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The Senator representing Yobe-East, Bukar Abba Ibrahim, has given a damning verdict on the performance of his party, the All Progressives Congress, over the last three years. Ibrahim who was a three-time governor of Yobe State said the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC was in many ways not better than the Peoples Democratic Party it defeated in 2015. The APC senator …

A Nigerian senator and member of the ruling All Progressives Congress has strongly condemned President Muhammadu Buhari’s performance in the last three years, saying his failures are waiting to catch up with him at the general elections next February. Bukar Abba Ibrahim, a former governor who represents Yobe East Senatorial District, said Mr Buhari deviated from the crucial issues that …

LAGOS—Ahead of November 6 nationwide strike to compel government to peg a new minimum wage at N30,000, organized labour will tomorrow hold mass protest across the country as part of sensitization of workers and Nigerians for the planned industrial action. Labour This came as organized labour urged workers not to be deterred by the government’s threat of “no work, no …

The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has expressed deep sadness over the passing of elder statesman, Chief Anthony Anenih, whose death was reported on Sunday. The governor, in a statement, said that Anenih’s death is a huge loss to the state and the nation as the elder statesman devoted a better part of his life to the development of …

Former Minister of Works and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Tony Anenih is dead. Mr Anenih, 85, died on Sunday evening at Cedarcrest Hospital, Abuja, where he was receiving treatment for an undisclosed ailment. According to wikipedia Mr Anthony Akhakon Anenih was born in Uzenema-Arue in Uromi. In 1951 he joined the Nigeria police force in Benin …

“We have to take an interest in the quality of our leaders and representatives in the level of education. If you look around this country at many levels of leadership, we have elected and we have chosen to elect people who do not have education. And because they are not educated, they cannot give education. The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu …

Supporters of the embattled National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, have started mobilising support for him in case those seeking his removal make good their threat to move against him this week. We gathered in Abuja, on Saturday, that lawmakers especially senators, who were favoured by Oshiomhole’s intervention during the recently concluded party primaries, had started reaching …

Members of the factional Boko Haram sect, who kidnapped Leah Sharibu alongside no fewer than 109 students in Dapchi, Yobe State, early this year, have demanded N100bn ransom before the girl could be released, a diplomatic source told SUNDAY PUNCH on Saturday. The source, which claimed to be involved in the negotiation for the release of the schoolgirl, said there …

Ahead of the 2019 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has revealed that 79 political parties have submitted names of their presidential candidate. The chairman of the commission, Mahmood Yakubu, said this during a press briefing with journalist at the headquarters of the commission in Maitama, Abuja. The chairman also said aside the 79 presidential candidates, 89 parties …

The Federal Government of Nigeria will decide on a new national minimum wage on Monday, Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has said. Mr Ngige who spoke with State House correspondents Friday said an “enlarged meeting of all key stakeholders in the government circle at both federal and states has been scheduled for Monday.” Labour unions in the country …