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Saturday, March 28th, 2015
Ayo Balogun, Lagos – Early results in Lagos State indicate that the All Progressive Congress, APC, Presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari is winning Lagos by wide margin. Results collated in different polling units reveals that Buhari defeated Jonathan in the ward of Senator Musiliu Obanikoro and the PDP governorship candidate, Jimi Agbaje. In Obanikoro’s ward, […]
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Thursday, March 26th, 2015
The Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG) has called for a violent free election, asking Yoruba people to remember the peace treaty signed on September 23, 1986 in which it was agreed that Yoruba nation will never war against one another. The group, in a statement signed by its Chairman, Olawale Oshun, said Yoruba people, before the […]
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Thursday, March 26th, 2015
By Niyi Adeyi, Akure – The Ondo State Deputy Governor, Alhaji Ali Olanusi, has dumbed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the APC. Olanusi in a statement Thursday stated that while still being in place as the democratically elected Deputy Governor of Ondo State, he has decided to lead his teeming supporters and well-wishers into […]
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Thursday, March 26th, 2015
Chief Anabs Sara Igbe, Kalabari leader and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has reaffirmed his resolve to vote for Dr. Dakuku Peterside, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Rivers State regardless of his membership of PDP. Sara Igbe also promised to vote for General Muhammadu Buhari, presidential candidate of the […]
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Wednesday, March 25th, 2015
Ahead of the March 28 General elections, Rivers State Governor and Chairman of the Nigeria Governor’s Forum, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has accused President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP of breaching the Abuja Peace accord. He accused Mr. President and the PDP of inciting violence in the country. Amaechi stated this […]
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Saturday, March 21st, 2015
Ayo Balogun, Lagos – The directive of the Inspector General of Police, Suleimon Abba, that voters should return home after voting, in the coming polls has received more knocks from lawyers and the Nigerian Public. Such instruction it was reasoned portrayed the Nigerian Police, as currently being set up as “an extension of the Presidency, […]
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Saturday, March 21st, 2015
In the next few days, Nigerian electorates will be exercising their important civic duty by electing their preferred candidates during the presidential election, holding on March 28. As the election excitement fills the air, one disturbing piece of information that should not be taken for granted is an allegation by the opposition party, All Progressives […]
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Thursday, March 19th, 2015
Abia State Government has given the former Governor of the State, Orji Uzor Kalu 72-hours to apologise to the State over statements he made against the State Government in a recent interview he granted to one of the national dailies or be prepared to be dragged to court for interpretation. The former Governor was quoted […]
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2015
Yoruba Muslim clerical leaders under the aegis of the League of Imams and Alfas have snubbed the Presidency over an invitation to them for a meeting that was apparently meant to lure them into endorsing the Jonathan/Sambo ticket in the forthcoming presidential election. The meeting, in which Vice President, Muhammad Namadi Sambo, was to represent […]
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2015
From Abdul Gafar Bello – Election violence raged Monday in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, as the wife of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), Hajia Aisha Buhari and her convoy were attacked by the suspected political thugs. General Buhari’s wife and her team who were in the North Central State for a two – […]
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2015
National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Adamu Mu’azu, popularly called “Game Changer” and his Deputy, Chief Uche Secondus are currently at loggerhead over $200 Million (Two Hundred Million Dollars) bribe from several aspirants seeking the party’s ticket. Mu’azu, the former Governor of Bauchi State, who took over the helms of affairs of […]
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2015
The Committee for the Protection of Peoples Mandate (CPPM) has condemned in strong terms the barbaric, crude and uncivilized assault on the fundamental and democratic rights of Lagosians by a group named Coalition of Concerned Nigerians (CCN) on Monday in Lagos. The protest was embarked upon by members of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) and […]
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2015
A chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Chief Ibrahim Babatunde Olorogun –Etti has called on the people of South- West to reject the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2015 general election. “President Goodluck Jonathan is the best man for the job. He knows the needs of the people and he […]
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2015
The Greater Together Campaign Organisation, GTCO, has raised fresh alarm of what it said are impending new waves of killing and other forms of politically-motivated violence hatched by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to target its governorship candidate, Dr. Dakuku Adol Peterside, its other candidates, the leadership of APC and the party’s supporters in Rivers […]
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Monday, March 9th, 2015
By Colins Amadi, Port Harcourt – The Rivers State chapter of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) has demanded the Nigerian First Lady, Mrs Dame Patience Jonathan to accept responsibility for February 17, 2015 attack on the party members in Okrika Local Council of the State. The State’s Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, held that […]
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Monday, March 9th, 2015
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has congratulated the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on its decision to use the card reader for the forthcoming elections. In a statement by Dele Alake, Director of Strategic Communications of the party’s Presidential Campaign Organisation, the APC said that with INEC’s decision to use the card readers and its […]
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Sunday, March 8th, 2015
By Jude Amadi – The ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is not ready for the forthcoming 2015 general elections, the Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said. Rivers APC Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, said Sunday in Port Harcourt that this explains the desperation of the party to scuttle the polls […]
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Friday, March 6th, 2015
In the spirit of keeping fit, President Goodluck Jonathan will tomorrow, Saturday, lead government officials as well as sportsmen and women on an out-door physical training exercise in Abuja aimed at promoting sports and fitness in Nigeria. The President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr Reuben Abati in a statement Friday, indicated that the […]
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Thursday, February 26th, 2015
Lagos lawyer, Festus Keyamo has petitioned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over the illegal substitutions of names vying for electoral positions under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra State. In the petition addressed to the INEC Chairman, Athahiru Jega, Keyamo said he stands as solicitors to Okonwko Annie Clement, Benedict O. Obaze and […]
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Thursday, February 26th, 2015
The City of London became cynosure of eyes across the globe Thursday as the two leading political parties, the opposition APC and the ruling PDP, took Nigeria electioneering campaigns to the city. The Presidential Candidate of the opposition APC, Gen Mohammadu Buhari addressed an audience where he promised to save Nigeria’s ailing economy. But PDP […]
