The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to President Goodluck Jonathan, General Muhammadu Buhari and other presidential candidates asking them to make a clear and unequivocal commitment to uphold and implement 7-point anti-corruption and human rights programme in their political policies if elected. Other presidential candidates include: Chekwas Okorie, All […]
The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has berated the governorship candidate of the PDP, Mr. Jimmy Agbaje for saying that he will cancel the Public Private Participation arrangement that saw to the execution of the Lekki-Épé Expressway. The party said the threat is an irrational election promise directed at foreign investors, which […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – The APC Presidential Campaign Organization has said it is ridiculous to use a discredited Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) report to malign its credible and trusted candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari. A statement issued by the Director of Media and Publicity of the campaign and signed by Mallam Garba Shehu, said the seemingly […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCPCO) has lampooned the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for circulating a scam medical report on General Muhammadu Buhari. A statement from the Directorate of Media and Publicity of the campaign on Sunday said it is ludicrous for the PDP to throw all cautions to […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Onitsha – President Goodluck Jonathan has disclosed that the Federal Government has spent about N10 billion on the construction of the 2nd Niger Bridge out of the total N130 billion the project will gulp. Jonathan made this known Saturday when he stopped over at the project site in Asaba,, en route to Onitsha, […]
Agabus Pwanagba, Jos – Two persons lost their lives while making their way out of the Rwang Pam stadium, venue of the APC Presidential campaign rally in Jos. According to an eyewitness, the deceased died as a result of a stampede while making their way out of the venue of the rally. The eyewitness […]
Ayodele Afoabi, Abuja – The APC Presidential Campaign Organization has dismissed as utterly false and ridiculous allegations by the ruling PDP that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and other former APC presidential aspirants, Sam Nda-Isaiah and Rabiu Kwankwaso have abandoned the APC Presidential Campaign. The statement, signed by Malam Garba Shehu, Director of Media and […]
By Priye Briggs “A Leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way” – John C. Maxwell. Until the All Progressives Congress picked Warisenibo Dakuku Adulphus Peterside as its governorship candidate in Rivers State, there was confusion and palpable fear about the future of the state. Many big-wigs of the […]
By Madubuko Hart I read the article of one Nnanna Ijomah published in some internet news outfits with dismay. The article was titled “ABIA ELECTORATE AND THE FEAR OF ELECTION RIGGING” and I wondered why such crass title. To create unnecessary fear in the minds of Abia people was what Ijomah wanted to achieve with […]
A searching look by Danlami Aminu – History can only be based on truth. Mohammed Buhari and his supporters have been claiming that he alone can deal decisively with Boko Haram, claiming he “destroyed” the Maitatsine terrorists in the 1980s. But the truth is that the problems of rebellion and insurgency in the North of Nigeria, […]
From Collins Amadi – “Nigeria is a weak State” and this is the major reason why the insurgency thrives and has taken more alarming dimension in the North Eastern part of the country. Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Emir of Kano, HRM, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, threw this challenge Saturday in […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Abakaliki – Governor Martin Elechi of Ebonyi state, on friday received the embarrassment and humiliation of his life, as chieftains of Peoples Democratic Party PDP from the state, refused him from speaking during president Goodluck Jonathan,s campaign rally in Abakaliki. Elechi, was sidelined throughout the event, even as the master of ceremony, MC, […]
PDP National chairman Alhaji Adamu Muazu’s plea to readmit the former governor Orji Uzor Kalu into People’s Democratic Party (PDP) met with a thunderous rejection. Alhaji Muazu during the presidential campaign in Umuahia had pleaded for the ex-governor Orji Kalu to be readmitted but the crowd shouted him down. “Abians shouted Muazu down over Kalu […]
Foremost Nigerian Constitutional lawyer and Human Rights advocate, Chief Mike Ozekhome, (SAN) Friday said the APC presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, is not constitutionally qualified to contest the 2015 presidential elections. The lawyer who was a special guest on the popular AIT breakfast talk show, Kakaaki monitored in Abuja stated that by not proving evidence […]
Agabus Pwanagba, Jos – About 227 soldiers dismissed from the 3 Armoured Division in Jos took to the street on Friday to protest against their dismal dismissal even as they urged President Goodluck Jonathan to intervene in their case. The soldiers carrying various placards claimed the military authority dismissed them without given them fair hearing. […]
Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State, Mr. Nyesom Ezebuwon Wike, has been condemned for the violent utterances and threats to the peace of the state he made during his Thursday campaign at Abua Central, headquarters of Abua/Odual local government. Violence had broken out between two suspected pro-Wike cult groups fighting […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – The APC Presidential Campaign Organisation has asked Nigerians to ignore the “utterly silly and reckless statement” credited to the over-exuberant Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose to the effect that General Muhammadu Buhari does not enjoy good health. In a statement issued in Abuja on Friday, the Campaign Organisation dismissed as […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos – There is anxiety in Lagos as the dreaded Avian Influenza (AI), known as Bird Flu hit Lagos State, Nigeria, with 2,000 fowls at a Poultry Farm in the state destroyed to checkmate the spread of the virus to human. At a news conference on Friday in Lagos, the Lagos Commissioner for […]
From Agabus Pwanagba , Jos – Two-time Speaker and Former Adamawa State acting Governor, Hon James Shuaibu Barka and hundreds of his supporters have defected from the ruling PDP to the opposition APC, amidst the wrangling rocking the State chapter of the PDP. This was made public during the campaign rally of the State APC Gubernatorial […]
By Tajudeen Balogun, Head, African Examiner, Nigeria Bureau Expectedly, the one week Presidential electioneering campaigns by the two major candidates – General Muhammadu Buhari of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) and President Goodluck Jonathan of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have drawn diverse comments from Nigerians, home and abroad. The reactions to the […]
