Kayode Fayemi, Minister of Mines and Steel Development and aspirant in Saturday’s All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary in Ekiti, has expressed satisfaction with the conduct of the exercise. Mr Fayemi, a former governor of the state, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ado-Ekti, shortly after polling that the process was commendable. “I […]
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The Imo chapter of the All Progressive Congress (APC) says it has shifted Saturday’s local government congress in the state to Monday, citing advice by the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) as reason. Chairman of the party in the state, Mr Hilary Eke, said in a statement on Saturday in Owerri, that the advice to […]
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The crisis rocking the River state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) took a new turn on Friday as lawyers and judges were chased out of a high court in Port Harcourt, with at least two persons killed and properties destroyed. The attackers breached the court security around 11 a.m. in violent bid to […]
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has rescheduled its governorship primary election in Ekiti to Saturday. The party had earlier fixed the election for Friday after the last exercise ended on an inconclusive note. In a statement on Thursday, Bolaji Abdullahi, spokesman of the APC, said the new date was fixed after consultation between the party’s […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari’s medical trip to the UK, saying the president is unfit to attend to state matters. Speaking with journalists subsequently, Kola Ologbondiyan, spokesman of the PDP, said it is unfortunate that the president’s aides often shroud their principal’s health in secrecy. Ologbondiyan said Nigerians have […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Kaduna State on Monday received no fewer than 5,558 All Progressives Congress (APC) members who defected to the party from across the 23 local government areas of the state. The reception which took place at Zonkwa, Zangon Kataf Local Government Area, was attended by prominent PDP officials both at […]
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The crisis rocking the Ekiti State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) after Saturday’s inconclusive primary took a different dimension on Monday as police have sealed the party’s secretariat. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that protesters, who claimed to be sympathetic to the aspiration of the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, […]
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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s office has revealed details of mind-boggling corruption during the Jonathan era and even called them a tip of the iceberg. The details were published last night in a reaction to the accusations by spin doctors of former President Goodluck Jonathan, who claimed Osinbajo made unsubstantiated allegations about grand corruption during the […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday in Daura, Katsina state met behind closed doors with Governors Rochas Okorocha of Imo and Abdul aziz Yari of Zamfara. The President’s Personal Assistant on New Media, Alhaji Bashir Ahmad confirmed this development on his Twitter handle on Sunday. He posted: “President Muhammadu Buhari this evening received chairman of the […]
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Voting at the ongoing governorship primary of the All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has stopped, as violent thugs disrupted the process. They attacked the ballot boxes and smashed it to the ground, emptying the ballot papers on the ground. The security agencies, who were caught unawares, had a serious time as they tried to […]
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