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Chief John Odigie-Oyegun-led All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential screening committee may have ranked Vice President Yemi Osinbajo top of the 23 aspirants jostling to secure the party’s presidential ticket for the 2023 election. The committee had announced that it cleared 13 of the aspirants to contest the primaries due to hold on Monday and Tuesday but was mum on the …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on Saturday, met with the Edo Diaspora community in Germany, reeling out gains from the government’s investments in agriculture, technology, education and healthcare, among other sectors. Obaseki, while highlighting opportunities for investment in the state, said his government will sustain reforms and programmes to make Edo a modern and progressive state where every citizen …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday released the Regulations and Guidelines for the Conduct of Elections in 2022. The guidlines that supersede all other regulations were released by Mahmood Yakubu, the INEC Chairman,during a special meeting of the Inter-agency Consultative committee on election security (ICCES) in Abuja, to review security arrangement for the Ekiti State governorship election. The News Agency …

The ruling party All Progressives Congress (APC) says it will proceed with its special convention without statutory delegates despite the pronouncement by the Federal High Court in Kano. The party will hold the convention to elects its presidential candidate for the 2023 election from June 6 to 8. The court on Friday, held that statutory delegates can participate in the primaries of …

The lawmaker representing Edo North Senatorial District, Senator Francis Alimikhena, on Saturday, emerged as the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP. . Declaring Senator Alimikhena as the winner of the Senatorial Primary election held in Auchi Public field Edo State, the returning officer, Pastor Kenneth said the Senator polled 181 votes of the 189 total votes cast The Primary …

APC national chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu and the national leader of the party, Bola Tinubu The leadership of the All Progressives Congress has said the party may punish its national leader and presidential aspirant, Bola Tinubu, over his utterances about the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) a few days ago. The APC national chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, disclosed this …

The Indigenous People of Biafra has cautioned those involved in the killings, kidnappings and criminalities going on in the South-East region to stop if they want the Biafra freedom to be realised. The secessionist group said those who claimed to be IPOB members and others need to understand that enemies will capitalise on the killings and insecurity in the South-East …

Edo State Government has turned to Association of Nigeria Physicians in the Americas (ANPA) and have both commenced treatment of indigent patients in the state with the use of telemedicine, as part of the effort to improve access to affordable and quality healthcare. Edo State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Obehi Akoria, said today, while addressing journalists at the Oredo Primary …

• Panel Ask NWC To Take Definite Position On Zoning• Fear In Tinubu’s Camp • Party Has Channel For Appeal, Say Stakeholders• Presidential Ticket Not Exclusive Preserve Of Anybody — Adamu• Only Tinubu Can Defeat Atiku, Shettima, Others Insist• Buhari Returns From Spain Ahead National Convention Indications emerged yesterday that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) might disqualify 10 out …

The leadership of the All Progressives Congress has thrown its weight behind the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), following the scathing remarks of a presidential aspirant and the National Leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Tinubu had while speaking to the party’s delegates in Ogun State on Thursday claimed that without him, Buhari would not have become president in …