Former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Emeka Ihedioha, on Tuesday, resigned his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Ihedioha, also a former Imo governor said this in a letter addressed to the ward chairman of the party at Mbutu in Aboh Mbaise Local Government Area of the state on Tuesday. The […]
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The Federal Government has sacked the Advertising Standard Panel (ASP) for approving the trending ‘All Eyes on The Judiciary’ billboards. The Director-General of the Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria (ARCON), Dr. Olalekan Fadolapo, confirmed the dissolution of the panel in a statement on Tuesday, 15th August 2023. The sacking of the board followed the position […]
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The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has appointed the immediate past Governor of Kano state, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, as the National Chairman of the party. The NEC at its meeting held at Transcorp Hilton on Thursday in Abuja also appointed former Senate spokesman, Ajibola Basiru, as the party’s National Secretary. […]
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The Presidential Election Petitions Court (PREPEC), yesterday, reserved judgement in two separate petitions filed by the presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, and that of Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, challenging the declaration of Senator Bola Tinubu as President. The five-member panel, led by Justice Haruna Tsammani, said the date for judgement […]
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The Kogi State Campaign Council, on Sunday, promised that Governor Yahaya Bello will massively deliver the state to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 general elections. Mr Kingsley Fanwo, the state council Director of Media and Publicity, made the promise in a statement in Lokoja. He said that with Senator Bola Tinubu’s track […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has eventually agreed to extend its ongoing registration of voters across the country, assuring that the exercise may be extended to at least an additional 30 days. This is contrary to the position by the House of Representatives Chairman on Electoral Committee, Aisha Dukku, who said that the exercise […]
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Delta State Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa, has emerged as the vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party. The party’s presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, named Okowa as his running mate Thursday afternoon in Abuja. The announcement was made ahead of INEC’s Friday 6pm deadline for the submission of names of vice presidential candidates […]
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Ondo State police commissioner Mr Salami Bolaji, has warned all politicians with security aides or escort to steer clear of the venues of the parties’ primaries holding this week. The police commissioner gave the warning in a statement issued by the command’s Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Tee-Leo Ikoro, on Sunday in Akure. All Progressives […]
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All Progressives Congress (APC) governors and top leaders of the party will meet with the Edo State governorship candidate, Mr. Osagie Ize-Iyamu, in Abuja tomorrow, to review the preparations for the September 19 election and fine-tune strategies on how to win the poll. But the internal wrangling within the party has continued unabated as one […]
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Voting in the presidential and National Assembly elections will begin throughout Nigeria at 8am today. The elections initially scheduled for 16 February, was delayed by the Independent National Electoral Commission by one week, over logistics challenges. But on Friday, INEC chairman, Mahmood Jega, said the commission is ‘more than ready’ to conduct the election, seen […]
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Oprah Winfrey’s impassioned call for “a brighter morning even in our darkest nights” at the Golden Globes has Democratic Party activists buzzing about the media superstar and the 2020 presidential race – even if it’s only a fantasy. Even so, for Democrats in early voting states, and perhaps for a public that largely disapproves of […]
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Liberia on Thursday was set to learn the results of a landmark presidential poll pitting former football star George Weah against Vice President Joseph Boakai in the first democratic transfer of power after decades and two devastating civil wars. Whoever wins will succeed the continent’s first elected female head of state, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who […]
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