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…as Utomi, Faduri step down   Mr. Peter Obi, who resigned his membership of the People’s Democratic Party last week, on Monday emerged the presidential candidate of the Labour Party.   Obi had joined Labour Party after quitting PDP.   Obi’s emergence took place at the party’s Convention and presidential primary held in Asaba, Delta […]

A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the detention of Rochas Okorocha in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).   Justice Inyang Ekwo gave the order on Monday after Okorocha and his ally Anyim Nyerere Chinenye were arraigned alongside five companies on a 17-count money laundering charge filed by the […]

Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, former Vice President of Nigeria, has emerged  winner of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) primaries. Atiku polled  371 votes  to defeat his closeseth rival Gov. Nyesom Wike of River State, who polled  233 votes. (Detials later)    

The governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, has stepped down from the Presidential race.   Tambuwal spoke at the start of the People’s Democratic Party convention and the Presidential primary of the party in Abuja.   He asked his supporters among the delegates to vote for Atiku Abubakar.   “Time has come for us to […]

  Thirty-one persons died during a stampede at the venue of an outreach programme put together by a church in Port Harcourt on Saturday morning, the Rivers State Police Command has confirmed.   This was confirmed by the Acting Public Relations Officer of the State Police Command, Grace Iringe-Koko, who said the church had organised […]

Mr. Peter Gregory Obi, former Governor of Anambra who recently resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party, has joined The Labour Party. Obi made this disclosure in a press statement issued Friday, saying “i have  chosen a route that i consider to be in line with our aspirations and my mantra of taking the country from […]

Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State was on Thursday returned unopposed as the state’s gubernatorial candidate for the 2023 election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress.   Zulum said he had received offers for the position of  running mate of some of the presidential candidates, which could make him the Vice President next […]

Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, who resigned from the People’s Democratic Party earlier on Friday, has switched to the All Progressives Grand Alliance.   The Senator declared this to reporters in Umuahia on Friday, as confirming that he has formally joined APGA.   The one-time Deputy Governor of Abia State also confirmed that he had […]

A Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa on Friday declared that former President Goodluck Jonathan is eligible and qualified to contest the 2023 presidential election.   Justice Isa Dashen, the presiding judge, ruled that Jonathan’s right to contest for the office of president again cannot be stopped by any retroactive law.   There have been […]

Senate Minority Leader and a former governorship aspirant in Abia State, Enyinnaya Abaribe, has dumped the People’s Democratic Party and resigned as the Minority Leader in the Senate.   He confirmed his exit from the PDP and as a minority leader in both the party and the Senate in separate letters to the ward chairman […]

  The Supreme Court on Friday threw out a suit seeking to stop the probe of a N96 billion fraud allegedly involving the former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, during his time as the Rivers State Governor.   A five-man panel of Justices of the Supreme Court held that there was no justification to stop […]

The Federal Government has filed 23-count charges against Peter Nwachukwu, the husband of the late popular gospel artiste, Osinachi.   She died on April 8 after allegedly being assaulted by Peter.   Peter was charged with culpable homicide under Sections 104 and 379 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act 2015 and Section 221 of […]