The Director-General, Alex Otti Campaign Council of Labour Party, Chief Acho Obioma, has called on the security agencies to deploy adequate personnel to Abia to checkmate any security breaches during the March 18 polls. Obioma made the call on Tuesday during an interactive session with newsmen in Umuahia. He...
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The Obidients Movement has resolved to support the Governorship Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Enugu State, Dr Peter Mbah, in the March 18 polls. The movement also directed all its members in the state to come out en masse to vote for Mbah on Election Day....
The Labour Party (LP) has alleged that some opposition parties are pressurising the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to upturn the victory of its FCT senate candidate, Ireti Kingibe in their favour. Mr Peter Diugwu, the FCT LP Chairman, said this at a news conference on Tuesday in Abuja....
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Taraba has cautioned the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state against orchestrating cheap blackmail with alleged plans by the PDP to rig Saturday’s governorship and state assembly elections. Mr Andeta’rang Irammae, the state Publicity Secretary of the PDP, gave the advice...
A Makurdi Upper Area Court on Tuesday sentenced a man, Ochoechi Adakole, to six months imprisonment for stealing money and wedding gifts. Magistrate Dooshima Ikpambese, delivering her judgment, held that the convict showed remorse over his action and pleaded for mercy. Ikpambese sentenced him with an option of N10,...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagaba Zulum has sworn in five new state high court judges towards accelerating the effective ligation and dispensation of justice in the state judiciary. While presiding over the swearing ceremony at the Government House Council Chamber Maiduguri, the governor said as...
The National Industrial Court on Tuesday adjourned until May 19 to deliver judgment in the suit between the Federal Government and some dissatisfied pensioners. Defendants in the suit are: the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Minister of Labour and Employment, Minister of Finance, Budget and National...
The race for the Speakership of the 10th Assembly has begun in earnest, following the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the poll, which produced Sen. Bola Tinubu as the President-elect on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC),...
‘Tinubu’s victory stands’ was the declaration of the Presidency as it replied to PDP, LP, and others on 9th March 2023, in a press conference. The Presidency has said despite the alleged shoddy and shady conduct of the presidential election and the harsh criticism against the Independent National Electoral...
The PDP and APC, Gombe chapter have traded words over alleged plot to rig the Governorship and State House of Assembly polls billed for March 18. The PDP had alleged that it uncovered an orchestrated plot by the ruling APC to rig the governorship and state house of assembly...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) women wing led by Hajiya Mariya Tambuwal, the wife of Gov. Aminu Tambuwal in Sokoto State has taken the party’s campaign rally to the Eastern Senatorial District of the state. Speaking at the rally on Monday in Gwadabawa Local Government Area of the state,...
The legal team of Labour Party (LP) candidate for March 18 Governorship election in Lagos State, Mr Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has said its client remains the party’s authentic flag-bearer in the state. Mr Olagbade Benson, the Lead Counsel to Rhodes-Vivour, told newsmen on Monday in Lagos that three court cases...
Mr Bassey Akiba, the House of Representatives member-elect for Calabar Municipality/Odukpani Federal Constituency, says his victory caught the All Progressive Congress (APC) and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Cross River by surprise. Akiba, a former lawmaker in the Cross River House of Assembly, disclosed this in an interview with...
Mr Simon Egboh, Labour Party Ward Chairman in Bunyia/Okubuchi Ward, Boki Local Government Area, Cross River, has defected to the All Progressive Congress (APC). Egboh announced the defection on Monday in Boki LGA during the campaign tour of Mr Hilary Bisong, a lawmaker representing Boki 2 in the Cross...
Alhaji Garba Yusuf, Deputy Spokesman, APC Gubernatorial Campaign Council in Kano State has assured that the party would sweep the Governorship and State House of Assembly election with landslide victory. Garba told journalists on Monday in Kano that the credibility of APC governorship flagbearer, Nasiru Yusuf-Gawuna and his running...
The national leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged its National Assembly (NASS) members-elect to play down on issues of zoning and leadership of the 10th Assembly. Femi Gbajabiamila, Speaker, House of Representatives, and Ali Ndume (APC Borno-South), spoke with State House correspondents on Monday after the...
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Cross River says endorsement of its governorship candidate, Sen. Sandy Onor, by Mr Peter Obi attests to the candidate’s sound pedigree as a man of the people. PDP chairman in the state, Mr Venatius Ikem made the declaration in Calabar on Monday when...
Ahead of the March 18 Governorship/House of Assembly election, Mr Isaac Omodewu, the Chairman, All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, says members of five pro-PDP groups have defected to the party. Omodewu, who made this known on Monday in Ibadan, while receiving the defectors to the party, said...
Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege, governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Delta on Monday in Asaba promised to be fair, just and equitable in the management of the state’s resources if elected. Omo-Agege made the declaration at an interactive session he held with Delta civil servants. “I will...
Former Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi has re-echoed Mr Tonye Cole’s pledge to establish a hedge fund for businesses in the state to thrive if elected governor. Amaechi, in a statement by his media office, said this on Monday, during his door-to-door campaign for Cole, the All Progressives Congress...