By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Ahead of the 2023 general elections, FCT Minister of State, Dr. Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, has been nominated to head the All Progressives Congress (APC) North Central Youth Campaign Organization. At the inauguration ceremony held in Abuja, the minister specifically charged the group to positively...
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By BARBARA KALU, Awka – The former Anambra Governorship Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Valentine Ozigbo, has defected to the Labour Party (LP). Mr. Ozigbo announced his defection from the party in a statement issued on Friday in Awka. He said: “There comes a defining moment...
Speaker of House of Representatives, Rep.Femi Gbajabiamila, says what transpired during the meeting between former president Olusegun Obasanjo and presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen. Bola Tinubu, is assuring of the latter’s victory, come 2023. Gbajabiamila made the statement on Thursday while speaking at the Surulere...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BOT) has solicited strong support for the Reconciliation Committee set up to resolve all misunderstandings within the party ahead of 2023 general elections. The BOT Chairman, Sen. Walid Jibrin, made the call in a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday. Jibrin...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday inaugurated 152 ward coordinators for Cross River Central, ahead of its governorship campaign in October. Mr Paul Ishabor, the Director-General of the PDP’s reclaim Cross River mandate group, performed the ceremony in Calabar. Ishabor urged the wards coordinators to focus on issue-base...
An Iyaganku Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Ibadan on Thursday granted a 29-year-old herbalist, Ganiyu Rilwan bail of N10 million for alleged fraud of N20.5 million. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the defendant Rilwan, a resident of Muslim area in Ibadan was arraigned on a three-count...
The acting Chief Justice of the Federation (CJN), Olukayode Ariwoola, has unveiled the trophy for the 28th Judiciary Staffers Games scheduled for Lokoja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the National Sports Association for Judiciary (NASAJ) would hold from Aug. 17 to 27 in Lokoja. Ariwoola, who...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday in Abuja, debunked reports of plots to remove Sen. Abdullahi Adamu, its National Chairman. Mr Felix Morka, APC National Publicity Secretary in a statement, said the report was being sponsored by opposition political parties. “The attention of the APC has been drawn...
The Presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday held a closed door meeting with former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta. Tinubu, who arrived at the Obasanjo’s residence inside the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL) at about 1.10 p.m, immediately went into a closed-door meeting...
A female presidential aspirant, Patience Ndidi Key, has urged a Federal High Court, Abuja to nullify the June 5, primaries that produced Kola Abiola as the People’s Redemption Party (PRP)’s presidential candidate. Key, in the originating summons marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1001/2022, also prayed for an order setting aside the declaration of...
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has again met with the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi. Also at the meeting which was held on Monday night at Wike’s private residence in Port Harcourt is the former governor of Ondo State, Olusegun...
Rep. Eta Mbora (PDP – Cross River) said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) remained the better option to reset the nation’s “bleeding economy”. Mbora, who represents Odukpani/Calabar Municipal, said this while speaking with newsmen in Calabar on Tuesday. The lawmaker, who expressed concern over the poverty level, the...
BY RICHARD ABU, Nasarawa -. The councilor representing Karshi ward one in Karu LGA of Nasarawa State, Hon. Phillip Ibrahim has vowed to ensure that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) will win all elective positions in the forthcoming 2023 general elections. Hon. Ibrahim stated this today when he...
A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress(APC) in Rivers, Mr Darlington Nwauju, says it is almost certain that the party will takeover the state in 2023. Nwauju, also the acting APC Publicity Secretary in the state, said this when he visited the State Executives of the Correspondents’ Chapel of...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Iyorchia Ayu, has no plan to resign his position, Mr Simon Imobo-Tswana, his Special Adviser on Media and Communication, has said. Imobo-Tswam made the clarification in a statement on Monday in Abuja. “We restate,...
A Plateau State High Court on Monday adjourned the continuation of hearing in a suit filed by member representing Jos East /Jos Federal Constituency, Dachung Bagos, challenging Gov. Simon Lalong over the planned signing of an agreement with Jaiz Bank to rebuild the Jos Main Market. Presiding Judge, Justice...
The Osun Independent Electoral Commission (OSIEC), says it plans to hold the state local government council poll on Oct. 15. Otunba Segun Oladitan, the Chairman, OSIEC, said this at a news conference in Osogbo on Monday. He said that the original plan was to conduct the election in 2020,...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has sentenced a kidnap kingpin, Hamisu Bala, also known as Wadume, and two others to seven years imprisonment. The presidinh judge, Justice Binta Nyako, convicted Wadume of two of the 13-count charges against him and two others. Aliyu Dadje, a police inspector, who was...
By LUCAS BARASA Kenya’s General Election may have delivered a lower turnout than previous ones, but it still portrays a changing political matrix in the country where tribe used to play a major role in the polls. The presidential election pitting Kenya Kwanza Alliance led by Deputy President William...
Chief Ikechi Emenike, the All Progressives Congress’ (APC) Governorship Candidate in Abia, has said that the party is heading for landslide at all levels in the 2023 general elections. Emenike said this on Sunday in his Umukabia Okpuala country home, near Umuahia, when he unveiled a Third Republic Abia...