As Nigeria prepares for the 2023 presidential election, Prof. Iyorwuese Hagher, Chairman, Contact & Advocacy Council, Dr. Bukola Saraki Presidential Campaign Organisation, has urged Nigerians to elect the next president based on competence and not on religion and ethnicity. Hagher, who made the appeal in Benin on Tuesday while...
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By AHMED FAROUK, Katsina – Displaying the persuasive and compelling eloquence that made him an endeared political figure across the country, former Cross Rivers State Governor, Mr. Donald Duke, clinically delivered the message Nigerians have shouted at Atiku Abubakar since his announcement of yet another Presidential run in 2023....
Former Governor of Kano state, Alhaji Rabiu Kwankwaso, has announced his resignation from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as he obtained the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) membership form. Kwankwaso, former Minister of Defence, at a news conference in Abuja on Tuesday, said he had also obtained the membership...
The Governors of the 36 states of the federation have appealed the Federal High Court judgment which dismissed their suit challenging the planned deduction of $418 million from the Federation Account. The money is meant to settle debts owed consultants engaged by state and local governments on the Paris...
Mrs Debest Osarumwense has been sentenced to five years imprisonment in Benin, the Edo State capital. She is the mother of Endurance Osarumwense, an alleged internet fraudster a.k.a. ‘Yahoo boy’. Justice M. S. Shuaibu of the Federal High Court in Benin delivered judgment on Tuesday. The Economic and Financial...
PATRICK ABANG Calabar – Senator Gershom Bassey has announced his five points agenda to include youth development, education, social inclusion and environment, with a pledge to fulfill them if nominated and elected governor of Cross River State come 2023. Sen. Bassey, representing Cross River South Senatorial district in the...
…..inaugurates 27 SANs for 2023 legal battles By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – Friends and associates of Mr. Nyesom Ezenwo Wike have purchased Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms for the Rivers State Governor to contest the 2023 Presidential Election on the platform of the PDP. This was following his...
Chairman of the PDP Zoning Committee and Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has said that they will come out with an acceptable position for all. The Governor who briefed journalists at the end of their second meeting which lasted for more that three hours at the Benue State lodge,...
The Police in Kwara on Tuesday arraigned two brothers, Abdullateef Adekanye and Yusuf Adekanye, before an Ilorin Magistrates’ Court, for allegedly exhuming their father’s corpse for ritual. The defendants, whose house addresses were not given, are facing two count charges of criminal conspiracy and exhuming human carcass from grave....
A Federal High Court in Abuja, has fixed June 9 to hear a motion to grant leave to appeal against the ruling discharging and acquitting Amaju Pinnick and others in a criminal charge filed against them. Justice Inyang Ekwo, who fixed the date, said he would hear the motion...
By THOMAS AKASE, Markudi – Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has said that he has no reason to resign as the chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Zoning Committee ahead of the 2023 general elections. He has maintained his resolve to complete the assignment without blemish saying “I...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The media subcommittee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Convention Planning Committee has commended the media for the successful conduct of its National Convention in Abuja, saying that the role of the media in such an event cannot be ignored. In a message from...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto- All the duly elected State Executive members of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Sokoto have been sworn-in on Monday at the party secretariat. Administrating oath of office and allegiance to the excos, the party’s legal adviser, Barrister Abdullahi charged them to keep to the...
The Federal Government has accused the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of desperation, heating up the polity and advocating the destruction of Nigeria. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed made the accusation at a media briefing on Monday in Abuja “As you know, the folks on...
After the successful conduct of its national convention weekend, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is now faced with one major task of searching for a presidential candidate that will fly the party’s flag in the 2023 presidential election. With the election of Senator Abdullahi Adamu, former Nasarawa State...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has advised that should Nigerians wants to have the best in governance, then, the issue of zoning presidency has to be reconsidered in favour of merit. Tambuwal who added that the future of Nigerians is seriously at stake,...
Rep. Ibrahim Al-Mustapha (APC-Sokoto), has expressed confidence that the All Progressives Congress (APC), would take over Sokoto State, come 2023. Al-Mustapha, who represents Wurno/Rabah Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Abuja on Monday, that; “Sokoto is an APC State. “It...
Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has said the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) needs a presidential candidate who will turn the country’s fortunes around irrespective of where such person comes from. The governor made the comment on Monday when he spoke on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily amid calls...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, declined to grant the bail application of suspended DCP Abba Kyari. Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling, held that the the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) had placed sufficient evidence before the court to refuse the bail request. Justice Nwite also...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in South-East has aligned itself with the position of the Southern Governors’ Forum that the next president of Nigeria should come from the southern part of the country. The PDP South-East also directed that the existing zoning pattern in states and constituencies of the...