By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Ahead of the 2023 presidential elections, The FCT Minister of State, Dr. Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, has mobilized thousands of women across the 36 states of the federation and FCT to support the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate, Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinibu. Speaking at...
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The Federal High Court Abuja on Friday issued a seven-day ultimatum to a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr Rotimi Jacobs, to show cause why he should not be disqualified from further prosecuting former Abia governor, Orji Uzor Kalu. Kalu, who is serving as a senator, is standing trial...
Elections In Osun, Ekiti and Anambra, proof of my irreversible commitment to credible polls – Buhari
Elections In Osun, Ekiti and Anambra, proof of my irreversible commitment to credible polls – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari Friday in Abuja declared that the off-season elections in Anambra, Ekiti and Osun States have confirmed his Administration’s irreversible commitment to credible and violence-free polls in the country. Receiving a delegation from Nasarawa State, the President urged the electorate to vote the All Progressives Congress (APC)...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Justice Ahmad Mahmud of the Federal High Court siting in Sokoto has sentenced and convicted two car dealers, Aminu Sahabi to five years imprisonment and Nasiru Mohammed with an option of fine. The duo were dragged before Justice Ahmad by the Economic and Financial...
The All Progressives Congress (APC), North West, has expressed worry over the large number of unclaimed Permanent Voters Card (PVCs), at the office of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Mr Abdulhamid Mohammed, the Zonal Youth Leader of APC, who stated this on Friday, in an interview with the News...
Kenya will hold its general election on 9 August in a major test of stability in a country where elections are frequently marred by allegations of fraud and ethnic and politically motivated violence. The worst example of this was the 2007 elections in which at least 1 100 people were...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has permitted a civil group, to apply for an order compelling the Inspector-General of Police to prosecute the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, over alleged perjury. Delivering a ruling in an ex-parte application, Justice Inyang Ekwo granted the leave...
Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general elections, Atiku Abubakar, said on Wednesday that the recent total National Grid Collapse is too much for the Nigerian people to bear. Atiku while stressing that the grid collapse on Wednesday is the 6th time it has...
By BARBARA KALU, Enugu – The Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has assured the Osun Governor-elect, Sen. Ademola Adeleke that Enugu state was his second home. Governor Ugwuanyi stated this in a statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Simon Ortuanya, and made avialable to newsmen...
resident Muhammadu Buhari has predicted that the presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and his running mate, Kashim Shettima, will win the 2023 presidential election. Malam Garba Shehu, the president’s spokesman, said Buhari made the prediction when he received Sen. Kashim Shettima, the running mate...
Sen. Kashim Shettima, All Progressives Congress (APC) 2023 Vice-Presidential candidate says is time to sing songs of unity, peace, prosperity and stability to make Nigeria the pride of the black race. Shettima made this known on Wednesday in Abuja when he was formally presented as the party’s Vice-Presidential candidate...
Suspended DCP Abba Kyari, on Wednesday, prayed a Federal High Court in Abuja to grant him bail following the attack on Kuje Correctional Centre by Boko Haram who freed scores of their members. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports On 5 July, the Boko Haram breakaway faction Islamic...
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has called on Nigerians to shun religious and ethnic division ahead of general elections in 2023. Amid the outrage triggered by the emergence of former Borno State governor, Kashim Shettima – a Muslim – as the party’s vice-presidential...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has unveiled former Borno State Governor, Senator Kashim Shettima as its vice presidential candidate for the 2023 general elections. The event, which is ongoing at the Shehu Yar’adua center in Abuja, has in attendance the party’s presidential candidate and ex-Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu,...
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has revealed why the APC was defeated in Saturday, July 16 Osun State governorship election. In an interview with BBC Hausa, Adamu said the crisis within the APC caused the party’s defeat at the polls and not that...
Mr Aliyu Abubakar, a defence witness in the trial-within-trial of the former Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke told a Federal High Court, Abuja that an EFCC officer threatened him to indict former President Goodluck Jonathan in alleged money laundering. Abubakar, who is also a co-defendant in the suit, told...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Tinubu Campaign Organisation (TCO) has followed the heated debate that the choice of our vice presidential candidate, Senator Kashim Shettima has generated in the country . It restated that religion or ethnicity was far from the calculations of the All Progressives Congress and...
By VALENTINE OBIENYEM – The newest phenomenon in town, Mr. Peter Obi turns 61 today. Contrary to the customary use of the day to see him through biographical prisms, we shall view him through the mass movement that has all the attributes of a revolution in which he is...
The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, is in robust good health, his Media Aide, Paul Ibe has said. Ibe in a statement on Monday in Abuja, said that the video in circulation regarding the health of Abubakar was hand work of mischief with no...
A Professor of Law and Judge of Enugu High Court, Justice Cyprian Ajah has taken stock of the trends in the legal profession and cautioned against disregard for ethics and code of conduct capable of eroding public trust and undermine rule of law and justice system . Justice Ajah...