Some female members of the APC in Edo have lamented the non-emergence of women in the recently-conducted primaries of the party in the state. The women, under the aegis of ‘Aggrieved Women of the APC in Edo’, expressed their grievances at a meeting held in Benin on Friday. The Coordinator of the meeting, Aisosa Amadasun, said that the gender avowed ...

The International Press Centre (IPC) says it has trained no fewer than 140 journalists in the Federal Capital Territory (FTC), Kano and Lagos axis, ahead of the 2019 general elections. The Director of IPC, Lagos, Mr Lanre Arogundade, disclosed this to journalists on Friday in Abeokuta, Ogun, at the end of a three-day workshop for some journalist. Arogundade said the ...

After three years of legal battle over a legislative seat in the Benue House of Assembly, the Appeal Court in Makurdi on Friday gave judgment in favour of Joseph Boko and ordered the immediate sack of Benjamin Nungwa, the occupant of the seat. Both Boko and Nungwa contested the APC primary of Kwande West legislative seat in the state house ...

Bayelsa State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has welcomed a former Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Timi Alaibe back to the party after dumping it in 2015. Timi Alaibe Alaibe is also the former Special Adviser to the President on Presidential Amnesty Programme was received alongside other chieftains of the APC including former Secretary to Bayelsa ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has told the National Council for Women Societies (NCWS) that they mobilized to come and threaten him over female appointments in his cabinet. He made this disclosure during an audience with the leadership of the NCWS at the presidential villa, Abuja. Buhari, however, gave them the assurance that his administration would address the issue of gender deficit ...

The Ekiti Governorship Election Petition Tribunal on Thursday refused to permit the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate in the July 14 election in the state, Olusola Kolapo, leave to call additional witness. PDP and Kolapo are challenging the outcome of the election in which Gov. Kayode Fayemi of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was declared winner. The Independent ...

Gov. Rochas Okorocha of Imo has dismissed rumours that he is mulling defecting from the All Progressives Congress(APC) over the fallout of the party’s governorship primaries in the state. Okorocha spoke with State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He said he was in the Presidential Villa to ...

The former governor of Bauchi state, Isa Yuguda on Thursday announced his defection from the Green Party of Nigeria (GPN) to the ruling party in the state, the All Progressives Congress (APC). His former Commissioner of Information, Salisu Barau, who announced the defection on behalf of the ex-governor at apress conference in Bauchi, said Yuguda decided to cross-carpet to the ...

The Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) has called on stakeholders, political parties and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to intensify advocacy on the dangers of vote buying and selling. Peter Ameh, National Chairman, IPAC said this on Thursday in an interview with journalists in Abuja. Ameh described vote buying and selling as dangerous enemies of democracy which must be discouraged. He said ...

The governorship candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Jimi Agbaje, on Thursday announced Haleemat Busari as his running mate for 2019 gubernatorial election. Felix Oboagwina, Director of Media and Publicity of Jimi Agbaje Campaign Organisation (JACO), said that the choice of Busari, a lawyer, followed comprehensive consultations with leaders and stakeholders within and outside the party. ...