Politics

Lai Mohammed The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, says the 2019 re-election bid of President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC government will be very easy. The minister stated this on Tuesday in Oyo while inspecting the 52-kilometre dualised Oyo-Ogbomosho road project under construction by Reynold Construction Company. The News Agency …

The National Association of Itsekiri Students (NAIS) has encouraged the former governor of Delta State, Dr Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan to go to the senate and do more towards empowering the youths of Delta south Senatorial District. The group, made this appeal when they paid a courtesy call to Dr. Uduaghan …

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has fixed a meeting between President Muhammadu Buhari and members of the New Peoples Democratic Party block within the APC, Vanguard newspaper is reporting. The members of the nPDP had issued a quit threat from the APC if they …

Obasanjo said this on Thursday when he briefed newsmen in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Thursday said the All Progressives Congress is taking Nigerians for fools while “revelling in an unrepentant misgoverning of Nigeria”. Obasanjo said this on Thursday when he briefed newsmen in Abeokuta, …

Empowerment items donated by Hon. Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe The All Progressives Congress’ ward congresses across the country may have come and gone, but the exercise has clearly unmasked the deep-rooted acrimony existing within the party especially in the south-east. Though leaders and stakeholders of the party have continued to play …

 Men of the Oyo State Joint Patrol Team, Operation Burst (OB), yesterday morning dislodged a six-man armed robbery gang who have been terrorising residents of Adegbayi area of the state for the past three weeks. The Special Adviser to Governor Ajimobi on Security, Mr. Segun Abolarinwa, disclosed this while explaining …

Minister of Communications, Mr Adebayo Shittu Adebayo Shittu, the Minister of Communications, says former President Olusegun Obasanjo and other ex-military leaders cannot hinder President Muhammadu Buhari’s chance of being re-elected in 2019. Shittu, speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja, said since the former Nigerian leaders “are not …

Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki Commission involved in 1,080 suits from 2015 polls Damilola Oyedele in Abuja The Senate yesterday cautioned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) against paying attention to misguided statements and pronouncements questioning the powers of the National Assembly to legislate on the Electoral Act. The President …

Senator Abdullahi Adamu (APC, Nasarawa) has reacted to claims that he is plotting the removal of the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, and the rest of the leadership. Senator Obinna Ogba made this allegation during plenary on Thursday, providing evidence in the form of a voice recording. However, in a …

A chieftain of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Okpe Local Government Area, Delta State, Mr Kennedy  Eyube, has said the 12- month tenure extension given to Chief John Odigie-Oyegun by the National Working Committee, NWC, of the party was for the good of the party and Nigeria. Eyube, a pro-Buhari campaigner, …