The Labour Party, LP, has slammed the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for omitting the party’s logo on Lagos State ballot papers for the Saturday election. Recall that INEC had on Wednesday taken delivery of sensitive materials for the Presidential and National Assembly Elections scheduled for Saturday, February 25. LP …
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Appeal Court Clears Ishaku Abbo For Saturday Senatorial Poll
The Yola Division of the Court of Appeal has cleared Senator Ishaku Abbo to participate in the National Assembly election slated for this Saturday as the Adamawa North senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC. Abbo’s fate had been in the balance after a lower court upheld his expulsion …
Read More »Bauchi Government Closes Schools For Election
The Bauchi State Government, on Thursday, declared a two-day break for all public schools ahead of Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections. This was disclosed by the state Commissioner for Education, Hajiya Jamila Dahiru, during a news conference in Bauchi. The commissioner further informed that there would also be a …
Read More »Tinubu Reveals How He Will Fight Corruption
All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate Bola Tinubu has given a hint of how he will fight corruption if elected. Tinubu is vying for the presidency against Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP; Atiku Abubakar, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP; Rabiu Kwankwaso, New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, among others. In …
Read More »Niger APC Guber Candidate Says CBN Naira Swap Callous, Inhuman
The Niger State gubernatorial flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Hon. Umar Mohammed Bago, has described the redesigned Naira notes policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, as callous and inhuman. Bago stated this during a friendly meeting with the Niger State Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists, …
Read More »Why INEC Removes Imo PDP Candidate Election List
The Independent National Electoral Commission has removed the name of the Peoples Democratic Party candidate for Aboh Mbaise/Ngor Okpala federal constituency, Imo State, Albert Agulanna from the list of House of Representatives candidates scheduled for the February 25 election. The withdrawal followed the court order by the Appeal Court …
Read More »We Won’t Be Your Scapegoat – Supreme Court Tells Federal Government
ABUJA– The Supreme Court, on Wednesday, said it would not allow the Federal Government and states of the federation to turn the Judiciary to a scapegoat in the legal dispute that is currently trailing the ban on use of the N200, N500 and N1000 banknotes as valid legal tenders. …
Read More »Labour Party Criticizes Governor Wike For Backing Tinubu
Labour Party, LP in Rivers State has criticized Governor Nyesom Wike, over speculations about his support for the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC Bola Tinubu. National Vice Chairman, South South, Labour Party, Favour Reuben, during a briefing with newsmen in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, said Wike’s …
Read More »Tinubu Living In The Past – Presidential Poll
Former Governor of Kano State and Senator Representing Kano Central Senatorial District, Senator Ibrahim Shekarau has hit the All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, describing him as a candidate living in the past. “I wonder, how a Presidential candidate, who is boasting that he knows what is happening …
Read More »Over 1000 PDP, LP, NNPP Members Defect To APC In Yobe
Over one thousand members of four political parties have defected to the All Progressives Congress in Yobe State. The affected parties are the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP); Labour Party, (LP); New Nigeria Peoples Party, (NNPP); and African Democratic Congress, (ADC). Receiving the new entrants into the fold of APC in …
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