Twenty-four hours after the Tanimu Turaki-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ratified former President Goodluck Jonathan as its presidential candidate for the 2027 polls, there was still no official word from the former number one citizen on whether he had accepted or declined Read more…
An SSS insider told this newspaper that the suspects were apprehended during coordinated intelligence-led operations that led to the recovery of 15 AK-103 rifles, 15 magazines and 1,434 rounds of 7.62mm live ammunition. The State Security Services (SSS) has reportedly Read more…
A faction of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, led by Nafiu Bala, has declared a businessman, Prof Chris Uba, as its presidential candidate for the 2027 general elections. DAILY POST reports that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar last week emerged Read more…
The Allied Independent Campaign Council (AICC), a campaign support group of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) has launched an initiative to ensure massive grassroots support for its presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, in the 2027 election. AICC said there was an ongoing plan to ensure that Read more…
Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar, has told the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, that the electorate in Rivers State is intelligent enough to decide the outcome of elections in the state. Read more…
President Bola Tinubu has approved the recruitment of 1,000 forest guards for Oyo State, ordered the deployment of a specialised rescue unit and said he will consider requests for a military base after a high-level federal delegation visited communities in Read more…
Presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Peter Obi, has pledged to increase Nigeria’s power generation capacity to 10,000 megawatts (MW) if elected in 2027. Speaking on Saturday during the NDC’s national convention held in Abuja, Obi decried the Read more…
The incoming missile was reportedly intercepted, but debris destroyed an MQ-9 Reaper drone and seriously damaged another Around five US servicemen and contractors suffered minor injuries during a recent Iranian ballistic missile strike on a Kuwaiti air base, Bloomberg reports, Read more…
Engagements BY Chidi Amuta In times when our national conversation becomes too heated, fuzzy and bogged in intractable controversy, I prefer to take matters to the barber’s shop at Ikeja Bus Stop. That is my definition of the Public Square. In Read more…
Former Minister of Information and founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prof. Jerry Gana, has revealed that he, late former Vice President Dr. Alex Ekwueme and late pro-democracy leader Senator Abraham Adesanya compelled the military government in 1998 Read more…
… As NDC consolidates gains By Omoniyi Salaudeen The perceived disorder in the African Democratic Congress (ADC) primaries has cut through months of “rescue Nigeria” rhetoric like a blade. For months, the party sold itself as a disciplined coalition platform, the antidote Read more…
Obi promises to rescue Nigeria, provide intelligence-driven security The Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) has affirmed Mr Peter Obi as its presidential candidate for the 2027 general elections, with Rabiu Kwankwaso named as his running mate. This was announced at a Read more…