APC/PDP clash: Ekiti Monarch Sues For Peace, Warns Against Turning State Into...
The Chairman, Ekiti State Council of Traditional Rulers, Oba Idowu Adamo Babalola has expressed concern over the rising spate of violence in the state. Oba Babalola also advised the state Police...
View ArticleAregbesola Is A Visionary Leader – Akande
The Interim National Chairman of All Progressive Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, has described the Governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, as an uncommon leader of people. The APC chairman...
View ArticleComment On Defected Govs: Jonathan’s A Joker, Says Wamakko
Governor Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto State has maintained that he and four of his colleagues, who defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, will not return to the Peoples Democratic Party. Wamakko...
View ArticleNational Convention: APC Zones Chairmanship Position To South-South
Ahead of its inaugural National Convention on Friday, Nigeria’s largest opposition party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), today in Abuja, zoned its chairmanship position to the South-South...
View ArticleAviation Agencies Not Funding My Guber Ambition – Minister
The Supervising Minister of Aviation, Dr. Sam Ortom, on Monday denied receiving funds from agencies under the ministry to oil his campaign machinery for the governorship elections in Benue State. Ortom...
View ArticleClampdown On Media, Part Of PDP-Led FG’s Grand Plot To ‘Capture’ Ekiti, Osun...
The All Progressives Congress, APC, on Wednesday raised the alarm over what it described as the desperation of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, led federal government to capture Ekiti State, saying...
View ArticleBlame Jonathan If Anything Happens To Me – Kwankwaso
Kano State Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso has raised the alarm, saying that the Federal Government was trying to harm him and his family by withdrawing a substantial number of his security aides and...
View ArticleRain Of Tributes At FEC As Jonathan, Ministers Remember Life And Times Of...
President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday led members of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) to pay tributes to a former Minister of Information, Prof Dora Akunyili, who died in an Indian Specialist...
View ArticleJonathan Swears In New Political Adviser, Decries Politicians ‘Terrible’...
NEW SPECIAL ADVISER TO THE PRESIDENT ON POLITICAL MATTERS, PROF. RUFAI ALKALI BEING ADMINISTERED OATH OF OFFICE YESTERDAY. CREDIT: REUBEN ABATI President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday administered...
View Article2015: PDP National Chairman Calls For Unity Ahead Of Party’s Primaries
The National chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Adamu Mu’azu, has called for unity as the party prepares to conduct free, fair credible primaries ahead of 2015 general elections. Speaking...
View ArticleEkiti, Osun Polls: US Chides Tinubu Over ‘Rig and Roast’ Comment
JEFF HAWKINS The United States of America has berated top Nigerian politicians including the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, for making threat comments ahead...
View ArticleMKO Abiola: Fasehun Urges FG To Declare June 12 ‘Unity Day’
The Chairman of the Unity Party of Nigeria, Dr Frederick Fasehun, on Wednesday urged the Federal Government to proclaim June 12 as “Unity Day”. He said in a statement in Lagos that the step should be...
View ArticleJang’s NGF Faults Odimegwu On Call For Military Intervention
Factional chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) and Governor of Plateau State, Jonah Jang, has flayed the recent call for a military coup in Nigeria. Former chairman of the National...
View ArticleGov. Orji Denies Sponsoring Ex-COAS, Ihejirika’s Governorship Ambition
The Abia State Government has described the report in Nigeria’s foremost tabloid newspaper, The Sun, linking the Abia First Family to the purported governorship ambition of the former Chief of Army...
View ArticleAnti-democratic Forces May Truncate 2015 Polls, Jonathan Warns
President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday raised the alarm over an alleged plot by anti-democratic elements in the country to take advantage of certain loopholes in the electoral processes to truncate...
View ArticleJonathan Condoles With Gov. Aliyu Over Senator’s Death
President Goodluck Jonathan has commiserated with Gov. Babangida Aliyu and the people of Niger over the death of Sen. Dahiru Kuta. In a statement issued by Dr Reuben Abati, Special Adviser to the...
View ArticleEkiti Polls: Police Beef Up Security Around Fayemi, Fayose, Bamidele
Security has been intensified around the three major contenders to the office of Ekiti State governor ahead of June 21 governorship poll. A security source told the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday...
View ArticleWamakko: 6,855 Delegates To Participate In APC Maiden Convention
The Chairman, National Convention Committee of the All Progressives Congress, Governor Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto State, on Thursday, said 6,855 delegates would participate in the party’s convention....
View ArticleI’ve Never Forged Any Certificate In My Life, Says Suswam
Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State has maintained that he did not forge any certificate to secure his seat or occupy any political office. The governor blamed the rumor of his alleged certificate...
View ArticleJune 12 Anniversary: If Abiola Were Alive, He Would’ve Joined APC – Amosun
Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State on Thursday described the late acclaimed winner of June 12, 1993 presidential election, Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale, as someone who believed in the ideals of...
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