Politics

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh, says if appropriate measures were not taken to replant after the recent flood, their may be shortage of ricein Nigeria in the coming year, NAN reports. Mr Ogbeh disclosed this in Abuja on Thursday ...

Nairabet owner Akin Alabi has won the All Progressives Congress House of Representative ticket for Egbeda/Ona Ara federal constituency. He clinched an automatic ticket after other contenders stepped down for him.   “I have just been declared the winner of the ...

Ibrahim Babajide Obanikoro, son of former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, has clinched the APC ticket for the House of Representatives Eti-OSA constituency. Ibrahim won the primaries which held in Lagos yesterday, October 4th. Musiliu Obanikoro defected from PDP ...

President Paul Biya of Cameroon will be running for his seventh term in office in the general election which is set to take place on Sunday, October 7, 2018. An ardent supporter of the President decided to show her support by going completely ...

Presidential aspirant, Eunice Atuejide has hit out at top Nigerian novelist, Chimamanda Adichie, saying she is an extremist and misleads girls.   The businesswoman and presidential aspirant under the National Interest Party, Eunice Atuejide is of the opinion that Chimamanda Adichie ...

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Khadija Ibrahim has defeated her step son, Mohammed Ibrahim to clinch the All Progressives Congress, APC ticket for Damaturu/Gulani/Gujba/Tarmuwa, Yobe Federal Constituency. Hajia Ibrahim is the wife of former Yobe State governor, Senator Abba Bukar Ibrahim. ...

The Delta State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) led by Cyril Abeye Ogodo indicates that the party has expelled Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, the senator representing Delta Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly and factional senatorial candidate in the ...

A student of the Federal College of Education (Technical) Asaba, on Wednesday, has been shot dead by policeman during an APC primary in Delta State. According to The Punch, A policeman deployed to the venue of the All Progressives Congress’ Delta North Senatorial ...

Sokoto State governor and presidential aspirant on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, Aminu Tambuwal, has said he is running for the office of the President of Nigeria out of his patriotic desire to revive the country’s “dying economy”, The Punch reports. ...

Winner of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary election in Lagos state, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has mentioned that the fatherly role of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the National Leader of the party, cannot be taken for granted.   According to Daily Post, Sanwo-Olu, who was ...

  The Lagos state Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, has addressed the state following his defeat in Tuesday’s primary. In his address, he congratulated his rival Babajide Sanwo-Olu and other members of the party Ambode lost the All Progressives Congress (APC) primary to ...

  PDP Chieftain Femi Fani-Kayode has called out the Senior pastor of the Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor Kumuyi and his wife, Esther, over their recent visit to President Buhari at the state house Abuja. In a post he shared on ...

Babjide Sanwo-Olu has released an official statement on his Lagos state All Progressive Congress, APC, gubernatorial primary victory.   The Director General, Babajide Sanwo-olu Campaign Organisation, Tayo Ayinde has issued an official statement following yesterdays polls.   See statement below; ‘We ...

Femi Adesina, Spokesman of President Muhammadu Buhari, has said the corruption ranking of the country is about Nigerians and not the government. He said Nigerians share in the blame of the country’s bad ranking in Transparency International’s (TI) corruption perception ...

  Dino Melaye, the senator representing Kogi West in the National Assembly, has secured the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ticket for the same seat in the 2019 election. He disclosed this on Tuesday, while “thanking God for being returned”. In ...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primaries election which was marred by violence, led to the burning of campaign vehicles of Okorocha’s Son-in-law by Imo youths.   It was gathered that Imo youths from Amaike Community, went off on a rampage as they alleged that supporters ...

The governor of Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has said that President Muhammadu Buhari will be shocked by the actions that Nigerians will take during the 2019 presidential election. In a statement yesterday by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and ...

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Imohimi Edgal has released the phone numbers of the officers to reach out to in distress situation ahead of the All Progressive Congress, APC primaries in Lagos today. The state police spokesman, CSP Chike ...

                   The feud between veteran Fuji music icons, Ayinde Wasiu, popularly known as KWAM1 and Alhaji Abass Akande Obesere, may not be anywhere near ending as Obesere’s management has responded to the insults ...

Nigerian Senator representing Bayelsa East in the red chamber, Ben Bruce, has withdrawn from the senatorial race and he has gone public with this.   In a letter written on the eve of the senatorial primaries of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Ben Bruce thanked ...

The PDP governorship primaries in Gombe state which held inside the government house, took a different turn this afternoon after a serving senator, Bayero Nafada, allegedly slapped a commissioner in the state during a heated argument.   The venue for the ...

The security at Tinubu’s residence in Bourdillon, Ikoyi area of Lagos state has been on alert as Ambode’s supporters stormed the area to protest.   Ambode’s supporters stormed Tinubu’s residence with placards to show their support for the Lagos Governor who has been in a ...

Adeniyi Akintola, the last of the seven contestants to have withdrawn from the Oyo State governorship primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says he is “sad” and he feels “cheated”, but he has chosen to listen to the advice ...

Nigerian rapper, Olamide, has thrown his weight behind the second term ambition of Akinwunmi Ambode, Governor of Lagos State, under the All Progressives Congress (APC). Ambode, who is currently embroiled in internal party crisis on his candidature, had earlier on ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has visited the two survivors of the crash that occurred in Abuja, involving two aircraft of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF). The president, who visited the NAF officers on Sunday, prayed for their quick recovery. He also ...