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Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday led top government officials and captains of industry, among others, to attend the wedding of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo’s daughter, Damilola. The wedding service of Damilola and her husband, Oluseun, was held earlier in the day at...

Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja State governors met on Wednesday evening under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum. The meeting, the first of its kind in 2018, was held at the old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The forum’s chairman and Zamfara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari...

The Governors of the South-east geopolitical zone met on Friday at the Government House, Enugu, to deliberate on the preparations for the burial of the late elder statesman and former Vice President, Alex Ekwueme, scheduled to hold on February 2, 2018. Briefing journalists after the meeting, the...

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Osun State chapter has reacted to reports that President Muhammadu Buhari had placed travel ban on governor, Nyesom Wike and Ayodele Fayose. The party, in a statement issued in Osogbo by its Director of Research, Publicity and Strategy, Prince Diran Odeyemi...

The APC Governors Forum led by their Chairman, Governor Rochas Okorocha yesterday 26th May stormed Benue state to commiserate with the Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom over the invasion and killing by Fulani herdsmen in some Benue communities. Those who attended were Plateau, Niger and Imo...

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday met with seven governors of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. The governors include Abdulaziz Yari (Zamfara), Aminu Tambuwal (Sokoto), Kashim Shettima (Borno), Abdullahi Ganduje (Kano), Ibrahim Gaidam (Yobe) and...

Governors of Nigeria’s 19 Northern States on Saturday in Kaduna endorsed the actions in Kaduna State, the location of last weekend’s violence involving Nigeria's Shiites and the Army. In a communique issued at the end of a meeting, the governors stressed that all Nigerians should respect the...

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said it is putting all its state councils and industrial union affiliates at full state of alert to ensure that they respond speedily and promptly to any action of the governors to carry out their decision to reduce the minimum wage. Governor of Zamfara...

Here is a good check on our political gladiators and their romantic lives after politics in Nigeria. These pictures are available on the internet and it really shows how romantic they are with their families. Who's more ROMANTIC? Governor Adam Oshiohmole Of Edo state with his lovely queen...

The lawmaker representing Bayelsa East Senatorial District , Ben Murray Bruce, has charged the thirty six governors of the country not to reduce the N18,000 minimum wage, stating that it is unjust for a government to contemplate reducing the workers pay. Bruce who took to his twitter account...

Governor of Edo state, Adams Oshiomhole, yesterday, disagreed with other governors of the country on the ability of the states to pay the N18,000 minimum wage, saying they must pay. Recalling that the minimum wage was agreed between the Federal Government and the organised labour by the...

Nigeria is a country organized into 36 state, and a Federal territory (FCT). Each state is governed by a Governor who is elected for a four-year term through an election process by INEC. Under certain terms and conditions, the Governor may be replaced by another, for example through death...

Chairman of Progressives Governors’ Forum and Imo State Governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha, is currently arranging a crucial meeting with other governors in the South-East, over the growing agitation by protagonists of Biafra, saying the protests could not be in the interest of the south-east...