Ogun State, Nigeria, World News & Stories
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Mr Donatus Mathew, the Labour Party candidate, was declared the winner of the Kaura Federal Constituency seat in the presidential and National Assembly elections held in Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna State on February 25. According to the Returning Officer, Prof. Elijah Ella, Mathew received 10,508 votes, defeating his closest opponent, who is also…
The National Chairman of the Zenith Labour Party, Chief Dan Nwanyanwu, has cleared the air on the party’s affiliation with Akin Osuntokun, the newly appointed Director General of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council. In a statement made available to The PUNCH on Friday, ZLP stated that Osuntokun resigned from the party in August 2022…
Doyin Okupe, the director-general of the Peter Obi presidential campaign, was found guilty of violating the Money Laundering Act by a federal high court in Abuja. Okupe was charged with 59 counts of money laundering and diversion of funds totaling N702 million by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in 2019. He appeared before…
The Labour Party has dissolved the Ogun State chapter executives of the party for alleged anti-party practices. The party also sacked its national publicity secretary, Abayomi Arabambi, This is coming almost two months before the 2023 general elections. The National Working Committee of the party took the decision, following their role in the alleged expulsion…
Some supporters of Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi have threatened to burn down Femi Kuti’s New Africa Shrine because he described them as zombies. The New Afrika Shrine is an open-air entertainment center in Lagos’s Ikeja neighborhood. It holds Felabration, an annual music festival honoring the late Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti. Peter Obi is…
