Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara has said there is no provision for tenure elongation for elected Local Government Chairmen in the 1999 Nigerian Constitution (as Amended). Governor Fubara made this known while addressing newsmen at the end of a security council meeting with heads of security agencies in...
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Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has directed Heads of Administration in the 23 Local Government Areas (LGAs), to assume leadership of the councils. Fubara gave the directive in a state-wide broadcast in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, following the expiration of the tenure of the 23 LG chairmen at...
Sen. Monday Okpebholo, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo, says he will run an inclusive government when elected in the September 21 governorship election. Okpebholo stated this on the sideline of a flag off of medical mission by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) in...
June 17, 2024, may seem like any other day to many, but it carries significant weight in Rivers State. This date marks the end of the three-year tenure for elected local government chairmen, a milestone documented in the state’s Local Government Law. The day has become a flashpoint...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Senate President, Godswill Akpabio had boasted that the vote for President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is more than the 5 states in the entire South East region. The Senate President stated this on Sunday during the All Progressives Congress (APC) South-South...
The Lagos State chapters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) have congratulated Muslim faithful on this year’s Eid-el-Kabir celebration. The political parties in separate goodwill messages on Saturday implored Nigerians and residents of the state to remember the sacrifice made by Prophet Ibrahim....
A Peoples Democratic Party chieftain and former Chairman of the party in Lagos State, Chief Segun Adewale, has said he is dumping his party to join the All Progressives Congress (APC). Adewale, popularly known as Aeroland, said this at a news conference on Saturday in Lagos. The News...
By LEONARD KARSHIMA SHILGBA – For months since the inauguration of Rev. Father Dr. Hyacinth Iormem Alia as the 6th elected governor of Benue State on May 29, 2023, reports, rumours, innuendos, and conspiracy theories have been circulating regarding the political relationship between the governor and his political...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Senate President, Godswill Akpabio has denied any involvement in the 2027 presidential campaign posters featuring him and former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir-El-Rufai. In a statement released by his media aide, Eseme Eyiboh, Akpabio described the posters as the work of “mischief makers”...
The Minister of State for Defence, Dr Bello Matawalle, has donated 4,860 rams and N390million to the All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders, stakeholders and less-privileged families in Zamfara. This is contained in a statement on Tuesday by the State APC Publicity Secretary, Malam Yusuf Idris. The rams as...
Ahead of the September 21, 2024 governorship election in Edo State, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has suffered a setback as a top member of the party from Edo Central, Chief Francis Inegbeneki, resigned his party membership. In a letter of resignation dated June 8, 2024, Inegbeneki, who is...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The APC Community Mobilization Forum, a support group of the All Progressives Congress (APC), held a one-day stakeholders’ dialogue session in Maiduguri to commemorate Governor Babagana Umara Zulum’s one-year anniversary of his second term in office. The session, themed “Sustaining the Momentum,” aimed to...
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to stop the continued exit of multinational companies from Nigeria. Oyintiloye, who made the appeal in a chat with journalists on Sunday in Osogbo, described the exit of these companies as...
By JOEL OLADELE, Abuja – A group, under the aegis of Renewed Hope Unity Movement (RHUM), has called on the All Peoples Congress (APC) to better recognize and reward the loyalty of its steadfast but neglected members. The Initiator and Co-Convener of the group , Iretidola Ojekhoa made the...
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Tola Kasali, has charged Nigerian youths to take over the political scene for the future of the country. Kasali, a former Commissioner for Rural Development in Lagos State, gave the charge on Friday during his 72nd birthday celebration in...
A Federal High Court in Kano has fixed June 13, for ruling in application challenging the jurisdiction of the court to entertain the implementation of the Kano Emirate Council (Repeal) Law 2024. The applicant Alhaji Aminu Babba-Dan’agundi( Sarkin Dawaki Babba), through his counsel, Ibrahim Aliyu-Nasarawa, filed a motion...
Ahead of the Edo governorship poll, the All Progressives Congress (APC), has released a 256-member State Campaign Council with former governor, Adams Oshiomhole, as Chairman. Acting Chairman Jarrett Tenebe, in a statement on Wednesday in Benin, announced Sen. Matthew Urhoghide as the Campaign Council Director-General (DG), and Mr...
A former All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship aspirant in Ondo State, Mr Olugbenga Edema, on Wednesday, was announced as the candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) for the Nov. 16 governorship poll. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mr Israel Ayeni, who won the...
President, Initiative for Leadership Development and Change (ILDC), Chief Ugochukwu Nnam, has said President Bola Tinubu and FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, have achieved a lot in the past one year. Nnam said this during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Wednesday. May...
The Minister of Works, Sen. David Umahi, has said that most people he helped to power during the 2023 general elections now avoid him. Umahi said this in Abakaliki on Thursday while speaking with newsmen. The minister said that even National Assembly members who he helped to...