2023 elections: Group brings a vote-not-fight campaign to Bayelsa’s flashpoints of violence

18 Jan 2023

An organization known as the Fostering Achievement of Community Empowerment (FACE) Initiative has announced the launch of the “Vote Not Fight, Election No Be War” campaign in various regions classified as violence hotspots in Bayelsa State ahead of the 2023 general elections. In a press conference on Tuesday at the NUJ Press Centre in Yenagoa, […]

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Thousands of APC members decamp to PDP

18 Jan 2023

Thousands of All Progressives Congress (APC) members have decamped to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) at Ingawa Local Government Area of Katsina State. Their defection was coming on Tuesday as the governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Senator Yakubu Lado Dan-Marke took his campaign rally to the area. The State […]

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Jonathan inaugurates the longest state bridge, hails Udom Emmanuel

18 Jan 2023

Former President Goodluck Jonathan praises Akwa Ibom State Governor, Mr. Udom Emmanuel as a miracle worker for building the longest bridge by any state in Nigeria. The former leader made the declaration while inaugurating the bridge built by the administration of Governor Udom Emmanuel in Mbo Local Government Area Of Akwa Ibom State. The bridge, […]

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It’s too risky to hand over Nigeria to Obi or Tinubu- Atiku

18 Jan 2023

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, yesterday said it would be too risky for Nigerians to hand over their future to the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, or that of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, in next month’s election. This was just as former […]

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PVCs spotted being retrieved from soakaway pit

17 Jan 2023

Another brawl ensued, with supporters of several political parties pointing accusing fingers at one another after voting cards were misplaced. Hundreds of voter cards were discovered in a soakaway hole in Oke-Afo, Badagry, Lagos State, this time. A man was caught stashing a large quantity of PVCs in an abandoned soakaway pit. This discovery did […]

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PDP’s lawsuit to have LP and YPP candidates disqualified proved unsuccessful

17 Jan 2023

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, experienced a setback on Monday at the Federal High Court in Abuja in its legal battle to have the candidates for governorship and the National Assembly from the Labour Party, LP, and the Young Progressives Party, YPP, disqualified from running in the general elections of 2023. Due to a lack […]

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Saraki reveals when Wike and the G-5 Governors’ demands will be satisfied in the PDP conflict

17 Jan 2023

According to Dr. Bukola Saraki, the former president of the Senate, no one is opposed to the demands put up by Governor Nyesom Wike and his irate colleagues. The Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) National Chairman is among the demands made by the G-5 Governors to resign. The governors have been calling for the resignation of […]

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25 DEAD AFTER RUSSIA MISSLE ATTACK ON DNIPRO APARTMENT BUILDING

17 Jan 2023

Russian missiles kill 19 in Ukraine’s Odesa region The number of dead has risen to 25 after a Russian missile attack that hit a high-rise apartment building in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Saturday, according to official figures. By Sunday afternoon, 73 injured people had been rescued from the rubble of the partially […]

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Gunmen attacks INEC facility in Enugu

17 Jan 2023

Nigeria’s electoral commission, INEC, has reported another attack on one of its facilities in Enugu South Local Government Area, Enugu State. The commission said one of the policemen deployed to the location was also killed and another injured. The attackers, who could not gain entry to the main building, razed the security gate house around […]

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