Chief Albert Horsfall Ernest Chinwo in Port Harcourt Elder statesmen and leaders in Rivers state have called on the people of the state and entire Niger Delta region to vote for President Goodluck Jonathan in the forth-coming presidential election. The statesmen and leaders, under the aegis of Rivers Elders and Leaders Council (RELEC), said their…
General Muhammadu Buhari All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, who left the shores on Nigeria controversially for London two weeks ago for medical attention as well as to make a speech at Chatham House, is back in the country. He touched down at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, at 5.40 on…
President Goodluck Jonathan • FG meets with parents of schoolgirls •Elderly men studying Qur’an in Gwoza killed as sect is expelled from MafaJaiyeola Andrews in Abuja and Michael Olugbode in Maiduguri Almost one year after over 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped from Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, and possibly encouraged by the inroads the Nigerian…
Ruling party: We are not against it, insists on test-runUS ambassador backs use of card readers as Odinkalu backs deployment of troops Chuks Okocha , Onyebuchi Ezigbo and Damilola Oyedele in Abuja
The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday said the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) public avowal to oppose the use of Card Readers in this…
The Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation (PDPPCO) on Thursday rose in defence of the First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, saying that she was spot on in her assessment of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) as being “brain-dead.” The Director of Media and Publicity of the PDPPCO,…
Lawyers dismiss request citing Electoral ActChuks Okocha in Abuja
A new controversy has arisen over the conduct of the 2015 polls, as a political party, Young Democratic Party (YDP), which obtained a court judgment on Wednesday ordering the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to register it and include it in the 2015 elections, has demanded that…
SDP governorship candidate, Seyi Makinde As the various political parties in Oyo State gear up for the last lap of their campaigns ahead of the March 28 and April 11 elections, the party leaders, especially the governorship candidates, have been called upon to warn their supporters against violence. This call was made by the governorship…
Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, Sam Amadi Nume Ekeghe with agency report Nigeria’s electricity industry is being hindered by producers’ inability to raise finance and natural-gas shortages, curbing companies’ ability to boost INVESTMENT in output as the country suffers from daily blackouts, the country’s energy regulator has said. Peak electricity output of Africa’s…
The APC Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCPCO) has warned that the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) and Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON), two regulatory agencies of broadcasting and print advertising respectively, are by default promoting violence and hate following their inability to sanction erring radio and television stations, industry players and groups who continuously breach extant…
NNPP Office • Adopts Jonathan as presidential candidateZacheaus Somorin New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has demanded the extension of the collection of the Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). At a press briefing in Lagos on Thursday, the party posited that the extension has become necessary taking into consideration the…