Apc leader urges youth to embrace courage, determination By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The National leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and one of the leading presidential aspirants, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Saturday anchored a massive youth rally under the aegis of the Progressive Youth of South-west....
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Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige, has said that he would make a pronouncement on his journey to the presidency on Tuesday. Ngige said this at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, at a reception organised by members of the All Progressive Congress (APC) South-East Progressive Forum,...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on Nigerians to use the occasion of Easter, which marks the resurrection of Jesus Christ, to rekindle their hope for a brighter future and a national rebirth. The National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Mr Debo Ologunagba, made...
The Governor of Rivers and a 2023 presidential aspirant, Mr Nyesom Wike, has said that he would remain in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), even if he does not win the presidential ticket. He said this while addressing stakeholders of the Niger state chapter of the PDP on his...
Amid mixed reactions trailing the declaration by the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo’s kinsmen are drumming support for his presidential ambition ahead of the forthcoming general elections. A group of supporters on Friday stormed Professor Osinbajo’s hometown of Ikenne in Ikenne Local Government Area of Ogun State in a...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has further adjusted its timetable and schedule of activities for the 2023 general elections. The PDP announced the adjustments in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Debo Ologunagba, in Abuja on Friday night. Ologunagba said that the new closing date for the...
The “Atiku State of Mind“ Support Group has withdrawn its support for the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential aspirant and endorsed the presidential aspirant of the Action Democratic Congress (ADC), Mr Kingsley Moghalu. Mr Hassan Ankuma, former National Coordinator of the group, disclosed this on Friday in Abuja at...
PATRICK ABANG Calabar – Against the backdrop of illegal occupation of IPMAN offices in some part of the country, The Federal High Court sitting in Calabar has ordered the Nigeria Police Force to vacate its secretariats in Abuja and the eastern zone. The court also warned against the arbitrary...
Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, a leading presidential aspirant on the platform of the APC possesses all attributes that can retain the presidency for the ruling party in 2023, the Yahaya Bello Presidential Campaign Organisation has said. While noting that, of the pool of presidential aspirants, Bello was the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant and Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has submitted his filled and completed presidential nomination form. Governor Wike’s form was submitted to the National Organising Secretary of the PDP, Hon. Umar Bature by Senator Sulieman Nazif at...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The State Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Cross River State, Bar Alphonsus Eba on Friday said the State Working Committee of the party is not a commodity to be purchased by the highest bidder ahead of the party’s primaries. Eba disclosed this...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Deputy Governor of Sokoto State, Manir Dan’Iya, has formally joined the 2023 governorship race to succeed his boss, Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal. Hon. Manir, whose declaration of interest is considered long over due by pundits, is said to be the fourth candidate that...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The All Progressives Congress (APC) National Executive Committee (NEC) has fixed April 20, to meet to consider the party’s timetable and schedule of activities for its primaries ahead of the 2023 general election. APC National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Felix Morka, disclosed this in a...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – Former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Adebisi Akande, has showered encomiums on Nigeria’s Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, describing him as one of the ‘brightest boys’ in Yorubaland. Akande described Osinbajo as modest, cerebral, perspicacious, courageous and decent in every...
Nigeria’s apex court, the Supreme Court has ordered the extradition of a Nigerian, Princewill Ugonna Anuebunwa, wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), to the United States. Anuebunwa, according to reports, has long been on the FBI list of wanted persons to answer charges bordering on two counts...
A presidential aspirant on the platform of the PDP, Chief Anyim Pius Anyim, unveiled his roadmap to clinch the top post on Friday, saying the magic wand was for the PDP to re-invent itself. Speaking at a consultative meeting with leaders of the PDP from the six geo-political zones...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Chief Chris Agara, a close associate of Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has finally joined the governorship race for next year general election. Chief Agara, a chieftain of APC and oil magnet, disclosed this at the APC secretariat when he indicated his interest...
Rivers State governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has told delegates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State that he is the only presidential aspirant that can truly secure electoral victory for the party in 2023 general election. Speaking to them during his consultation with them in Benin City...
The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), on Thursday, sought out-of-court settlement in a suit filed against it by Musa Abdullahi, a legal practitioner, over allegations bordering on epileptic power supply. An AEDC’s legal officer, Morayo Yedoni, told Justice Mariya Ismail of a High Court of Niger State sitting in...
The Speaker of the Sokoto State House of Assembly, Aminu Muhammad Achida, has defected from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The speaker noted that he dumped the APC to pursue his political ambition in an atmosphere free of rancour division and factionalisation....