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The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, says the Federal Government is focusing on more creative ways of getting Nigerians out of poverty and also improve the country’s Human Capital Development indices. Osinbajo made this known while chairing a meeting of the National Economic Council (NEC ), Steering Committee on Human Capital Development on Wednesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He …

A middle aged man who identified himself as Mr. Friday Moses has been paraded by Edo State police Command for allegedly impregnating his 13 year-old biological daughter, following several years of sexual abuse by the suspect. The minor (name withheld) informed police that her father started abusing her sexually when she was six. The suspect and his daughter are from …

According to Oshiomhole, the result of the Imo governorship primary is fake, which necessitated the decision to sack the committee. Adams Oshiomhole, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has sacked the Imo State governorship primary election committee led by Ahmed Gulak. Oshiomhole announced the sack in a session with journalists in Abuja, on Tuesday, after a meeting with …

Angry members of the All Progressives Congress from the six area councils of the Federal Capital Territory stormed the party’s National Secretariat on Wednesday to protest the direct mode of primary imposed on them. The protesters demanded the reversal of the direct primary mode imposed on the FCT by the party’s National Working Committee. Some of the protesters carried placards …

The Ogun State All Progressives Congress Chairman, Chief Derin Adebiyi, has declared the party’s consensus candidate, Adekunle Akinkade, winner of a parallel primary conducted on Tuesday. The party chairman declared Akinlade winner while addressing journalists at the secretariat of the party in Abeokuta on Wednesday. He said Akinlade, the consensus candidate of the Yewa Elders Council and the anointed candidate …

The drama over who gets the Lagos governorship ticket of the All Progressives Party in the 2019 general elections has come to a close as the incumbent Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, has conceded defeat. The governor in a state broadcast congratulated the winner, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, and urged party members to queue behind him and ensure victory for the APC in 2019. …

ABUJA – Chairman of the Imo State Electoral Panel for the All Progressives Congress, APC, Governorship primaries, Alhaji Ahmed Gulak, has debunked the claims by the party’s national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole that the result submitted after the election is fake. Comrade Oshiomhole had told State House correspondents after meeting behind closed-doors with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa Abuja …

Senator Hope Uzodinma has defeated Governor Rochas Okorocha’s son-in-law, Uche Nwosu to win the All Progressives Congress gubernatorial ticket. Uzodinma recoreded 423,895 votes to pick the party’s ticket in the election conducted on Tuesday. Nwosu came seventh with just 10, 329 votes. The result was signed by the returning officer, Ahmed Ali Gulak. We had earlier reported that Gulak disappeared …

The Osun State Governor-elect, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola, has received the certificate of return from the Independent National Electoral Commission. He was given the certificate of return at the INEC office in Osogbo, the Osun State capital on Wednesday by the Director of Legal Services, Mr Oluwatoyin Babalola, who represented the Chairman of the commission, Prof Mahmood Yakubu. Oyetola, who was …

Clement Ebri, the Chairman of the National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress tasked with conducting the Lagos governorship primary, has endorsed the result of the primaries held on Tuesday. Ebri had on Tuesday cancelled the election, saying they had not conducted the election. However, after consultation with the National Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole, Ebri was told …