Suspension Illegal, Only Ward Can Suspend Members, Says Ojudu By Gbenga Abulude (Politics and General Desk) Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on political matters and Community Mobilization, Senator Babafemi Ojudu along with 10 others are in a war of words with Ekiti State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the party on…
By Gbenga Abulude (Politics and General Desk) The Campaign Organisation of Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu has denied reports claiming that the All Progressives Party (APC) governorship candidate in the just concluded Edo election, has appealed to his rival in the poll, Governor Godwin Obaseki to return to the APC. The campaign Council which noted that the…
Ex-Gov Dickson: I ‘ll Send  People To Go  and Get the data and reply you... Akene: He Should Be Ashamed of Himself ..He Left only N56,000 For Diri By Hamilton Nwosa (Head, The New Diplomat’s Polling, Research and data desk) The ferocious verbal war between the immediate past Governor of Bayelsa state, Hon Seriake Dickson…
By Gbenga Abulude (Politics and General desk) A former Deputy Governor of Delta State, Mr Simeon Ebonka is dead. Ebonka died on Wednesday, September 23 at the age of 77. He was the deputy Governor to late Chief Felix Ibru who governed the state from 1992-1993. Ebonka, who hails from Owa-Alizomor in Ika North East…
By Hamilton Nwosa (Head, The New Diplomat’s Polling, Research and data desk) Mr Tony Elumelu, Chairman of both United Bank for Africa (UBA) and Transcorp Plc, respectively has been listed  along with three other Nigerians as among TIME magazine's 100 most influential persons in the world in 2020. The other outstanding  Nigerians  listed are Nigerian-American…
Echoes of Development In Bayelsa State: Episode Twelve 12 By Surv. Furoebi F.S. Akene The increasing government Debt burden and underdevelopment of Bayelsa State caused By Greed, Nepotism, Ineptitude and Insensitivity of Leadership: A cause for concern. Let me start this episode with these questions; “Bayelsa State will be twenty-four (24) years in ten days’…
*Stealing a Presidential election in America is difficult, but it has been done before. By Eric Lach On the night of November 7, 1876, as the results of the Presidential election between Samuel Tilden, the Democratic governor of New York, and Rutherford B. Hayes, the Republican governor of Ohio, began to come in, America, in its centennial…
*Stealing a Presidential election in America is difficult, but it has been done before. By Eric Lach On the night of November 7, 1876, as the results of the Presidential election between Samuel Tilden, the Democratic governor of New York, and Rutherford B. Hayes, the Republican governor of Ohio, began to come in, America, in its centennial…
The World Health Organisation today sent a chilling warning to all tobacco smokers to quit now to avoid avoidable heart disease and death, including death from COVID-19. In a brief released one week to World Heart Day on 29 September, the WHO said 1.9 million people die from tobacco-induced heart disease every year. “This equates…