Nearly 50,000 opposition supporters rallied and dozens were arrested in Moscow on Saturday at one of the largest authorised protests since President Vladimir Putin’s return to the Kremlin in 2012. Demonstrators crowded the central Prospekt Andreya Sakharova street, where city authorities deployed a massive police presence, including officers in riot gear, after giving permission for […]
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The Senators representing Bauchi Central and Kwara South respectively, Isa Misau and Rafiu Ibrahim, have warned their counterpart from Katsina South, Abu Ibrahim, and others in the All Progressives Congress (APC) not to foment any trouble when the Senate resumes on September 25, as the Senate President, Abubakar Saraki, will never resign from the position. […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the federal government of plotting to clamp down on opposition figures in order to pave way for Buhari’s self-succession bid. Addressing a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday, Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP spokesman, said the government has set up a committee to “persecute” its leaders. He accused the All […]
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The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, has assured Nigerians that the PDP will play robust and vibrant roles in the nation’s polity in 2018. Mr. Secondus, in a new year message he issued on Saturday in Abuja, said the worst was over for the PDP. He said the opposition party […]
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Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa says the PDP is not playing its expected role as an opposition party due to lack of experience. Dickson, who made the claim during a chat with newsmen in Yenagoa, however, said he remained optimistic that the party would bounce back to winning ways ahead of the 2019 general elections. […]
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