The Governorship Campaign Train of the People Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday received defectors in Irrua, Esan Central Local Government of Edo ahead of the Sept. 21 governorship election in the state. The Leader of the defectors, Chief Harrison Echie, said the defectors were members of the Nigeria Peoples...
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The Campaign Council of the APC for Edo Governorship Election has called on the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to subject party candidates in the poll to compulsory drug tests. The council made the call in a statement by its Director of Media, Kassim Afegbua, on Wednesday in...
Sen. Athan Achonu, Candidate of the Labour Party in the Nov. 11, 2023 Imo Governorship Election, , has said that the verdict of the Supreme Court, does not truly reflect democracy. Achonu made this stance known while addressing newsmen in his country home, Umunumo in Ehime Mbano council area...
Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) candidate for the Nov. 16 governorship election in Ondo State, Dr Abass Mimiko, has called on residents to vote for qualified candidates instead of rotational arrangements. Mimiko, who is the younger brother of former governor Olusegun Mimiko, made the call during a media chat on...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The immediate past Managing Director of Nigeria Inland WaterWays Agency(NIWA), Dr George Moughalu, has formally resigned his membership of the All Progressives Congress(APC). Moghalu announced his resignation in a a letter submitted to the party and made available to journalists in Awka ,on Tuesday....
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – A group under the auspices of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Youth Wing Mobilisation Vanguard has urged the People Democratic Party (PDP) elders in the North West to rather focus on solving their internal political crisis rather than the futile attempt to drag the...
The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the forthcoming September 21, 2024 governorship election in Edo State, Asue Ighodalo, says he will make independent and informed decisions if elected governor of the state. Ighodalo, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Monday, said...
The Nigeria Police Force said it has detained 97 members of the proscribed Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), known as the Shi’ite group, for prosecution, following the clash with the group in Abuja on Sunday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the clash resulted in the death...
The National Women Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Mary Alile, has announced a scholarship initiative to empower 100 girls from each of the 36 states of Nigeria and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) with opportunities in IT, Project Management, Data Analytics, and other fields. A statement...
The Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, has donated 15 trucks of fertilizer to the Zamfara chapter of APC to complement President Bola Tinubu’s agricultural transformation programme. This is contained in a statement signed by the state APC Publicity Secretary, Malam Yusuf Idris, issued in Gusau on Sunday....
The 2023 Kogi State Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Dino Melaye said that an end has come for the PDP in the political space. He claimed that the party has been commercialised and privatised. In a post via his X handle on Saturday, the former Kogi West...
Rep. Nkemkanma Kama has said that Gov. Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi does not force people to join the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Kama represents Ohaozara/Onicha/ Ivo Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives on the platform of Labour Party. He was reacting to the gale of defections from...
The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the re-election of Sen. Douye Diri as the governor of Bayelsa. The apex court in a judgment, dismissed the appeal brought before it by the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress APC, Timipre Sylvia and his party. The lead judgment delivered by...
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has vowed not to leave the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over the internal crisis in the party. He spoke on Wednesday in Abuja during a media briefing to mark his first year in office as the FCT Minister. Despite...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has placed an embargo on sectional and unauthorised meetings within the party by aspirants or their allies ahead of the Nov. 16 Local Government elections in Ogun. This is contained in a statement issued in Abeokuta on Tuesday by the APC Party Chairman, Yemi...
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara on Tuesday received the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), BoT members in a move to put to rest months of speculations that he had left the party. The delegation included the BoT Chairman, Senator Adolphus Wabara; former Chairman, Ahmed Makarfi; elder stateman, Olabode George and...
The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) in Kano State has given up to the end of this month to all the aspiring Caretaker Chairmen and Councillors in the 44 local governments to resign. ”Those of them wishing to contest in the forthcoming local government elections in the state should...
By TYAV SAM TYAV, Makurdi– Determined to make peace, heal the wounds and strengthen the party for future elections in Benue State, the stakeholders of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) have called on all party’s members to work as a family to close rank and place the interest of...
The office of the Attorney General of the Federation is not in possession of the case file for the trial of former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Walter Onnoghen. Onnoghen was prosecuted in 2019 by the Federal Government on false declaration of assets at the Code of Conduct Tribunal,...
A support group of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, the Nigerian Youths for Atiku (NYFA), says only God can stop him from contesting and winning the 2027 presidential election. The Director of Publicity of NYFA, Mr Dare Dada, said this in a statement on Tuesday in Lagos. Dada said that...