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  The Senate Friday said that its decision to rescind and revise the method of funding of the supplementary budget of the  Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security agencies for the conduct of the 2019 general elections, was done in good faith,  after due consultation with the Executive arm of government. Chairman, Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and Other ... Read More »

Three of the candidates female Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ON Friday released the names of 32 governorship candidates of different political parties for the 2019 governorship election in Kwara state.Three of the candidates female. The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is Abdulrahman Abdulrasak, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Razak Atunwa and Labour Party, Comrade Issa Aremu. Three Kwara ... Read More »

The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has sent the name of the President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki, to the Independent National Electoral Commission as a senatorial candidate. The name of Saraki was among the list of candidates submitted to the commission in Abuja on Thursday night. Saraki, who represents Kwara Central District in the Senate, was ... Read More »

Senator Shehu Sani, representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District in the red chamber of National Assembly has resigned his membership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Shehu Sani left APC on Saturday as the coast became clearer that, the party has submitted name of Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s aide, Malam Uba as its candidate for Kaduna Central Senatorial seat. In his ... Read More »

Outgoing Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose Friday evening handed over the instruments of office to the Head of Service, Dr. Gbenga Faseluka. He surrendered the handover note to Faseluka at a special valedictory State Executive Council meeting at the new Governor’s Office in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital. Fayose said history would be kind to him the way he managed the ... Read More »

…APC LAWMAKERS TAKE OVER EKITI ASSEMBLY ..FAYOSE’S MAN, REMOVED AS SPEAKER Some members of Ekiti State House of Assembly have impeached the Speaker, Kola Oluwawole. They also sacked the Deputy Speaker, Sina Animasaun. Both Oluwawole and Animasaun are members of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). Oluwawole, a staunch loyalist of Governor Ayo Fayose, was removed at about 11.00 am behind ... Read More »

Why Tambuwal will be crowned winner by delegates’ Water-tight security arrangements have been made by the Rivers State Police Command and other security agencies, for Saturday’s national convention of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the peaceful and hitch-free. Port Harcourt, the capital of the hitherto volatile Rivers state in the Niger Delta and its environs are being ... Read More »

The Muhammad Ndabawa-led electoral committee sent to Ogun State by the National Working Committee(NWC) of the All Progressives Congress(APC) on Wednesday evening declared Prince Dapo Abiodun winner of the Direct governorship primary of Ogun APC for the 2019 gubernatorial election. Declaring the result of the governorship primary election conducted on Wednesday throughout the 236 wards across the 20 Local Governments ... Read More »

The Ogun State All Progressives Congress Chairman, Chief Derin Adebiyi, has declared the party’s consensus candidate, Adekunle Akinkade, winner of a parallel primary conducted on Tuesday. The party chairman declared Akinlade winner while addressing journalists at the secretariat of the party  in Abeokuta on Wednesday, He said Akinlade, the consensus candidate of the Yewa Elders Council and the anointed candidate of ... Read More »

The Peoples Democratic Party has denied the purported election of Senator Aidoko for the Kogi Eastern Senatorial District. A statement in Lokoja on Wednesday, signed by the Returning Officer, Sam Abenemi, the State Secretary of PDP, Faruk Yahaya, and the State Publicity Secretary, Bode Ogunmola, said no primary was held to return a Senatorial candidate for the Kogi Eastern Senatorial ... Read More »