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VP Yemi Osinbajo paid a courtesy visit to the mother of late President Umar Musa Yaradua in Katsina State, today.

TO realize his ambition of being the presidential candidate of a political party in the 2019 general elections, the immediate past Anambra State governor, Peter Obi, has been sounding sanctimonious. The sanctimoniousness is most pronounced in the area of management of public resources. The magic of it all is that …

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, has said he will declare his presidential ambition in April. Ngige, a chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC), stated this in Awka, Anambra state capital, during the empowerment of some graduate trainees in the state. Some beneficiaries of the empowerment had …

A frontline aspirant in the just- concluded governorship primary of the People’s Democratic Party(PDP) in Ekiti State Engr Segun Oni has accused the party’s National Chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu and ex-Governor Ayodele Fayose of sell out. Oni alleged that Ayu and Fayose have sold out the party’s candidacy to the …

Bauchi State, Governor, Bala Mohammed, has said he told former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, to allow him contest the presidency because he is old and fatigued with Nigeria. He said this in his speech while receiving the report of a Contact and Consultation Committee which he established for his presidential …

Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State has insisted that the North would produce Nigeria’s president in 2023. Mohammed said the claim that power must shift to the Southern part of the country in 2023 is meant for the All Progressives Congress, APC, and not the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. He …

The National Assembly has reviewed the amount a sponsor can donate to a party and how much a political party can spend on a candidate’s electioneering in the Electoral Act 2010 (Amendment) Bill presently before it.     This is just as the National Assembly is ‘cleaning up’ the electoral …

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, says the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government remains committed to the welfare of the ‘common man’. Mr Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement on Friday in Abuja, said the vice president said this while receiving a delegation of the APC Professionals Forum at the …

The governor-elect of Anambra State, Chukwuma Soludo, says politics has become a big business in Nigeria, adding that many drug barons and internet scammers have flocked into politics to avoid being arrested. Soludo, an ex-governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria who won the November 6, 2021 Anambra governorship election on …

Ijaw National Leader, Edwin Clark, has offered to support the presidential ambition of former Senate President Bukola Saraki if there is no consensus on a southern candidate. He described Saraki as “the best for Nigeria.” Clark spoke in Abuja when the Abubakar Bukola Saraki Contact and Advocacy Council, headed by …