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The Adamawa State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has removed its chairman, Ibrahim Bilal. Twenty-five members of the State’s 36-member State Executive Committee signed a petition, on the strength of which the Exco effected the chairman’s removal on Monday. The executives subsequently swore in the state Deputy Chairman, …

Over N207m and Є17,598 discovered in his bank accounts The Federal Government has uncovered 14 assets, including shopping malls, a residential estate, a polo playground, lands, and farmland belonging to a former commander, Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari, a Deputy Commissioner of Police. Kyari was said to have failed to …

THE National Executive Committee (NEC) of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) on Monday constituted an eight-man Caretaker Committee to pilot the affairs of the party. Recall that 27 State Chairmen of the ADC, during a NEC meeting of the party held last Wednesday called on Nwosu to vacate office following …

A coalition of Civil Society Organisation under the umbrella of Saving Our Vote has urged the Senate to reject the nomination of partisan and unqualified persons as Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) by President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari had in his letter to the Senate …

A candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State, Moses Uadiale, Saturday, raised the alarm over the missing of his name among those giving certificate of return by the party last week. This came as leaders of the party have vowed to threatened to work against the party …

THE federal government has assured Nigerians that terrorists and bandits and their cohorts will never again hold sway in Nigeria. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who disclosed this at a joint press conference on security in Abuja on Monday, said as far as the “daunting security …

The Elites Network for Sustainable Development (ENetSuD) has called for the establishment of an anti-corruption agency in Kwara State. ENetSuD’s demand followed a forensic report indicating that the administration of the immediate-past governor of the state, Abdulfatah Ahmed, looted N11.9bn from the coffers of the state. The anti-corruption civil society …

All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has derided the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over its crisis ahead of the polls, saying the APC is smarter than the leading opposition party. Tinubu, who stated this during the inauguration of the campaign logo and vehicles of the “APC Northern …

Statesman and nationalist, Sen Annie Okonkwo has said northerners will benefit more than others in a Peter Obi presidency because of his honesty of purpose and antecedents. According to a statement by Okonkwo’s media adviser, Collins Steve Ugwu, the former lawmaker, recalled the public commitment of Obi, to make the …

Yobe North senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hon Bashir Machina, has dismissed reports of his resignation as an APC member in Yobe State. The senatorial candidate said he has not left the APC for another political party, stressing that nobody can force him out of the party. …