Senate President, Ahmed Lawan and the Chief Whip of the Senate, Sen. Orji Uzor Kalu, on Thursday visited Katsina State as part of consultations ahead of the 2023 presidential election. Kalu, in a statement issued by his media office said, “if there is any zone that understands the pains...
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All Progressives Congress (APC) female presidential aspirant, Mrs Uju Ken-Ohanenye, has said that Nigeria is due for a female president that will bring in a mother’s touch to address the country`s challenges. She said this at a news conference on Thursday in Abuja, adding that the country needed a...
An Upper Area Court in Ilorin on Thursday permitted a landlord, Mr Bakinde AbdulWaheed, to break open and change the locks on his tenant’s apartments door over his disappearance for three years. The presiding Judge, Mr Moshood Ajibade, gave the order after AbdulWaheed, reported that his tenant disappeared for...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Justice James Kolawole Omotosho of the Federal High Court, sitting in Sokoto on Thursday reaffirmed that Isa Sadiq Achida remained the authentic chairman of Sokoto All Progressives Congress (APC). Omotosho who is the Presiding Judge in case filed by the Mainasara led factions of...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and presidential aspirant, Ahmed Tinubu, has stated that he has the capacity, quality and brilliance to govern the country if given the opportunity. He said that it was such experience that he used in governing Lagos...
Sen. Ibrahim Shekarau (APC -Kano) has defected to the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP). Shekarau said this at a news conference in Kano. He said that he defected alongside his supporters, saying that he would seek re-election to the Senate on the NNPC platform. Shekarau said that he left...
Ex-Gov. Peter Obi of Anambra and presidential aspirant of PDP has advised Lagos State delegates to the party’s presidential primaries to remember their children while voting during the party’s primaries. Obi, who made the appeal when he met with Lagos PDP national delegates in Ikeja on Wednesday, told them...
Alhaji Bola Tinubu, a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and a presidential hopeful of the party, told delegates in Bauchi state that he would win the presidential election with their support. Tinubu stated this in Bauchi on Wednesday when he met with the delegates of the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has rescheduled its governorship and House of Representatives primary elections to Thursday May 26. The APC National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Felix Morka announced this on Wednesday in Abuja while briefing newsmen at the end of the party’s National Working...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Borno State has flagged-off congresses for the election of Local Governments, State and National delegates that will take part in the party’s primaries for state and National Assemblies seats, governorship and office of the next president. The flag-off took place on Wednesday evening...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has been urged to adopt former President Goodluck Jonathan as its consensus candidate of the party, ahead of the 2023 presidential election. The National Coordinator of Save Nigeria Ambassador Project (SNAP), Mr Jazeel Ibrahim, made the call at a...
PATRICK ABANG Calabar The All Progressives Congress (APC) Consensus candidate for the 2023 governorship election in Cross River State, Senator Bassey Otu on Wednesday pledged to build on Governor Ben Ayade’s foundation in industrialization, which will be fully harnessed through effective governance and projects continuity rather than a break...
A 62-year-old retired banker, Mr Kazeem Ogidan on Wednesday sought the dissolution of his 36-year-old marriage to wife, Risikat in an Ikorodu Customary Court in Lagos. In his petition, Ogidan, accused his wife of beating him. Ogidan, who resides in Lowcost Estate in Ikorodu, begged the court to grant...
Alhaji Ibrahim El-Sudi, Chairman Taraba chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), said the party had put every machinery in place to take over the Taraba Government House in the 2023 general elections. El-Sudi made the declaration on Wednesday while welcoming members of the state Congress/Screening Committee for House...
The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has described its 2023 presidential candidate, Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso as “a messenger of God’’ who wants to fight hunger and reunite Nigeria. Rev. Emma Agubanze, Member, Spiritual Committee of NNPP, stated in Lagos on Wednesday that the 2023 general elections would be a...
Leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, on Wednesday, told a Federal High Court, Abuja that he has been a fan of Liverpool Football Club from childhood. Kanu, who disclosed this when Justice Binta Nyako jokingly asked him his favourite football team, said Liverpool F.C....
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, refused to admit Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to bail. Justice Binta Nyako, in a ruling, held that since Kanu was earlier granted bail in 2017 and jumped the bail, the court must first determine the...
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has visited Kaduna in furtherance to his campaigns, seeking delegates and peoples support in actualising his ambition of becoming Nigeria’s president in the coming 2023 elections. Abubakar, interacting with the Peoples Democratic Party’s delegates on Tuesday at the party’s secretariat, promised to address issues...
The Federal Government is set to re-arraign the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, on an amended six-count of treasonable felony. The amendment came on a day the trial Judge, Justice Binta Nyako fixed to hear an application Kanu filed to be released on...
By ONWUKA UDEM -E The level of infrastructural decay that has plagued Abia state, particularly in the last eight years, is simply befuddling. It has left in its trail a near sense of hopelessness in a state that is ordinarily promising and endowed with tremendous potentials. The state of...