Over 30 registered opposition parties, under the auspices of the Coalition for a New Nigeria (CNN), have called for a review of the 2019 General Elections, saying states assembly and National Assembly elections should be on the same day, before the governorship and presidential elections, two week after. They made the call, in Abuja, after a meeting of the leadership ...

A member of the Coalition for Nigeria Movement Steering Committee, Omoruyi Edogiawerie, has said that the association’s membership is open to all Nigerians above the age of 18. He said tthat the movement, which was proposed by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, would, indeed, salvage the nation from the numerous woes that have bewildered Africa’s most populous country. “What resonates between ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has formally registered as a member of the Coalition For Nigeria Movement (CNM), the group he called for to assist Nigeria and deliver the dividends of democracy to the teaming population. The registration was done n in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, on Thursday, a day after the new movement was launched in Abuja. Obasanjo mentioned ...

A member of the Peoples Democratic (PDP) in Kaduna State, Isa Dansalla, has asked the PDP to give its Presidential ticket to former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar. Dansalla, a founding member of the All Progressive Congress (APC), who, reccently decamped to the PDP, said that Atiku possessed the charisma to defeat the incumbent APC, as well as restore Nigeria to its past ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has frowned at the report of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Committee on restructuring. PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said, in Abuja, that it was a fresh attempt to “beguile Nigerians with another empty proposal and hollow promises, ahead of 2019 elections.” Ologbondiyan recalled that APC leaders on assumption of office in 2015, rejected ...

A former governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke, has said that the Coalition for Nigeria, the platform proposed by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has stated that the newly-formed political movement would not benefit President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019. He spoke on the sidelines of the formal launch of Coalition for Nigeria Movement (CNM) at Yar’Adua Centre, where he was ...

  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has frowned at the report of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Committee on restructuring. Its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said in Abuja that it was a fresh attempt to “beguile Nigerians with another empty proposal and hollow promises, ahead of 2019 elections.” Ologbondiyan recalled that the APC administration, on assumption of office in ...

The Director-General, Budget Office of the Federation, Ben Akabueze, has said that the 2018 budget, at present, could not accommodate the minimum wage as proposed by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). He said that the federal government might go for a supplementary budget to implement the new minimum wage, if approved by the law. Akabueze disclosed this at the Media ...

The planned return of Senate President, Bukola Saraki, to the Peoples democratic Party (PDP) has sent the party into a frenzy. Its stakeholders in his home state of Kwara are worried that Saraki, who earlier dumped the party for the All Progressives Congress (APC), would soon return to contest the 2019 presidential ticket of the PDP and hijack the party’s ...

The Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has denied attacking his political party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and other political parties. In a rejoinder signed by his special adviser on Media and Public affairs, Turaki Hassan, Dogara said that he never mentioned any political party, while delivering a recent speech. “Our attention has been drawn to stories ...