja. Okoye said that the list was published at INEC State and Local Government offices in Ondo State, adding that it was also available on the commission’s website and social media platforms. He noted that as at at 6 pm on Aug. 18, which was the deadline for the withdrawal and substitution of candidates, only four political parties substituted their earlier…
Nigerian Army troops of Operation Lafiya Dole in conjunction with Nigerian Air Task Force have killed over one hundred fighters of ISWAP and Boko Haram on Friday, August 21 at Sabon and Tudun Walgo in Borno State. The massive air strikes were delivered with precision on different locations of ISWAP and Boko Haram fighters. It was gathered through a reliable military source that the bombarded camps used to be a safe haven for more than 3000 special forces of the insurgents before the massive air strikes of Friday. Clearance operation to ascertain the actual number of casualties was still…
Suspected [political thugs have attacked Hon. Abiola Makinde, the Honourable Member, House Of Representatives representing Ondo East/West Federal Constituency and his political party African Democratic Congress yesterday during a peaceful political rally in Ondo state. It was alleged by some eyewitness who pleaded anonymity, that some party members of the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC attacked Hon. Abiola Makinde. The attack was said to have brought about a violent clash that happened around Surulere Area , Ijoka Kajola axis in Ondo town, Ondo State. The party chairman of the African Democratic Congress, Pastor Adegoke Raphael Olademiji said “it was…