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Dino Melaye, former Kogi west senator, says the use of “successor” by President Muhammadu Buhari in his address to the All Progressives Congress (APC) governors is undemocratic. Speaking at a meeting with APC governors on Tuesday, Buhari said as the second term governors have been “accorded the privilege” of choosing their successors, he […]

Peter Umeadi, a former chief judge of Anambra state, has been elected as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). He was declared the winner of the primary election which was held on Wednesday. Umeadi was unopposed in the primary as his candidacy was affirmed by 150 delegates at a […]

The national working committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has issued a certificate of return to Atiku Abubakar, winner of the party’s presidential primary election. Atiku was handed the certificate of return on Wednesday at the party’s headquarters in Abuja. The former vice-president polled 371 votes to clinch the ticket […]

Foxy old Buhari. Artful. Deliberate. Unassuming but redoubtable. Principled but unaffected. He guards his mystery. He hardly betrays emotion. He keeps his real intentions secreted in layers and layers of very few inscrutable words – and most times in obfuscating silence. Take his ‘’obliviousness’’ for a lack of presence of mind at your own […]

Some travellers have been reportedly kidnapped by bandits along Kaduna-Birnin-Gwari road in Kaduna state. The bandits were said to have blocked the highway on Tuesday to attack the travellers. Eight vehicles were reportedly razed by the bandits during the attack. Ibrahim Nagwari, chairman of Birnin Gwari vanguards for security and good […]

Governors on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Tuesday, held a meeting behind closed doors in Abuja. The meeting of the progressive governors’ forum (PGF) held hours after the APC governors met with President Muhammadu Buhari. Details of the meeting, which was said to have held at the Kebbi […]

Edwin Clark, elder statesman and leader of the Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), says Iyorchia Ayu is not fit to remain in his position as chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Clark was speaking on the happenings at the PDP presidential primary. On May 28, shortly before voting commenced at the primary, […]

Mohammed Yohanna, north-east zonal chairman of the association of hunters/vigilantes, says members of his team have killed a Boko Haram commander and his deputy in Borno state. Yohanna, who said this on Tuesday in an interview with journalists, said there was a clash between insurgents and the hunters at Shaffa Taku village of […]

Johnmary Jideobi, a lawyer, has approached a federal high court in Abuja to challenge the eligibility of Atiku Abubakar, former vice-president, to contest the presidency. Abubakar was, on Saturday, elected to represent the PDP as the party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 general election. The plaintiff, in the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/751/2022, is contending […]