Tinubu Rejects South East Inclusion as Part of his Presidential Campaign CouncilAPC Presidential Candidate, Tinubu Rejects Buhari’s Nominee, Okadigbo's Widow, As South-East Coordinator, Appoints Campaign Secretary Against Party’s AdviceA fresh crisis is currently brewing in the All Progressives ...

Lauds governor’s good worksNigerian former professional footballer and Olympic gold medalist, Kanu Nwankwo, has extolled the leadership virtues of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, describing the governor as a God fearing, peaceful and kind-hearted leader who has made a lot of sacrifices ...

By David-Chyddy Eleke:The leadership of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association (MACBAN) in the South-east region has stated that voting along ethno-religious lines in the forthcoming 2023 general election will further divide Nigeria.The group, therefore, urged Nigerians to vote for the most ...

By Kuni Tyessi:The national leader and Presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso, has state that he is more academically qualified than other presidential candidates contesting the 2023 elections. Kwankwaso stated this yesterday in Abuja at a workshop for ...

By Blessing Ibunge:Rising from a meeting Wednesday morning, members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who are in the camp of the Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike announced they were withdrawing from the Campaign Council of the the party’s Presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.The Wike ...

By Adedayo Akinwale:The  presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC),  Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has revealed that the military administration of Gen. Ibrahim Babangida  designed the transition programme of the Third Republic to fail.Tinubu, who was represented by the Director of Media ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV8Saq0Ym9ATinubu Is My Respected Elder Brother, Peter Obi SaysThe presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, has said that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, is his elder brother, who he respects.He disclosed this in an ...

Benjamin Nworie writes that despite the attempt by police to disrupt the peaceful march by the supporters of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, the rally turned out a successThe OBI-dient movement for the presidential candidate of the ...

Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has called on political leaders across the country to step up and assuage the pains of Nigerians on many fronts due to poor governance and inefficiency or expect a surprise from the electorate in the forthcoming 21023 general elections.Obaseki, while speaking to ...

Akwa Ibom Governor Faults Federal Govt Over Rehabilitation Of Highways*The governor said Akwa Ibom has been unfairly treated by the federal government.The Akwa Ibom State Government has criticised the federal government for asking it to pay property compensation for the construction of the Ikot ...

In what appears to be a repeat of what happened in Imo state where APC manufactured and allocated imaginary votes to itself, a similar scenario is playing out again as the ruling party after failing truncate the inauguration of elected chairmen in the FCT have resorted to using the Imo supreme ...

…18 Presidential Candidates, 4,223 NASS candidates to slug it outSenate President Ahmad Lawan may have finally lost out in his bid to return to the red chamber following the omission of his name from the final list of candidates for next year’s Presidential and National Assembly Elections.This was ...

The immediate past Speaker of the House of Representatives, Honourable Yakubu Dogara has warned Christians in the country not to waste their votes in the forth-coming 2023 general elections, saying that the adoption of the same faith Presidential and Vice-president Ticket by the ruling All ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday released the final list of candidates eligible to contest the 2023 Presidential election....By Seun AdeuyiThe Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday released the final list of candidates eligible to contest the ...

• Takes South South zonal headquarters to Akwa Ibom instead of Rivers Tension is mounting in the South South zone of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over alleged move to relocate the zonal secretariat from Port Harcourt, Rivers State.The South South PDP, in a statement by the zonal Organising ...

Chairman, Lagos State Park and Garages Management Committee, Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, has distanced himself from the controversial sale of stickers bearing image of himself; Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola ...

By Chuks Okocha:Former President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, reminisced on his 2015 timeous concession telephone call to his then rival, Muhammadu Buhari, and said it was a “collective decision to save Nigeria”.Speaking at the Goodluck Jonathan 2022 Peace Conference themed, “Nation Building: The ...

By Adedayo Akinwale:The National Youth Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hon. Israel Dayo,  has revealed  the youth wing of the party has commenced grassroots mobilisation and door-to-door campaign to deliver the presidential candidate of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in the 2023 ...

By Wole Ayodele:A Federal High Court in Jalingo, Taraba Sttate, has upheld the election of Agbu Kefas as the gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the state. Delivering judgment in a case filed by one of the gubernatorial aspirants of the party, Jerome Nyameh, seeking ...

By Igbawase Ukumba:Nigerian youth groups, numbering about 300, under the aegies of Presidential Support Council (PSC) have rejected the appointment of Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, as the National Youths Co-ordinator of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council.The APC ...

A member of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ogbeide Ifaluyi-Isibor, on Monday, declared support for the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, over his PDP counterpart, Atiku Abubakar.“I’m a member of the PDP and glad to be a member of the PDP but I am one that is very ‘Obidient’,” ...

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, says the government is behind oil theft in the country.Obi, who is the guest speaker at the Private Sector Economic Forum of Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), asserted that no one can steal oil except the government.“Subsidy is ...

Retired Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai, the former Chief of Army Staff (COAS), says the All Progressives Congress (APC) is the party to beat in the 2023 general election, as it has all its takes to win.Buratai said this at the Progressives Young Leaders Summit of the APC in Abuja on Monday.He advised ...

Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, on Monday night says the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, made no mistake by appointing him as National Youth Coordinator of the APC Presidential Campaign Council.This is even as he maintained that it would be unfair for ...

 Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, on Monday night said the unforgettable incident of EndSARS protest where several young Nigerians were shot at Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos could have been averted if the demonstrators had channeled their anger into politics.Bello, who was appointed as National Youth ...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) National Youth Leader, Dayo Israel, said Nigerian youths are supporting the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu.The national committee member spoke on Monday in Abuja at the Progressives Young Leaders Summit.Israel said the APC was not worried about the ...

Ibrahim Shuaibu in Kano and Udora Orizu in AbujaBishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Rev. Matthew Kukah, yesterday, said Nigeria did not need a messiah in 2023, but a true leader who would give the whole country, irrespective of tribe, tongue, or faith, a sense of belonging and proper ...

By Dike Onwuamaeze:The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, yesterday told leaders of Nigeria’s organised private sector that his administration would totally liberalise the entire power sector value chain, including transmission, to ensure steady power supply if elected ...

• Division in Southwest chapters over Makinde’s position• Fayose to meet Rivers’ governorPeoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors are mounting pressure o their Rivers State colleague, Nyesom Wike, to halt his agitation for the resignation of the national chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, it was ...

 By Godwin AliunaSenator Obinna Ogba, representing Ebonyi Central Senatorial Zone in the national assembly, on Sunday tasked supporters to have confidence in the Supreme Court of Nigeria, despite its ruling on who becomes the authentic governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in ...

By Omo-Julius Onabu:Delta State Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, yesterday said rising hunger and poverty in the country was caused by poor management of the nation’s economy by ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Okowa, also the vice presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said ...

By Emameh Gabriel:Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum has commended the National Women Leader of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) Dr. Betta Edu, for empowering no less than 3000 women and less privileged in the state.In a statement by the Special Adviser to the National Women Leader ...

Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike threw bants on Friday when he said he wasn’t like his Kogi counterpart, Yahaya Bello.He spoke at the launch of a book, “Selected Leading Judgments of the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court,” authored by retired Justice Abdu Aboki, NA reports.Wike said his visit to the ...

The House of Representatives will resume plenary on September 20, at the temporary chamber.This is contained in a statement by Mr Yahaya Danzaria, the Clerk to the House, on Sunday in Abuja.Danzaria said due to the ongoing renovation in the old chamber, members are expected to resume plenary at the ...

By Baba Martins Following the reported attack on some of its members in Ebonyi State, Labour Party (LP) has said it is the only party that the the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is worried about ahead of the 2023 general elections.Comrade Arabambi Abayomi, National Publicity Secretary of ...

By Ochogwu Sunday As the 2023 presidential elections draw near, the Southern part of the country seems to have been divided over Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Mr Peter Obi’s candidacy.In the last few weeks, Obi’s supporters, popularly known as ‘Obidients’ have been holding solidarity rallies themed: ...

Udora Orizu writes that the ruling by a Federal High Court in Abuja ordering the Independent National Electoral Commission to accept and publish the name of Godswill Akpabio as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress for Akwa Ibom North/West senatorial district for 2023, may be a breach of ...

By Gboyega Akinsanmi, Chuks Okocha and Okon Bassey:As part of the renewed efforts to ensure a united party ahead of the September 28, 2022 date for the commencement of campaigns, the Chairman of the Presidential Campaign Organisation of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Akwa Ibom State ...

By Onyebuchi Ezigbo and Adedayo Akinwale:The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday said it had not shifted ground on its opposition to the withdrawal of subsidies on petroleum products, insisting that the country’s refineries must work.The labour union said that what was contained in the Workers ...

 President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja, Sunday, September 18, for New York, United States to attend the annual meeting of world leaders, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA77).The theme for the 77th session which opened on Tuesday, September 13 is: “A watershed Moment: Transformative ...

By Wale OdunsiThe All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu has urged party members in the North-East to do more before the 2023 elections.The former Lagos governor reminded APC followers that his running mate, Kashim Shettima, hails from the region.Tinubu thanked party ...

By Adedayo Akinwale:The crisis rocking the African Democratic Congress (ADC) shows no sign of abating following the expulsion of its  presidential candidate, Mr. Dumebi Kachikwu from the party.Also expelled from the party were seven state ADC Chairmen including: Mr. Kennedy Odion (Edo State); ...

By Udora Orizu:A former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All-Progressives Congress (APC), Timi Frank, has called on leaders and members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to collaborate with the newly named Presidential Campaign Council of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to ensure victory.Frank, ...

Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi has said that the problems facing Nigeria are not ones that can be solved overnight.He, however opined that the challenge facing the country are solvable while stressing on the need for a leader who is competent and have the commitment to solve ...

The combined group of Arewa communities in the six southwest states have endorsed the presidential ambition of Bola Tinubu, the APC candidate in the 2023 presidential election.The group leader, Sa’adu Yusuf Dandare, promised a door-to-door campaign for Tinubu at the inaugural meeting of the ...

From Stanley Uzoaru, Owerri Governor Hope Uzodimma has asked the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to investigate and arrest the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) candidate for Ideato federal constituency, Ikenga Ugochinyere over his allegations that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ...

EKITI STATE PDP PLEDGES UNCONDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR ATIKU... Passes vote of confidence on AyuThe Ekiti State chapter of the People's Democratic Party, ( PDP) has pledged its unconditional support for the presidential aspiration of the former Vice President of Nigeria and the PDP presidential ...

By Onyebuchi Ezigbo:Ahead of next year’s general election, Catholic bishops have urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ensure that technology is transparently deployed in order to increase the confidence of the people in the electoral process.In a communiqué issued at the ...

A social political group in Oyo state met on Thursday 16th of September in Ibadan, at the behest of their founder Oloye Olajumoke Akinjide, to outline content, marketing strategies and other plans to propagate the candidature of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar towards electoral success .This was contained in ...

Ruling party presidential running mate Kashim Shettima has clarified that he only said his principal Bola Tinubu will be ruthless like Sani Abacha if elected president next February and not hospitable as previously reported. “I never attributed hospitality to Abacha in my speech. I did a rundown ...