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Former Accountant General of Rivers state, Siminaliayi Fubara has secured the state’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ticket to contest the 2023 governorship election. Fubara, widely acknowledged as Wike’s first choice aspirant emerged winner at the primary concluded Wednesday night at the Obi Wali Cultural Center, Port Harcourt with majority delegates swayed by the governor’s will. […]
Former governor of Anambra state and presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party Peter Obi, has resigned from the party and withdrew from the Presidential race. In a letter addressed to the National Chairman of the party, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, titled ‘Resignation From Peoples Democratic and Withdrawal From the Presidential Contest’, the former governor said […]
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Monday, dismissed a suit that Governors of the 36 States of the Federation, filed to query the constitutionality of regulations the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit, NFIU, issued to guarantee financial autonomy for local governments. The court, in a judgement that was delivered by Justice Inyang Ekwo, held […]
Owerri, the Imo state capital, was shut on Wednesday as residents observed the sit-at-home order issued by the Indigenous People of Biafra in respect to its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, who was arraigned by the Federal Government at the Abuja Federal High Court. Banks, schools, including Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education, Owerri, offices, and markets […]
On Tuesday mornings, A bomb explosion rocked Sabon Gari, Fagge Local Government Area of Kano State. The explosion went off at a school in Aba Road, leaving parents running helter-skelter to pick their children. The New Nigeria People’s Party, expressed shock about the massive gas cylinder explosion in Sabon Gari area of Kano State in […]
Former Senate President and presidential aspirant under the Peoples Democratic Party, Anyim Pius Anyim, has stated that he would choose a woman as his vice president, ahead of the upcoming 2023 elections. He made this known in a meeting with the former members of the National Working Committee of the party, in his Abuja campaign […]
Apostle Johnson Suleiman has been cautioned by The Indigenous People of Biafra over what it described as “unprovoked verbal attack and ranting” against the group. In a statement on Tuesday, the group’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, warned Suleman and his likes to restrain from any comments on the IPOB or Igbo nation as […]
Governors of the 36 State have appealed to a Federal High Court in Abuja to restrain the Federal Government from approving the deduction of any money accruing to the states from the Federation Account for the payment of 418 million dollars judgment debt. This appeal was made known by the Attorneys-General of the 36 states […]
Of the 7,747 delegates expected at the APC presidential primaries, 4,414 are from the North, while 3,333 are from the South. The zonal breakdown is as follows: North West-1, 924 delegates; South West-1,568; North Central – 1,278; North-East – 1, 212; South-East-838; and South-South 927 delegates. There seems to be a division in the North […]
Former President Goodluck Jonathan will only be joining the All Progressives Congress presidential race on the condition that he is endorsed by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), PUNCH reports Anything short of this would not be acceptable to Jonathan who served as deputy governor, governor, Vice-President and President on the platform of the […]
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