The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned the clampdown on major broadcast stations including AIT, Channels and the ARISE TV by the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government, over their reportage of the EndSARS protest in various parts of the country. The PDP asserts that the rush to impose monetary...
Citizens Unite, a pressure group was on Saturday launched in Lagos with the organisers urging the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo to run for president in 2023. Leader of the group and convener of the event, Dr Maryam Shettima, said Nigeria needed thoroughbred professionals, academics, intellectuals, loyal politicians and emphatic...
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared its readiness to act on the Supreme Court judgement sacking Bayelsa State Governor-elect, David Lyon, and his deputy, Biobarakuma Degi-Eremieoyo, but cannot do so now. Reason: It is yet to get the court order. Sacking the APC candidates, who would have been sworn-in...
President Muhammadu Buhari says outcomes of the Governorship and State of Assembly elections will favour the All Progressives Congress, APC, across the country as Nigerians know the party “means what it says, and says what it means.’’ The president stated this while addressing newsmen after casting his vote at polling...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has announced the composition of its engagement committee on the proposed amendment to the Electoral Act as well as the 1999 Constitution (as amended). The Committee, which has former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremmadu, as Chairman is to, among other things, collate inputs from critical...
A presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and a former Vice-President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has expressed his readiness to restructure Nigeria in order to boost national economy and security, if elected president. Mr Atiku, who made this known during a meeting with PDP delegates...
We'll expose unfounded propaganda by confused politicians with massive votes for Ododo - Okun indigenes Thousands of supporters trooped out, on Saturday, for a massive All Progressives Congress rally, held in Kabba, Kogi West Senatorial District, in support of the APC Governorship candidate, Usman Ododo. Critical stakeholders, at the highly...
Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, has described Senator Kashim Shetima as a worthy choice of a running mate for Chief Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), had on Sunday announced after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in Daura,...
National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former governor of Kano State, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has hailed the Appeal Court judgement that sacked the state Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf and declared the governorship candidate of the APC in the March 18 election, Dr Nasir Yusuf Gawuna...
Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Umara, on Thursday said N515m was spent on getting political thugs off the streets of Maiduguri metropolis. The governor’s revelation came even as the United Nations Development Programme said it was buying into the state government’s “cash for sanitation initiative,” a programme which pays each...