Abia 2023: Ngwa Group Hails Mascot Kalu, APP On Akoma’s Emergence As Deputy Gov Candidate
The Ngwa United Alliance (NUA) has expressed gratitude to the 2023 Abia State Governorship candidate Hon. Mascot Uzor Kalu and Action People’s Party (APP) for supporting a party’s stalwart, Prof Osondu Akoma to emerge as Deputy Governorship Candi...
Muslim-Muslim Ticket: Religion Irrelevant In Nigeria’s Presidency — Leo Igwe
A human rights activist, Dr Leo Igwe has said the religion of Nigeria’s president or his vice is not relevant because the country practices democracy and not a theocracy. Igwe, a board member of Humanists International, said this in a statement on ...
2023: Wabara Cautions Abia PDP Over Fielding Ngwa Candidate, Says It’ll Cause Party’s Defeat
Former Senate President, and the Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Board of Trustees, BoT, Dr. Adolphus Wabara, has warned that PDP might get a protest vote in Abia in 2023, should the party fail to cede its governorship ticket to his Ukwa clan or Abia North zone. He argued that if Ukwa clan should not be considered because...
Gov Nwifuru Swears In 35 Commissioners, Others In Ebonyi
Ebonyi State Governor Francis Nwifuru, on Tuesday, swore in no fewer than 35 newly appointed commissioners in the state. Swearing the Commissioners in at the Executive Council Chamber, Centenary City, Abakaliki, on Tuesday, the governor charged them to be innovative and strategic in the discharge of their duties, noting the governor said their appointments were not based on political patronage. He...
1999 Constitution: Amendment Bill Ready February — Lawmakers
Some members of the National Assembly have disclosed that they have not stopped work on the process of amending the 1999 Constitution, assuring Nigerians that the amended document would be ready before the end of the Ninth National Assembly. Speaking with journalists in Ibadan, on Sunday, at a town hall meeting with their constituents, the lawmakers, Senator Olubunmi Adetumbi from...
Sen. Achonu Emerges Imo Labour Party Governorship Candidate
Senator Athan Achonu has emerged as the Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate for Imo State. His victory followed the LP governorship primaries held in Owerri on Saturday. While announcing the result of the exercise, the returning officer and Abia-State governor-elect Alex Otti said Achonu polled 134 votes to beat his closest rival Major General Jack Ogunewe who scored 121. “I hereby return...
Emergence Of LP Majority Leader In PDP Dominated Abia Assembly Absurd, Undemocratic — Chukwu
A former Minority Leader in Abia State 7th House of Assembly, Hon. Chijioke Chukwu has described the emergence of Labour Party's Uchenna Okoro representing Arochukwu State Constituency as Majority Leader of Abia State House of Assembly as absurd and undemocratic. He emerged the Majority Leader despite PDP constituting majority in the Assembly. His election came after the members representing Osisioma Ngwa...
PDP Floors Ayade To Grab Senate Seat
Governor Ben Ayade has lost his bid to return to the Senate following his defeat by the incumbent senator representing Cross River North, Sen. Jarigbe Agom-Jarigbe. Ayade who was in the Senate between 2011 and 2015, lost the National Assembly election conducted on Saturday with 56,595 votes against Agom-Jarigbe’s of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who scored 76,145 votes. The returning...
I Have Not Picked Funke Akindele As My Running Mate – Jandor, Lagos PDP Guber Candidate
The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagos State, Dr. Olajide Adediran, popularly called Jandor, has dismissed speculations making the rounds that Nollywood actress, Funke Akindele, popularly known and called ‘Jenifa
Fulani Leaders Back Tinubu For Presidency
Leaders of Fulani communities (Ardos) from across the country under the agesis of Fulbe United for Peace and Development have endorsed the presidential bid of the presidential candidate of the All progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. According to Abdulaziz Abdulaziz, Special Assistant to the APC Presidential Candidate on Media and Publicity, the leaders converged on Abuja on Sunday. He...
