Mr Francis Orogu, Nasarawa State Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the party will deliver the state in 2023 general elections for its Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar. The PDP Chairman stated this during an interaction with newsmen on Saturday in Lafia, Nasarawa State capital. The Chairman was reacting...
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Abia’s Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu inaugurated the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) Advisory Council for the 2023 electioneering campaign in Umuahia on Friday. He charged the council to evolve strategies to actualise the party’s victory at the 2023 general elections. The governor urged the council to initiate strategies such as door-to-door...
The presidential flagbearer of the Labour Party, Peter Obi and his running mate Senator Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed have released their official campaign website. This was made public on Friday morning via a tweet from Obi’s Twitter handle. “I invite every member of the OBIdient Family, and every supporter of...
The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, has said that about 10 witnesses would testify in a suit filed against Prof. Obiajulu Obikeze and four others over allegations bordering on forgery of chieftaincy documents. Counsel for the AGF, Ewere Aliemeke, made this known on Friday before Justice Inyang...
A former Commissioner for Natural Resources in Ondo State, Mr Idowu Otetubi, has described Sen. Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the best presidential candidate come 2023 election. Otetubi said this while addressing newsmen on Thursday in Akure. “Tinubu remains the best for...
The Federal High Court, Abuja, has fixed Nov. 15 for judgment in a suit filed by Sen. Yusuf Yusuf seeking the nullification of the Taraba All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary held on May 26. Yusuf, a senator representing Taraba Central, who was also a governorship aspirant in the...
The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has appointed former National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr Kolawole Ologbondiyan, as one of his spokespersons for the 2023 presidential campaign. Atiku’s media aide, Mr Paul Ibe, said in a statement in Abuja on Thursday, that the...
Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola has appealed the Federal High Court’s judgment that nullified his nomination as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the July 16, 2022 governorship election in the state. This is contained in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Ismail Omipidan,...
An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Thursday remanded a 35-year-old man, Monday Endurance, to Kirikiri Correctional Center for allegedly impregnating his teenage step daughter. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs B. O Osunsanmi did not take the plea of the defendant, but ordered that the case file be forwarded to Lagos...
Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa, Governor of Delta State and Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is an Igbo man. No debate! As running mate to Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential standard bearer of the PDP, the Igbo have more than a foothold in the Atiku Presidency. It’s disheartening...
Festus Keyamo says the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Bola Tinubu will soon be back in the country. The spokesman of the APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) made the comment on Wednesday following concerns raised about Tinubu’s continued stay in the UK. “I know he would be back...
A Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia has reserved Friday, Oct. 7 for judgment in the suit challenging the outcome of the APC gubernatorial primaries purportedly held in Abia on May 26. A governorship aspirant of the party in the state, Chief Dan Eke, is urging the court to...
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Adamu, is currently meeting with six governors of the party and some APC National Working Committee (NWC) members in Abuja over the Presidential Campaign Council list of the party’s 2023 Presidential Candidate, Bola Tinubu. Also at the national secretariat...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has insisted that the money paid to its national officers was not a bribe but housing allowance that passed through due process. The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba stated this in a...
The Osun State Election Petitions Tribunal has fixed Oct. 13 for the hearing of all preliminary motions arising from a petition filed by Gov. Adegboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Oyetola filed the petition to contest the declaration of Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Council says it is ready for an issue-based campaign to mobilise support from Nigerians for the 2023 general election. The Director General of the Campaign Council and Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State stated this when he inspected Atiku/Okowa Campaign office in...
A Lagos High Court on Tuesday heard an audio recording of a phone conversation between Chidinma Ojukwu and Abubakar Mohammed, a security guard at the apartment where Mr Usifo Ataga, the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, was allegedly murdered. Ojukwu is standing trial for Ataga’s murder before a...
A Federal High Court in Umuahia, Abia, is to deliver judgment in the extraordinary rendition suit filed by Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Aloy Ejimakor, Special Counsel to Kanu, had filed the suit before the court in March. The News Agency of...
A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja has awarded the sum of N540 million in damages to Prophet Emmanuel Omale against a commercial bank over alleged negligence and defamation. Justice Yusuf Halilu on Tuesday held that the First City Monument Bank (FCMB) breached its fiduciary duty...
A Kano State High Court on Tuesday, ordered the State government to provide an interpreter for a Chinese national, Geng Quangrong, 47, charged with alleged murder of his Nigerian girlfriend, Ummukulsum Sani, 22. The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports that the defendant is facing a count charge of culpable...