PDP Are Sponsoring #EndSARS Protests – APC
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of sponsoring the protest directly or indirectly. According to the APC, it would rather place on record how PDP and its leaders are directly and indirectly sponsoring the protest and playing politics with the development. In a statement issued Wednesday by the party’s Deputy National Publicity Secretary,...
BREAKING: “Act Now Before It’s Too Late” — Obasanjo Writes Another Letter To Buhari
Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo has written yet another letter to President Muhammadu Buhari asking him to act on the demands of #EndSARS protesters before it is too late. The protest which started across the country two weeks ago took a violent turn this week. On Tuesday, the Lagos state government imposed a 24-hour curfew to keep the attacks in check. However, soldiers opened...
I Won’t Sign 2021 Budget If Provision For Victims Of Police Brutality Is Excluded – Gbajabiamila
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has disclosed that he will not sign the 2021 budget if provision for compensation to victims of police brutality is excluded. Mr. Gbajabiamila also disclosed that he will be visiting families of victims of police brutality across the country. He also appealed to the protesters to suspend the ongoing protests. Gbajabiamila stated these...
Abia LG Poll: PDP Strategizes To Win At It Fixes Meeting Of All Aspirants
As local government election in Abia draws closer, the major political parties, PDP and APC have started strategising towards a successful contest. The leadership of PDP in Abia state has invited all the successfully screened Councillorship Aspirants, all the 17 local government Transition Committee Chairmen, the LG PDP chairmen and all the successfully screened Local Government Executive Chairmanship Aspirants for...
Abia LG Poll: PDP Strategizes To Win At It Fixes Meeting Of All Aspirants
As local government election in Abia draws closer, the major political parties, PDP and APC have started strategising towards a successful contest. The leadership of PDP in Abia state has invited all the successfully screened Councillorship Aspirants, all the 17 local government Transition Committee Chairmen, the LG PDP chairmen and all the successfully screened Local Government Executive Chairmanship Aspirants for...
2023: Ohanaeze Youths Urge South-East Governors To Join APC
The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council has urged governors of the South-East to join the ruling All Progressives Congress. The group said it was apparent that the Peoples Democratic Party did not have the region’s best interests at heart, and as such, there was no need for leaders of the zone to continue to work with the main opposition party. The zonal...
Restructure Nigeria Now Before It’s Too Late – Afenifere
Afenifere, Yoruba socio-political organisation, has asked the federal government to restructure the country immediately. The group made the call in reaction to the ongoing protests against police brutality. The protests which have entered the 13th day have also been held outside Nigeria — with international figures joining the call for the reform of the police. In a statement on Monday, Reuben Fasoranti,...
Lawmakers Give PDP 7-Day Ultimatum To Zone Presidency To South-East
The plot for the defection of top government officials in Ebonyi State to the All Progressives Congress (APC) thickened yesterday with the state House of Assembly giving a seven-day ultimatum to the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to zone the presidency to the South-east zone in 2023. The ultimatum has strengthened the speculation that the...
Reps Move To Stop Courts From Sacking President, Governors
A law to bar courts and election tribunals from voiding the election of a President-elect and governors-elect, because of blemishes in the educational qualifications of their running mates, is underway in the House of Representatives. The Bill to that effect, obtained on Monday, by VANGUARD, is entitled: “An Act to Alter the Provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic...
Trump Calls CNN ‘BASTARDS’ At Super-Spreader Event
President Donald Trump holds his second super-spreader campaign event in Tuscan, Arizona. At a rally earlier today, Trump reiterated his message that people are ‘tired’ of hearing about the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. ‘You turn on CNN. That’s all they cover: COVID, COVID, pandemic,’ Trump said to the mostly maskless crowd. ‘You know why? They’re trying to talk people out of voting....
