Plateau state governor, Simon Lalong, has said that those who lost out in their bids to be appointed running mate to Bola Tinubu, Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), have resorted to promoting religious sentiments. Speaking with State House Correspondents on Wednesday in Abuja after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, Lalong…
A notorious terrorists leader, Alhaji Shanono and 18 others have been neutralised in the ongoing operations by the Nigerian Airforce in the Northwest. In a statement on Wednesday, the Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, said over 30 riffles and 20 motorcycles were destroyed during the airstrike. He said Shanono was…
The Labour Party (LP) in Kaduna state has nominated former President of the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU), Hon. Jonathan Asake, as its governorship candidate for the 2023 elections. Asake, a former member of House of Representatives member, recently resigned his position as the SOKAPU President to join the governorship race. He picked the party’s…
Seven of the remaining 39 abducted passengers of the March 28, Abuja-Kaduna train attack have been freed by the abductors. Tukur Mamu, Media consultant to Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, a Kaduna based Islamic cleric who has been in the forefront for mediating for the release of the victims, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in…
Two members of the National Assembly from Taraba state, Hon. Rimamnde Shawulu Kwewum (left) and Senator Danlami Joel Ikenya (right) during a visit to Jolly Nyame, a former governor of the state, at his Abuja resident, after his released from prison on Monday following a state pardon. Nyame was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for…
A coalition of Christian groups under the aegis of North Central Youths and Women Forum, on Tuesday, took to the streets in Abuja in protest against the appointment of the Plateau State governor, Simon Lalong, as the Director-General of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council. The protesters who are members of the APC…
