Rivers State Crisis: First Lady Softens Tone, Urges Warring Parties To...
President Goodluck Jonathan’s wife, Dame Patience, on Monday, waded into the political crisis that has engulfed her home state of Rivers State as she asked the warring parties in the state to seek...
View ArticlePresidency warns Politicians Against Over Heating Polity With Utterances...
Uncomfortable with the inflammatory utterances attributed to politicians across the length and breadth of the country, the Presidency has warned that such comments could endanger the nation’s growing...
View ArticleAppeal Court Restores Umeh As APGA Nat’l Chairman
The Court of Appeal in Enugu, on Monday, quashed the judgment of the Enugu State High Court delivered by the state Chief Judge, Justice Innocent Umezulike, on February 8, 2013 that sacked the National...
View ArticleNot Yet Uhuru For PDP As Special Convention Suffers Setback
The mini-convention of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) suffered a major setback yesterday as the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party ordered the Prof. Jerry Gana-led Special...
View ArticleWhen The Time’s Ripe, Obasanjo Will Support Jonathan’s Re-election, Says Fmr...
Mr. Nabena Okubotin, the National Publicity Secretary of the defunct Obasanjo Leadership Forum (OLF), has said the peace moves being championed by leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would...
View Article2015: S-West PDP Vows To Mobilize Intellectuals, Traditional Rulers For...
Just like their counterparts in the South-East zone, the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the South West, has vowed to convince traditional rulers in the zone on the need to ensure...
View ArticleRemove Rivers Police Commissioner Or We Stop Funding Of Police, Four Northern...
A team of four northern governors on a solidarity visit to their Rivers State counterpart, Governor Rotimi Amaechi, have unequivocally called for the immediate redeployment of the Commissioner of...
View ArticleSheathe Your Swords, Tukur Tells Rivers Lawmakers
National Chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, has urged all political actors in the Rivers State House of Assembly crisis to sheath their swords in the interest...
View Article2015: Yerima Cannot Replace Sambo As Jonathan’s Running Mate – Gana
The Coordinator for Goodluck Jonathan/ Namadi Sambo 2011 Presidential Election in Kaduna State, Alhaji Umar Gana, has denied media reports that President Jonathan might drop Vice President, Namadi...
View ArticleRespect Zoning Agreement Or We’ll Use Our Voting Strength To Take Back...
The clamour for Nigeria’s Presidency took centre stage yesterday as Elders from the North insisted that the region is prepared to take what is rightly theirs presidency in 2015. Northern Elders Forum...
View ArticleWhy Many Governors Will Set Up Parallel Security Forces – Fayemi
Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State in this interview culled from VANGUARD speaks with Political Editor, Emmanuel Aziken, on some burning national issues ranging from insecurity in the land, the...
View ArticleRivers Crisis Fanned By Jonathan’s 2105 Ambition – Northern Elders
The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) yesterday made its position known on the crisis rocking Rivers State and called on President Goodluck Jonathan to order an immediate end to the hostilities. The Forum...
View ArticleWhat I Want Is To Rule Oyo For 8-Years, Says Ajimobi
Governor of Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi has declared that he wishes to govern the state for two terms of four years each, “if it pleases God for me to have and will benefit the people of the...
View ArticleACN Divided As Rivers Chapter Denounces Nat’l Secretariat Over Call For...
There appears to be further cracks in the walls of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) as the Rivers State chapter of the opposition party has distanced itself from the call by its national...
View ArticleSouth East Forum In North Insist On Igbo President In 2015 •Laments Injustice...
Igbo political leaders in the 19 Northern states and Abuja have condemned the alliance between some governors in the South East and South South geo-political zone to support the candidacy of President...
View ArticleOdumakin’s Views On Tinubu, ACN Govs Not Buhari’s, Says CPC
The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has denied a statement purportedly made by Mr. Yinka Odumakin, a former spokesman for Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) that Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN)...
View ArticleOkorocha Dissolves Cabinet, Explains Why He Joined APC
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has dissolved his cabinet. He also asked members to complete their hand-over to permanent-secretaries in their respective ministries and agencies latest tomorrow....
View ArticleDon’t Be Used By Outsiders Against Your Own Blood, First Lady Tells Amaechi
The First Lady, Mrs Patience Jonathan, said in Abuja on Wednesday that she had committed the ongoing crisis in Rivers to prayer and that crisis started as far back as four years ago. Rivers has been...
View ArticleOil And Gas Industry Workers Involved In Oil Theft – Presidency
Oil companies’ staff and contractors have been fingered for their alleged complicity in crude oil theft by the Presidency. Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Niger Delta Affairs and...
View ArticleDespite Modest Progress, FG Warns Fight Against Terrorism Cannot Be Won...
The Federal Government has advised Nigerians against thinking that the current onslaught against terrorism can be won overnight. Giving this advice in Abuja while addressing State House correspondents...
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