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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2018
…Says Fresh Election Will Be Conducted (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, on Tuesday described the results being circulated as the outcome of the Imo governorship primaries as fake. Oshiohmole stated this while fielding questions from State House correspondents after a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari […]
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2018
By Niyi Adeyi (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Working Committee (NWC) panel for the Lagos State ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) Governorship primary has canceled the elections held in the 20 Local Government Areas LGAs and 37 Local Council Development Areas LCDAs of the state Tuesday. The Chairman of the primary committee, Mr. Clement Ebri, announced […]
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2018
Photo: Mr Uche Nwosu …As Gulak Declares Uzodinma Winner; Escapes Death from Rochas Men (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The chairman of the Imo State governorship primary election, Ahmed Gulak, has declared Senator Hope Uzodinma winner of the election. Gulak said, at a press conference in the National Secretariat of the party in Abuja where he officially […]
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The number of people believed to have died in Friday’s Indonesia earthquake and tsunami has risen to 1,347. According to disaster response officials, the death toll Tuesday jumped from a previous confirmed figure of 844. The 7.5-magnitude quake struck just off the central island of Sulawesi, setting off a tsunami that engulfed the […]
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State APC Governorship primary is still in progress with many expected intrigues. While the results which put the party’s choice Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu far ahead of the incumbent Akinwunmi Ambode are being announced in some wards, the Governor’s Deputy, Dr. Idiat Adebule, has also abandoned his boss and shifted her support […]
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The number of persons involved in certificate scandals under the Buhari administration may speak to something far deeper in our society, even beyond the administration, but it is to say the least, disgraceful and embarrassing. Ordinarily considered some of the best educated black persons in the world – one US report indicates […]
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2018
By Niyi Adeyi, with Agency Report LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Despite the heavy presence of security operatives at the various ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) secretariats, the Lagos Governorship primary which is still underway started on a low-key level, as there were no signs of election late Monday morning at most of the voting centres. […]
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2018
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Worried by the crisis that characterized last Sunday’s governorship primaries of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in many states, including Enugu, the Director – General of Voice of Nigeria VON, Mr. Osita Okechukwu, has warned that unless the party’s National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshimole retraces his step […]
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor of Sokoto state and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential hopeful, Amini Waziri Tambuwal, led his campaign team to Katsina and Jigawa on Monday, where he called on the people of the two states to show responsible citizenship by joining hands to enthrone a leadership that will inject new policy directions for the […]
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Monday, October 1st, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senator representing the Bayelsa East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Ben Murray Bruce, has voluntarily withdrawn from the race for the Bayelsa East Senatorial District. Bruce announced his withdrawal from the Senatorial contest in a letter dated October 2, 2018, addressed to the State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic […]
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Monday, October 1st, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue has emerged as the 2019 governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Benue. Ortom defeated other three contestants; John Tondo, Paul Orhii and Felix Atume at the primary election. The Chairman, PDP Electoral Panel for the state, Hajia Zainab Maina announced that Ortom scored 2,210 […]
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Monday, October 1st, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The political equation is still looking hazy ahead of 2019 general elections as political parties strategise to outsmart each other all in an effort to capture power. This was as it was gathered that the Presidency at the weekend increased its tempo towards ensuring the emergence of a candidate of the opposition […]
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Monday, October 1st, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Governor of Bayelsa State, the Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson, has congratulated the governors of the People’s Democratic Party-controlled states who emerged as Gubernatorial Candidates of the party in the party’s primaries in the respective states. In a statement by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Media Relations, Mr. Fidelis Soriwei, […]
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Monday, October 1st, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Incumbent governor of Enugu state, Lawrence Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has emerged sole candidate of the People’s Democratic party PDP, ahead of the 2019 general election. He had earlier emerged as the consensus aspirant for the office of the governor in the absence of any other contestants which made him go into the contest […]
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Saturday, September 29th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Sen. Aisha Alhassan, who resigned her appointment as women affairs minister and also dumped the APC on Saturday, has picked the United Democratic Party (UDP), nomination form to contest for the Taraba governorship seat. Alhassan, at a press conference shortly after joining UDP and picking its nomination form, claimed that the APC […]
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Saturday, September 29th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly have adopted Babajide Sanwo-olu as the candidate they will support in the coming governorship primaries of the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC). According to a statement by the Chairman of the House Committee on Information, Strategy and Security, Honourable (Princess) Adefunmilayo Tejuoso, […]
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Saturday, September 29th, 2018
…As Niboro Says He’s in to Win Rep Seat (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Olorogun Ima Niboro, a vibrant political aspirant contesting for the Ughelli North, Ughelli South and Udu federal constituency under the platform of APC in Delta state on Friday 29th September, 2019 canvassed votes for President Mohammadu Buhari during the just concluded APC presidential […]
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Friday, September 28th, 2018
Photo: Sen. Iyiola Omisore (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mr Adams Oshiomhole, the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman, has debunked insinuations that a deal involving money and political concessions were made with Sen. Iyiola Omisore of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) to support the party. Oshiomhole, while addressing newsmen on Friday in Abuja, said the people of […]
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Friday, September 28th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Friday held its Presidential Primaries across the 319 wards of Rivers in peace. Mr Chris Finebone, Publicity Secretary of APC in Rivers, announced this in a statement in Port Harcourt. He said that the Minister of Transportation, Mr Chibuike Amaechi was the Presidential Primaries Returning Officer […]
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Thursday, September 27th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Amid local and international concerns about the wobbly and tainted anti-corruption war of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, some leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, have piled pressure on the president to remove his Chief of Staff, CoS, Mr. Abba Kyari, whose alleged involvement in a series of corruption cases […]
