. The Attorney-General of the Federation(AGF), Abubakar Malami, has given the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) approval to prosecute former Aviation Minister, Sen. Stella Oduah, and others on alleged N5 billion fraud. Prosecuting counsel, Hassan Liman, SAN, on Wednesday, informed Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court,...
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Two employees of the late gospel singer, Osinachi, on Tuesday told a Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja that her husband, Peter Nwachukwu, verbally and physically abused her. Mr Adetunji Moses, a former Personal Assistant to Osinachi while giving his testimony led by the prosecution counsel, Yewande Gbola-...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, fixed Nov. 8 for hearing a suit challenging the emergence of Kola Abiola as the People’s Redemption Party (PRP)’s presidential candidate. Justice Ahmed fixed the date after a consensus agreement by counsel for the parties in the suit. The News Agency of...
The All Progressives Congress (APC),Presidential Council for Canada, has urged Nigerians to keep themselves abreast of political undercurrents and vote wisely come February 2023 for the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. The Media Director, APC, Presidential Council for Canada, Dr Abiola Oshodi, said this in a statement on...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) has faulted the purported meeting of former Speaker Yakubu Dogara with some Northern Christians on the party’s 2023 presidential ticket. Mr Bayo Onanuga, Director, Media and Publicity of the council said this in a statement on Monday in Abuja. He...
Africa Democratic Party (ADC) governorship Candidate in Abia, Bishop Sunday Onuoha, says he will phase out analogue with the digitisation of the Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) in the state, if elected. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Onuoha is running on the platform of the...
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) says his presidency will renew hope, improve security and make Nigeria a prosperous nation. Tinubu spoke on Monday in Abuja during the inauguration of the Women Wing of the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Team. He recalled that in...
Youths of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in South-East and South-South regions who left Yenagoa enroute Lagos to drum support for the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Monday arrived Ogun. The youths, under the auspices of “South-East/South-South Jogging for Tinubu Campaign Initiative”, constituted a team of fitness...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Labour Party (LP) has described as fake a campaign rally timetable being circulated in the media. The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Arabambi Abayomi, who said this in a statement in Abuja, noted that the timetable was neither authorised by the LP leadership...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Forum of PDP Local Government Areas and Wards Executives of Borno Central Senatorial District has expressed dismay over the replacement of Hon. Jibrin Mustapha Tatabe, the elected Senatorial Candidate of Borno Central Senatorial district Hon. Jibrin Mustapha Tatabe, who was substituted by Hon....
The leaders of a PDP support group in Sokoto state, Ubandoma/Sagir Network, alongside several other members, have defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). This is contained in a statement issued to newsmen on Monday in Sokoto by Malam Bashar Abubakar, the Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to...
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has flagged off its presidential campaign in Akwa Ibom State. The event is taking place at the Nest of Champions Stadium in Uyo, the state capital, barely four months before the February 25 presidential election. Dignitaries in the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The presidential candidate of The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has appointed Chief Dan Ulasi as Technical Adviser on Contact and Mobilisation (South East) and Dr Don Pedro Obaseki as Media Presidential Consultant. The appointments was contained in a statement issued by Atiku’s...
The President of Nigerian Community in Russia, Dr Maurice Okoli has urged supporters of Labour Party (LP) Presidential Candidate, Mr Peter Obi to have effective structure if they must succeed in 2023 general elections. Okoli stated this in a statement on Sunday, noting that the OBIdient Movement being backed...
Senator Godswill Akpabio says the All Progressives Congress (APC) has the competence, capacity, ability and acceptance to win the 2023 presidential election and remain in power. Akpabio, who is the APC candidate for Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District, said this on Sunday while addressing crowd of party members,...
A group, Asiwaju Progressive Movement (APM), has urged the presidential candidates of major opposition parties to base their campaigns on issues with facts and should not engage in telling the electorate lies. Its Spokesperson, Joshua Owoyomi, made the plea in a statement, while reacting to the oppositions’ recent comments...
Lagos PDP Governorship Candidate, Dr Olajide Adediran receiving Certificate of Credence/ Endorsement on Saturday in Lagos. The Youths in Politics (YIP), Nigeria on Saturday endorsed the PDP Presidential Candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and the Lagos State PDP Governorship Candidate, Dr Olajide Adediran (Jandor) for the 2023 general elections. The...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says Nigeria needs its Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar, to rebound its challenged economy. The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, said this at an interactive session with the media on Saturday in Abuja. Ologunagba said Nigeria needed Abubakar because of his practical experience, capacity,...
The task before the incoming President of Nigeria is twofold: providing astute leadership and resetting the nation’s unworkable structure. In order words, the core challenges confronting Nigeria today are reducible to just two factors: parochial leadership, and dysfunctional structure. Both have left the country as a mere geographical expression....
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with the family of Chief Vincent Ogbulafor, former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who passed on Friday at 73. President Buhari also commiserated with leaders and members of the PDP, the Olokoro Royal family in Umuahia, government...