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Edo APC Tackles Airhiavbere, Ize-Iyamu, Others

January 17, 2020 5:12 am

Edo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed a press conference held by members of a proscribed group, Edo Peoples Movement, saying the group’s agitations were fuelled by greed and avarice.

Discrediting the group’s submissions, APC Chairman in Edo State, Barr. Anselm Ojezua, alleged that two of the anchors of the meeting were burdened with severe malfeasance.

Ojezua described Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu as a mercenary of distraction allegedly recruited by the APC National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.

He further alleged that Ize-Iyamu is currently being charged to court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over …

TAFAUN Tackles AFN, Ministry Over Adeleye

November 21, 2019 5:45 am

• Renews call for his removal

Members of the Track and Field Athletes Union of Nigeria (TAFAUN) have renewed their call for the removal of Sunday Adeleye as their representative on the board of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN).Sports Minister, Sunday Dare, sacked Adeleye from his position as the Technical Director of AFN two weeks ago following the recommendation by a probe panel set up to investigate Nigeria’s poor performance at Doha 2019 IAAF World Championship.

Before then, a total of 120 athletes had signed a petition calling for Adeleye’s removal as their representative on the board of AFN.

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Asari Dokubo Tackles Akpabio Over NDDC Board

November 3, 2019 11:17 am

Asari Dokubo, leader of the Niger Delta Volunteers Force (NDVF), is not shy to stir up controversies, especially when the core interests of the region that lays the country’s golden egg, has been terribly affected by environmental pollution caused by oil exploration activities on NDDC.

On the same day that a new interim management team was inaugurated to manage the affairs of the NDDC, Asari Dokubo spoke with some journalists on recent developments in the region and expressed discontent that the interim management team was appointed when the nominees for NDDC board had been screened by the Senate and awaiting …