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A former Personal Assistant to the President on New Media, Bashir Ahmad, has demanded for the cancellation of All Progressives Congress’ House of representatives primary election in Kano State. Recall that Bashir lost the ticket for the Albasu/Gaya/Ajingi Federal Constituency in Kano State. He has, however, rejected the outcome of the election. …

The Former Minister of Finance, Olu Falae, says calls for the presidency to be zone to particularly region is out of place and unconstitutional. He warned political parties and politicians to stop inserting zoning clauses into their constitution as such can’t override the Nigerian constitution. Falae, a former National Chairman …

Stakeholders have again appealed to the two major parties to field a Nigerian of Southeast extraction as their presidential candidates. This is as the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) conduct their presidential primaries. The stakeholders made the plea at a press conference on Friday in …

The police in Cross River State have reacted to a gory incident that occurred yesterday during the APC House of Representatives primary in Akpabuyo/Bakassi/Calabar South. Mr. Joseph Bassey, the Deputy Speaker of the State House of Assembly, and Mr. Saviour Nyong, the ex-Commissioner for Transport and Marine, were the candidates …

The key opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, has called an emergency meeting of its National Working Committee to discuss pressing concerns, including the possibility of postponing its national convention, which was scheduled for today. The NWC meeting, which is now taking place in Abuja, is expected to address problems …

The former Commissioner for Information and Orientation in Ondo state, Hon Donald Ojogo, has won the emerged the All Progressive Congress primary in Ilaje/Ese-Odo Federal Constituency. Ojogo, polled 67 votes to beat his closest opponent, Barrister Idowu Mafimisebi who scored 34 votes while Goke Ayara scored seven votes. The former …

On Friday, Conservative legislator Bob Neill sent a letter of no confidence in Boris Johnson, while another resigned from his position as an aide to the British interior minister. The moves occurred as pressure mounted on Prime Minister to quit for illegal parties at his Downing Street mansion amid COVID-19 …

The Joint Action Committee of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities; and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and allied institutions have extended their ongoing strike by one month. In a circular jointly signed by its National President, Muhammed Ibrahim, and the General Secretary, Peters Adeyemi, SSANU noted that …

President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed to donate $3 million to the new humanitarian agency set up by the African Union (AU). Recall that the president attended the AU meeting in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, on May 26. The summits tagged ‘extraordinary humanitarian summit and pledging conference’, as well as the ‘extraordinary …

Pius Anyim, former Senate President and presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Friday, raised an alarm over absence of delegates from Ebonyi State in the party’s delegate list ahead of its presidential primaries. Anyim stated this in a letter of concern addressed to the PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia …