Former governor of Anambra, Mr. Peter Obi has emerged the flag bearer of the Labour Party ( LP) for the 2023 Presidential election. Obi was elected at the party’s presidential primary, which held on Monday in Asaba, Delta state. Prof. Pat Utomi, Eragbe Anselm, national youth leader of LP and Olubusola Olufolake, had earlier stepped…
Governorship aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Plateau state who were defeated at the primary election have rejected the results. Speaking with journalists on Monday in Jos, one of the aspirants, Dr. Patrick Dakum described the election won by Nentawe Yilwada, a former Resident commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), as…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a former Governor of Zamfara State, Abdul’Aziz Yari, as part of investigations into the N84bn fraud involving the suspended Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris. Sources told The Punch newspapers, that Yari and the Chairman of a firm, Finex Professional Services, were arrested around 5pm on Sunday…
The Prelate of the of Methodist Church Nigeria (MCN), His Eminence, Samuel Kanu, has been abducted by gunmen. He was kidnapped on Sunday alongside Rt. Rev. Dennis Mark, the Methodist Bishop of Owerri and the Prelate’s Chaplain, by yet to identified gunmen along the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway in Umunneochi Local Government Area of Abia state….
A former Commissioner of the National Population Commission (NPC), Mr. Zakari Umaru-Kigbu has been killed by gunmen. His two daughters were also abducted by the criminals. The gunmen were said to have invaded his residence in Azuba Bashayi, Lafia Local Government Area of Nasarawa state in the early hours of Sunday. Family sources said the…
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has again won the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Atiku was the party’s presidential candidate in the 2019 elections, but lost to President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC). In the result of the primary election announced by the Chief Returning Officer and former President of…
