Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has expressed concern over poor response to the Commission’s request for ad-hoc staff for Imo state governorship elections. He made the disclosure on Monday in his speech at a two-day workshop for journalists covering the Commission held in Akwanga, Nasarawa State. The off-season […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says election disinformation is now a major strategy to manipulate the public. Kunle Ajayi, INEC national commissioner and member, information and voter education committee, spoke on Monday at a two-day capacity building workshop. The workshop was put together to enhance the capacity of the INEC press corps on […]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) secretariat in Akure, Ondo state capital, has been shut. Men of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) and the operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) are currently at the secretariat. Daily Trust reports that the development is not unconnected with the plan by the members of the PDP […]
The board of trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called for the resignation of Samuel Anyanwu as the party’s national secretary. Anyanwu is the PDP governorship candidate for the November 11 election in Imo state. In April, Anyanwu was elected as the party’s governorship candidate in Imo after he scored 802 […]
The People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has not declared the office of National Secretary, currently occupied by the its Imo State Governorship candidate, Senator Samuel Anyanwu vacant, a party source has said. According to the source who pleaded anonymity; because he wasn’t authorized to speak to the media, the clarification became necessary in order to […]
Senator Ifeanyi Ubah believes President Bola Tinubu has been fair to the South-East, maintaining that the Nigerian leader has more “good things” in stock for the region. Ubah, who represents Anambra South in the upper lawmaking body had dumped the Young Progressives Party (YPP) for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), becoming the party’s […]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) says Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), is looking for “cheap” media attention. During a press conference, Obi said President Bola Tinubu should reintroduce himself to Nigerians because the debate surrounding his academic records has worsened the country’s image. Obi said the controversy over Tinubu’s academic […]
Justice Donatus Okorowo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has disqualified the Bayelsa State All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the November 11 governorship election, Mr Timipre Sylva. Justice Okorowo ruled that Sylva, having been sworn in twice and served five years as governor of the state, would breach the 1999 constitution as amended […]
The leadership of the Labour Party has said that there is no way its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, could be tempted to work with President Bola Tinubu’s government of national unity. The position of the party was stated in two separate interviews with the National Publicity Secretary of LP, Obiora Ifoh and the National […]
The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has slammed the forgery allegation levelled against President Bola Tinubu by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 general elections, Atiku Abubakar. This is as he stated that the Chicago State University certificate President Bola Tinubu submitted to the Independent National […]
