Ortom to Nigerians: Dump APC for PDP

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has called on Nigerians suffering injustices in the All Progressives Congress (APC) and other political parties to join Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as the umbrella is big enough to accommodate them. He made the declaration, yesterday, while hosting APC chieftain and 2019 House of Representative candidate for Makurdi/Guma Constituency, Hon […]

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Lagos supports 3,000 farmers with inputs, tools as Sanwo-Olu flags off value chains venture

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu test-driving a tractor at the flag-off of the 2021 Agricultural Value Chains Enterprise Activation programme at Police College, Ikeja Lagos State is adjudged the smallest state in the country by landmass, lacking the large tracts of land available to other states for cultivation of crops and agriculture. And though […]

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National Convention: APC still divided over leadership defects, way forward

Mai Mala Buni. Photo: Twitter / Bunimedia Buni seeks new lease amid contentions over upcoming convention Party Gasps In Throes Of Narrow Interests, Ambush Politicking Chairmanship Aspirants Kick Against Consensus Option  Group Rejects Ex-govs As Party Chairman Following the conduct of its ward congresses and in the aftermath of the Supreme Court judgment, which voted […]

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Thousands flee Zangon Kataf, Kauru as herdsmen sustain massacres

Government Sues For Calm ‘My Husband Was Burnt To Ashes By Our Assailants’ In the last few weeks, thousands of villagers in Zangon Kataf and Kauru local councils, in Southern Kaduna attacked by militias have fled the area to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps and other places where they can find refuge. Several villagers trooped […]

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APC battles to placate aggrieved members over rancorous congresses

John Alechenu examines the recently concluded All Progressives Congress ward congresses and posits that although the judicial hurdle has been surmounted, the bigger task of regaining the confidence of aggrieved members has just started. The governing All Progressives Congress won the hearts of many Nigerians prior to the 2015 general elections. This translated into massive […]

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Afenifere criticises 24 sureties for Igboho’s associates’ bail as oppressive

Afenifere, the Pan Yoruba socio-political group, has kicked against the demand for 24 sureties by the court to bail associates of Yoruba Nation agitator, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly called Sunday Igboho Leader of the group, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, in an interview, described the bail conditions as “impossible” and a sign of an “oppressive regime” of […]

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Plateau killings abominable, against Islamic teachings -JNI

Urges security agencies to fish out perpetrators with their collaborators and ensure they face the full wrath of the law The Plateau State chapter of the Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI) has described the recent killings in some parts of Plateau, particularly in Bassa, Jos South and Riyom local government areas, as “abominable” and against the […]

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Family, party members eulogise late PDP scribe, Dosunmu-Shodipe

The two wives of the deceased Family and party members of Muiz Dosunmu-Shodipe, the late Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Lagos State, on Friday eulogised his outstanding virtues of bravery and love for the nation. They all poured encomiums on him at the 8th day prayers held in his honour in Aguda, Surulere, Lagos. […]

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