A former senator, Mrs Grace Bent has dragged Precious Chikwendu, estranged wife of former Aviation Minister, Mr Femi Fani-Kayode to the Federal High Court, Abuja over alleged defamation of character. When the matter was called on Monday, however, Chikwendu was absent in court and there was no legal representation...
POLITICS
By NWAORGU FAUSTINA, Port-Harcourt – Prince Tonye Princewill is from Rivers State, a politician, business magnate, filmmaker and philanthropist. He was the Director of Strategic Communications of the All Progressives Congress, APC Campaign in Rivers State in the 2019 general elections. Currently an APC Chieftain, he was the governorship...
Mr Osita Okechukwu, the Director General of Voice of Nigeria(VON) has described the rejection of Peoples Democratic Party’ (PDP) overtures by former President Olusegun Obasanjo as a signal to another defeat in 2023 presidential election. Okechukwu wondered whether PDP leaders have refused to understand that Nigerians are suspicious and...
Former Commissioner for Information, Edo State, Prince Kassim Afegbua, has advised the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to follow the mood in the country by producing a young Southerner as its presidential candidate in 2023. Afegbua, a member of PDP, gave the advice in a statement he issued on Sunday...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The former Managing Director of FSB International PLC, Alhaji Mohammed Hayatudeen has revalidated his People’s Democratic Party (PDP) membership on Sunday in his ward in Jere LGC of Borno State. Hayatudeen picked his renewed PDP membership card No. 133 at Gudda Khaddamari Ward of...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Central Senatorial District of Cross River State, want the next state governor to emerged from the Southern Senatorial District. The party’s stakeholders stated this on Saturday in a communique issued to newsmen after their meeting which was...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the government of President Muhammadu Buhari over the alleged “secrecy in the spending of loans so far obtained, the unsustainable level of borrowing by the government and the 36 states, debt crisis, and...
During a visit to Lagos on an advocacy campaign on the need for the diversification of the Nigerian economy in 2004, the Chairman of the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Engineer Hamman Tukur told the then Governor Bola Tinubu that any local government created outside the constitution...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday restated his decision and commitment to stay off the party politics, saying nothing can make him return to party politics. Obasanjo made his position known, while addressing newsmen shortly after a closed-door meeting with members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the...
Some stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Jos North and Bassa local government areas of Plateau have endorsed the candidature of Suleiman Yahaya-Kwande for the Jos North/Bassa Federal Constituency bye-election, fixed for Feb. 26. The stakeholders made the endorsement of Kwande at a stakeholders meeting in Jos...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stakeholders in Abia North Senatorial District say its the turn of the area to produce the next governor of the state in 2022. The party chieftains said this at a news conference in Umuahia on Friday, adding that their agitation was in line with...
Senator Orji Kalu, the Chief Whip of the Senate, has said he decided to contest the 2023 presidential election after leaders from the six geopolitical zones approached him to run. This is as he revealed that he had earlier told other presidential aspirants like the former governor of Lagos State,...
The Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), on Thursday, January 20, 2022, arraigned one Wasila Musa Ibrahim and her company, Najaatu Petroleum Limited, before Justice Mohammed Nasir Yunusa at the Federal High Court, Kano. They were arraigned on a 10-count charge bordering on money...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Chapter of APC Aspirants Forum (AAF) has called on the incumbent National Secretary of the national body of APC Aspirants Forum, Hon. Yusuf Sheriff Modu to aspire, contest and run for the Office of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party....
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Senate President Ahmad Lawan are expected to grace the 2022 Justice Sector Summit. The Chairman, NBA Judiciary Committee, Dr Babatunde Ajibade, who disclosed on Friday in Abuja, said the summit will be held at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja on Jan. 25. Ajibade...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – A political group under the umbrella of “Northern Youth Movement for Orji Kalu” have flooded major streets of Bauchi with the posters of the former Abia State Governor, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, urging him to declare his intention to run for the president in 2023....
The fresh trial of Professor Ignatius Uduk, a lecturer at the University of Uyo, commenced on Thursday at the Akwa Ibom State High Court 9 sitting in Uyo, the state capital. Uduk faces a three-count charge bordering on publishing and announcing false electoral results. The case was filed by...
The Plateau chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the party has a timetable from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the House of Representatives and State Assembly bye-elections in the state. Jos North/Bassa Federal Constituency and Pankshin State Constituency seats became vacant following the demise of...
A political pressure group supporting the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), known as Action 2023 Group, has advised the party to beam its search light on 2023 presidential aspirants in their 50s. The pressure group in a statement by its National Chairman, Dr Rufus Omeire, in Abuja on Thursday, cautioned...
Sen Abdulaziz Yari, a former two term governor of Zamfara and a frontline All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairmanship aspirant says his party membership card is still valid. Yari was reacting to reports in the social media that he did not have a valid party membership card in a...