Senator Chimaroke Nnamani (PPD-Enugu) has said that Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi brought him back to political limelight in the state after 15 years as governor. Nnamani, who represents Enugu East Senatorial District, stated this during the PDP campaign in Nkanu West for Feb. 23 2022 Local Government Elections in the...
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The Students Union Government (SUG) at the Federal University, Birnin Kebbi, has urged politicians not to drag students into their political calumny and machinations in the state. The President of the union in the university, Mohammed Mohammad, said in Birnin Kebbi on Thursday while briefing newsmen, that some politicians...
The National leader of the All Progressive Party (APC), Bola Tinubu, on Saturday paid condolence visit to Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, on the recent deaths of two prominent traditional rulers and a former Governor of Oyo State, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports...
A former Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika (rtd.), said that he joined politics to be able to contribute his quota as a former security chief toward the peace, security and unity of the country. Ihejirika said this at a news conference in his Ovim country home...
Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki believes Nigeria’s political system has failed the nation. According to him, the kind of politics played in 1999 is no longer relevant as young people are set to take over. The Governor made the comments during a Peoples Democratic Party stakeholders meeting in Benin-City...
Former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida has described Vice-President Yemi Osibanjo as a good man with good intentions about the country. The former leader disclosed this on Thursday when Osibanjo Grassroot Organization visited him in his residence in Minna. “I know the Vice-president very well. He is a good...
President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians and the international community of free and fair elections in 2023 general elections, and peaceful transfer of power. Mr Femi Adesina, the president’s spokesman in a statement on Friday in Abuja, said the president gave the assurance in his remark at a Virtual...
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...
Sudan’s military will exit politics after elections scheduled for 2023, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan told Reuters in an interview on Saturday, adding that the deposed former ruling party would have no role in the transition. Following a military takeover led by Burhan in late October that upended Sudan’s transition...
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...
Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers on Thursday said he would not impose any governorship aspirant of his choice on the people of Rivers come 2023. Wike gave the assurance in a statement issued by Mr Kelvin Ebiri, his Special Assistant on Media, in Port Harcourt. He assured that the...
The central interest of this piece is not to spot leadership faults in Nigeria, or proffer solutions to what the present administration is not doing well to salvage the socioeconomic well being of the poor masses. Rather, the present piece is out to perform two separate but related functions....
The National Chairman-Elect, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Iyorchia Ayu, has said that for the party to reclaim power, it must demonstrate to Nigerians that it could run a better government. Ayu stated this at a two-day PDP National Retreat 2021 with the theme: “It’s time to rescue Nigeria”...