politics

THE founder of Living Faith Church also known as Winners’ Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo, has urged worshippers to vote wisely in the Saturday presidential election. The renowned bishop said he is for the peace and stability of Nigeria. Speaking during a sermon on Sunday at the Winners Chapel, the cleric …

… calls for arrest of publisher  THE All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council has debunked insinuations that the sum of N400 billion was recovered when operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission raided the home of its presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. This is even as the campaign council …

LESS than one week to the presidential and National Assembly elections, the G-5 governors led by Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State have failed to adopt a presidential candidate, Sunday PUNCH has learnt. Wike, Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, and their counterparts from Abia, Enugu and Oyo states; Governors Okezie Ikpeazu, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi …

Condoles families of currency swap protests. AS campaigns of various political parties across the country turn the corner to the last mile of the runway to the February 25, 2023 presidential and parliamentary elections, Mr. Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, has sent high praise and tonic …

A former President of the Senate, Pius Anyim, said he was at no time part of the G5 governors. He also affirmed his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party. The former lawmaker disclosed this late Friday in a statement he signed and made available to journalists in Abuja. The G5 …

FORMER All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship aspirant in Akwa Ibom State, Prince Augustine Utuk has announced his decision to withdraw his case at the Supreme Court. At gathering of party supporters at his residence in Uyo on Friday, the grassroots politician endorsed the the party’s candidate Akan Udofia. Udofia recently …

DUMEBI Kachikwu, the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), has claimed that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) naira redesign policy was designed purely to target the presidential flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Sen Bola Tinubu. Kachikwu made this claim while expressing his concern over the …

HAD the three legs of the power triangle, brand them godfathers of Delta State politics –  the Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa; ex-governors, Chief James Ibori, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, harmoniously resolved on a consensus Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate for the March 11 governorship polls , no other political force …

THE Presidency on Friday said that it is only politicians who are afraid of losing elections that are accusing President Muhammadu Buhari of planning to truncate the democracy and handover to an interim government. The President also warned those peddling such information which it said was meant to incite the …

Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu on Thursday said Nigeria’s problem is not corruption but lack of cohesion and unity among the people. Ikpeazu made the assertion at the public presentation of a book in Abuja. He said Nigeria’s greatest problem is not security or the economy. ”It is a lack …