Bauchi Governor Bala Mohammed has said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) raised his profile and that of his colleagues in the party. The governor made the remark on Saturday at a meeting with PDP leaders, NAN reports. He hosted the National Chairman, Iyorcha Ayu, the Director-General of the Presidential Campaign …

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun has issued a warning to Olasoji Adagunodo to withdraw the pending court case on the Osun PDP chairmanship tussle. In a statement signed by the Osun PDP caretaker chairman, Akindele Adekunle in Osogbo on Saturday, the party in the warning, alleged that the …

Former Team Nigeria Captain, Olumide Oyedeji, has been re-elected as the President of the Nigerian Olympians Association at its Elective Congress held in the Ondo State capital- Akure. According to the statement, the election of the new executive to be led by the former NBA star has been described by …

West African neighbors Ghana are tidying up ahead of the World Cup in Qatar with Head Coach Otto Addo naming a 55-man provisional list for the Global showpeice. Black Stars make a return to the tournament after missing out on the 2018 edition in Russia and have been drawn in …

A spokesperson for the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Council, Senator Dino Melaye, has asked the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency to subject the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressives Congress, Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu, to narcotic test. He said this would help to …

Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere; and its northern and eastern counterparts,  Arewa Consultative Forum and Ohanaeze Indigbo, respectively, on Saturday, backed the proposition by former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar that the image of  ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo should be on one of the  naira notes to be newly designed. Atiku, who took to his …

85-year-old Pa Silas Ejide, who is father of former Super Eagles goalkeeper, Austin Ejide, tells IKENNA OBIANERI about his growing up, career and family You recently celebrated your 85th birthday. How do you feel attaining that age? First and foremost, I am grateful to Almighty God for keeping me alive till this moment. …

THE crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party appears to have taken a different shape as disagreement between two camps continues to fester ahead of the general elections, write DIRISU YAKUBU and EL-AMEEN IBRAHIM The crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party is showing no sign of abating with less than four months …

Nigeria’s Ayo Owodunni, who was recently elected a Councillor in Kitchener, a city in the Canadian province of Ontario, speaks to TEMITOPE ADETUNJI about the process that led to his emergence and sundry other issues Tell us a bit about yourself. My name is Ayo Owodunni. I am from Ojodu, Lagos. I am …

A poultry farmer in Bayelsa State, Innocent Aluu, tells OPEYEMI ADEFEMI how the flood ravaging state wreaked his farm Tell us a bit about yourself. My name is Innocent Aluu. I am a farmer. My farm is in Bayelsa State; in the Ogbia Local Government  Area of Bayelsa State but I am …