The immediate past Chief of staff to Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, Chief Okey Ahaiwe, has been elected as the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Abia State. He polled a total number of 469 to defeat his closet rivals, Read more…
Month: February 2023
The Independent National Electoral Commission has assured Nigerians that the bimodal voter accreditation system will ensure credible and transparent 2023 general elections as the BVAS machines have never failed. The INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, made this known on Saturday Read more…
Babachir Lawal, a former secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), says Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party, is gaining support in “unexpected areas”. Speaking on Friday during an interview with Channels Television, Lawal said the LP’s Read more…
Former Anambra state governor, Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife has urged the judiciary arm of government to endeavor to protect Nigeria’s democratic process, warning that spurious pronouncements by the judiciary is a threat to the 2023 general elections. Ezeife, who spoke in Read more…
Kiev’s forces will not hold back when it comes to hitting locations inside Russia, according to Fyodor Venislavsky, a member of the Ukrainian parliament’s National Security, Defense and Intelligence Committee. Speaking to Germany’s Bild tabloid on Saturday, he also described Moscow as Read more…
The suspected Chinese spy balloon spotted over U.S. airspace in recent days was shot down on Saturday by an Air Force fighter aircraft near the Carolina coastline, officials said. President Biden said he ordered the Pentagon to shoot it down Read more…
The West’s recent announcement that it would be supplying Ukraine with main battle tanks marks a major miscalculation, Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday. That’s as Moscow has threatened to burn any Western equipment that enters Ukraine and has Read more…
As long as the Ukraine conflict can still be won military, Russian President Vladimir Putin should not be allowed to achieve his goals through political means, former US national security adviser John Bolton has said. He made the claim during a call Read more…
Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom has disclosed that since 2017 when the Open Grazing Prohibition and Ranches Establishment Law was enacted, he has escaped seven assassination attempts on his life. This is even as Governor Ortom, during a press conference, Read more…
A group, Northern Unity and Development Movement (NUDM) has described the refusal of the Presidential Candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Sen Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso to step down for his counterpart in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Read more…
The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has weighed in on the nationwide scarcity of the redesigned N200, N500 and N1,000 banknotes, telling President Muhammadu Buhari that the policy will not fight corruption. Buhari has repeatedly defended the swift introduction Read more…
The Atiku-Okowa Presidential Campaign Council has accused the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, for allegedly involving in a high-level criminal racket through which he is reported to have been sabotaging the system, intercepting and diverting millions Read more…