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September 13, 2018 No Responses

Buhari Submits Forms, Implores APC To Prepare For Election

President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to members of the All Progressives Congress(APC) not to be complacent but to prepare, strategise and win 2019 elections, to prevent the Peoples Democratic Party from taking Nigeria backwards. He made the appeal at the...

August 15, 2018 No Responses

Presidency: No Foreign Pressure On Buhari To Drop 2nd Term Bid

By Femi Adesina – It is necessary to respond to a tendentious story published today as cover choice by Daily Independent Newspaper. Under the headline, ‘Pressure mounts on Buhari not to seek re-election,’ the fiction parading as news claims...

August 2, 2018 No Responses

Buhari: No Development Without Stability

Development is usually the first casualty in an unstable polity, says President Muhammadu Buhari. The President made the declaration Wednesday while receiving President Adama Barrow of The Gambia at State House, Abuja. “The best route to national developm...

July 25, 2018 No Responses

Buhari Wishes Decamped Lawmakers Well

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his total commitment to the values of democracy, freedom of choice as well as total willingness to work with all members of the National Assembly, irrespective of their political party, for the benefit of the...

July 25, 2018 No Responses

INEC Seeks Criminalisation Of Vote-Buying

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday called for criminalisation of vote-buying to stop the trend in the political system of the country. Mr Adedeji Soyebi, National Electoral Commissioner in charge of South-West, made the call in A...

July 22, 2018 No Responses

Atiku Pledges To Revive Nigeria’s Economy, Tackle Unemployment

Former Vice President and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant, Atiku Abubakar on Saturday pledged to tackle unemployment in Nigeria if elected President in 2019. Addressing supporters in Yola, Adamawa State during a Mega Rally organized b...

July 18, 2018 No Responses

Nigeria Explains N228.9b For 2019 Polls

President Muhammadu Buhari has forwarded a letter to the National Assembly seeking N228,854,008,215 from the N9.12 trillion 2018 budget to fund the 2019 general election and other critical projects. According to Buhari, the N228.9 billion from N578,319, 9...

July 17, 2018 No Responses

Dankwambo: I Will Defeat Buhari, Fight Against Poverty In Nigeria

A frontline presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ibrahim Hassan Dankwanbo, said at the weekend that, if elected president in 2019, he would declare war on poverty and injustices in the country. The Gombe State...

July 15, 2018 No Responses

EKITI ELECTION

Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Kayode Fayemi casting his vote at his polling unit in Isan Ekiti…on Saturday

July 12, 2018 No Responses

British Envoy Seeks Peaceful, Transparent Election In Ekiti

British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Paul Arkwright, has called for a peaceful, credible and transparent governorship election in Ekiti on Saturday, July 14. Arkwright made the call during a courtesy visit to Gov. Rauf Aregbesola on Wednesday in Osogbo. The.....

July 2, 2018 No Responses

IPAC Implores Political Parties On Transparency, Internal Democracy

The Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) has urged political parties to promote transparency, fairness and internal democracy in their congresses and primary elections. Chairman of the council in Yobe, Alhaji Umaru Kukuri, made the call on Sunday in an interv...

June 24, 2018 No Responses

Obaseki Hails Oshiomhole’s Election As APC National Chairman

The Edo Sate Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has hailed the election of his predecessor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, as the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Speaking after Oshiomhole was announced the elected National chairman of the APC ...

June 21, 2018 No Responses

My Governorship Aspiration Driven By Undiluted Love For Osun, Says Deputy Speaker, Lasun

The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yussuff Lasun, has declared that nothing will distract him from seeking the mandate of the people of Osun State to serve them as the next governor of the state. In a...

June 18, 2018 No Responses

Makarfi Joins 2019 Presidential Race

Former National Caretaker Committee Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ahmed Makarfi, has joined the 2019 Presidential race under the platform of the PDP. Addressing reporters on Sunday, Makarfi said: “I have been consulting acro...