A prosecution witness, Insp. Abdullahi Mikail, has narrated before the Chief Magistrates’ Court, GRA Zaria, Kaduna State, how the dismissed Zazzau palace guard allegedly lured a lady seeking support from Zazzau Emir into alleged adultery. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that five men, including a dismissed palace...
POLITICS
Youths and women in Katsina State have pledged to deliver two million votes to the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, in the presidential poll billed to hold on Feb 25. Malam Ahmed Adamu, Special Assistant to the Presidential Candidate on Youth and Strategy,...
Gov Bello Matawalle of Zamfara has sworn in four newly-appointed High Court judges and nine Special Advisers, to beef up the administration of Justice and other affairs of his administration. This is contained in a statement in Gusau on Saturday by the Press Secretary to the Governor, Alhaji Jamilu...
Niger Government has filed a lawsuit against the Federal Government over the naira redesign policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) at the Supreme Court. A statement by Justice Nasara Danmallam, the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, in Niger in Minna on Saturday, said the case with...
Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State has declared that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) remains the only answer to the Nigeria’s challenges. Tambuwal, who made the declaration at the PDP’s campaign rally in Goronyo Local Government Area of Sokoto on Saturday, said the party’s Presidential Candidate Atiku Abubakar, was...
Chief Ifeanyi Odii, governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),on Friday promised to industrialise Ebonyi if elected in the March 11 governorship election. Odii made the promise while speaking at a rally in Amachi community in Abakaliki Local Government Area of the state. The PDP candidate said only...
By BARBARA KALU, Enugu – The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) governorship candidate in Enugu, Frank Nweke Jnr., has debunked reports making the rounds in some section of the media that he had endorsed APC Presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu,for the 2023 election. Mr. Nweke, who stated this in a...
Sen. Emmanuel Bwacha has been declared winner of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Taraba governorship primaries rerun. Retired Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, Chairman of the electoral committee announced the results in Jalingo on Friday. Buratai said that Bwacha scored 778 votes to emerge winner, while Sen. Yusuf Yusuf came second...
Enugu-East Senator, Dr Chimaroke Nnamani says the National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP has no powers to suspend or expel him from the party. Nnamani explained in a statement in Abuja on Friday that NWC did not follow due process and strict compliance with the provisions of the...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has approved the expulsion of former Governor of Enugu State, Sen. Chimaroke Nnamani, and six others from the party. The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, disclosed this in a statement issued in...
The leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has appealed to Abia governorship aspirant, Uche Ogah, to collapse his political structure and work for Ikechi Emenike. Mr Friday Nwosu, the party’s National Welfare Secretary, in its National Working Committee (NWC), made the appeal while speaking with newsmen at the...
Alhaji Ibrahim Ajia, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for Asa/Ilorin-West Federal constituency of Kwara, says the party will rescue the nation from economic woes. Ajia made the assertion on Friday in Ilorin on the sidelines of distribution of items worth millions of Naira for empowerment of youths from...
An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Friday revoked bail granted a suspected internet fraudster, Kolawole Erinle. The court consequently remanded Erinle at the Kirikiri Maximum custodial facility. Erinle is standing trial for $1.4 million fraud. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Ramon Oshodi revoked the defendant’s...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ebonyi on Friday, received hundreds of defectors from the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state. The Party’s Gubernatorial candidate, Dr IfeanyiChukwuma Odii, who welcomed the decampees in Abakaliki, said the PDP is ready to win in the forthcoming general elections. “PDP as...
The Federal Government (FG) said it would obey the ruling of the Supreme Court suspending the February 10 deadline for the validity of the old naira notes. The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, made this known in an interview with Arise News on Thursday. Malami said...
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has said that the late Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, gave his seal of approval for him to become Nigeria’s President with prayers. Atiku stated this on Thursday during a visit to the Emir of Kano, Alhaji...
The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, has called on the Church to pray for the emergence of a President that will use public funds for public good. Mr. Obi stated this at the 17th Biennial Conference of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) holding in...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Ahead of the forthcoming general elections, the Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu has assured Nigerians that his government will eliminate kidnapping and bring to an end all other forms of insecurity. “We will eliminate the madness called...
Mr Peter Obi, the Presidential Candidate of Labour Party (LP) on Thursday tasked Nigerians to join him in building a nation they will be proud of. Obi said this at the LP Mega Rally in Abuja urging Nigerians to hold them responsible for a better and new Nigeria. He...
An influential PDP member in Sokoto State, Alhaji Ummarun Kwabo has led high profile members of the party into the APC during the campaign rally of Bola Tinubu in Sokoto on Thursday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that some of those who defected during the APC presidential...