Ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar of Nigeria has urged of states in the North-East, especially Gombe, to rise against insecurity and poverty. According to him, there is need for them to  forge a common front to change the current ugly socio-political situation in the region. He also lauded a group promising to buy presidential nomination form for him. He made this ...

Judgment in a suit seeking disqualification of the governor-elect and deputy governor-elect for Anambra State in the November 6 governorship election, Prof Charles Soludo and Onyeka Ibezim has been shifted by 24 hours. The judgment was initially fixed for today, November 30, by Justice Taiwo Oladipupo Taiwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja. A notice just sighted in the ...

Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege has urged  Urhobo people of Delta Central District to  resist attempts to shortchange them in the rotation plan for Delta State governorship position. The Senator made this call while delivering keynote lecture at a ceremony marking the 90th anniversary of Urhobo Progress Union (UPU), at Uvwiamuge-Agbrho, Delta State. In his lecture titled: “Challenges and Prospects ...

The ruling  All Progressives Congress (APC) has denied zoning its national chairmanship to the North Central. The remark was made by Sen. James Akpanudoedehe, the National Secretary, APC Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC)  on Monday in Abuja when he spoke with newsmen. The scribe  was reacting to a media report that the party had zoned the position to the ...

Posters of former Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, for the 2023 presidential election have surfaced in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. Saraki ruled Kwara State as governor between 2003 and 2011 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Saraki who moved from PDP to APC after ruling Kwara State for eight years, later became Senate President between 2015 ...

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has called on feuding members of the Anambra State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to sheath their sword. Speaking in a statement, Senator Ngige Media Office in Abuja, Monday, advised the embattled Acting State Chairman of the Party, Basil Ejidike not to “invent a Trojan Horse but look inwards and ...

Some key members of the Peoples Democratic Party from the North-Central of Nigeria have supported the former Senate President, Bukola Saraki for the presidency in the 2023 general elections. Speaking, the leader of the delegation, Iyorwuese Hagher, on Monday said it is time for the geopolitical zone to produce the next president of Nigeria having supported other regions over the ...

The Federal Government has said the attacks on security operatives by the Indigenous People of Biafra oppose the call for a political solution to the issue. It will be recalled that the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN recently hinted on political solution to Nnamadi Kanu issue. However, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai ...

The ruling party All Progressives Congress (APC) has encountered another crisis as a faction sacks Mai Mala Buni. The group has also attacked President Buhari over his supervision of the party. On Monday, a faction within the party, Progressive Youth Movement, announced his replacement. The group named Mustapha Audu as National Caretaker Committee Chairman with immediate effect. According to him,  ...

A former deputy national chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Bode George, has announced he would retire from partisan politics from 2023. George, a former governor of Ondo State said his decision was out of the calls from his children who wanted him to take a rest from the national services. The PDP leader, who spoke in an ...