RECs, Biggest Threat To Credible 2015 Election, Says Ngige
Former Governor of Anambra State now Senator, Dr. Chris Ngige, on Tuesday said for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to perform creditably in the 2015 general election, fraudulent...
View ArticleINEC Releases Timetable For Adamawa Governorship By-Election
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Wednesday announced the timetable for the conduct of Adamawa governorship by-election scheduled to hold on October 11. The commission had fixed...
View ArticleJonathan Must Find Chibok Girls, End Insurgency By October, Northern Elders...
Spokesman for the Northern Elders’ Forum (NEF) Professor Ango Abdullahi, yesterday said that the press conference convened by Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed and Solomon Dalung in Kaduna on Monday was done on...
View Article2015: Don’t Contravene Electoral Laws, NYSC D-G Warns Corps Members
The Director General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Johnson Olawumi, has enjoined corps members that will participate in the conduct of the 2015 general election not to...
View ArticleConfab Ends Peacefully As Delegates Adopt Amended Draft Constitution
FROM LEFT: NATIONAL CONFERENCE CHAIRMAN JUSTICE IDRIS KUTIGI, WITH SECRETARY MRS. VALERIE AZINGE AND ASSISTANT SECRETARY DR. AKILU INDABAWA, AT THE PLENARY SESSION IN ABUJA YESTERDAY. After months of...
View ArticleImo 2015: Ararume Sets Campaign Ball Rolling, Appoints Ogunewe Campaign Director
Ahead of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primaries in Imo State, one of the major contestants, Senator Ifeanyi Ararume, has appointed Hon. Independence Ogunewe as his campaign director....
View ArticleNigerians Are Worse Off Today Than They Were Four Years Ago, Says Fashola
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State lashed out yesterday at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led Federal Government, saying it has failed Nigerians. Fashola, who spoke while delivering the...
View ArticleAmaechi, Wamakko To Nigerians: Vote Against Bad Governance, Poverty In 2015
Governors Rotimi Ameachi and Aliyu Wamakko of Rivers and Sokoto States have called on Nigerians to vote wisely if they want to bid goodbye to poverty, insecurity and bad governance that have marred...
View ArticleOsun Guber Poll: Marilyn Ogar Is A Great Embarrassment To DSS – APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the Department of State Services (DSS) of crass partisanship and unprofessional conduct over its actions and comments on the August 9, governorship...
View ArticlePresidency Faults Fashola On Rating Of Jonathan’s Administration
The Presidency on Thursday faulted the position of the Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola (SAN), on his rating of the Goodluck Jonathan administration. Fashola, at a lecture in Abuja to mark the...
View ArticleBoko Haram Was Created By Power Hungry Politicians, Says ACF Chieftain
A chieftain of Arewa Consultative Forum and delegate in the just concluded National Conference, AVM Mukhtar Mohammed (rtd), has attributed the Boko Haram insurgency and other security challenges...
View Article2015: Ekwueme, Anyim, Nnamani To Grace Pro Jonathan Rally In Awka
Former Vice President, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Anyim Pius Anyim and former Senate President, Chief Ken Nnamani, are some of the dignitaries expected to...
View ArticlePolice Stop APC Rally To Celebrate Aregbesola’s Re-Election In Ondo
FILE PHOTO The Ondo State Police Command yesterday stopped a rally organised to celebrate the re-election of Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola. The rally was organised by the All Progressives...
View ArticleJonathan Receives Final Confab Report Next Thursday
The final report of the National Conference will be formally presented to President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja next Thursday. This came as delegates unanimously adopted the contentious draft...
View ArticleKwankwaso: Confab’s Draft Constitution Meant To Secure Life-Term Presidency...
Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of Kano State has urged Nigerians to reject alleged plot by the Presidency to force a draft Constitution on the nation, in order to actualize a lifetime tenure ambition...
View Article2015: Southern Kaduna Political Office Holders Endorse Yero, Jonathan
Elected and appointed political office holders from Southern Kaduna State, led by a former Minister of Finance, Senator Nenadi Esther Usman, yesterday adopted the state governor, Mukhtar Ramalan Yero...
View ArticleObi Resigns As APGA BoT Chairman
Former governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi has resigned as leader of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and the chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT). In a letter addressed to...
View ArticleKwankwaso To Ribadu: Defecting To PDP Will Be Your Biggest Political Mistake
Kano State Governor, Engr. Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, on Thursday advised former presidential candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Malam Nuhu Ribadu, against defecting to the Peoples...
View ArticleSaraki Predicts Landslide Victory For APC In 2015 Elections
The Senator representing Kwara Senatorial District, Dr. Bukola Saraki, on Friday predicted a landslide victory for the All Progressives Congress in the 2015 presidential elections and other levels. He...
View Article‘Fraudsters’ Hacked My Email, Sent Fraudulent Statement On Chibok Girls, Boko...
President Goodluck Jonathan has neither revealed the location of the abducted Chibok girls nor exposed masterminds of the Boko Haram insurgency, the Presidency said yesterday. The Special Adviser to...
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