…Insists no going back on BVAS, IReVl …Real-time polling unit results’ll  be uploaded on IReVl …INEC must manage security threats — IFES By Omeiza Ajayi, Abuja The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has lamented the growing wave of election-related insecurity across the ...

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, has taken a swipe at the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Senator Bola Tinubu, saying Nigeria’s presidency is not “turn by turn”. Speaking yesterday when he arrived in Delta State for his campaign, the ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has denied releasing a list of candidates for the 2023 general elections. Festus Okoye, the spokesman of INEC, said Nigerians should discountenance reports that the Commission released a final list of candidates cleared for the 2023 general ...

AHEAD of the February 25 presidential election, the General Overseer of the Dunamis International Gospel Centre, Pastor Paul Enenche, has said struggles between different political players for Nigeria’s soul has transcended the physical to the spiritual. Enenche, who spoke passionately about the ...

The ancient town of Yola in Adamawa is full of activities as President Mammadu Buhari is expected to arrive the state for the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign rally. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Buhari is expected to arrive the Yola Internatinal ...

The founder of DAAR Communications Plc, High Chief Raymond Dokpesi, has been released after an “incident” which led to his delay at the London Heathrow airport on Sunday January 8, 2022. This was contained in a statement made available to The PUNCH on Monday morning by the DAAR Communications ...

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 June ...

Hoodlums, armed with guns and other dangerous weapons, invaded the facility around 8 p.m. on Saturday, shooting sporadically By Abdulqudus Ogundapo An office of the Presidential Campaign Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been vandalised in Ilesa, Osun State. ...

John Alechenu, Abuja The Vice Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Datti Baba-Ahmed broke down in tears during the Town Hall meeting organized by Channels Television while speaking about insults directed at his family by political opponents. During the event, which was held on Sunday ...

--Akpabio, Nwaoboshi, Machina make list --4,223 candidates contesting for 469 federal legislative positions --48 million out of 93.5 million eligible voters are youths, commission reveals The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), yesterday, released the final list of ...

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has debunked report that its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar is sick. Report earlier emerged online purporting that the former vice president halted his campaign due to health issues. But clearing the air, the Spokesperson and Director Public Affairs ...

Fraud allegations tear group apart The leader and Chairman, Yoruba self-determination struggle, Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide, Professor Wale Adeniran, has resigned as leader of the group, over allegations of fraud and embezzlement pending when necessary investigations are carried out. ...

THE ongoing face-off between the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, and the G5 governors led by Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, is without doubt, one of the biggest political developments of 2022 in Nigeria. It was unforeseen, as was the case with ...

PREMIUM TIMES visited schools that the state government claimed to have rehabilitated and found decrepit and inadequate facilities. Governor Dapo Abiodun said last year that over 400 primary and secondary schools have been renovated in Ogun State under his administration. However, when ...

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has expressed concern over the massive participation of young people in political rallies, saying only jobless people attend political rallies. The renowned cleric who made this known at the weekend during ...

By PUNCH The All Progressives Congress campaign train was in Ondo State on Saturday with a message by the its presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, that he remained confident of winning the forthcoming presidential election. Tinubu said he was a better manager than the duo of Alhaji ...

The Nigeria Union of Teachers, (NUT) says the population of teachers both serving and working will decide who will emerge the next Governor of Kogi State after Alhaji Yahaya Bello. The Kogi State Chairman of NUT, Comr. Joel Salifu disclosed this while addressing a press conference on Saturday. ...

By  Ikenna Obianeri The Independent National Electoral Commission has said that youths constitute the highest number of registered voters who will cast votes in the 2023 general election. The National Commissioner of INEC in charge of Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr Festus ...

John Cardinal Onaiyekan has cautioned politicians planning to rig Nigeria’s 2023 elections. He said with the current yearnings of the people, “the election will no longer be business as usual”. Onaiyekan spoke on Saturday at the Holy Trinity Church in Maitama, Abuja. The Catholic ...

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, on Saturday said God has not spoken to him on who would be Nigeria’s next president. To this end, Adeboye urged Nigerians to get their Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, ahead of the February presidential election. ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has expressed satisfaction with the turnout for Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) collection across the country ahead of the 2023 election. Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Friday, the INEC National Commissioner and Chairman of ...

The camp of a former Vice President of the country and Presidential Candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has resolved to go for broke in the current crisis rocking the party ahead of the forthcoming General Election scheduled for next month. Sources ...

The party said the overwhelming support for Atiku was in rejection of a request that they follow the dictates of some individuals in the presidential election. By Agency Report The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has commended the commitment and courage of the people of Oyo State for their ...

Reacting to Tinubu’s comment that he would convert Yahoo Boys into technology experts if elected president, Atiku said his APC counterpart needs medical attention. Tinubu had pledged to create a technology hub for Yahoo boys if he wins the February presidential election. The APC flag bearer ...

By Charles Olisa I have been watching closely with studied silence the unending outburst, which has been continuously hurled at the PDP Presidential Candidate and Vice Presidential Candidate by the G5 Governors led by His Excellency Nyesom Wike. Ordinarily, the uninformed will think that they ...

By Saawua Terzungwe The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council has said President Muhammadu Buhari has shown personal commitment to the party’s campaign and indicated his readiness to be physically present at some of the forthcoming campaign rallies. In a ...

Ahead of the general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, says the distribution of Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs, at various Registration Areas/Wards will start from Friday, January 6, till 15. The Head of Department, Voter Education and Publicity, of the commission in ...

*G-5 members committed to PDP, Says Ortom  *At Oyo rally, aggrieved governors refuse to name presidential candidate to support  *Ikpeazu’s kinsmen pledge support for Atiku   *PDP PCC mocks Tinubu’s rally for inability to speak on policy issues at Kano  *Kano PDP: APC candidate tired, ...

•Nasarawa gov dismisses claim •Says Northern APC govs strongly behind Tinubu By David Odama Spokesman of Atiku-Okowa Presidential Campaign Council, Daniel Bwala, insisted yesterday that his principal and former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, has the best chance to win next month’s ...

Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma has claimed the Second Niger Bridge executed by the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari is enough for the South-East zone to vote for Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate. Governor Uzodinma made the statement on ...

Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi said youths will no longer need to leave Nigeria (japa) under his presidency. He promised to implement policies that would secure the future of young citizens. Obi made the pledge on Thursday at the party’s campaign rally in Ado-Ekiti, the ...

Effective from March 1, 2023, any government official that withdrawals cash from public accounts risks investigation and collaboration by the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC). Director ...

The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso, has claimed political leaders are making a mistake by publicly endorsing candidates ahead of next year’s elections. Kwankwaso stated this on Wednesday when he visited the governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, at ...

The governorship race in Oyo may again go down to the wire as each of the three main candidates reasonably believes he has a path to victory By Olasunkanmi Akinlotan Governorship elections in Oyo State always go down to the wire. In 2011, the late Abiola Ajimobi defeated ...

The decision of former President Olusegun Obasanjo to endorse the presidential candidate of Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi has been heavily criticised by the camps of other leading presidential candidates. Obasanjo in his New Year message recommended Obi to Nigerians, saying that the former Anambra ...

Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis, Dirisu Yakubu and Gift Habib The Independent National Electoral Commission has imported additional Bimodal Voters Accreditation System machines that will be deployed nationwide in all the polling units for the 2023 elections. The commission, which took delivery of ...

Waziri Bulama, former National Secretary of All Progressives Congress (APC) and member, APC National Advisory Council and National Caucus, in this interview with LEO SOBECHI, dispels insinuations that some Northwest governors are working underground to betray the Tinubu/Shettima presidential ...

*Says Obasanjo, Clark, Adebanjo said worst than this in 2019 By Olayinka Ajayi The spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo, SAN, has said it would be an eleventh wonder if Asiwaju Bola Tinubu fails to win the forthcoming Presidential ...

A Twitter user Hally Ramzy has blasted the presidency for saying that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), is ahead of former President Olusegun Obasanjo in all ramifications. Following Obasanjo’s endorsement of the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, as his choice ...

Prophet Joshua Iginla of the Champions Royal Assembly has disclosed the candidate that would win the 2023 presidential election. Iginla disclosed that God would make the most criticized and hated candidate win the presidential election. In his series of prophecies, Iginla said: “Concerning the ...

Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, yesterday, took a swipe against those accusing him and Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State of frustrating micro-zoning of the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the southeast. Wike said he had always believed and supported effort ...

As the world welcomed the new year, 2023, Africa did so differently as there have been key notable dates in the year earmarked to usher in new governments in 24 countries of the continent. According to Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa, countries like Nigeria, Gabon, Liberia, ...

Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis, Stephen Angbulu, El-ameen Ibrahim, Ikenna Obianeri,Peter Dada, Daud Olatunji and Matthew Ochei The Presidency on Monday slammed former President Olusegun Obasanjo for describing the seven years of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) in office as ...

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has mocked the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar over the endorsement of Labour Party’s presidential candidate Peter Obi by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. The governor said the move by Obasanjo who refused to ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential campaign council has tackled former President Olusegun Obasanjo over his endorsement of Peter Obi, presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP). On Sunday, Obasanjo, in a letter to Nigerians, declared his support for Obi ahead of the 2023 general ...

The All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, has described former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s endorsement of his counterpart from the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi, as worthless. Tinubu said Obasanjo lacked any political goodwill or leverage in Nigeria to make Obi win ...

…says denying talks with G-5 governors an afterthought John Alechenu, Abuja The Special Assistant, Public Communication to the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, Mr Phrank Shaibu, has said the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, ...

By Seun Opejobi The All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, says he pities his Labour Party, LP, counterpart, Peter Obi, following his endorsement by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Tinubu said Obasanjo cannot win his polling unit; hence Obi is at risk for ...

By Joshua Odeyemi Some Nigerians on social media have expressed their views on how the new Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)’s policy on cash withdrawal will affect the outcome of the 2023 general elections in the country. The CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele, had on October 26, 2022, announced ...

By  Segun Adewole The Director, Media and Publicity, All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council, Bayo Onanuga, has said presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu won’t lose sleep over the endorsement of his Labour Party counterpart, Peter Obi, by former president Olusegun ...