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The Presidential Campaign Council, PCC of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC has described a chieftain of the party, Pastor Tunde Bakare, as a political paperweight whose utterances should not be given a serious thought.Bakare, the Presiding Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church (formerly Latter Rain Assembly), was one of those who slugged itContinue reading "PASTOR BAKARE, A POLITICAL PAPERWEIGHT, NOT DESERVING SERIOUS ATTENTION — APC"

The Labour Party Presidential Candidate, Mr Peter Obi, was a guest of Chatham House, the famous British international Policy institute, saying that Nigeria Presidency with him and Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed in charge will dismantle inefficiency and eliminate transactional policies that breed corruption in government.Obi who took over 15 questions from the audience after his elucidatingContinue reading "OBI AT CHATHAM HOUSE: MY PRESIDENCY WILL DISMANTLE INEFFICIENCY, CORRUPTION"

The gubernatorial candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen Aishatu Binani has called on the Adamawa Electorates to support her candidacy by voting massively for APC in the forth coming 2023 General elections for the good of the common man. Speaking to Party Members and supporters in Ganye when she was in the Area asContinue reading "2023: Binani Canvasses Support For APC."

A former Minister of Defence, Chief Adetokunbo Kayode, SAN, and five other SANs, have petitioned the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN, condemning the plot to frame and arrest the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr. Godwin Emefiele.Kayode, who had also served as a Minister of Justice,Continue reading "Ex-Defence Minister, SANs Make Case for Emefiele Against DSS"

The North-East Youths and Stakeholders Forum of the All Progressive Congress has berated the spokesman of the APC campaign council, Festus Keyamo, for alleging that its decision to withdraw support for the party’s vice presidential candidate, Senator Kashim Shettima, was a subtle blackmail.The group’s threat to dump Shettima over the gale of defection that hit theContinue reading "No Going Back on Our Rejection of Shettima, North-East Youths Maintain"

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, and the party’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, on Sunday paid a condolence visit to the former Governor of Plateau State, Jonah Jang, at his Du country home in Jos over Saturday’s accident which claimed the lives of 16 party supporters and left 83 others injured.TheContinue reading "Atiku, Ayu Donate N40m to Injured Plateau PDP Supporters"

Ex-Militant leaders from the nine states of the Niger Delta region have raised an alarm over the ongoing alleged systematic and criminal diversion of funds allocated to the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) by officials of the Amnesty office led by the Interim Administrator, Major General Barry Tariye Ndiomu (rtd.) and some senior civil servants inContinue reading "EX-MILITANT LEADERS PETITION NSA OVER ₦11.8B FRAUD, SEEK NDIOMU’S SUSPENSION AND ARREST ON ALLEGED GRAFT."

A fire incident has been reported at AA RANO Filling station along Abuja-Lokoja Expressway, FCT Abuja, according to information reaching the National Association of Online Security News Publishers (NAOSNP).The Association gathered through a brief statement by the FCT Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Josephine Adeh, that the fire broke out when a fully loaded tankerContinue reading "Police, Firefighters, Contain Fire Outbreak Along Abuja-Lokoja Expressway"

Nigerian printers under the Chartered Institute of Professional Printers of Nigeria have threatened to drag the Independent National Electoral Commission to court for allegedly printing a large chunk of its electoral materials overseas.The agency said this was illegal and a violation of the CIPPON Act 24 of 2007 of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.The councilContinue reading "Local Printers Set to Sue INEC over Printing of Ballot Papers"