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  A close associate of former governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel a.k.a OGD and former Director General of the Ladi Adebutu Governorship Campaign Organization under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State, Hon. Waliu Taiwo has declared that OGD must lead his supporters to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Waliu Taiwo, who served as a commissioner under OGD was reacting to the decision of the former governor to resign from active politics. Speaking in an interview recently, Taiwo confirmed that it was the supporters of OGD that called for a meeting at his Asoludero Court in Shagamu, Ogun State two weeks ago to urge him to lead them to the APC after they had worked for the success of the party at the governorship election. The former commissioner disclosed that OGD would be compelled by his supporters to remain in politics and lead them to the APC in due course, adding that he could not abandon the boat at the middle of the sea. "We were t...

Ken Saro Wiwa The National Union of Ogoni Students (NOUS INTL. USA) has made another call on the President Muhammad Buhari-led Federal Government to stop the activities of Shell Petroleum in Ogoni, Rivers State. NOUS INTL. USA recalled in a statement dated March 21, 2019  that 26 years ago under the leadership of the late Ken Saro Wiwa, MOSOP and Ogoni people declared Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company persona non grata and forced Shell out of OML 11, for non-payments of rent, royalty or lease as well as for Shell to account "for its predatory ecological war waged on Ogoniland, Ogoni people and Ogoni enclave as well as the entire Niger Delta." The statement, which was later made available to journalists, was titled; "Ogoni Sacrosanct Rights Over Its Oil can’t be Abrogated"  and was jointly signed by the President of (NUOS INTL. USA), Mr. Pius Baripkoa Nwinee, Secretary General of (NUOS INTL. USA), Mr. Sampson B Npimnee, Coordinator of (OLM ...

  A former commissioner under a former governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel aka OGD and former Director General of the Ladi Adebutu Governorship Campaign Organization under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Hon. Waliu Taiwo has declared that OGD must lead his supporters to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Waliu Taiwo spoke against the backdrop of the decision of OGD to resign from active politics in an exclusive interview recently. Why was Ladi Adebutu was not fielded by the PDP as its governorship candidate in Ogun State for the 2019 elections? The issue had been on for about three years now. The same thing happened in 2011 and it happened in 2015, and this denied a lot of us the opportunity to be in Government. That was why we went to the PPN in 2011 with Otunba Gbenga Daniel, when the PDP did not approve our preferred governorship candidate then, Gboyega Nasir Isiaka aka GNI, who was from Ogun West. Concerning the candidature ...

United Kingdom Chapter of Arise Nigeria, a group of Nigerians in the diaspora, has reacted to the recent report by the United State through its State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labour under the title “Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2018.” which accused the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government of abating corruption and extra-judicial killing. The group said the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2018 was aimed at forcing homosexuality and sale of national assets on the current government.  Arise Nigeria made this revelation in a communiqué issued after its extraordinary meeting held in London on Saturday. A communique jointly signed by Dr. Philip Idaewor Chairman, AriseNigeria and Charles Eze, Secretary, called on  the Nigerian government to reject the report and make its stance known to the US without delay.  The statement reads in full. Documents like this are equally cited as input for decisio...

Our attention has been drawn to a fanthom judicial commission of enquiry sitting in Bayelsa state at the instant of the state government with a mandate to look into the purported violence that characterised the recent elections in the state.  As an Observer group which monitored the Presidential, National Assembly and state house of assembly elections in Bayelsa State, we wish to state that this panel is an abuse of executive privilege in an attempt to cover up the role of the state government as led by Governor Seriake Dickson as regards the violence that was visited on the people during the polls.  As an observer group, we had men and women who were deployed to all the local governments of Bayelsa state and reports gathered which form our position shows the violence of the election day was masterminded by the instrument of the state in connivance with the police using the power of incumbency to force the will of the people in her favour.  Governor Dic...