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Secondus  I think the PDP delegates’ choice of Uche Secondus as Chairman is a strategic bull’s eye in the circumstances. I know that this would be presented by some as a loss for the South-West, but I don’t think so. I am not a PDP man, but I would have preferred my friend, Professor Tunde Adeniran to win, not because...

Adeniran  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chairmanship Aspirant at the ongoing convention in Abuja, Tunde Adeniran has rejected the conduct of the election exercise and yet to be announced results. Adeniran who spoke through the Spokesman of his Campaign Organization, Taiwo Akeju, however called for the Board of Trustees of the party to immediately takeover due to the circulation of unity...

Otunba Gbenga Daniel, a former Governor of Ogun and an aspirant to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national chairmanship position, has stepped down from the race, hours after the party's National Convention kicked off at the Eagle Square in Abuja, the Nigerian capital. Daniel at the convention ground on Saturday in Abuja, said he was withdrawing from the race to...

Lamidi exchanging pleasantry with Ideba  The Nigerian Institute of Public Relations, Ondo State Chapter has tasked the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) to ensure that the petrol scarcity currently experienced in the State is curtailed. State Chairman of the Institute, Mr Ishola Lamidi made the assertion when he led a delegation of the institute on a courtesy visit to...

Managers of Nigerian universities have been advised to update their current curricula and design their vocational programmes into degree courses in order to reduce the increasing rate of unemployment in the nation. A renowned Nigerian-born and United States-based academic, Professor, Toyin Falola, gave the advice while delivering the 7th Convocation Lecture of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State, titled,...

Since the ancient days when the Yoruba people began their historical challenges on the plains and the hills of Ile-Ife, we have always been defined by our instinctive integrity, our methodical industry, our consistent loyalty and our steadfastness in protecting and defending the truth. It is in all these characterization that I have personally lived my life. It is in...

The United Nations (UN) migration agency has called on social media giants on Friday to control their platforms that it said are being used by smugglers to lure West African migrants to Libya where they face detention, torture and slavery.  The smugglers often use Facebook to reach would-be migrants with false promises, International Organization for Migration (IOM) spokesman Leonard Doyle...

File Photo: Kidnappers in action Credit: Google The Ondo State Government has denied the news making the rounds on social media that it paid ransom to kidnappers to secure the release of three persons kidnapped in Ore town recently. A statement signed by the commissioner for information and orientation, Yemi Olowolabi and made available to THE PRECISION described the information written...

Nigeria's finance minister, Kemi Adeosun Nigeria’s minister of finance, Kemi Adeosun says her ministry has not interfered in an inquiry into oil company, Oando. "Forensic auditors have resumed work at Oando," Kemi Adeosun said in a statement on Friday. She added that the ministry had approved the original decision to carry out the audit into Oando’s shareholding structure.  Adeosun suspended the Director...

Stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano State on Thursday adopted the President Muhammadu Buhari as their candidate for the 2019 general elections. The party leaders also expressed their commitment and support to Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje as their sole candidate for 2019. President Buhari did not say he accepted, nor did he decline to accept the endorsement in...