Mr Adeniran Oyebade, an All Progressives Congress(APC) aspirant for the Ondo Central Senatorial District seat in the 2023 elections, said a viral video where he was accused of assaulting a lady was a plot to discredit him. Oyebade, who was referred to as Sen. Bola Tinubu’s driver in an...
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday in Abuja assured Nigerians that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration is working to crush banditry and insurgency in the country. Sen. John Akpanudoedehe, the National Secretary, APC Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), gave the assurance in a statement while reacting...
An NGO, Patriotic Volunteers Association, has said that money politics is a threat to Nigeria’s democracy. The leader and patron of the group, Usman Alhaji, stated this on Sunday in Kano while unveiling the group at the NUJ Press Centre. He said although Nigeria copied the presidential system from...
The United Nigeria Ambassadors (UNA) says the South-East Geo-political zone will support the emergence of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo as the country’s next president if he accepts to run for presidency in 2023. Mr Timothy Nwachukwu, National Coordinator of the UNA, a political group committed to the unity and...
Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade has reiterated his commitment to ensuring that power return to the Southern Senatorial District of the state come 2023. Governor Ayade, while addressing some stakeholders of the All Progressive Congress (APC) at the Governor’s Lodge on Sunday in Calabar, said his decision to...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has clarified that it has not zoned its Presidential ticket for 2023 general elections to any part of the country. The National Publicity Secretary, Mr Debo Ologunagba made the clarification in a statement issued in Abuja on Saturday. Mr....
Some aggrieved members of the All Progressive Congress (APC) have taken the Gov. Buni led Caretaker- and Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee before a Federal High Court in Abuja, over plans to hold a national convention in February. In the suit dated January 4, 2022 the plaintiffs – Suleiman Usman,...
Sen. Opeyemi Bamidele, an All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship aspirant for the forthcoming Ekiti State Governorship Election has stressed the need for direct primary mode of selecting candidates for elective offices. He said that the direct mode of primary election would promote full participation of all party members in...
Governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are set to meet with President Muhamadu Buhari on Sunday to decide on a date for the February convention. Governor of Plateau State Simon Lalong, disclosed this to State House correspondents after a meeting with the President in his office on Friday....
A Nigerian man identified as Shalom Olumide Ayotunde will spend the next 46 months in US prison after being convicted by a court. He was sentenced to federal prison for fraud violations in the Eastern District of Texas. Shalom Olumide Ayotunde, 39, who pleaded guilty on July 1, 2021,...
A mother of three, Olamide Lawal, on Friday pleaded with a Grade ‘A’ Customary Court in Mapo, Ibadan to grant her divorce on grounds that her husband, Saheed Lawal, engages her with too much sex. In her petition, Olamide who lives in Ibadan also accused her husband of being...
In the build up to the 2023 general elections, a group, Voters Awareness Initiative (VAI) has called for active participation of Nigerians in the electoral processes. The President of VAI, Mr Wale Ogunade, who made the call in a statement on Friday in Lagos, said Nigerians cannot continue to...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The former Borno State Chairman of The People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Hon. Usman Badairi has appealed to all PDP members and his supporters to remain calm over the Court of Appeal’s verdict that reaffirmed his rival, Hon Mustapha Gaddama as authentic PDP Chairman in...
The Southeast Destiny Movement for Bola Ahmed Tinubu 2023 (SDMBAT), says it supports calls for Tinubu to run for President in 2023. SDMBAT, said Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State, has the pedigree to pioneer the affairs of Nigeria from 2023. Chief Ekene Enefe, Convener of SDMBAT, expressed...
The Gov. Mai Mala Buni-led All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) has reconciled Gov. Mohammed Yahaya of Gombe and a former governor of the state, Sen. Mohammed Danjuma Goje. Alhaji Mamman Mohammed, the Director-General, Press and Media Affairs to Buni, announced this in a...
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has approved the adjustment of its timetable and schedule of activities for the primary election, for the June 18 Ekiti governorship poll. The party disclosed this in a statement by its National Organising Secretary, Mr Umar Bature on...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The former Governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke has dismissed media reports that he endorsed Senator Sandy Onor for the 2023 governorship election in the state. ‘I never endorsed any candidate, it will be wrong for me to do that, those using my name...
Some women from Nigeria’s 19 Northern States have declared their support for the 2023 presidential ambition of Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi. The group, under the aegis Yahaya Bello Network (YBN), made their known on Tuesday when they visited Bello at the Kogi State Governor’s Lodge, Abuja. Hajiya Hadiza...