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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has listed Valentine Chineto Ozigbo as the candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the forthcoming Anambra State governorship election slated for November 6, 2021. The electoral body said the commission was served with two judgements of the Court of Appeal (Awka Judicial Division) …

Ahead of the 2023 general elections, a former governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff, has asked Nigerians to choose a leader with capacity irrespective of where he or she comes from. The leader, he said, can hail from any part of Nigeria as long as he can bring succour …

Politics is heating up as politicians from all geo-political zones in the country, are advancing reasons why it is the turn of their zone to produce the President in the 2023 General Elections . The North Central zone also has put up a simple case, that it is the only …

The Federal Government has again kicked against calls for secession by separatists in some parts of the country warning that such would be the surest way to extinction. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo gave the warning late Thursday in Abuja while delivering a keynote address at the 2020 Leadership Conference and …

Human rights lawyer, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa (SAN), on Thursday, backed Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and his Lagos State counterpart, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, for championing the agitation for fiscal federalism for states in the country. Adegboruwa, in a statement made available to The PUNCH, said the collection of Value Added Tax …

Telecommunication services have been shut down in Katsina State. At least 13 Local Government Areas are affected by the development which may not be unconnected with the ongoing security operations against bandits in the North West. The affected LGAs are Sabuwa, Faskari, Dandume, Batsari, Danmusa, Kankara, Jibia, Safana, Dutsin-Ma and …

I WANT TO BE REMEMBERED AS A PRESIDENT WHO STABILISED NIGERIA, PRESIDENT BUHARI TELLS SOUTH EAST LEADERS President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Owerri said that he would want to be remembered as the President who stabilised Nigeria in the area of security, economic prosperity and triumph over corruption. The President, …

President Muhammadu Buhari has stated that he was impressed with the level of development in Imo State and promised to assist the Imo State Governor Hope Uzodinma, deal with infrastructural deficits of the state. President Buhari disclosed this while speaking at the Commissioning of the Egbeada-Onitsha bypass road in Owerri, …

*OSINBAJO AT FUNERAL OF OGUN STATE GOVERNOR’S DAD: PA ABIODUN WAS A RARE BREED, SERVED HIS FAMILY, COMMUNITY & NATION WELL* Many will continue to celebrate the life and times of late Pa Emmanuel Abiodun, not just because of his achievements, but because of the inheritance he left for hundreds …

The Federal Government has said it would not allow any separatist group to disrupt the forthcoming governorship election in Anambra state. National Security Adviser (NSA), Major General Babagana Monguno (Rtd) gave the warning at a meeting of the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security, (ICCES) in Abuja, on Thursday. Mugono …