CNPP Expresses Worries Over Rising Cases of Electoral Violence, Urges Security Agencies To Act
Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has lamented that the 2023 general elections has remained under threat despite assurances by relevant stakeholders, including the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security agencies, saying the spate of political violence requires drastic…
Obi of Onitsha, Zik’s Family, Nwobodo, Eze, Others Pour Encomiums on Ugwuanyi for Immortalising Nigeria’s First President
…As governor Inaugurates Nnamdi Azikiwe Centre in Enugu The Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Alfred Nnaemeka Achebe, the wife of the former Premier of the Eastern Region and first President of Nigeria, the late Rt. Hon. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Dame Prof…
Tinubu: Bolaji Akinyemi Petitions CAN, Demands Immediate Removal Of Adegbite
The full text of a petition dated 28th November, 2022 and signed by Dr Bolaji O. Akinyemi, President of Voice Of His Word Ministries, an Apostolic Ministry based in Lagos, and addressed to the National President,Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN),…
Wike Tasks Buhari On Names Governors Stealing Local Govt Allocations
Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike of Rivers State has challenged Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari to name governors who dip their hands in local government funds received from the Federation Account. The governor who dissociated himself from affected state governors was reacting…
COAS Tasks Military Officers On Integrity, Worthy Character
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lieutenant General Faruk Yahaya has urged the 2022 Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) of the Nigerian Army Merit Awardees to be ambassadors of integrity and worthy character. Faruk said this on Thursday in Abuja,…
2023: No Collection Of PVC By Proxy – INEC
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that it would not allow collection of the Permanent Voter Card (PVC) by proxy. The INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in Kebbi State, Alhaji Ahmad Bello-Mahmud, made the assertion in an interview with…
Alleged N206bn Budget Padding: Arrest Finance Minister, HURIWA Tasks EFCC
Cautions EFCC against naming government officials as ‘ambassadors’ since EFCC isn’t chieftaincy awarding institution: Prominent civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), on Monday, tasked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to arrest or invite for…
APC’s Call For Rejection Of BVAS And IREV Ploy To Rig 2023 General Elections – Says CUPP Scribe
The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has described statements credited to the National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC) Senator Abdullahi Adamu and the party’s Organizing Secretary Suleiman Argungun saying that Nigeria is not ripe and ready for…
Banditry: Giwa Community Buries 11 Slain Victims
The Rafin Sarki community of Fatika district in Giwa Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Friday buried 11 of its members killed by gunmen who attacked the village on Thursday. Explaining the circumstances that led to the killings, a…
Ekiti Speakership: HURIWA Backs Afe Babalola, Faults Removal of Aribisogan
…Urges Aribisogan to Head To Court, Says Political Rascality Endangers Democracy Prominent civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), on Friday, faulted the removal of Gboyega Aribisogan as the Speaker of Ekiti State House of Assembly…
You Can’t Intimidate Our Presidential Candidate, SDP Warns APC, Security Agencies
Social Democratic Party (SDP) has decried attempts at intimidating its Presidential Candidate as the ongoing 2023 general electioneering campaign progresses, saying that all trumped up records of criminal allegations against its presidential flagbearer, Prince Adewole Adebayo, would all fail. Nigeria’s…