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Ahead of the February 25 presidential election, the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council is planning an alliance with smaller parties in a bid to boost the chances of its presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. The PUNCH gathered that the PCC and the party had been making overtures to the parties to adopt Tinubu as their standard bearer. Findings indicated …

IT will be unfair to the 18 candidates jostling to succeed President Buhari if one were to say they have not assessed the burden they are asking to be placed on their heads. Majority of them have impressive credentials in leadership and experience. They have released volumes of ideas, strategies and plans around the most challenging issues the nation faces, …

*VP commends Odu’a Investment Co.’s legacy, vision Investment in technology is the way of the future, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, who spoke earlier today while receiving a delegation of the Odu’a Investment Company at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. While commending the legacy of the conglomerate and the vision that birthed it decades ago, Prof. Osinbajo said, “legacy …

…Assures residents of measures to check crime …Police rescues another victim Edo State Deputy Governor, Rt. Hon. Comrade Philip Shaibu has said the government is strengthening security to check crime and criminality, vowing that the Governor Godwin Obaseki-led administration will make the state unsafe for kidnappers and other criminal elements to thrive. Shaibu disclosed this today after a meeting with …

Clarifies Tinubu’s yahoo boys comment in Edo rally. The Edo State Media and Publicity Directorate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) has called on the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and his Labour Party counterpart, Peter Obi to drop their ambition for the APC candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.    The …

An aide to Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, Terver Akase, has debunked reports which claimed that the G-5 governors has endorsed the presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, in the 2023 elections. Akase, Ortom’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, made this known in a statement on Tuesday. The PDP G-5 governors made up of Nyesom Wike …

–Urges INEC to tackle “old politics” designed to disenfranchise citizens An interfaith group on Tuesday raised the alarm over the alleged deliberate denial of access to the electorate to collect their Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs based on ethnic or partisan considerations. The group said such deliberate action is an indication of manipulations to disenfranchise citizens that registered for the exercise. …

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has said that “God has helped” his regime to “clear Boko Haram” in the North-East. The President noted that the threat of terrorism was the most critical security challenge inherited by his regime but expressed delight that normalcy had returned to affected states in the North-East. Buhari, therefore, declared that he had fulfilled …

The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Olukayode Ariwoola, on Tuesday, vowed that the judiciary on his watch would not be cowed into “silence”. Mr Ariwoola, who assumed office last June, lamented that “the rule of law has been assailed from all fronts in this country, especially by those who are supposed to uphold and guard it jealously.” The CJN, who was represented …

Primary school teachers in Kuje Area Council, FCT, on Monday, embarked on an indefinite strike over the alleged failure by the Council’s Chairman to reach agreements with the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT). The Chairman of the Kuje branch, Mr Audu Lucky, disclosed this in a statement signed by four union executives and issued to the News Agency of Nigeria …