Presidential aspirant of the Accord Party (AP), Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim has alleged that there are deliberate efforts by influential figures to weaken opposition platforms and prevent the emergence of credible challengers to the ruling party in the 2027 presidential election. In a strongly worded statement issued ahead of Saturday’s presidential primary election of the AP, Hashim…
Former governor of Anambra state and Presidential Aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Peter Obi has withdrawn from the contest and resigned his membership of the party. In a letter dated May 24, 2022 and addressed to the National Chairman of the PDP, Obi said recent developments within the party made it practically impossible…
It is expectedly, a confounding idea, that former President, Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan would contest the 2023 election. More unsettling, of course, is the possibility that the President would be running on the platform of the APC against his party, the PDP. Naturally, his party should be perplexed with such a prospect and unexpectedly, a…
Gunmen have abducted the wife and maid of Terwase Orbunde, a former chief of staff to Samuel Ortom, ex-governor of Benue state. According to TheCable, the incident reportedly occurred at about 6 pm on Friday around the Genocide cemetery, along mobile barracks-welfare quarters road in Makurdi, the Benue state capital. Orbunde, alongside Abigail Kashimana, his…
The Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) has confirmed that Senegal has submitted an appeal case against Confederation of African Football (CAF) for stripping it of the AFCON 2025 title. The Lausanne-based court disclosed in a media release that it received the appeal by the Senegalese football federation (FSF) on Wednesday. Senegal won the AFCON…
Chairman of Northern States Christian Elders Forum (NOSCEF), Ejoga Inalegwu, has said that Christians in the north will be rendered irrelevant in the political equation of Nigeria if the same faith presidential ticket of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) succeeds in 2023. Inalegwu stated this in his address at the congress meeting of the…
