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EKITI State Governor, Mr Biodun Oyebanji, has declared Tuesday, January 24, 2023, a work-free day in the state. Oyebanji said the work-free-day was to enable eligible voters to collect their Permanent Voters Cards at the Independent National Electoral Commission designated centres. The governor made the disclosure in a statement by his …

Less than 10 days to the deadline on the use of old Naira notes, 36 State governors of the Federation have appealed to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Godwin Emefiele, to consider the peculiarities of States. Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) and Sokoto State governor, Aminu …

Anambra South Senator and candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP) for the 2023 Anambra South senatorial election, Dr Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah, has called for the exit of Nigeria Police Force from the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS), which is being run and managed by the National Pension Commission (PenCom). Senator …

A former governor of Enugu State and Senator representing Enugu East in the Senate, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani, has reacted to his suspension by the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over anti-party activities, saying the development came to him as a rude shock and huge surprise. He, however, …

Festus Keyamo, the spokesman for the presidential campaign council of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has reacted to the defection of Labour Party members in Jigawa State. Newsextra24 had reported that Tsoho Garba, LP gubernatorial candidate in Jigawa State, and all the party’s National Assembly candidates decamped to the …

THE All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, has promised to give the people of Jigawa State good lives if elected in the forthcoming presidential election. Tinubu made the promise during a political campaign held in Jigawa on Saturday. “If you vote for me, you vote for progress, you …

THE presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has assured Nigerians that if voted in the forthcoming general elections, insecurity and hunger among other challenges would be adequately tackled. Atiku, who stated this during his presidential campaign rally in Minna, Niger State, said in …

Naja’atu Bala Muhammad, a Director in the Bola Tinubu 2023 presidential campaign, has resigned. She was the Director of Civil Society in the Presidential Campaign Council of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The exit of 67-year-old Naja’atu comes one month to the presidential election. In 2018, President Muhammadu Buhari …

NIGERIAN youths have been advised not to allow themselves to be used as political thugs to promote violence in the forthcoming general election. A statement said the leader of the Christ Apostolic Church, Grace of Mercy Prayer Mountain, Prophet Samuel Olu-Alo, spoke on Friday during the ministry’s ninth crusade and …

THE All Progressives Congress has disclosed the reasons why Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and some other stakeholders in the party are not involved in the campaign of the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Since the APC flagged off its presidential campaign in Jos on November 15, 2022, some members of …