Presidential candidate of Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi has vowed to change the Northern region of Nigeria through agriculture if elected president of Nigeria in 2023.Obi made made this promise at a virtual meeting with Labour Party support groups on Friday.He said, “I am going to change the region. ...

Amid the ongoing Monday sit-at-home in the Southeast by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiawju Bola Tinubu has fixed his campaign rallies in Anambra and Imo States on Mondays.According to the timetable released by ...

A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt on Friday sacked 3 National Assembly candidates of the Labour Party for next year’s general elections.The candidates affected are those for Obio-Akpor federal constituency and the Port Harcourt federal constituencies 1 and 2.The Peoples Democratic Party ...

Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike has increased the number of his Special Assistants on Political Affairs from the initial 100, 000  to 200, 000 persons.Governor Wike announced the new figure yesterday,  while inaugurating the second batch of the first 100,000 Special Assistants from Rivers East ...

 Chief James Ibori, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, and Senator James Manager shuns event.The crisis rocking the Delta State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP is far from over as a National Leader of the party, Chief James Ibori, the immediate past governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, the Senator ...

A CALL TO GOVERNOR DOUYE DIRI OF BAYELSA STATE:WE DEMAND THE IMMEDIATE AND UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE FROM CUSTODY OF MR. EBIKPOEMI EBIKIBINA UGO, APC PUBLICITY SECRETARY OF KOLOKUMA/OPOKUMA L.G.A OF BAYELSA STATE.(1)​We are extremely disturbed by the actions of Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State in ...

One of the spokespersons of the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Council, Senator Dino Melaye, chided the vice presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Kashim Shettima, saying the presidential villa is not meant for bandits.This is just as the presidential candidate of Peoples ...

No Nigerian Should Complain Of Hunger Because We Have Farmlands, Rain From God – BuhariPresident Muhammadu Buhari has told Nigerians to be willing to farm what they would eat or starve to death, stating that no one has the right to complain of hunger in Nigeria.Buhari stated this on Wednesday in an ...

By QueenEsther IroanusiAs part of the 2023 budgetary allocation for the State House, N7.2 billion was earmarked for the maintenance of Villa facilities.The amount is part of the total N21.1 billion allocated to the State House for the 2023 fiscal year. The State House also earmarked N1.96 billion ...

Foremost political economist, Professor Pat Utomi, has reiterated optimism that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party can win in 2023.Utomi made this assertion during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Tuesday.Noting that contrary to the belief that the Labour Party ...

Three serving state governors are being monitored over their moves to launder stashed billions of naira through table payment of salaries to workers, Chairman...By Ismail Mudashir And Hamza IdrisThree serving state governors are being monitored over their moves to launder stashed billions of naira ...

Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike has sanctioned the revocation of Senator Lee Maeba’s property in Port Harcourt as he continues crackdown on political foes.Mr Maeba is rooting for Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, whom the Rivers governor is up in arms against, ...

Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) have been banned by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from visiting government houses.The commission also told the RECs not to hold unofficial meetings with politicians, even after official working hours.Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood ...

Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi, has said he would dialogue with the members of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) and other agitators to restore peace in the country if elected president come February 25, 2023.Obi, a former governor of Anambra State ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has said that if elected, his government will not be manipulated by any group of persons intent on controlling the affairs of state.‘Cabal,’ wrote the VOA Hausa on its website, ‘is an English word ...

The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Zamfara State, Dr. Ahmed Sani Kaura is dead.He was said to have died during  a peace meeting in Gusau. The PDP publicity Secretary in the state, Abba Bello, said the chairman died immediately after he attended a peace meeting organized by the ...

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday said it is not relying on the crisis in the major opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to win the 2023 presidential election.Festus Keyamo (SAN) the Minister of Labour and Employment and Chief Spokesperson of the Tinubu-Shettima ...

Vice-Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Kashim Shettima, yesterday, told one of the Hausa communities in Lagos that it was payback time for the good they had enjoyed under the Bola Tinubu leadership in the state and to the north in general.Shettima, who visited the Hausa ...

A former governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayo Fayose, on Tuesday appeared before the Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti Division, in a suit filed against him for allegedly owing his former Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Owoseni Ajayi, N900 million in professional fees.Ajayi, who was ...

Sentiments apart, using logical deduction I think it will be Atiku. Tinubu will come second while Obi will be third. Tinubu would have been the favourite but three factors are against him.1. The current state of the economy and security which has been made worse by the APC government. People don't ...

Regrettably a lot of people are going to be disappointed by the outcome of the 2023 elections. Whoever wins is either going to have some insurmountable hurdles to scale or is going to push us further down the same dark and depressing path. The simple truth is that in order to get any reprieve or ...

The Federal Government has said that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), will stand by the deployment of the Bimodal Voters’ Accreditation System for credible, fair and transparent elections in 2023.This was disclosed by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the ...

Despite the considerable attention the presidential primary elections of the two leading political parties in the country, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC),  received, some big names, who lost in the race have gone silent four months after the ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Chairman, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, has assured his kinsmen that nobody would remove him from office.Ayu made the remark while addressing his kinsmen of Jemgba ethnic group at his residence in the Gboko area of Benue State.The national chairman has been having a ...

By Farooq A. KperogiTwitter: @farooqkperogiWith an unusually inept Central Bank of Nigeria governor like Godwin Emefiele and the unprecedently anything-goes climate that the Muhammadu Buhari regime has engendered in the last seven years, I won’t be surprised if the main motive force for the CBN’s ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that the attacks amongst political parties at campaigns and denial of access to public facilities for electioneering activities are prelude to violence on election day and beyond.The INEC Chairman, Prof.  Mahmood who raised the concern, ...

The suave, enigmatic, fearless and blunt Datti Baba-Ahmed is the Vice-Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election. In this encounter with Adedayo Adejobi, he talks about on how his party will quickly address rising cost of living, unemployment and insecurity if it wins the ...

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has emphasised the need for the youths to be actively involved in the 2023 general elections in the countryAt a recent forum to mark the 64th birthday of renowned journalist and activist, Richard Akinnola, Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, gave ...

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBX_9gpyqKg?t=1988 First, let us note that this section of the interview was about security and the menace of banditry.We begin at 33:09FULL TRANSCRIPT OF THE SECTION OF ARISE INTERVIEW WITH PETER OBI @TONYEBARCANISTA POSTEDRufai: OK, but Mr Peter Obi, it is not as ...

Despite the court ruling asking Nigeria to return the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra to Kenya and pay him N500 million as compensation, the Federal Government is not inclined to free him based on several factors, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar ...

The Osinbajo Support Movement (OSM) has described as insulting, the comment of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), that he has forgiven Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo.While addressing a Kano group that backed Osinbajo’s presidential aspiration in the ...

As the race for the 2023 general election hots up, thousands of members of the Lagos4Lagos Movement of the gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Olajide Adediran (Jandor) yesterday defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).The defectors, including leaders and ...

The 2023 election is between Peter Obi and others. - Kenneth Okonkwo, Labour Party chieftain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvyUS6k3HxA  https://twitter.com/channelstv/status/1585701543751270400?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp

The younger brother of a former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, Isaac, has warned Nigerians against voting for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.Fayose alleged that Atiku would push the Fulanisation agenda of Nigeria if he is elected president in ...

Cross River state Governor, Prof. Ben Ayade on Thursday presented a budget of 330 billion appropriation bill of 2023 to the State House of Assembly, christened budget of Quantum infinitum.According to Ayade 130 billion naira would be for recurrent expenditure while 200 billion naira would be for ...

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Thursday revealed that the state will borrow N350 billion to fund the 2023 budget.The governor had presented a budget of N1.69 trillion to the State House of Assembly for approval for the 2023 fiscal year.The budget is deficit and to be financed by ...

The Ondo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, on Thursday, inaugurated a 533-man Presidential Campaign Council for the presidential election.The council members included a former Ambassador to the Central African Republic, Roland Omowa, a former National Vice Chairman of the PDP ( ...

By John Owen NwachukwuWith the presidential campaign kicked-off for the 2023 general election, the All Progressives Congress, APC, will no doubt miss the dexterity of former minister, Chibuike Amaechi.Things have not remained the same between the presidential candidate of the party, Asiwaju Bola ...

He was asked about how he intends to move from consumption to production...here is his response below...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJy4cR8xcwo 

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has left Nigeria for political campaigns in the United States of America.In 2018, amidst talks that he could not visit the US, Atiku had in company of the former Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki and others visited ...

The Leader, Yoruba Nation Self-Determination Struggle, Prof Banji Akintoye, on Thursday, claimed that the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu’s ambition was for “personal interest”.He said with his “emilokan” which meant “I am the next person” statement, it was obvious ...

In this interview with reporters, Chairman of Partners for Electoral Reform and board member of YIAGA, Nwagwu Ezenwa, calls on Buhari to investigate reports of alleged plot to undermine the 2023 general elections. Emameh Gabriel brings excerpts:How would you rate the level of INEC’s preparation ...

Osinbajo was the Lagos attorney general and justice commissioner between 1999 and 2007 when Tinubu was governor of the state.The ruling All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu says he has forgiven the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo for contesting against him during the party's ...

A former national publicity secretary of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisa Metuh, has resigned his membership of the party, noting that he would be involved henceforth in non-partisan politics.Metuh’s resignation was contained in a letter he wrote to the PDP national chairman, Dr Iyochia ...

Former Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State on Wednesday distanced himself from the list of Ondo state Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Council released by the party on Tuesday.This is just as the former governor restated his commitment towards the emergence of a southerner as ...

Prior to the official electioneering campaign's scheduled to begin in earnest, the APC PCC Media directorate held a strategic meeting Today Wednesday the 26th of October 2022.The meeting, which lasted for a few hours, was held behind closed doors at the Media Directorate office in Wuse.According to ...

Jonathan seeks constitutional amendment for selecting vice presidential, deputy governorship candidatesChuks Okocha and Adedayo Akinwale in AbujaThe vice president, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, yesterday, identified some reasons why hardworking deputies often run into problems with power brokers, ...

The Federal Government on Monday revealed that its latest findings showed that about 1.2 million barrels of crude oil was consistently shut in by producers across various oil wells in the Niger Delta due to the incessant oil theft in the industry.It also stated that current statistics showed that ...

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday asked Edo state governor to apologise to Nigerians over his statement that Nigeria will break up if the party wins the 2023 presidential election.The APC in a statement signed by Minister of State, Labour and Employment and Director of Public ...

Release of Timetable and Schedule of Activities for Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi Governorship Elections“The tenure of the incumbent Governor of Imo State ends on 14th Jan 2024, while those of Kogi and Bayelsa States end on 26th Jan 2024 and 13th Feb 2024 respectively. Accordingly,the Commission has ...