A group, Think Tinubu Movement, says the 2023 presidential cap fits Sen. Bola Tinubu. Its National Coordinator, Chief Sesan Afolorunikan, said this in a statement on Wednesday in Lagos, congratulating Tinubu on his emergence as the APC presidential flag bearer for the 2023 general elections. According to Afolorunikan, Tinubu’s...
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The Department of State Security (DSS) on Wednesday arraigned Mr Bara Ogidi, at Federal High Court Yenagoa over an alleged false report against the Executive Secretary of Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Mr Simbi Wabote. Ogidi, a Bayelsa based publisher of an online new media, Tracknews, is...
By SAM ADZEGEH, Makurdi – Even as the controversy over the gubernatorial elections in the Benue All Progressives Congress (APC( shifts to the Federal High Court, a similar crisis is currently brewing in the state’s Labour Party (LP) and is likely to also end up in the law courts....
Sen. Orji Uzor Kalu, Senate Chief Whip says there is nothing wrong if the All Progressives Congress (APC) decides to field a Muslim-Muslim ticket at the 2023 presidential election. He told newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday that the paramount issue was for the APC to win the presidential election....
A UK court has ruled against Nigeria in the $1.7bn suit against JP Morgan Chase Bank over the transfer of proceeds from the sale of OPL 245. Judge Sara Cockerill of the Business and Property Courts of England and Wales Commercial Court held on Tuesday that the Nigerian government...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – A group of North-East Concerned Citizens, has described a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Barrister Yakubu Dogara as the best running mate to be picked by Bola Tinubu, the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Chairman of the group, Muhammad...
The Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen. Bola Tinubu, has boasted that no political party can wrestle power from the ruling APC. He said APC has brought so much development to the country that it will be difficult for any other political party to defeat it...
The Speaker, Kwara House of Assembly, Mr Yakubu Danladi, says the assembly is not a rubber stamp legislature. Danladi made the assertion on Tuesday during a Special Plenarycommemorating Third Year Anniversary of Ninth Legislature in the state. According to him, the Kwara ninth legislature is not a rubber stamp...
Gov. Hope Uzodinma of Imo has advised Nigerians to shun religious politics and avoid fanning the embers of ethnicity ahead of the 2023 general elections. The governor gave the advice when he addressed State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in the State House,...
The Presidency on Tuesday said President Muhammadu Buhari did not suffer any form of constraints in arriving at decisions leading to the smooth conduct of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) party’s primary. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu emerged winner of the party’s...
A Kano High Court fixed July 28 for judgment in the case of a school proprietor, Abdulmalik Tanko, charged with alleged murder of five-year-old pupil. The Kano State Government filed five counts of criminal conspiracy, attempt to kidnap, abetment, kidnapping and concealing dead body against Tanko, Hashimu Isyaku, 37,...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – A group of youths under the auspices of the APC Youth Progressive Forum, has called on the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, to pick a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara as his running mate in the 2023 election. Speaking at...
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Dino Melaye, is confident that former President Atiku Abubakar will win the presidential election in 2023. He also declared that Atiku, who is contesting the election on the PDP platform, will beat the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC),...
BY RICHARD ABU, Nasarawa – Architect Shehu Tukur has won the Nasarawa West Senatorial election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). He defeated Labaran Magaji in a rescheduled primary election that took place last Saturday. The Senatorial candidate of the APC in his post election speech...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar Former Kano State Governor, Rabui Musa Kwankwaso has pledged to tackle insecurity, provide quality education and initiate good economic policies that will boost the country’s economy if elected president in forthcoming 2023 general election. Alhaji Kwankwaso made the pledge on Monday while delivering a speech...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMGANI, Bauchi – The National Vice President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Prophet Isa El-Buba, has said that it will be exercise in futility for any political party to present a Muslim/Muslim presidential ticket to Nigerians in the 2023 general election. He said the move is...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) National Stakeholders have called on the party’s leadership to narrow the search for its 2023 Vice Presidential candidate to a northern Christian. Malam Aliyu Audu, National Coordinator of the group, made the call at a news conference on Monday in Abuja. He added that...
The former Secretary General of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Mr Anthony Sani, has advised the All Progressives Congress (APC) not to run a Muslim-Muslim ticket in the 2023 presidential race. Sani give the advice while interacting with some newsmen on Monday in Jos, adding that a Muslim-Muslim ticket would...
Barring any last-minute changes, APC Presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, and his PDP counterpart, Atiku Abubakar, will on Wednesday, June 15, and Tuesday, June 14, unveil their running mates for the 2023 Presidential election. According to reports, Tinubu will conclude his consultations with APC Governors on Tuesday, June 14, and...