The Northern Traditional Rulers Council has expressed confidence in the ability of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, to lead the electoral body in conducting free, fair and transparent elections ahead of the March 28 and April 11 polls. The northern rulers also said it would neither endorse the Peoples […]
President Goodluck Jonathan | credits: File copy The March 28 presidential election has made some traditional rulers in the South-West geopolitical zone millions of naira richer, SUNDAY PUNCH has learnt. Findings show that this change of fortunes was brought about by President Goodluck Jonathan’s quest for the support of the traditional rulers and their subjects […]
-Punch A national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, says the recent attacks on his person were because he rejected the offer by President Goodluck Jonathan to serve as the Vice President in an Interim National Government. Tinubu said in a statement by his media office on Thursday that having refused […]
Lt. Gen. Martin Luther Agwai (retd.) | credits: www.informationng.com President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday sacked Lt. Gen. Martin Luther Agwai (retd.) as the Chairman of the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme, five days after the former Chief of Army Staff delivered the former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s 78th birthday lecture. The President has named Mr. […]
L-R: Governors Sule Lamido, Jigawa State; Babangida Aliyu, Niger; Godswill Akpabio, Akwa Ibom/Chairman, PDP Governors’ Forum; Jonah Jang, Plateau; and Olusegun Mimiko, Ondo, during the PDP Governors’ Forum interactive session with the media and Civil Society Organisations, in Lagos…on Tuesday. | credits: Saheed Olugbon The Peoples Democratic Party Governors’ Forum has kicked against the use […]
Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) | credits: igbofocus.co.uk The All Progressives Congress in Kaduna State on Tuesday said the Kaduna State government denied the party’s presidential candidate, Maj. Gen Muhammmadu Buhari (retd.), access to the Murtala Mohammed Square, Kaduna, for his North-West zonal rally ahead of the rescheduled March 28 and April 11 general elections. Our […]
National Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Ahmadu Adamu Mu’azu There are indications that the national leadership of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party might have perfected a fresh strategy aimed at stalling the March 28 presidential election. Investigations by our correspondent in Abuja on Thursday and Friday showed that the ruling party was actually the […]
All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) (left); and Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima, during the APC presidential rally in Borno State. | credits: Borno State Government House The All Progressives Congress is today holding a one-million-man march. The march, which kicks off from the Maryland area of Lagos at 8am to […]
The exodus of Nigerians fleeing from Boko Haram attacks in the North-East of the country continues amid an influx of another 16,000 refugees into neighbouring Cameroon, the United Nations refugee agency has said. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the latest movements are expected to bring the total of Nigerian refugees in […]
President Idriss Deby President Idriss Deby of Chad on Wednesday called on Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, to surrender or face death. Derby told a news conference in N’djamena, that he knows the whereabouts of Shekau, who, according to him, was sighted in Dikwa , a village in Borno State two days ago. “Abubakar […]
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