The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has ordered political parties to submit copies of their membership register to the Commission, 30 days before their primary elections. INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu said the directive was in compliance with the new Electoral Act 2022. Yakubu spoke at the second regular quarterly meeting of Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs)…
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has clarified that his Kano State counterpart, Abdullahi Ganduje’s comment that he (Wike) will be a good loser in the forthcoming presidential election was a mere joke. Recall that Ganduje had on Monday, told Wike that he would not be able to actualise his presidential ambition. Ganduje who spoke…
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Thursday, in Jalingo, the capital of Taraba State, said any government that cannot protect the lives and property of its citizens does not deserve to be in power. Wike, a presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), stated this while in the state to canvass…
Enugu West General Assembly (EWGA) mourns the death of our dear patron. It was indeed a very sad news for us to have learnt of the untimely demise of our great Royal Father, true friend and mentor. Very sad because we have lost a rare gem. Sad because a strong personality has answered the final…
President Muhammadu Buhari says the executive arm of the government will continue to respect the judiciary within the boundaries laid out in the Constitution in order to strengthen the country’s democracy. Buhari said this while speaking at the Iftar (breaking of Ramadan fast) dinner he hosted for the leadership of the country’s judiciary on Thursday…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has released N3.5 billion rebate incentive to various exporters who sold goods through the Importers and Exporters Window. The CBN Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, made the announcement at the Bankers’ Committee’s 30th meeting on Thursday. The apex bank had in February announced policies, plans and programmes for non-oil exports that would enable…
As violent operations occasioned by unknown gunmen returned to the southeast, accusing fingers have been pointed at a disciple of the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, a relatively unknown Simon Ekpa who posts issues of Biafra and signs off as: “Simon Ekpa, Nnamdi Kanu’s Disciple on Biafra Restoration”. Indeed, he seems cast in the…
PDP Presidential aspirant and Rivers governor Nyesom Wike has said that he would replicate Rivers’ socio-economic growth and infrastructural development at the centre, if elected President in 2023. Wike said this on Saturday in Jos when he addressed delegates expected to decide the fate of Peoples Democratic Party aspirants ahead of the 2023 general elections….
…Says Nigeria has become one big emergency national hospital. …Says Nigerians no longer recognise their country. The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Hassan Matthew Kukah has told President Muhammadu Buhari that Nigerians no longer recognise their country which has been battered and buffeted by men and women from the dark womb of time. In his Easter message…
The Yoruba Global Alliance, YGA, on Sunday, faulted the proposed plan to conduct a census in 2023 describing it as a self-serving political miscalculation and misadventure In a statement by its President and Chairman of Council, Dr Amos Akingba and Chief Tola Adeniyi, the group questioned the rationale for a national headcount approved by the Council of…
