The presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar and PDP national chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, have urged the military and other security agencies not to obey the presidential order asking them to deal ruthlessly with would-be ballot box snatchers. The party chieftains described the order as unlawful, insisting that there are enough provisions in the nation’s laws ... Read More »

  The Chairman of Ogbomoso North Local Government Area of Oyo State, Hon. Olamiju Alao-Akala, has been suspended from office. He is the son of former governor and governorship candidate of the Action Democratic Party (ADP) Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala. Olamiju was elected chairman along with 56 others on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). But he dumped the ... Read More »

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday met with Senator Kabir Marafa to broker peace between the two factions in the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Zamfara State. The APC in Zamfara State has been embroiled in a dispute over the party’s primaries in the state, which led to uncertainties over participation of the party’s candidates in governorship, national assembly and ... Read More »

The Department of State Security ( DSS ) has not invited any National Commissioner or any top electoral official, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said on Tuesday. A section of the media reported on Tuesday morning that the National Commissioner on Logistics, Dr Okechukwu Ibeanu, for questioning. But INEC’s National Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakbubu, said there was nothing like ... Read More »

The Theatre Arts and Motions Pictures Association of Nigeria (TAMPAN) has denied abandoning one of its members, Babatunde Omidina, a Yoruba movie comedian, in the hospital. The renowned comedian, popularly known as ‘Baba Suwe’, is currently battling an undisclosed illness. While speaking with reporters on Monday, in Abeokuta, Bolaji Amusan, the National President of the association, said the report was ... Read More »

Scores of hoodlums swooped on the seedy Lafenwa market on Tuesday afternoon and disrupted the distribution of the Federal Government’s Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP) popularly called ‘TraderMoni,’ forcing distributors and beneficiaries to flee in different directions for safety. They whisked away the Iyaloja and Babaloja of Lafenwa market to an unknown location. The hoodlums, numbering over 50, T here ... Read More »

The Independent National Electoral Commission says the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, never offered the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Adamawa State, Kashim Gaidam, $1m or a house in Dubai. INEC said this in a Facebook post while reacting to social media rumours that Atiku had compromised the Adamawa elections. A report which trended on social media ... Read More »

Former Akwa Ibom Governor Senator Godswill Akpabio has alleged some officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) were colluding with Governor Udom Emmanuel to compromise the forthcoming elections. He accused some of the INEC officials of being not completely independent, alleging they have been compromised by Governor Emmanuel. Akpabio told newsmen in Abuja the governor has deployed huge sums ... Read More »

. Affirms Bolarinwa as authentic Kwara APC chair . Balogun-Fulani dissatisfied with judgement Court of Appeal sitting in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital on Tuesday sacked the Hon Ishola Balogun-Fulani faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state. The court thereafter affirmed the authenticity of the Hon Bashir Bolarinwa-led APC executives in the state. A Kwara state High ... Read More »

  The Tony Elumelu Foundation, an African-funded and founded philanthropy committed to empowering African entrepreneurs has announced its last call for applications into its prestigious 2019 Entrepreneurship Programme. The application portal launched on the 1st of January 2019 will close on the 1st of March, 2019. Selected beneficiaries will join 4,470 current alumni and will receive $5,000 seed capital, access ... Read More »