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The former National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, party, Bolaji Abdullahi has, Friday, also resigned his position as the Chairman of the Sugar Development Council. Abdullahi had, on Wednesday, resigned his publicity position in the APC and as well decamped to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP after alleging, among several other reasons, insubordination of his powers and …

…Thanks party for accepting returnees …Attempt to impeach Saraki’ll be resisted— Tambuwal Saraki, Ortom, Kwankwaso, others attend PDP NEC meeting National Executive Committee, NEC, of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, appointed Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, as its National Leader. The appointment came on a day Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State said any attempt to remove Saraki as Senate …

About 15 presidential aspirants for the 2019 election say they are considering a united front to challenge the current situation. The aspirants stated this in a communique after their meeting on Tuesday. The signatories include Omoyele Sowore, Fela Durotoye, Tope Fasua, and Kingsley Moghalu. They condemned the current ethnic tension across Nigeria. “The ties that bind us together are today …

In what real estate operators and business owners have described as a major turnaround for ease of doing business in the state, the Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has slashed to a minimum of N50,000 the cost for processing Certificate of Occupancy (C-of-O), assuring a 30-day turnaround for processing land titles. Obaseki, who disclosed this during an inspection of …

Nigeria’s former president, Goodluck Jonathan, on Monday played host to another former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, at his country home in Otuoke, Bayelsa State. Mr Obasanjo was in Bayelsa for medical check-up as a guest of the Bayelsa government which launched a new health programme. He made a stop-over at Mr Jonathan’s home. Mr Jonathan, apparently delighted with the visit, later …

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, on Wednesday urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to begin the probe of President Muhammadu Buhari’s security vote. Ortom who spoke to journalists after his broadcast said he never heard of where security vote was investigated. EFCC had on Monday claimed that it had begun investigation of the Benue State governor, house of assembly …

The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole; and some senators elected on the platform of the party led by the Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan, on Wednesday met behind closed doors with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting came amidst the gale of defections being witnessed in the party. Oshiomhole told State House …

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Prince Uche Secondus, on Wednesday night in Abuja, told those who just defected to the former ruling party from the All Progressives Congress to be ready to fight a war. He said the battle to wrest power from the ruling party would be fierce as the APC would not want to yield …

The presidency has finally spoken on a bill that journalists and media advocates say could gag press freedom if passed into law. The Senate pushed the controversial Nigerian Press Council Amendment Bill through second reading earlier this year, eliciting widespread outrage from media practitioners who immediately identified it as an attempt to revive some of the relics of dictatorship that …

Benin City – Gunmen suspected to be cultists have killed a security guard few days after he was released from police custody in Benin City, Edo State Capital. The victim, Okwudili Okolie,35 was murdered at 19, Etinosa Street, off 2nd Ivbiore Street, Ihiogbe quarters, Benin City about 4pm, Sunday, July 22, 2018. Before his gruesome murder, he was said to …