The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (#NNPC) says it has employed 1,050 graduate trainees cut across the 36 States of the Federation including the Federal Capital Territory. According #NNPC information Unit, the employment is the result of the recruitment exercise announced in March 2019. The corporation said it ensured that national spread was reflected in the recruitment process. In a press release by #NNPC, part of the statement reads “We are pleased to announce the successful completion of the #NNPC 2019/2020 recruitment exercise for graduate trainees (GTs)”. “Consequently, we have commenced the issuance of provisional offers of employment to 1,050 graduate…
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Kogi State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP ) has rejected the composition of the State Independent Electoral Commission (SIEC). According to a statement signed by Achadu Dickson, its Director, Research and Documentation, the SIEC is dominated by card carrying members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and as such would be partisan . The party said any election conducted by the SIEC would be null and void and warned against members being screened and sworn in. Governor Yahaya Bello Wednesday forwarded 8 nominees to the State House of Assembly for screening as members of SIEC. The…
The current EPL title holder, #ManchesterCity have been banned from UEFA club competitions for the next two seasons and fined 30million euros (£24.9million) after being found to have committed “serious breaches” of financial regulations. The current EPL champions overstated sponsorship revenue in accounts submitted between 2012 and 2016, according to European football’s governing body. The decision of the Adjudicatory Chamber of the Club Financial Control Body (CFCB) is subject to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). “The Adjudicatory Chamber, having considered all the evidence, has found that #ManchesterCity Football Club committed serious breaches of the UEFA Club…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) calls on the Inspector General of Police, Adamu Mohammed, to immediately pull in the factional National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, for questioning and prosecution for incitement. The party says the violence and arson being perpetuated by APC agents in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state capital, on Friday, was in furtherance of Oshiomhole’s inciting call that no governor would be sworn-in in Bayelsa state, contrary to the judgment of the Supreme Court. Oshiomole’s statement was a direct call for sedition and violent subversion of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), the statutory authority of…
Tension has risen to the crescendo in Bayelsa State as aggrieved Bayelsans and APC supporters embarked on massive protest following INEC’s declaration of PDP Douye Diri as the state’s governor-elect. Hundreds of angry youths and women, Friday trooped to major streets of Yenagoa, protesting the Supreme Court verdict that sacked the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidates in the November 16 gubernatorial election. They set the PDP’s Secretariat in the State ablaze. Ourworldgist gathered from DAILY POST that the Independent National Electoral Commission( INEC), had declared the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Douye Diri, winner of the Bayelsa governorship…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Douye Diri of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the governor-elect of Bayelsa state. Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman, announced this at the INEC headquarters in Abuja on Friday. This followed the supreme court judgment which sacked David Lyon of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who was declared winner of the November 2019 governorship election in the state. ”In compliance with the orders of the supreme court, the commission met this morning and reviewed the result of the election in which 45 political parties contested,” the INEC chairman said. ”Without the votes scored…
It is no longer no news that the Governor and the deputy Governor Elects of Bayelsa state on the platform of All Progressive Party ( APC ) have been disqualified perhaps, what is now trending is why they were disqualified by supreme court. From investigation, ourworldgist discovered that the supposed deputy governor elect of Bayelsa had at different stages of educations spinning from Primary school to university level bore different names, a situation that has led to Governor Elect disqualification along side the deputy governor as they are both on joint ticket. These are the different names traceable to the…
Douye Diri, the flagbearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in November’s governorship election in Bayelsa state, has asked members of the party who left the party to the All Progressives Congress (APC), to return. He stated this while speaking to reporters, in reaction to the Supreme Court’s ruling, which sacked David Lyon as the governor-elect. Diri is now expected to be sworn in as the Governor of Bayelsa. “The members of PDP, who out of one thing or the other got angry and left us to APC, I’m waving the olive branch, please, come back,” he said. “We have…
The Peoples Democratic Party ( #PDP ) describes the comments of the factional National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, on the ruling of the Supreme Court on the Bayelsa State Governorship election as an empty and inconsequential ranting. The party warned Oshiomhole, to steer clear of Bayelsa state as his apparent plots to trigger violence in the state has failed. The #PDP further counseled Oshiomhole to be careful with his utterances and not use any forms of venomous garrulity and clear misuse of language to destabilize our nation and truncate our hard earned democracy. According to…
The Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP ) has made it public that she has received the supreme court judgement on Bayelsa governorship election held November last year but however insists on Imo’s gubernatorial judgement by same supreme court in Candidate of APC, Hope Uzodima came from 4th position to unseat Emeka Ihedioha of PDP. In a press statement signed by its Publicity National Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, the party noted that, “the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) receives the judgment of the Supreme Court restoring its mandate in the Bayelsa state governorship election but insists that the apex Court must right…