POLITICS

The Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Organisation has unveiled a 1,234 member strong Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council headed by Mohammed Zarewa as Chairman. Director General of the Peter Obi Campaign Organisation, Dr. Doyin Okupe, retained his position as DG of the PCC. This was made public by the National Organising Secretary, Mr. Clement Ojukwu, at a […]

A former Deputy Governor of Sokoto State, Mukhtar Shagari, has revealed that he was contacted by the Labour Party to become Peter Obi’s vice presidential candidate. Muktar Shagari, speaking on a Television program titled Politics Today on Tuesday, said he declined the opportunity because he did not believe Obi stood a chance in 2023. Shagari […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission on Tuesday said new Permanent Voter Cards will be made available by November. INEC Chairman Prof Mahmoud Yakubu said this at a National Endowment for Democracy event in Washington DC in the United States. Yakubu said 2.7 million double registrations were weeded out of the last Continuous Voters Registration exercise […]

Henceforth, a Rivers politician, Celestine Omehia, will no longer be known and addressed as a former governor of the state. This followed Governor Nyesom Wike’s ratification of the resolution by the State Assembly that Omehia, who was sacked by the Supreme Court in 2007, after about five months in office, be de-recognising. Governor Wike, at […]

On Wednesday, the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the forthcoming election, Mr Peter Obi, was at Harvard University, in continuation of his international consultations with the diasporas. There at a plenary fireside chat, the former governor of Anambra State, reeled out the plans he has for when he becomes president of Nigeria. […]

The women’s wing of the All Progressives Congress on Wednesday held a rally in Owerri, the Imo State capital. The APC women in the South-East also endorsed the party’s presidential candidate Bola Tinubu as well as other candidates of the party at all levels. The rally took place at the Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu Square […]

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Adamu, is currently meeting with six governors of the party and some APC National Working Committee (NWC) members in Abuja over the Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) list of the party’s 2023 Presidential Candidate, Bola Tinubu. Also at the national secretariat of the party in Abuja, […]

Reverend Father Mbaka, the Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry, Enugu, Nigeria (AMEN), has denied prophesying against the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi. Father Mbaka in a new video on the AMEN’s official page, stated that he never mentioned the former Anambra State governor’s name during his sermon. There had been reports […]

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) says it is collaborating with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct free, fair and credible elections in 2023. Matthew Alao, UNDP Team Lead, Governance, Peace and Security, disclosed this at the opening of a two-day training organised by the UN body in Port Harcourt on Friday. According […]

The leadership of the House of Representatives will seek an audience with President Muhammadu Buhari on the resolution of the ongoing face-off between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) with the outcome of its interactions with stakeholders in the dispute, Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila said on Thursday. This is as the […]