The All Progressives Congress (APC) has changed the date for its rescheduled governorship primary in Ekiti State to Saturday May 12. The party had on Tuesday rescheduled the botched primary for Friday May 11. But a statement on Thursday by the party’s publicity secretary, Alhaji Bolaji Abdullahi, said the primary will now commence at 8a.m […]
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The lingering crisis rocking Nigeria\’s ruling party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, degenerated on Wednesday as a faction, named Reformed All Progressives Congress, rAPC, and headed by an estranged associate of President Muhammadu Buhari, Alhaji Buba Galadima, emerged. Galadima, who announced the new formation at a press conference on Wednesday at the Sheraton Towers, Abuja, […]
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The National Chairman of the All Progressives, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, has appealed to aggrieved members of the party to be patient with his leadership, in an apparent response to the emergence on Wednesday of the Reformed APC. His words: My appeal to all those who are aggrieved is to be patient\’ However, former Senate Leader and the […]
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Police Inspector General, Mr Ibrahim Idris will arrive Ekiti State next week to firm up the security arrangements being planned for the July 14 Governorship poll in the state. Already the state police command is making arrangements to receive their boss on the scheduled one-day official visit. Police spokesman in the state, Mr Caleb Ikechuckwu, told […]
Continue ReadingA faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, Unity Forum, has finally resolved to join the African Democratic Congress (ADC). A leader of the group, Wasiu Olatunbosun, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, in a telephone interview in Ibadan on Monday. The defection of members of the group into […]
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OVER 500,000 people are killed yearly by revolvers, pistols, assault rifles, machine guns and other similar weapons, a new UN report, ‘Small Arms Survey’, has found. According to UN Chef de Cabinet, Maria Viotti, the small arms and light weapons, which ended up on battlefields or urban streets and elsewhere, constitute a big problem for […]
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Nigeria’s former Vice President between 1999 and 2007, and now a presidential aspirant, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, is disturbed by the alarm raised by former President Olusegun Obasanjo that the President Muhammadu Buhari administration plots to arrest him on framed-up charges. Obasanjo had in a statement on Friday, alerted that he had been reliably informed […]
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The Federal Government has been asked by the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, to honour posthumously the wife Chief Moshood Abiola, Kudirat, who was assassinated while campaigning for the restoration of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election, won by Abiola. It made the call in a statement on Friday in Abuja […]
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THE Federal Government has dismissed former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s allegation of frame-up and impending arrest as groundless and the concoction of a mind worried by guilt. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, gave the government response in Lagos on Friday, saying the Buhari Administration will not be distracted by frivolous allegations from […]
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AMBASSADOR Babagana Kingibe, running mate of late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Abiola in the June 12, 1993 presidential election, said Federal Government’s declaration of the day as Democracy Day was a great honour. He also commended President Muhammadu Buhari for the announcement that national honour would be conferred on Abiola, acclaimed winner of the election, […]
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