Defection: Rivers PDP Hails Lawmakers, Others For Shunning Amaechi As House...
The Rivers State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday commended the bold steps taken by the chief whip of the state House of Assembly – Ikuinyi-Owaji Ibani and many of his...
View ArticleAnambra: INEC Presents Certificate Of Return To Obiano
FEDERAL COMMISSIONER OF INEC IN CHARGE OF ANAMBRA, ABIA AND BENUE, CHIEF LAWRENCE NWURUKU (L), PRESENTING CERTIFICATE OF RETURN TO ANAMBRA GOVERNOR-ELECT, CHIEF WILLIE OBIANO (2ND-R), IN AWKA ON MONDAY...
View ArticlePDM Not Considering Merger Or Alliance With APC, Says Nat’l Chairman
The Peoples Democratic Movement, PDM, has denied media speculation that it plans to merge with the All Progressives Congress, APC. A statement by the party’s national Chairman, Bashir Yusuf, signed by...
View ArticleOduah Inspects N11bn Jigawa International Airport, Urges Other Govs To...
Perhaps as part of President Goodluck Jonathan’s moves to reward Gov. Sule Lamido for not joining five of his colleagues in the New PDP to defect to the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, the...
View ArticleResources At Governors’ Disposal Has Made Them Too Powerful, Rep Member Laments
Sen. Odion Ugbesia (PDP-Edo) on Sunday canvassed for constitutional amendment to reduce the powers and authority vested in state governors. He was reacting to the recent defection of some aggrieved PDP...
View ArticleOpposition Against Jonathan ‘So Much, It’s Unbelievable’, Says Ankio Briggs
Ms Ankio Briggs A prominent Niger Delta rights activist, Ms Ankio Briggs has attributed corruption in the country to bad leadership. Ms Briggs, who spoke at an intercessory prayer meeting organized by...
View ArticleDefection: Rebel Governors’ll Not Be Missed, Says Tukur
The Peoples Democratic Party has said it will not miss any of the seven rebel governors, especially five of them, who have already defected to the All Progressives Congress. The party, therefore, urged...
View ArticleWe Won’t Surrender Our Future To Saraki, Ahmed In Kwara APC — Belgore
An All Progressive Congress (APC) chieftain in Kwara State, Mr Dele Belgore, on Monday, said his group would not surrender its political future to those that just defected to the party, including some...
View ArticleDokubo-Asari: Buhari Would Have Done More For N/Delta Than Jonathan Has Done...
Ex-militant leader Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, has warned that with the current state of affairs in the country, president Goodluck Jonathan might not get a second term in office in 2015 if the...
View ArticleAnambra: Umeh, Obiano Pay Homage To Ojukwu’s Spirit At Grave-Side
Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief Victor Umeh and the governor-elect of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano have visited the tomb of the former national leader of the party,...
View ArticleJonathan Obsessed With Reelection Bid In 2015 Than Tackling Rising Insecurity...
The Progressive governors under the aegis of Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) have accused President Goodluck Jonathan of focusing more attention on his second term ambition in 2015 than frontally...
View ArticleWorld Bank/ADB Loan: I’m Not Responsible For Your Inability To Provide...
The Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has described as false the allegation by Governor of Rivers State, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi that she is responsible for the delay in the provision of potable...
View ArticleEkiti: Prophecies Can’t Make You Governor, APC Tells Opeyemi Bamidele
The Ekiti State chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the eventual exit of Hon. Michael Opeyemi Bamidele, representing Ekiti Central Constituency 1 in the House of Representatives to...
View Article2015: PDP Has Touched Nigerians’ Lives Positively, They’ll Vote For Us, Says...
Governor Ibrahim Shema of Katsina State yesterday said the All Progressives Congress (APC) will not pose any threat to the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) come 2015. The governor, who was speaking with...
View ArticleJonathan Leaves For Paris To Attend Summit On Peace And Security In Africa…...
PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN (R), BEING RECEIVED BY GOV. IBRAHIM DANKWAMBO OF GOMBE ON HIS ARRIVAL FOR THE 2ND NORTH-EAST ECONOMIC SUMMIT IN GOMBE ON YESTERDAY President Goodluck Jonathan will leave...
View ArticleMTEF: Reps Propose $79 Per Barrel As Crude Oil Price Benchmark
The House of Representatives on Tuesday resolved to retain 79 dollars per barrel as the bench mark for the oil price for the 2014 budget. The Deputy Chairman of the House Committee on Media and Public...
View ArticleNasarawa: Al-Makura Deserves Second Term – Aide
Mr Sani Mairiga, the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Press Affairs to the Nassarawa State Governor, says the governor deserves a second term. He said this in a statement made available to the...
View ArticleTambuwal Not Resigning, Did Not Attend APC Meeting, Says Spokesman
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has denied media reports that he attended a meeting of the five governors, who recently dumped the ruling Peoples’ Democratic...
View ArticleMissing N500bn: Again Diezani Shuns Senate Ad-Hoc C’ttee On SURE-P
The Senate yesterday alleged that the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke “has something to hide” over her purported continued insistence not to honour invitations from its...
View ArticleLagos APC Exco Found Dead In His Office
A member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bariga, Lagos State, was Monday found dead in his Akinramola Street office, Bariga. Pastor Abiodun Adeboyejo, popularly known as JP, who was until...
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