Barring any last-minute change in plans, Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is expected to arrive in the country on or before Friday, TheCable can report.The standard bearer of the ruling party has been away from the country for the last few days.“Where is ...

•Candidates battling with litigations omittedBy Okodili Ndidi,Seventeen of the 28 governors in the states where the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will conduct governorship election on March 11 next year will be battling to ensure victory for their successors.Yesterday’s ...

Former Minister of Aviation and chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Femi Fani-Kayode on Wednesday said that supporters of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu will soon drown loyalists of Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate.In a post on his Facebook handle, Fani Kayode also said ...

Amid reports of a disagreements within the top echelon of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC regarding the composition of its Presidential Campaign Council PCC, governors of the party on Wednesday passed a vote of confidence on the PCC and the Senator Abdullahi Adamu-led National Working ...

As campaigns for next year’s general elections hots up, a renowned spiritual leader, Olumba Olumba Obu of the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star has said it will no longer be business as usual in NigeriaThe spokesman of the spiritual leader, Edet Archibong read Obu’s statement on his behalf at a ...

All Progressives Congress (APC), has declared that its presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, cannot be stampeded into showing Nigerians his certificate of medical fitness to candidates of other political parties.The ruling party insisted that the only condition that will propel him to do so ...

By Adedayo Akinwale:The meeting between the governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the National leadership of the party led by Senator Abdulahi Adamu Wednesday failed to reach a compromise on the commencement date for the 2023 election campaign.The Independent ...

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at its meeting on Tuesday, October 4, 2022 thoroughly reviewed the situation in its Ogun State Chapter, as it relates to the judgement of the Federal High Court sitting in Abeokuta in Suit No. FHC/AB/CS/83/2022 delivered on ...

A Deputy Registrar at Yaba College of Technology, Mr. Olufunmi Dada, yesterday told Justice Nicholas Oweibo of a Federal High Court in Lagos that the All Progressives Congress (APC), candidate for Surulere Constituency II for the state House of Assembly, in next year’s general election, Mrs. ...

ANAYO EZUGWU reports on the division among some Yoruba leaders over support for the presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Labour Party (LP), Bola Tinubu and Peter Obi, respectivelyAs Nigerians prepare for the 2023 presidential election, opinions are divided over who ...

About 18 sitting governors are behind the presidential candidate of Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has said.This was revealed in a statement made available to DAILY POST, Wednesday, by Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, the Secretary-General of ...

PTSD: Army didn’t rehabilitate Buhari, I endured his mental issues for years, says president’s wife Aisha“You can imagine myself at 19 years, handling somebody that went to war, suffered (a) coup d’état, then lost several elections, and, finally, getting to the Villa in 2015.”Aisha Buhari, ...

Peter Obi and Datti Baba-AhmedVice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Datti Baba-Ahmed has said thousands of Obi-Datti supporters in major cities in the country were not rented ‘crowds.’Baba-Ahmed, who spoke on Channels Television’s Political Paradigm programme on Tuesday stated that ...

Gov Okowa’s commissioner fires aide for supporting Peter ObiAnthony Onoriode Ofoni, a Commissioner in the cabinet of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has fired his aide, Atare Awin for lending support to the presidential bid of Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says Nigeria is at high risk of importing Ebola from Uganda.Uganda had declared an outbreak of Ebola after a 24-year-old male exhibited symptoms of the disease, tested positive, and later died.As of September 29, 2022, the Ugandan ministry of health has ...

By Alex Enumah:The National Commandant of the Peace Corps of Nigeria (PCN), Ambassador Dickson Akoh has charged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ensure elected leaders are held to promises they made to electorates during campaign period.Akoh was of the opinion that the ...

PDP, Atiku in last-minute deal; cede Senate presidency to Southwest, Southeast for SGFBy Dayo Johnson, AkureThe opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reportedly struck a last-minute power-sharing deal with the Southwest to shore up support for its presidential candidate, Abubarkar Atiku, in ...

Minister of Labour and Employment and Director of Public Affairs and Chief Spokesperson Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo (SAN) on Tuesday denied reports of a crisis in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the flag-off of its campaign for the 2023 general ...

President Muhammadu Buhari will on Friday, October 7, 202 present the N19.76trn 2023 budgetary estimates to a joint sitting of the National Assembly.The budget presentation will take place at 10:00am at the temporary chamber of House of Representatives within the National Assembly complex.This was ...

The rot in the federal government’s school feeding programme has been exposed after the Nasarawa State Governor Abdullahi revealed that 349 non-existent public primary schools were included in the scheme for which money was disbursed and pocketed by officials.Governor Sule, who made this revelation ...

Party’s presidential candidate under pressure to succumbFIVE governors of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) led by Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike have given the presidential candidate of the party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar conditions he must meet before they can support him in the 2023 general ...

Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State says the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has life and does not need to show any proof of life.A man that has life does not need to show any proof of life. Asiwaju has life and he doesn’t need to show any proof of ...

BREAKING NEWS: Governor of Lagos State, Mr @jidesanwoolu today met with Public Servants of the Lagos State Public Service. Mr Governor announced a surprise salary increment for workers in the Lagos Public Service.   ...

By Chuks Okocha, James Sowole and John Shiklam:The campaign of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, received a boost yesterday, as three former governors and leaders of the party stormed Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, to mobilise support for him ahead of the ...

Rivers APC sends warning shots to Buhari, NEC, Tinubu.. APC campaign list.Warns Buhari, NEC to stop APC South West leaders hobnobbing with Wike.Accuses Buhari of neglect of Rivers APC.They’re being honest -GiadomBy Egufe Yafugborhi, PORT HARCOURTALL Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers state has ...

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has said that young people in Nigeria don’t value democracy because their expectations have not been met.He stated that Nigeria needs a leader that can reassure the youth about democracy being the best alternative.Mr Gbajabiamila spoke ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li1xRkpphXsExcerpts from Terry Ikumi's interview with the Labour Party's Vice Presidential Candidate in the 2023 Election, Yusuf Datti on #PoliticalParadigmDatti: What was been done in 2015? Religion and Ethnicity. But now, please wake up. It is the era of competence ...

Tonye Princewill, an ally of Rotimi Amaechi, a former minister of transportation, says it is too early to tell who will win the 2023 presidential election.In an interview on Monday, he said Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) may gain an advantage with split votes between Atiku ...

The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, on Monday pledged to revamp the economy and restructure the country if elected president next year.Kwankwaso, who spoke during an interview with journalists in Jalingo, also pledged to prioritise education.The ...

By Okon Bassey:Youths of Akwa Ibom State have been urged to shun violence, thuggery and vulgar speeches before, during and after the 2023 general elections.The state chairman of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), Apostle Nyeneime Andy, gave the charge during the inauguration of the YPP Youths ...

There was a massive defection of members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) which is in opposition in Bauchi State to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which is in power.The new members were officially received and welcomed into the party by the SSA, Domestic Affairs to the State ...

Umaru Al-Makura, senator representing Nasarawa south, says Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), can be likened to leaders of the First Republic.The First Republic was the republican government of Nigeria which spanned three years from 1963 to 1966 when the ...

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar has said he will not run a campaign that slurs people but one bent on promoting his unity agenda.Atiku, in a letter to his supporters, said the next election will be a choice between a leadership that comes prepared and ready to ...

Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has appointed Kastina state governor Aminu Bello Masari, as the Senior Adviser on Administration and Government, while former governor of Sokoto state, Senator Aliyu Wamakko is also named Senior Adviser ...

Competence and not religion or ethnicity should be the main consideration of Nigerians in electing President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor next year, President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Bishop Wale Oke, has admonished.Oke, who also advised Nigerians against selling their future ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Sunday said it may not invite Iyorchia Ayu, nation­al chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and other members of the Nation­al Working Committee (NWC) over the financial scandal rock­ing the major opposition party.Six NWC members, ...

Ahead of the February 2023 presidential elections, five Governors elected under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Sunday, met in Enugu State.Inside sources told DAILY POST that the discussion centred on how to deliver the Labour Party Presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi in ...

By John Chuks AzuAs the 2023 general elections approach, politicians and interest groups have resurrected new and traditional issues for litigation against the main presidential candidates of the various political parties. There are pending cases against the candidates of the All Progressives ...

Deputy Gov’s son, viral video in Lagos ‘Obedients’ rally, false – Deputy gov’s aide…As Hamzat orders arrest, prosecution of impersonator.By Olasunkanmi AkoniThe viral video making the rounds on the social media showing an individual captioned, “The Lagos State Deputy Governor’s son Femi Hamzat, ...

More Christian leaders snub presidential campaignThe festering crisis rocking the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) over the composition of the Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of Bola Ahmed Tinubu deepened over the weekend with some stakeholders moving for the replacement of the National ...

Party’s BoT to meet with ex-VP, Rivers governor• Melaye dismisses report on alleged promise to support Wike’s 2027 presidential bidby Chibuzo Ukaibe and Anayo OnukwughaThere are indications that Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, and governors and party leaders in his camp may have softened their ...

By Chiemelie Ezeobi, Rebecca Ejifoma, Sunday Ehigiator, Emameh Gabriel and Sylvester Idowu:The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, has said that the 2023 general election has again presented to Nigerians another rare opportunity to take back the country from the ruling ...

By Adedayo Akinwale:The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has constituted the women’s campaign team for its presidential campaign with Aisha Buhari, wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, as the grand patron. This came as the presidential candidate of the ruling party, Senator Bola Tinubu, ...

Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has appealed to the Supreme Court of Nigeria to grant accelerated hearing to the case before it on the collection and distribution of Value Added Taxes VAT generated from the state by the Federal Government. The Governor made the appeal at the match pass and ...

Renewed efforts by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, to resolve the lingering crisis between him and the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, failed again as their Thursday meeting could not resolve the crisis.Sunday PUNCH gathered that the governor ...

By Francis Ugwu The spokesperson for the Atiku Abubakar presidential campaign, Daniel Bwala, has said that the massive rallies held simultaneously in different major cities across the country, especially in Kaduna, by the supporters of the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Peter Obi, ...

The deputy national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Taofeek Arapaja, has opened up on why he and his colleagues in the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) returned party funds, declaring that there are more discrepancies in management of party funds.Arapaja, who denied being a ...

Former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, says Peoples Democratic Party, has realised its mistakes from the past and is working assiduously towards getting its lost glory.Atiku, who was in Gombe for a wedding ceremony, briefly opened a campaign office dedicated to the realisation of his ...

By Chuks Okocha:Former President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, has urged Nigerians to leverage on the 2023 general elections to elect credible leaders that would get the country out of the woods.Mark, who stated this in a goodwill message to Nigerians to commemorate Nigeria’s 62 years of ...

By Adedayo Akinwale:First Lady, Aisha Buhari has been named leader of the Tinubu/Shettima Women Presidential Campaign team of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).The wife of the presidential candidate of the part,y Senator Oluremi Tinubu and Hajiya Nana Shettima, the wife of the Vice ...