Accreditation and voting at the APC Gubernatorial Primaries, are yet to commence at the various centres according to the latest report by the Chairman of the Lagos Governorship Electoral panel, His Excellency Chief Clement Ebri. Distribution of electoral material to commence by 1pm today,
Nigerian musician, Mr Eazi has declared his intention to run for a political party in his home town, Yewa, Ogun state. He made the disclosure today in his Independent Day message. He wrote; ”Happy Independence Day to my Great Country, she makes me believe that regardless of unfavourable conditions i can make it!! That is […]
The opposition party, PDP has demanded the cancellation of the re-run gubernatorial election in Osun State. According to a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbodiyan, ‘PDP demands the cancellation of the re-run gubernatorial election in Osun State. We demand to return our gubernatorial candidate, Senator Nurudeen Ademola Adeleke, by INEC as elected
Senator Joshua Dariye who currently is serving a 14-year jail term over financial misdeeds while serving as Plateau governor, has picked his All Progressives Congress (APC) nomination form to contest next year’s election. “Yes, Sen. Dariye has picked a nomination form to seek a third term. It is true. He is among those jostling for […]
Governor Rochas Okorocha has said he will shake his former Chief of Staff, Uche Nwosu, as the incoming governor of the state, after 2019 gubernatorial election in Imo state, adding that by then, he would have become the immediate past governor. Okorocha spoke at the Imo government house, during the swearing ceremony of Mr Mark […]
The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, has said that the 2019 general elections would not affect the board’s 2019/2020 examination. He made this remark while fielding questions from journalists shortly after delivering the 2018 Annual Sobo Sowemimo Lecture of the Abeokuta Club in Abeokuta. Oloyede said that since the […]
These are the names of well meaning Nigerians that have declared interest in becoming president in 2019. See the list below: LIST OF THOSE WHO WANT TO BE NIGERIA’S NEXT PRESIDENT Kingsley Moghalu Sule Lamido Donald Duke Kabiru Tanimu Turaki Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi Ibrahim Dankwambo Muhammadu Buhari Fela Durotoye Funmilayo Adesanya-Davies Remi Sonaiya Thomas-Wilson Ikubese
Senate President Bukola Saraki has confirmed he has been consulting and he is considering running against President Muhammadu Buhari in the February 2019 election. He made the confirmation in a wide-ranging interview with Bloomberg in Abuja. Saraki who had evaded the question on his interest in the country’s number one position at a press conference […]
No doubt Imo State is one of the states to be watched in the 2009 General Election in Nigeria. This is so because Imo State is a state where no political party can authoritatively claim it holds sway. The people of Imo State can vote out a sitting governor, can equally vote in a young […]
Reverend King, who is currently incarcerated in prison has his campaign posters already flooding the streets. The convicted prisoner is said to be running for the Presidency in the 2109 election under the platform of the Advanced Peoples Democratic Alliance (APDA). The General Overseer of Christian Praying Assembly (CPA), was was arraigned on September 26, […]
As part of preparation for the 2019 general elections, Bayelsa State governor, Hon Seriake Dickson has asked his appointees, who want to contest for any political office to resign their appointments on or before the 15th of this month. Governor Dickson, who stated this, during an interactive meeting with all political appointees at the Chief […]
…President to Ekiti residents: Don’t waste your vote, vote for APC, vote for Fayemi …I’m running on track record, says Fayemi Ekiti people and residents on Tuesday trooped out to welcome President Muhammadu Buhari who stormed Ekiti and was received by the All Progressives Congress (APC) National leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, other National leaders of […]
To sensitise residents of Ekiti on the need for a peaceful governorship election on July 14, the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in the state on Wednesday staged a walk around Ado-Ekiti metropolis. Members of the NUJ, NYSC, Civil Society Organisations as well as students and officials of the Ado-Ekiti Campus of the International Institute […]
Former president Olusegun Obasanjo is determined to confine the Muhammadu Buhari administration into the dustbin of history, come 2019. To achieve his heart’s desire, the Owu-born retired general is leaving nothing to chance as he on Sunday called on God to ensure the defeat of Buhari in the 2019 presidential election. Obasanjo told a town […]
A Pastor at the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Emmanuel Ikechukwu, has declared his intention to run for the office of the President in 2019. Declaring his intention in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Ikechukwu disclosed that his mission was to rescue the nation from ‘economic doldrums.” Ikechukwu, a Pastor at Rivers state Province 10 […]
As the 2019 Ogun governorship election approaches, every party in the state have started strategizing on how to come out triumph. Prior to that, the new Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ogun State chapter, Chief Derin Adebiyi, who emerged the new state chairman at the recent state congress of the party have resigned […]
After winning the primary election in Ekiti State to contest as the next governor of the state, Dr Kayode Fayemi, the Minister of Solid Minerals Development stepped down from his the post. Fayemi made the announcement last Wednesday at a valedictory briefing in Abuja, in order to pursue his governorship ambition in Ekiti State. The […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has expressed its willingness to cooperate with advertising professionals in the country to mitigate hate speeches in the country’s electoral campaigns. A statement posted on INEC online newspaper on Tuesday in Abuja, quoted the commission’s Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu as making the pledge when he received the newly
The Minister of Women Affairs, Sen. Aisha Alhassan, has said the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) will not only win Gombe and Taraba States in 2019 but also lead Nigeria forever. Sen. Alhassan, who is popularly known as ‘Mama Taraba’, said this at the APC national secretariat in Abuja on Monday shortly after the inauguration […]
A Federal High court in Benin has remanded the former deputy governor of Edo state, Lucky Imasuen, state chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the party’s standard bearer for the 2015 Governorship election, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu along with two aides to Chief Tony Anenih in prison custody. They were remanded in prison custody […]