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In the main opposition Party, Peoples Democratic Party, there is uncertainty at the weekend about the party’s participation in the governorship election. This followed an escalation of the party’s leadership crisis, as the two men who laid claim to its headship sends different electoral panels to the state for the party’s governorship primaries scheduled to hold tomorrow. And the Independent …

Mr. Godwin Obaseki on Saturday emerged the governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress in Edo State ahead of the September 10 election to choose a successor to Governor Adams Oshiomhole. Obaseki beat 11 other contestants to pick the ticket of the state’s ruling party in the governorship primaries whose run-up was mostly tense. Obaseki polled 1,608 votes. The other aspirants …

By Alltimepost.Com Our Correspondent, Oladipo Airenakho on the ground reported that as at 4:55 pm Nigerian time, the primary had not started and that the Chairman of the committee, overseeing the process, Governor Aminu Masari just arrived at the venue with members of his committee. Details later

A Federal High Court sitting in Awka, Anambra State has told the police that they have no power to arrest any suspect before investigation. This was coming pursuant to a fundamental human right matter brought before the court by a lawyer, Mr. Ndubuisi Onyeakpa. Onyeakpa had in the petition alleged that no fewer than 20 policemen had scaled his wall …

There are strong indications that civil servants are likely to forfeit part of their salary arrears as the financial situations in the states worsen. Nigeria has been hit by an economic crisis triggered by the drop in the international prices of crude oil and most state governments are currently reeling under heavy wage bill amid drop in federal allocations and …

Fresh trouble for Senate President Bukola Saraki is on the way with the resolve of the Federal Government to press forgery charges against him and his deputy, Senator Ike Ekweremadu. The suit against the two presiding officers of the Senate, which flow from last year’s Senate leadership election, is coming more than a year after police investigations into the alleged …

Former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, friday slammed a N100 million suit on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) before the Federal High Court in Lagos over an alleged breached of his fundamental human rights. This suit came at the heels of the recent raid by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Obanikoro’s Ikoyi, Lagos …

By Kingsley Abavo Benin, Nigeria – Governor Aminu Masari, Chairman of the Committee deployed in Edo State by the national body of the All Progressives Congress to conduct the June 18 gubernatorial election of the party in the State has promised that it would be fair to all aspirants in the primary election. Alhaji Masari made the declaration yesterday during …

The House of Representatives has said it has commenced investigations into allegations of sexual misconduct against three of its members by the United States embassy, even as the embassy has already revoked the US visas of the accused lawmakers. The US ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. James Entwistle, in a June 9, 2016 letter to Speaker Yakubu Dogara, accused three lawmakers …

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has developed and launched a new mobile application aimed at recruiting and indoctrinating children for the purpose of furthering its Jihad course. A statement issued by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in Abuja on Thursday said the mobile application, tagged ‘Huroof’ (Arabic alphabets or letters), is to be used …