The wife of late Biafran leader, Mrs Bianca Ojukwu has lauded the Anambra people for keeping faith with her husband’s legacy by voting for the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) at the just concluded governorship election in the state. Bianca, who had on the eve of the election invoked...
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Former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Professor Charles Soludo, has reacted to his victory in the Anambra State governorship election. Giving his acceptance speech on Wednesday shortly after he was declared the winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the governor-elect described the feat as...
The Presidential Committee on Correctional Reforms and Decongestion has set free five inmates and recommended three for bail from the Nigerian Maximum Security Correctional Centre in Ilorin, Kwara. A statement by Mrs Modupe Ogundoro, a Deputy Director in the Federal Ministry of Justice, said the committee was led by...
Chief Ugochukwu Okeke , a Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has decried late deployment of electoral Officials and materials for the supplementary election for Anambra gubernatorial contest in Ihiala Council Area. Ugochukwu spoke shortly after casting his vote at PU 20, Odoata Central School, Uzoakwa, in Ihiala...
The Speaker, Nasarawa State House of Assembly, Alhaji Ibrahim Abdullahi, says the All Progressives Congress (APC) will reclaim opposition states, if Sen. Umaru Al-Makura emerges APC National Chairman at the party’s National Convention. The speaker made this known in Lafia at a news conference organised by a group, “Progressives...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Ahead of the 2023 general election, a People’s Democratic Party (PDP) pressure group in Cross River State, The Renaissance Movement has called on the leadership of the party to give its ticket to Governor Nyesom Wike of River State. The leader of the group, Gabriel...
Justice Uche Agomoh of the Federal High Court Ibadan on Wednesday adjourned until Dec. 8 hearing in the suit of alleged unlawful removal from office filed by Alhaji Taiwo Iyiola, the former PDP chairman, Ibadan North-East Local Government. Agomoh adjourned the matter, following the absence of a respondent, Mr...
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Anene Chikezie, has lauded the Federal Government for providing level playing field for Saturday’s poll in Anambra. Anene made the commendation on Monday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu. He said the conducive atmosphere...
By BABARA KALU, Akwa – The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Anambra has debunked the reports that it called for the cancellation of the Nov. 6 governorship election in the state. The APC Chairman in the state, Chief Basil Ejidike made the clarification at a news conference held at...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – A leading governorship aspirant under the platform of All Progressive Congress (APC) in Benue State come 2023, Hon Richard Tersoo Mnenga (RTM) has vowed to make road construction and rehabilitation his cardinal priority if voted into power. The aspirant in an interview with newsman...
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the South East, Chief Elvis Agukwe, on Monday described APGA’s lead in Anambra Gubernatorial election as a political disadvantage to the zone. Agukwe told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the lead had further isolated the zone from National...
By BABARA KALU, Akwa – The National Chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Victor Oye, has expressed optimism that Nigeria can successfully adopt electronic voting as well as the electronic transmission of results. Mr Oye stated this on Sunday night while the collation of results from the...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed Tuesday, November 9 for a supplementary election in Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State. Returning Officer for Saturday’s governorship election in the state, Professor Florence Obi, announced this in the early hours of Monday. The decision to hold supplementary elections...
Collation officers of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday said elections did not hold in Orumba North and Ihiala Local Government Areas during the Anambra governorship election which held on Saturday. Dr Michael Otu, a lecturer of Commercial Law from the University of Calabar, was the collation...
The candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Charles Soludo, on Sunday opened the lead in the Anambra State governorship election. Soludo, a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has won 15 of the 18 local government areas announced so far by the collation officers....
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Gombe – The ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) in Gombe State has threaten to suspend the former state’s governor, Senator Danjuma Goje, for allegedly inciting crisis in the state. Senator Goje, who was called in Gombe during his government as ’emperor’ due to his links to...
IBRAHIM OBANSA, Lokoja – The Speaker, Kogi State House of Assembly, Prince Matthew Kolawole has said that he is not interested in contesting the governorship of the state in 2023. This is according to a statement issued by the speaker’s Chief Press Secretary, Femi Olugbemi to newsmen on Sunday...
The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Charles Soludo, has reportedly defeated his main opponents, Andy Ubah of the All-Progressives Congress (APC) and Valentine Ozigbo of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), in their local government areas. Mr Soludo has polled more votes than his two contenders...
By BARBARA KALU, Akwa – Former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APPGA), Professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo is so far leading in the Anambra state gubernatorial election conducted by the Independent National electoral Commission (INEC) on Saturday. The results...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit asking the Federal High Court in Abuja to “stop President Muhammadu Buhari from spending N26bn in the 2022 presidency budget on local and foreign travels, meals and refreshments, ‘sitting allowance’, ‘welfare package’, and office building.” In the suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/1361/2021 filed...