politics

Kola Abiola has won the presidential primary of the Peoples’ Redemption Party (PRP). He defeated Usman Bugaje, Patience Key and Colonel Gboluga Mosugu (rtd) to emerge the party’s presidential candidate for the 2023 general elections. Abiola, is the first child of late M.KO Abiola, acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993, …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday held a private meeting with leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress as race to produce a consensus candidate enters final lap. Journalists were not allowed at the meeting as it was not open to the media. According to Peoples Gazette, the party chairman Abdullahi …

An Enugu based non-governmental organisation under the auspices of Obige Obukpa Widows Care Foundation, has sensitized and trained over 250 women and girls on political participation. In a three-day sensitisation and training programme which bothered on voters registration, political participation and training of newly registered members of political parties, the …

The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has announced that the presentation of certificates of return to the party’s governorship candidates will hold on Tuesday. This was contained in a statement by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, on Sunday. Titled ‘Presentation of Certificate of Return to …

Operatives of the Ibadan Zonal Command of the EFCC on Wednesday, June 1, 2022, arrested thirty-nine (39) suspected internet fraudsters in a sting operation in Ibadan, Oyo State. The suspects who claimed to be undergraduates of different tertiary institutions in Ibadan were arrested at Apete area of the Oyo State capital, …

Thirteen presidential aspirants on the platform of the All Progressives Congress have been cleared to contest the party’s primary. The Chairman of the screening committee, John Odigie-Oyegun, disclosed this on Friday. Oyegun, the maiden chairman of the party, made the disclosure when he submitted his report to the APC National Chairman, …

The screening committee of the All Progressives Congress has disclosed that it did not screen former President Goodluck Jonathan. The Chairman of the screening committee, John Odigie-Oyegun, made the disclosure on Friday when he submitted his report to the APC National Chairman, Abduallahi Adamu, at an ongoing meeting of the Nationa …

Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir David Lawal, has rubbished claim made by presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, that President Muhammadu would not have become president without him in 2015. WITHIN NIGERIA had reported that Tinubu while addressing Ogun State APC delegates …

Former Senate President, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has stated that when he opposed the plan to foist a Muslim-Muslim presidency on Nigeria in 2014, he acted in the national interest and believed Nigeria was bigger than anybody’s ambition, including that of the presidential aspirant on the platform of the All …

Orji Kalu, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has denied being named Director-General of Ahmad Lawan’s Campaign Organization. Lawan, the Senate President, is one of the ruling party’s leading presidential candidates. On Thursday, reports surfaced that his campaign organization would be led by the Senate Chief Whip and …