Tag Archives: Abuja

Barely 48 hours after leaving office, posters of the immediate past Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello have been sighted in Abuja. Bello’s posters were sighted around the Federal Secretariat and on walls and fences of structures around the All Progressives Congress, APC, national secretariat on Blantyre Street at Wuse 2 in Abuja. His posters carried the inscription: “APC Next Level. ...

Bayo Onanuga, the Special Adviser on Information and Strategy to President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, said the President has no plans to move the Federal Capital to Lagos. Onanuga said those peddling rumour are dishonest, ethnic and regional champions, trying to draw attention to themselves. He claimed that those pushing the campaign of falsehood know they are playing politics, albeit ...

A pro-democracy group, Coalition of Civil Society Organisation and Political Parties for Good Governance (CCSOPPGG), has urged the European Union (EU) to immediately withdraw its report on this year’s presidential election. Members of the group made the demand when they stormed the EU Office in Abuja in a protest against the union’s report. The activists insisted that the report was ...

The Ebonyi State chapter of the Labour Party (LP) on Friday expressed concern over the recent relocation of the state Election Petitions Tribunal (EPT) to Abuja. Recall that the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem, on Wednesday directed the tribunal to relocate to Abuja immediately. Speaking on the development, State Chairman of the Labour Party, Mr Godwin ...

The Chief Judge of the Court of Appeal, Justice Monica Mensem, has ordered the Ebonyi State Election Petition Tribunal to relocate to the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, with immediate effect. Mensem’s order was announced by Secretary of the Tribunal, Nyior Henry Sekulla, in Abakaliki on Wednesday. Sekulla explained that after the order, the Election Petition Tribunal office at the Ebonyi ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has met with the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting, which reportedly held at the Residence inside the Villa, according to reliable sources, held before the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting. Though the reason for the meeting could not be ascertained as ...

In preparations for the upcoming presidential poll, a group known as Independent Campaign Council (ICC), supporting the presidential and vice presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima has unveiled an office in Abuja. Speaking during the  commissioning in Abuja yesterday, the national coordinator, Silas Ali Agara said the ICC is a grassroots-based initiative fully ...

Operatives of Nigerian police have reportedly fired teargas to disperse supporters of Bola  Tinubu at Eagle Square in Abuja, the venue of the All Progressives Congress (APC) special convention to elect the party’s presidential candidate for the 2023 general elections According to Saharareporters, the  police denied the supporters entry into the venue but they insisted they must be allowed in. ...

The main opposition, the Peoples Democratic Party Governors Forum, has lent its voice on the controversial sack of  of the former Chief Imam of the National Assembly Legislators’ Quarters Mosque, Sheikh Muhammad Khalid. The opportunity party described it a dangerous trend of Fascism perpetrated by the All Progressives Congress-led government. The condemnation was contained in a statement signed on Monday ...

Posters of Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike have flooded parts of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The posters, which carried Wike’s bold picture and name, surfaced on Monday. The campaign posters  were strategically posted on public infrastructures like traffic kiosks, airports, Asokoro and the Federal Secretariat. The posters were sponsored by “Northerners For Change Group”.