By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Yobe State Governor Mai Mala Buni on Wednesday visited President Muhammadu Buhari in London, where he is currently on a medical checkup. This is contained in a release by the Director-General, Press and Media Affairs to Buni, Malam Mohammed Mamman in Abuja on Wednesday....
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Mr Ismaeel Ahmed, Youth Representative in All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) says the party’s zoning arrangement is a guide for its members not a constitutional issue. Ahmed who is the spokesman of the committee, said this on Wednesday in Abuja while speaking with...
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Iyorchia Ayu, has urged members of the party not to attack one another, but unite ahead of the 2023 general elections. Ayu said this in his remarks at the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the party in Abuja...
The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has approved the party’s guidelines, timetable and schedule of activities for the 2023 general elections. The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr Debo Ologunagba, disclosed this while reading the communique issued at the end of the 95th NEC meeting...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ebonyi has said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) cannot get the certificate of return for the governor from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The state Chairman of APC, Chief Stanley Okoro-Emegha, said this on Wednesday while briefing newsmen on the party’s...
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday met with the APC Senate Caucus at the National Assembly. Tinubu, at the meeting held in Abuja, said he was at the National Assembly to seek counsel, partnership, and support of the lawmakers for his presidential bid....
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – A veteran journalist and a presidential aspirant under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Dele Momodu, on Wednesday in Maiduguri, said he is contesting for the 2023 presidential election to deliver what past and current leaders could not do due to...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has begun the sale of forms to aspirants vying for elective offices at its March 26 national convention. Mr Ismail Ahmed, National Youth Leader in the APC Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) made this known on Tuesday in Abuja. He was speaking...
Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has called on the Board of Trustees members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to be united in working towards the victory of party in 2023. Abubakar in an interactive session with BoT members to seek their support for his presidential aspiration in Abuja,...
Ahead of the national convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC), a frontline Chairmanship aspirant, Saliu Mustapha, has purchased the nomination form, thereby becoming the first among other contestants to do so. Mustapha, a long time ally of President Muhammadu Buhari, is a former Deputy National Chairman of the...
Sen. John Akpanudoedehe, National Secretary, APC Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) has reemphasized that there is no leadership crisis in the party as being reported in the media. He said this when speaking with newsmen at the party’s national secretariat on Tuesday in Abuja, adding that the...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, threatened to strike out a fundamental enforcement rights suit filed by suspended DCP Abba Kyari against National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). Justice Inyang Ekwo, gave the warning following the delay by Kyari’s lawyer, Cynthia Ikena, to serve NDLEA counsel, Joseph Sunday,...
PDP National Caucus will reconvene on Wednesday to continue discussions on the party’s timetable for the 2023 general elections and other important issues. National Publicity Secretary Debo Ologunagba disclosed this while speaking with newsmen at the end of the 41st National Caucus meeting held on Monday night in Abuja....
Former Kano State Governor, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, is confident that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will crumble if he leaves the party. Although Kwankwaso says he is not happy with the main opposition party at the present, he affirmed that he has yet to defect from the party. He...
A woman identified as wife of the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, Abba Kyari, on Monday, fainted at the Federal High Court in Abuja. She slumped on the ground shortly after trial Justice Emeka Nwite deferred ruling on applications that DCP Kyari and six other persons facing drug...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, fixed March 28 for ruling in a bail application filed by suspended DCP Abba Kyari and others. Justice Emeka Nwite fixed the date after counsel to the prosecution and defence argued their applications for and against the bail plea. The News Agency...
Suspended DCP Abba Kyari and his co-defendant, ACP Sunday Ubia, on Monday, asked a Federal High Court, Abuja, to admit them to bail. Kyari and Ubia, through their lawyer, Mahmud Magaji, told Justice Emeka Nwite while arguing the bail application Magaji, who said the offences with which Kyari and...
Mr Emmanuel Macham, a youth activist and chieftain of the PDP in Plateau, has attributed the success of the party in the Jos North/Bassa Federal Constituency by-election to reconciliatory efforts by Sen Iyorchia Ayu, the national chairman. Macham, in a statement on Sunday in Jos, said that Ayu’s visit...
Thousands of youths has again stormed Calabar, Cross River, to sensitise others on Gov. Yahaya Bello’s presidential ambition. The youths reiterated that they were ready, no matter what happened among politicians, to install Bello as the next President of Nigeria. The youths, from all over the country, especially the...
The Chief Whip of the Senate, Sen. Orji Kalu, has absolved himself from supporting efforts to undermine the March 26 national convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Kalu said this in a statement issued on Saturday in Abuja, said, “I have read the unfortunate accusations leveled against me...