By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – Barely a month to the 2023 general elections, member representing Awe/Doma/Keana Federal constituency of Nasarawa State, Senator Abubakar Nalaraba, has inaugurated his campaign council and commission some projects. The inauguration of the campaign council consisting of old time politicians carefully selected by the legislature...
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A man identified as Bestman Lekia, aka Biggie, has been sentenced to death by hanging for killing four persons and using their intestines to prepare a meal in a community in Khana Local Council of Rivers state. Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt sentenced and convicted Biggie...
Peter Obi, presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), has urged the electorate to give him a chance to create a new Nigeria where people will have equal opportunities. Speaking at a rally in Maiduguri on Saturday, Obi said that other parties had failed, making it necessary for Nigerians to...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano State has received more defectors ahead of the February and March general elections in Dambatta and Makoda Local Government Areas of the state. The latest saw another scores of the ADC supporters, lead by its candidate for the House of Representatives for...
The Osun State capital city, Osogbo recorded two simultaneous protests on Saturday. One was by members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) protesting Friday’s nullification of the election of Gov. Ademola Adeleke by an election petition tribunal. The other was by commercial transporters protesting scarcity and hike in the...
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mister Atiku Abubakar has pledged to reopen Nigeria’s borders that were closed by President Muhammadu Buhari. He made the pledge at the party’s presidential campaign in Birnin-Kebbi, the Kebbi State capital on Saturday. “I promise you that I will open...
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Pantami said that the market value of Nigeria Data Protection Bureau (NDPB) in Nigeria has hit N5.5 billion. Pantami disclosed this at a press briefing to mark the commencement of the 2023 Global Data Privacy Week on Saturday in Abuja....
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on Saturday promised to promote agriculture, mining and general development in Zamfara. Tinubu, who made the promise at the APC presidential campaign rally in Gusau described the large turn out of supporters as commendable step for party’s...
The Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on Saturday in Gusau, Zamfara, dismissed insinuations making the rounds that there was friction in his relationship with President Muhammadu Buhari. Tinubu, in a statement issued by Abdul’aziz Abdulaziz of Tinubu Media in Gusau, Zamfara, said his...
The PDP and APC in Lagos State have disagreed over the alleged attacks on the campaign train of the PDP Governorship Candidate, Dr Abdul-Azeez Adediran (Jandor), in the Surulere Local Government Area of the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Adediran’s campaign train had been reportedly...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Senator Sandy Onor, the People’s Democratic (Party) PDP governorship candidate in Cross River State has advised the state government to shelf its planned of selling government properties “We have spoken many times against moves by the governor to embark on last minute programmes and...
Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola, the immediate past governor of Osun, has described the verdict of election petition tribunal which validated his victory in the July 16, 2022 governorship election, as a collective victory for the state and the nation’s democracy. Oyetola, while speaking with newsmen in his country home, Iragbiji,...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has released the Timetable and Schedule of Activities for the conduct of a fresh Governorship Election Primary in Abia State. This followed the death of its Governorship Candidate for the 2023 general elections, Prof. Uchenna Eleazar Ikonne, on Wednesday. The party in a statement...
The Labour Party Youth chapter on Friday called for one-week holiday for students to collect their Permanent Voters Card(PVC) ahead of the 2023 general elections. The Acting Youth Leader ,Kennedy Ahanotu ,made the call while addressing newsmen in Abuja. Ahanotu also called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)...
Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers has pledged to support the governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Enugu State, Dr Peter Mbah and other PDP candidates in the state. Wike made the pledge on Friday in Enugu at the unveiling of the party’s governorhip candidate and other...
Gov. David Umahi of Ebonyi has said that it will be unjust for him to hand over to his brother from the same Ebonyi South Senatorial District as his successor. Umahi said this on Friday at an APC campaign rally in Abakaliki Local Area (LGA) of the state. He...
By BARBARA KALU, Owerri – Mr Albert Agulanna, has emerged the PDP candidate for Abor Mbaise/Ngor Okpala Federal Constituency of Imo. The state Publicity Secretary, Mr Collins Opurozor, said in a statement on Friday, that Agulanna emerged from a fresh primary election conducted by the party on the order...
By OLA MODUPE, Osogbo – The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, has said the validation of Alhaji Adegboyega Oyetola as winner of July 2022 Osun governorship election by the tribunal is victory of light over darkness. Recall that a three-man election tribunal chaired by Justice Tertsea...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the judgment of the Osun State Governorship Election Tribunal which nullified the July 16, 2022 election won by its candidate, Ademola Adeleke. The National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Debo Ologunagba, stated this in a statement issued in...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) says the validation of Alhaji Adegboyega Oyetola as winner of the July 16, 2022 governorship election in Osun on Friday represents victory for democracy. A three-man Election Petition Tribunal, headed by Justice Tertsea Kume ruled in Osogbo on Friday that Gov. Ademola Adeleke of...