Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last presidential election, Mr. Peter Obi has congratulated the immediate past President and Group CEO of Transcorp, Valentine Ozigbo, for emerging as the Party’s candidate for the Anambra State governorship election. Reacting after the primaries that produced Ozigbo as …

  A banker, Valentine Ozigbo, has emerged as the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra State. The 50-year-old Mr Ozigbo polled 62 out of 218 votes to beat 13 other aspirants who were on the ballot. Some aspirants had withdrawn from the primary out of protest …

PDP party primaries for November 6th gubernatorial race has been marred with violence. Some aspirants that wasn’t satisfied with the process invaded the venue with thugs that came to beat up people on the area. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CreuslS0_W8

Eleven governorship aspirants under the All Progressives Congress [APC), led by Chief George Moghalu, have called for the cancellation of the exercise, noting that the process has been hijacked by some enemies of APC in the country. The aspirants also called on the National Working Committee of the party to …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday in Abuja inaugurated the War Against Drug Abuse (WADA), saying the war must be fought by all well meaning citizens Mr Buhari asserted that the drug war was more dangerous than wars against insurgency and banditry because it targeted three generations for destruction. The launch …

Matt Hancock, Britain’s beleaguered health secretary, resigns after being caught kissing aide Matt Hancock resigned as Britain’s Health Secretary Saturday, one day after he apologized for breaching Covid regulations. The married politician was pictured kissing and embracing his adviser, with whom British tabloid The Sun alleges he is having an …

  Nigerian, Uruemu Adejinmi has emerged as the first migrant, first African and the first black female to be elected as Mayor in the Republic of Ireland. With Ms Adejimi’s new election as Cathaoirleach of the Longford Municipal District, she also becomes the first female African mayor in the country, …

Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum, has directed the immediate suspension of ACTED, an international Non-Governmental Organization (iNGO). The governor gave the order following Saturday’s discovery that the humanitarian iNGO was using a hotel in Maiduguri to “train some persons on shooting”. Zulum’s spokesman, Malam Isa Gusau, who announced the Governor’s …

NO ATTEMPTED ATTACK ON NAF BASE KADUNA Merchants of fake news are at it again. This time around, their focus is on the premier Nigerian Air Force Base at Kaduna, which they claimed came under terrorist attack in the early hours of today, 26 June 2021. Members of the public …

The Commander of the Ekiti State Security Network (Amotekun), Brigadier Joe Komolafe, has confirmed the abduction of another traditional ruler and Eleda of Eda Ile, in Ekiti East Local government area of Ekiti State, Oba Benjamin Oso. The monarch was seized at his Farm in the presence of his wife …