The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Umar Ganduje on Saturday inaugurated the national campaign council of the party for the 2024 governorship election in Edo. Inaugurating the council headed by Gov. Bassey Ottu of Cross River, Ganduje charged the members to ensure the party...
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National Chairman of the Tinubu/Shetima Foundation, Mr Hammanjulde Yahaya, has appealed to Nigerians to be patient with the present administration and shun the proposed national protest in the country. Yahaya made the appeal at the Tinubu/Shetima Foundation General Meeting, on Saturday in Yola. Yahaya said it was important...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ebonyi has expressed dismay over the party’s non-participation in the state Saturday Local Government elections, blaming the development to its leadership crisis. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the elections held in the 171 wards of the 13 councils of...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Saturday organised a one-day orientation and capacity building training for 55 independent observers to monitor its forthcoming congresses in 24 states. One of the training facilitators, Daboikiabo Warmate, said the workshop demonstrated the Umar Damagum led-National Working Committee’s (NWC) commitment to ensure...
A former Director-General of the Labour Party (LP) Presidential Campaign Council, Dr Doyin Okupe, says he is not a member of the ruling APC but appreciates the bold reforms being implemented by President Bola Tinubu. Okupe, a former Presidential Spokesperson, disclosed this in X handle (formerly Twitter) while...
JOEL OLADELE, Abuja Nigeria and South Africa have jointly condemned the ongoing conflict in Sudan, called for an immediate ceasefire and an end to the crisis. This was revealed in a joint statement by the two countries, signed by the Special Assistant on Media and Communications Strategy to the ...
President Bola Tinubu has congratulated Justice Stella Anukam on her re-election as a Judge of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights for another term of six years. In a statement on Saturday by his spokesman, Chief Ajuri Ngelale, the president said Anukam was re-elected at...
Former governor of Benue, Sen. Gabriel Suswam lamented that party politics was retarding growth and development in Benue. Suswam this at the International Health Investment Summit/ Scientific Exhibition and Endowment Fund for Cancer organized by the Benue State University Teaching Hospital (BSUTH), Makurdi on Friday in Makurdi. He...
The Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo on Friday called on the reinstated deputy governor of Edo, Philips Shaibu to join the APC following the Thursday attack on his convoy at the Benin Airport. Mr Jarrett Tenebe made the call in Benin during a solidarity visit...
Edo governorship candidate of APC for Sept. 21 off-cycle election, Sen. Monday Okpebholo, has said he would not rest until the killers of his security aide, Insp. Onu Akon, are brought to book. The Commissioner of Police in Edo, Funsho Adegboye on Friday during a news conference confirmed...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo, on Friday in Benin said that the party had no hand in the attack that led to the death of a police officer attached to the APC Governorship Candidate, Sen. Monday Okpebholo. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the...
JOEL OLADELE, Abuja The Tinubu Think Tank (TNT), has expressed its readiness to partner with Tourism Volunteers Network to organize the 2024 Summit, a collaboration between Nigeria and China aimed at promoting the country’s tourism industry. The announcement was made by the National Coordinator of TNT, Amb. Adewale Adeogun,...
The Confederation of All Progressives Congress (APC) Support Groups (CASG) has called on Nigerians not to indulge in any uncoordinated nationwide protest that is capable of plunging the nation into chaos. The Director-General of the group, Prof. Kailani Muhammad, made the call on Thursday at a news conference...
The Labour Party Chairman in Rivers, Mrs Hilda Dokubo, was on Thursday suspended as a member of the party in her ward, Asari Toru Local Government Area of the state. The suspension is contained in a letter written to the Labour Party Chairman of the Asari Toru LGA...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Kogi State Governor, Ahmed Usman Ododo has sworn in ten new judges recently appointed into the state judiciary. In his address at the swearing in ceremony held at the Muhammadu Buhari Square in Lokoja, Governor Ododo charged the new judges to serve the...
The leadership of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) on Thursday kicked against the removal of Senator Alii Ndume as the Chief Whip of the Senate, describing it as as a threat to the nation’s growing democracy. Addressing news men in Abuja, the National Chairman of the Party,...
The Appeal Court in Abuja on Thursday dismissed an application filed suspended DCP Abba Kyari requesting that the unlawful drug deal charge against him be dropped. A three-member panel of justices dismissed Kayri’s appeal, marked: CA/ABJ/CR/516/2023 for being unmeritorious. IJustice Adebukola Banjoko who led the panel held that...
The Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Thursday, affirmed the re-election victory of Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa in the Nov. 11, 2023 governorship poll. The three-member panel of justices led by Justice James Abundaga, in a unanimous judgment, held that the appeal filed by the appellants; Mr...
An Area Court sitting in Ilorin on Thursday dissolved the Islamic marriage between one Rashida Bashir and her estranged husband, Bashir Adegboye, over the latter’s womanising attitude. The Presiding Judge, Hammed Ajumonbi, in his ruling, said that the letter sent by the husband revealed that he agreed to...