Nigeria’s main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar has finally unveiled Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State as his running mate. Atiku unveiled Okowa at the PDP headquarters in Abuja on Thursday. Okowa and Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State were initially pencilled down for the role of Atiku’s running […]
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Nigeria’s leading opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has said it will announce its vice presidential candidate for the 2023 elections in the next few hours. This was made known by the National Publicity Secretary of the party Debo Ologunagba, on Wednesday, June 15, 2022. Speaking with Daily Trust, the spokesman urged Nigerians to […]
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Following the tragic attack on Saint Francis Catholic Church in Owo on 5th June, worshipers of the ‘god of iron’ in the town have vowed to perform open rituals against the gunmen behind the dastardly act. The rites would performed in order to invoke the deity to punish the gunmen who carried out the attack. […]
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Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, has denied that he will leave the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Wike, in a statement signed by his media aide, Kelvin Ebiri, was reacting to a viral video which claimed the governor was threatening to defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). In the statement made available on […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has set up a committee to screen its nominated Vice Presidential Candidate for the 2023 general elections. The party announced this in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Debo Ologunagba on Wednesday in Abuja. Ologunagba said the setting up of the Presidential Candidate Screening Committee by the […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential flag bearer, Atiku Abubakar is scheduled to meet with governors of the party. The meeting is aimed at concluding plans on who will emerge as Atiku’s running mate ahead of the 2023 elections. A notice of the meeting was made public by the Secretariat of the PDP Governors Forum, […]
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The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, on Wednesday, criticised the President Muhammadu Buhari led government for allegedly compounding the security challenges of the country by allowing the strike by lecturers in public universities to linger for over four months since it started on February 14, 2022. HURIWA, in a statement by its National […]
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The Senator representing Abia South Senatorial District, Eyinnaya Abaribe, has officially resigned his membership from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to join the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). Abaribe’s resignation letter was read by the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, during Wednesday’s plenary. Until his resignation, Abaribe was the Minority Leader in the Senate. […]
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A brother to Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel laureate, Professor Femi Soyinka has passed away. Femi an ex-Provost of the College of Health Sciences of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, died on Tuesday at age 85. In a statement by his family, signed by his son, Ayodele, Soyinka died at his home in Kukumada Village, Ibadan, Oyo […]
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The Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Uzor Kalu, has given reasons why the All Progressives Congress, APC, should field a Muslim-Muslim ticket in 2023. Kalu noted in his opinion that it would be difficult for APC’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, to win if he failed to pick a Muslim as his running mate. Speaking […]
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