2015: Jonathan Restates Commitment To Free, Fair Elections
President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday assured Nigerians of his administration’s commitment to free and fair elections in 2015. Mr. Jonathan gave the assurance at the opening of the 2014 Catholic...
View ArticlePDP Bars Officials From Participating In TAN Rallies
The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has asked members of the Transformation Ambassadors of Nigerians (TAN) and other support groups clamouring for President Goodluck...
View ArticleJonathan’s Administration Has Woefully Failed To Protect The North, Says ACF
The pan-northern socio-political organisation, Arewa Consultative Forum, rose from an emergency meeting with non-governmental organisations in the North on Sunday with a declaration that President...
View ArticleBoko Haram Sponsorship: Modu Sheriff Fires Back At Soyinka
Former Governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff has fired back at Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, for referring to him as a sponsor of the Boko Haram sect in his recent article, ‘The Wages...
View Article2015: We’ll Resist Attempts To Impose Presidency’s Stooge As Gov – Rivers
The Rivers State Government on Sunday warned that the state would not stand by and watch attempts to install “a certain Peoples Democratic Party governorship aspirant as governor” of the state in the...
View ArticleOgun PDP Orders Ex-Speaker, Bankole, To Stop LG Tours
The Ogun State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party has asked a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Dimeji Bankole, to desist from visiting party wards in the state. The party alleged...
View Article2015: Kwankwaso Campaign Team Woos Okorocha As Running Mate
A delegation of the “Nigeria Project 2015”, a campaign organization of the Kano State governor. Engr. Rabiu Kwankwaso at the weekend visited Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, to seek his...
View Article2015: Arewa Youths Condemn NANS, Other Youth Groups For Endorsing Jonathan
The apex umbrella body for northern youths, Arewa Youths Consultative Forum has criticised youth groups endorsing President Goodluck Jonathan and campaigning for him to secure another term in office,...
View Article400 APC Members Defect To PDP In Rivers
No fewer than 400 members of the All Progressives Congress in Omagwa, Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State, on Saturday dumped the party for Peoples Democratic Party. Receiving the defectors,...
View ArticlePDP Is A Haven For Criminals — Kwankwaso
Kano State Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso has described the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as “haven for criminals.” The governor said that it was as a result of the “misdirection, lack of focus” that made...
View ArticleAide Leaves Amosun’s ‘Myself, For Me And My Family’ Govt., Joins PDP
Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun has lost his Special Adviser on Environment; Abimbola Lanre-Balogun to the opposition party in the state. Lanre-Balogun, who resigned, Thursday, explained that she...
View ArticleDesperate Opposition Politicians Have Hijacked ACF – Northern Elders Council
The Northern Elders Council (NEC) has faulted the pan-northern socio-political organization, Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, for criticizing President Goodluck Jonathan over the current security...
View Article2015: I Won’t Give Up On Nigeria – Atiku
Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar on Tuesday said those asking him not to contest the 2015 presidential election could as well ask him to give up on Nigeria, which he said is an impossible...
View ArticleOshiomhole Denies Spending N18m On Private Jet Charter To Miami
Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has denied allegations by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that he chartered a jet at the cost of N18 million during a recent trip to Miami, United States...
View ArticleOver 2,000 PDP Members Defect To APC In Edo
Over 2,000 members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Igueben Local Government Area of Edo State. Governor Adams Oshiomhole, who received the...
View ArticleIt’s Too Late For Amaechi To Stop FG Intervention In Rivers Schools, Says Wike
Minister of State for Education, Nyesom Wike, has said the Federal Government’s intervention in Rivers State’s schools is not a recent development. Reacting to a statement by the Rivers State...
View ArticleDefection: Appeal Court Declares APC Lawmaker’s Seat Vacant
IFEDAYO SUNDAY ‘ABENA’ ABEGUNDE The Federal Court of Appeal sitting in Akure, Ondo State capital, yesterday declared the seat of a member of the House of Representatives, Mr Ifedayo Sunday Abegunde,...
View ArticleTaraba Power Tussle: ‘Suntai’s Associates Subjecting Him To Inhuman Treatment’
A pressure group known as the Committee for Justice and Peace, has called for caution in the political drama currently unfolding in Taraba State, following what it called the “smuggling” of...
View ArticleNigeria‘ll Not Survive A Jonathan Second Term – Sen. Zanna
Senator representing Borno Central, Ahmed Zanna, has condemned the Federal Government’s inability to rescue the Chibok schoolgirls, five months after they were abducted by Boko Haram, saying President...
View ArticleTambuwal Cannot Be Impeached If He Defects To APC – Rep
Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Rules and Business, Hon. Tanimu Sam-Tsokwa, has argued that Speaker Aminu Waziri Tambuwal cannot be impeached should he decide to finally dump the...
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