By YUSUFU IDEGU, Bauchi – The Tax Appeal Tribunal, North East Zone sitting in Bauchi State has dismissed an application of the Taraba State Board of Internal Revenue seeking to compel First bank Ltd to make security deposit in disputed tax matter. The ruling was delivered by Chairman of...
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abia says the party has the human and material resources to wrestle power away from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2023. The Chairman of the state Caretaker Committee, Chief Donatus Nwankpa, said this at a news briefing in Umuahia on Thursday. Nwankpa,...
The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu (PDP Delta) has declared that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will face an inevitable and crushing fall in 2023 after which it will go into political oblivion. According to a statement by his Senior Legislative Aide, Tony Ayaegbunam,...
The Minority Leader, House of Representatives, Mr Ndudi Elumelu, has called for urgent steps to reunite the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members in the South West ahead of upcoming governorship elections in the region. Elumelu made the call at a special inauguration dinner organised in honour of the PDP...
The Lagos Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday arraigned one Ishaq Abubakar before Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi on 11 counts bordering on cybercrimes. The suspect was arrested by officers of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on August...
The National Chairman-Elect, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Iyorchia Ayu, has said the outgoing National Working Committee (NWC), has justified the vision of the party’s founding fathers. Ayu stated in his remarks at a valedictory session, organised for the outgoing NWC of the party on Wednesday, at the party’s...
By MARY RONKE, Minna – The Niger State Chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has adopted Sen. Zaynab Kure, wife of late Gov. Abdulkadir Kure, as it leader. The state PDP Publicity Secretary, Mr Suleiman Aliyu, disclosed this in a statement issued on Tuesday in Minna. Aliyu said that...
By IBRAHIM OBANSA, Lokoja – North-Central youths under the aegis of Yahaya Bello Network (YBN) have endorsed Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi for the 2023 presidency, saying that only through him would the Nigerian dreams of unity, safety and economic advancement be achieved. The youths in their thousands who...
PATRICK ABANG Calabar – Former State Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Ntufam Ekpo Okon has explained why he has returned back to the PDP alongside other party faithful. He explained that he was unable to resist Donald Duke and Venatious Ikem’s call when they both called him...
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has affirmed the expulsion of 15 members in Kebbi state, by the Kebbi state chapter of the party. The party disclosed this in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, on Monday in Abuja. The...
A coalition of northern groups under the umbrella of Arewa Concerned Civil Society Organisations of Nigeria has declared support for the zoning of the 2023 presidency to the South-East in the interest of equity, fairness and justice. The group said that zoning the presidency to the South-East will automatically...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The cracks in the All Progressives Congress have continued to widen following a court order obtained by one of the chairmanship aspirants in the last state congress, Hassan Sheriff, restraining Babayo Misau, from parading himself as the chairman of the party in the state. This...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has cleared Saturday’s Ekiti State Local Government Councils poll, winning all the 35 council chairmanship seats and 176 out of the 177 councilorship seats declared. Justice Jide Aladejana, the Chairman of the State Independent Electoral Commission announced the result on Sunday in Ado-Ekiti. Aladejana...
Dr Aminu Isyaku, Director-General, Coalition of Progressive Youth Groups in Nigeria and the Diaspora (COPY-ND), a group within the All Progressives Congress (APC) has debunked insinuations that the party is factionalised. Reacting to a communique earlier issued by the Progressive Youth Movement (PYM), another group within the APC, Isyaku...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit asking the court for “an order of perpetual injunction to restrain President Muhammadu Buhari and the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami from unlawfully shutting down telecommunication networks in any part of...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State, says defection of Lagos4Lagos Movement, a splinter group within the party, to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), cannot change the main opposition’s misfortune in the state. The APC Publicity Secretary in Lagos State, Mr Seye Oladejo, made this remark in an...
All inclusive administration and other socially-uplifting programmes of former Gov. Isa Yuguda in Bauchi State, qualified him for the national chairmanship position of the All Progressives Party (APC). Alhaji Abubakar Abdulkadir, a Political Aide to Yuguda, made the assertions on Saturday while speaking with newsmen in Abuja. “Part of...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the death of former President of the Senate, Sen. Joseph Wayas, as a monumental national loss. The National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, said in a statement in Abuja that late Wayas was a very...
Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello has called on Nigerian youths to make their numbers count and not be political spectators in the country’s 2023 general elections and democratic processes. Mr Onogwu Muhammed, Chief Press Secretary to Bello in a statement issued on Friday in Abuja said the governor made...
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Friday convicted and sentenced a retired Customs Officer, Mahmud Hassan, and two others, to a total of 16 years imprisonment for conspiracy and unlawful importation of 661 Pump Action rifles, unlawful importation of prohibited firearms, forgery, uttering of forged documents, and...