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As the national convention of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is underway, former Senate President, KEN NNAMANI and two other presidential aspirants have stepped down for Vice President YEMI OSINBAJO. APC chieftain and Chairman, Senate Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), KABIRU GAYA, disclosed this to newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja. Although he d...

A presidential hopeful of the All Progressives Congress (APC), BOLA TINUBU, has secured the support of some of his fellow aspirants to get the party’s ticket as they took turns to announce that they were stepping down for him. These aspirants later beckoned on their teeming supporters who stormed the venue of the APC presidential primary to vote for TINUBU when it was time for the election. ...

Governor of Anambra State, Prof. CHUKWUMA SOLUDO, has ordered the repeat of the online recruitment examination teachers which took place on Saturday, June 4. There have been criticisms about the examination by some candidates owing to network failure as the website failed for about 30 minutes into the one-hour exam. About 31,000 candidates had applied to sit for the examination to...

President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has said he has no anointed candidate for the office of the president as the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, holds its presidential primaries.  In a statement issued by his media assistant, GARBA SHEHU, President  BUAHRI reaffirmed his position  while hosting governors on the platform of the All Progressive Congress from the northern states, in Abuja.  ...

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has granted an order of interim injunction restraining the Senate President, the Speaker of the House of Reps, INEC and three others from executing, enforcing or relying on the judgment delivered by Justice MOHAMMED LIMAN of a Federal High Court, Kano, on the 3rd of June, 2022. The Appeal Court restrained them following an exparte application filed by the National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress...

The presidency has said contrary to speculations, vice-President, YEMI OSINBAJO, was not involved in a car accident. Several reports had surfaced in the early hours of the day claiming that VP OSINBAJO had been involved in an auto accident. But the Presidency rebuffed the claims in a tweet on its official Twitter handle. It adde...

Former Governor of Lagos State, BOLA TINUBU, Ekiti State Governor, KAYODE FAYEMI; Senator IBIKUNLE AMOSUN and Vice-President YEMI OSINBAJO has suspended planned political activities in Abuja ahead of the presidential primary of the All Progressives Congress to visit Owo local government, Ondo State, where a church massacre occurred. The attack on the church in Owo, the hometown of Governor ROTIMI AKEREDOLU, came barely a week after ...

Governor OLUWAROTIMI AKEREDOLU has directed that flags should be flown at half-mast in all public buildings, facilities and official residences for seven days in honour of the victims of the Owo catholic church attack. The governor in a statement described the attack as a collective loss to the people of the state, saying that it was a deliberate and calculated assault on the people of the state. ...

The Chairman of the independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, says sensitive electoral materials will in the meantime no longer be routed through the Central bank of Nigeria (CBN). He also specifically notes that, beginning from the Ekiti State Governorship election, INEC will not keep its sensitive materials with the CBN. According to him, this decision is to guarantee that electoral materials for the lined up Elections are not co...

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