Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has visited Kaduna in furtherance to his campaigns, seeking delegates and peoples support in actualising his ambition of becoming Nigeria’s president in the coming 2023 elections. Abubakar, interacting with the Peoples Democratic Party’s delegates on Tuesday at the party’s secretariat, promised to address issues...
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The Federal Government is set to re-arraign the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, on an amended six-count of treasonable felony. The amendment came on a day the trial Judge, Justice Binta Nyako fixed to hear an application Kanu filed to be released on...
By ONWUKA UDEM -E The level of infrastructural decay that has plagued Abia state, particularly in the last eight years, is simply befuddling. It has left in its trail a near sense of hopelessness in a state that is ordinarily promising and endowed with tremendous potentials. The state of...
In a display of their admiration and support of his aspiration, the people and residents of Kwara State on Monday lined up the streets, all the way from Ilorin airport to welcome Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN to the State. Prof. Osinbajo was in Ilorin yesterday in continuation of...
Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has promised to navigate Nigeria’s way to prosperity, if elected in 2023. Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State, made the pledge on Tuesday in Ilorin while addressing Kwara delegates at the Banquet Hall of the...
The Chairman of Accord Party in Osun, Mr Victor Akande, says the party is ready to win the forthcoming July 16 governorship election in the state. Akande said this while speaking with newsmen on the preparedness of the party for the election on Tuesday in Osogbo. He explained that...
No fewer than 244 aspirants are jostling for house of assembly, house of representatives, senate and governorship tickets of PDP for the 2023 68 elective positions in Lagos State. The Lagos Publicity Secretary of the PDP Mr Hakeem Amode, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has debunked the purported adjustment to its timetable and schedule of activities for 2023 general elections making the rounds on social media. The APC National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, said in a statement late Monday night, said the report...
By ONYEKA UDUMA –The present level of decadence in Abia state, no doubt, accounts for the avalanche of aspirants under the opposition All Progressive Congress (APC), who want to help in the rescue of the state. Of course everyone of them has the requisite qualification to govern and is...
Former Jigawa Governor Saminu Turaki on Monday said that he would work with Alhaji Sule Lamido, who succeeded him as governor of the North-Western state, to defeat the ruling All Progressives Congress in 2023. Turaki spoke in Dutse shortly after meeting with the Jigawa chapter of the Peoples Democratic...
Prof. Yemi Osinbajo says his experience as Nigeria’s Vice President in the last seven years under President Muhammadu Buhari has placed him in high pedestal to lead the country come 2023. Osinbajo stated this during a visit to the Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, on Monday. He was...
A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant, Mr Peter Obi, has appealed to the party’s delegates to vote wisely during the upcoming national convention. Obi, a former governor of Anambra, urged them to be guided by their conscience and vote in the interest of the country’s future and that...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle has assured that the All Progressive Congress (APC) will surely win all elective positions in the State come 2023. Governor Mutawalle gave the assurance shortly after arriving at the Sultan Abubakar 111 International Airport, Sokoto with all APC bigwigs...
By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has said the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP will present Nigeria with the leadership that will take the country out of the socioeconomic pains it is currently passing through in the hands of the APC-led federal government. The governor said...
A Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja, on Monday, asked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to take a critical look at the development in its suit to know if it could still continue with the case. Justice Inyang Ekwo gave the advice after counsel to the PDP, Joseph Daudu, SAN,...
The Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen has dropped her senatorial ambition in the 2023 election. Tallen made this known in a statement in Abuja. She said her decision was to enable her focus on the foundation laid towards the advancement and realisation of gender equality in leadership positions...
By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has assured all aspirants in the forthcoming party primaries scheduled to elect candidates for next year’s general election of fairness and transparency. Governor Ortom gave the assurances at the enlarged caucus meeting of the party held Sunday at the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum alongside the immediate past givernor, Senator Kashim Shettima Modu have been screened successfully by the APC Screening Committee as aspirants in the forthcoming party primaries for governorship and senatorial positions. Zulum, who is contesting election for the second term...
Sen. Bukola Saraki, a Presidential aspirant on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) platform, has promised to prioritise the resuscitation of Ajaokuta Steel Company, Agriculture and security sectors if elected as Nigeria’s President come 2023. Saraki gave the assurance when he met with Kogi PDP national delegates on Sunday in...
**Stakeholders optimistic* Stakeholders and delegates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Jigawa State interacted with the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, yesterday in Dutse, the State Capital, in what the Vice President described as very fruitful conversations. Prof. Osinbajo’s Saturday visit to Jigawa is in continuation of his nationwide...