Dr Nkem Okeke, immediate past Deputy Governor of Anambra, has called on the political class to caution their faithful to play issues-based politics that will afford the electorate enough knowledge to vote rightly in the 2023 general elections. He made the call in a telephone interview with the News...
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By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The All Progressives Congress (APC) says the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has no plans to postpone the 2023 general election, contrary to claims by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Bayo Onanuga, Director, Media and Publicity, APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) said this in...
The United Nigeria Movement (UNM), a political organisation, has expressed confidence in the ability of the Peoples Democratic Party’s Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar to transform Nigeria, if elected in the forthcoming presidential election. The National Chairman of the movement, Alhaji Abubakar El-Nafaty, made the statement at a news briefing...
Nigeria and Spain have expressed commitment to deepen bilateral relationship and partnership in investments and development of Nigerian gas resources for global energy market. Chief Timipre Sylva, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources made this known on Thursday in Abuja when he received Spanish Foreign Minister, Jose Albarese, in...
Mr Peter Obi, the Presidential Candidate of Labour Party (LP), says his administration will unite and secure Nigeria if elected on February 25. Obi said this on Thursday at a political rally held in Michael Okpara Square Enugu, capital of Enugu State. “I assure you that if elected president...
President Muhammadu Buhari says Nigeria is working closely with ECOWAS to deal with insecurity in the West African region as well as implementing strategies to contain the spate of unconstitutional changes in government. The president spoke while receiving Letters of Credence from Ambassadors of Switzerland, Sweden, Republic of Ireland,...
Nigeria can become self-sufficient in rice in eight years if post-harvest losses are reduced to between 30 per cent and 16 per cent. The declaration was made in Awka on Thursday by Dr Nehemiah Danbaba, of the National Cereals Research Institute, Badeggi, Niger He was addressing a three-day capacity...
Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, said in Enugu on Wednesday that Nigeria is so blessed that her citizens needed not to seek greener pastures elsewhere. Tinubu, who made the declaration while addressing a campaign rally, said there is no country like Nigeria in Africa,...
Multi-party democracy is the best system of government, President Muhammadu Buhari declared on Wednesday in Abuja. He said his declaration stemmed from his experiences both as military head of state and as civilian president. He made the declaration when he hosted a delegation of the Universal Peace Federation Africa...
Sen. Bola Tinubu, All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate, says Nigeria will prevail over forces of darkness, adding that evil will not prevail over the country. He said this in a statement by his Media Officer, Mr Tunde Rahman while condemning Saturday’s Edo train station attack where 31 passengers...
By TARGBA SHAAGEE, Abuja – After the disappointment of failing to make the dream of La Decima (The Tenth) come true at the 12th Women Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) in staged by Morocco last year – the Super Falcons even failing to make the podium for the first...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari says nobody can blackmail him on inexplicable wealth and illicit enrichment while in office, saying ‘‘I do not have one square-inch outside Nigeria.’’ Speaking at a State banquet, Monday night, organised in his honour in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital, the...
PATRICK ABANG Calabar Former Governor of Cross River State, Senator Liyel Imoke has assured the people of the state that the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), remain the only viable option to restore the country’s lost glory and should be voted into power in 2023 elections. Senator Imoke, who is...
President Muhammadu Buhari says he looks forward to peaceful conduct of this year’s general elections, and retirement, since he has satisfied the constitutionally required two terms in office. The president said this at the State House, Abuja, when he hosted the Special Envoy of President Evariste Ndayishimiye of the...
The vice presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Datti Baba-Ahmed, says if he and Peter Obi are elected into office in February, their administration will take sports, especially football, seriously. Nigeria’s national team, the Super Eagles, were knocked out of the African Cup of Nations in Cameroon in...
The Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has promised that if elected in next month’s polls, he will see to it that subsidy is removed as planned by the incumbent administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. Payment of fuel subsidy by the Federal Government is scheduled to end by...
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has promised to copy what was done in South Africa and Egypt to tackle the issue of power generation and distribution in Nigeria. Obi made this promise during The Peoples Townhall, a live event organised by Channels Television and its...
His Grace, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Abuja, has cautioned politicians against any attempt to rig the forthcoming general elections. “With the current yearnings of the people for a better country, the election will no longer be business as usual,” Onaiyekan said on Saturday during the celebration...
Following the instability in the European gas market occasioned by Russia-Ukraine war which started in February 2022, the European Union (EU) looks up to Nigeria as an alternative to supplement its gas needs. The EU currently imports 14 per cent Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) from Nigeria. Reports in the...
A chieftain of the APC, Dr Abiola Oshodi, says victory for the party’s presidential candidate, Sen. Bola Tinubu in the presidential election will speed up a lot of developmental projects in Ondo State. Oshodi, who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday ( NAN) on the expected...