Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – The Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA) better known as Chatam House has confirmed that presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari will be speaking at its event billed for Thursday, February 26, 2015 in London. A post on the website of Chatam on Monday disclosed that […]
By Prof R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria – As the regime of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GEJ) of Nigeria (May 29 2011, May 29 2015) is ending it is necessary to find a defining moment for this otherwise entertaining regime. Jonathan would like us to give him several marks on his efforts in Education, […]
The opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) has renewed its call for a thorough probe of the Ekiti rigging tape which was recently released by an army captain, saying it is wrong for anyone to consider it fake without a forensic investigation. National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in a statement issued in […]
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari has asked President Goodluck Jonathan To call Ekiti governor, Mr Ayo Fayose to order over persistent falsehood and death wishes for him. Mr Ayo Fayose who published an infamous death wish advertorial on Buhari recently in national dailies was quick to allege that […]
The immediate former Kwara State Governor and a serving Senator, Bukola Saraki, has declared that the raging fierce war to rout dreaded Boko Haram insurgents is belated and political. In a tweet from London Saturday Morning, Senator Saraki said “I strongly believe the BH issue was politicized. Now that election is by corner, the war […]
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu – Dozens of Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) were on Friday evening found in a refuse dumpster inside the Enugu East local government secretariat at Nkwo Nike. African Examiner reports that the council area is situated, in a suburb of Enugu metropolis. The items were first seen by some concerned Nigerians who […]
The Christians Association of Nigeria (CAN) has debunked allegations that its leaders collected N7 billion to support President Goodluck Jonathan re-election bid. On Thursday in Kaduna, Musa Dikwa, Executive Director of Voice of Northern Christian Movement had alleged that CAN leaders were bribed with N7 billion and the money was distributed to states chapters of […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCPCO) has condemned a plan by the Jonathan-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), through some government controlled security agencies, to shift the paradigm of public perception of corruption on them to the camp of the opposition (APC), by witch-hunting some Northern Muslim clerics and District […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCPCO) has expressed appreciation to the Nigerian military for its readiness to deploy troops for the March 28 and April 11 elections but says that its services would be better utilised in other pressing areas, especially in the combat of insurgency and protection of […]
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Asaba – Delta state police Command, says it has apprehended four persons for allegedly making away with 6,000 Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) and voter registers at INEC office in Oghara, Ethiope West local government area of the state. The state Police public Relations officer, PPRO Mrs. Celestina Kalu, who made this known […]
The Lagos All Progressive Congress (APC) has warned once again that unless Nigeria is a banana republic, there is no reason why Senator Musiliu Obanikoro’s name will be considered again for a ministerial position given his deep involvement in Ekitigate election scandal. In a release issued in Lagos by the State Publicity Secretary, Mr. Joe […]
Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun has called on officers of the Nigeria Police Force and other security agencies in the country to eschew all forms of injustice and carry out their duties professionally during the forthcoming elections. Amosun, while receiving the newly redeployed Commissioner for Police to the state, Mr. Valentine Ntomchukwu in his […]
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Benin City – As the new dates for the Nigeria’s general elections approaches, the Edo State Government has raised the alarm of what it described as an alleged “evil plot” by anti-democratic elements to“unleash terror” on innocent citizens of the state. Commissioner for Information and Orientation in the state, Mr. Louis Odion, […]
The Lagos All Progressive Congress (APC) may have bribed the Eze Indigbos in Lagos with N20 million to endorse its governorship candidate, Akinwunmi Ambode. The Eze Ndigbos is going to mobilise the Igbo community in Lagos for a rally at the Onikan Stadium early next month where the Igbo community in Lagos will canvass votes […]
From Mustapha Abdul Salaam – The alleged N6 Billion bribe to the country’s Christian clerics to induce them and rally support for the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan in the rescheduled Presidential election has been confirmed after all. Executive Director of the Voice of Northern Christian Movement and an Associate Pastor, Kallamu Musa-Dikwa in Borno State, […]
Thirty cars and a bus were given out to youths from Ikwuano Local Government Area free of charge as part of the on-going youth empowerment programme of the Chief Theodore Orji’s administration. Speaking before handing over the vehicles to the beneficiaries at the Ikwuano LGA headquarters, Governor Theodore Orji noted that some people from the […]
The Nigerian leading opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) has alerted Nigerians of a fresh plot by desperate politicians to circulate leaflets, in mosques and churches, asking Muslims to only vote for Muslims in the forthcoming elections. APC alerted the plot was in line with the track record of those who have consistently used religion to […]
The Committee for the Protection of Peoples Mandate (CPPM) has condemned in strong terms the criminal, barbaric and undemocratic assault on the All Progressive Congress (APC) governorship rally in Okrika, Rivers State on Tuesday by some hoodlums which resulted in the death of a police man and injuries to several others as well as destruction […]
By Prof R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria Many of us always feel that the good news on Nigeria is what we should be writing about but alas there is just none. Do we turn the deepening political crises and uncertainty or the unnecessary interference of the military statements in politics to good news? […]
The National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has lamented the non-collection of the Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) by Lagosians. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed that only 62 percent of Lagosians have collected their PVCs so far. At an emergency party stakeholders meeting at the APC Lagos secretariat […]
