By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has congratulated Nigerians on President Muhammadu Buhari’s assent to the Electoral Act Amendment Bill. The National Publicity Secretary, Mr Debo Ologunagba, who stated this in a statement on Friday, also saluted the courage of the PDP and other opposition...
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The APC has described the signing into law of the Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2022, by President Muhammadu Buhari as a big win for the country’s democracy. Sen. John Akpanudodehe,National Secretary, APC Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) said this in a statement on Friday in Abuja. While...
By OLALEKAN ADIGUN – The Progressives Governors’ Forum (PGF) – an umbrella body of state governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) – met with President Muhammadu Buhari after the party’s much-awaited National Convention was again postponed by the Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee...
PATRICK ABANG Calabar The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Cross River State has rejected the use of force to intimidate ordinary voters ahead of the Saturday’s byelections for Ogoja/Yala Federal Constituency and Akpabuyo State Constituency. The State Chairman of the party, Venatius Ikem made this know in Calabar on...
An Ikeja High Court on Friday sentenced kidnap kingpin, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike alias Evans, to life imprisonment for the kidnap of Mr Donatius Dunu, the Chief Executive Officer of Maydon Pharmaceuticals Ltd. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Hakeem Oshodi also sentenced Evans’s two co-defendants; Uche Amadi...
Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed has observed that the Saturday by-election in two constituencies in Plateau will be a litmus test for 2023 general elections. Mohammed, a co-chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Campaign Council for the by-elections, told journalists in Jos on Friday that the outcome would significantly...
As Senator Anyim Pius Anyim unveiled his Greater Nigeria plan at his 61st birthday bash, the grand event transcended from a birthday celebration to a call for a higher level of leadership in Nigeria. Anyim’s indication of interest in the 2023 Nigerian presidency has garnered immense support. He, therefore,...
The Young Professionals for Atiku Abubakar, a political pressure group, has urged Nigerians to support former vice-president Atiku Abubakar to actualise his presidential ambition in 2023. Dr Ja’afaru Sa’ad, a former gubernatorial aspirant in Kaduna State under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the convener of the movement, made...
The ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Enugu State won all the 17 chairmanship and 260 councillorship seats in the local government elections held in the state on Wednesday. The party beat the 10 other political parties that contested in the council elections with wide margins. Declaring the PDP...
The Director-General, Voice of Nigeria (VON), Mr Osita Okechukwu, has faulted Bauchi Governor, Bala Mohammed’s argument against All Progressives Congress (APC) zoning of the 2023 presidency to the South. Mr. Okechukwu also a founding member of the APC, while speaking with newsmen on Thursday in Abuja, said the governor...
A Presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, on Thursday visited the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi and the Owa Obokun of Ijesaland, Oba Adekunle Aromolaran, seeking royal blessings for his 2023 presidential ambition. Tinubu, whose first point of call was the Ooni’s Palace in...
Multiple accolades and commendations poured into the credit of the former SGF and ex-senate President, Anyim Pius Anyim at his 61st-anniversary celebration. As men of timbre and calibre trouped into Abuja in honour of Anyim, it became clear to onlookers that he is the epitome of true comradery and...
An Igando Customary Court in Lagos on Thursday, granted the divorce prayer of Mr Adeola Ajatoye, on grounds that his wife, Chottia, was ”greedy and demanding”. Ajatoye, who resides on Afeez Eyinileaso St., Akesan, Lagos approached the court on Dec. 14, 2021, praying for divorce on grounds that his...
By HARUNA AHMED, Gusau – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has commended Gov. Bello Matawalle of Zamfara for appointing Sen. Hassan Nasiha as his new deputy. The state APC Publicity Secretary, Mr Yusuf Idris gave the commendation in a statement issued to newsmen on Thursday in Gusau. “On behalf...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, rejected the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA)’s objection to take the bail application of suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Abba Kyari. Justice Inyang Ekwo declined to the objection after counsel for the agency, Mike Kassa, informed that the resplendent (NDLEA)...
Gov. Bello Matawalle of Zamfara on Wednesday swore-in Sen. Hassan Nasiha as the state new deputy governor, following the impeachment of Mahdi Aliyu by the State House of Assembly. Speaking at the ceremony in Gusau, Matawalle said that the action was to fill the vacuum created by Aliyu’s exit....
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, gave an interim order forfeiting 10 properties of former Governor of Zamfara, Abdulaziz Yari, to the Federal Government. Justice Obiora Egwuatu gave the order following an ex-parte motion marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1342/2021 moved by counsel for the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences...
The Zamfara House of Assembly has confirmed the appointment of Sen. Hassan Nasih, as the state new deputy governor, following his nomination by Gov. Bello Matawalle. Matawalle had in a letter signed by Secretary to the State Government, Kabiru Balarabe and read at Wednesday’s plenary by Speaker Nasiru Magarya,...
Sen. Victor Umeh, former National Chairman, All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), has expressed optimism that the party would secure all the legislative seats in the 2023 general elections. Umeh made the statement at a consultative forum of APGA stakeholders in Awka North Local Government Area (LGA), on Wednesday. He...
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday, threatened to strike out a suit filed by a former Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Kenneth Minimah and two others. Minimah in the suit, is challenging the validity of a criminal charge instituted against them by the Economic and Financial...