Attahiru Bafarawa, former Sokoto governor, has advised members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to intensify prayers and repentance towards God. “It is the sins that the PDP members committed that God is punishing them with it,” he said at the PDP north-west zonal rally on Saturday in Katsina. “Almighty Allah does not make mistakes […]
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President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, has appointed a former lawmaker who represented Taraba North Senatorial District, Senator Danladi Abubakar, as his Special Adviser on Special Duties. A statement issued on Sunday in Abuja by the Special Adviser to the Senate President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Yusuph Olaniyonu, said the appointment was with immediate
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A crowd of supporters on Tuesday at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, welcomed the publisher of SaharaReporters, Omoyele Sowore, to Nigeria from his New York base as he begins his presidential campaign. The crowd, mainly youths and students of higher institutions of learning across the country, arrived the airport in different vehicles, T-shirts
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Ibrahim Mantu, a former deputy senate president, has confessed that he helped his party — the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) — rig elections in the past. Mantu said this when he was being interviewed by Maupe Ogun-Yusuf of Channels Television. He said he helped the party rig the elections by bribing officials of the Independent
Nigerian youths have formed a political party, Modern Democratic Party (MDP), to enable them to place an active role in the upcoming elections in 2019 and beyond. The formation of the party came at a time that when ‘Not Too Young To Run’ Bill is still pending assent of President Muhammadu Buhari. The registration of
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President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the reversal of tenure elongation of Chief John Odigie Oyegun and other National and State Executive Officers of the All Progressives Congress (APC). He described the elongation of their tenure by one year as unconstitutional. He told the National Executive Committee meeting of the party in Abuja on Tuesday that
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Ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar has on Tuesday declared his intention to run for the 2019 presidential election. Atiku said his decided to make the announcement in Rivers State because he believes Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike represents what he represented in 1998/99 as the live wire of the PDP. Mr Abubakar was in Rivers with
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The All Progressives Congress (APC), on Monday, held its caucus meeting ahead of a meeting of its National Executive Council (NEC) scheduled for Tuesday and this time, it was party leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu that was absent from the mix. You’ll recall that a meeting of this magnitude held couple of weeks earlier had Tinubu
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President Muhammadu Buhari has assured the United Nations (UN) of his commitment to conducting credible, free and fair elections in 2019. Buhari gave the assurance when the UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed met him in Abuja, according to a note by the UN issued from New York. “On preparations for the 2019 elections and expected
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it is sorry for the “mistakes” it made while governing the country. Uche Secondus, national chairman of the party, said this on Monday at an event in Abuja. The PDP governed Nigeria for 16 years, from 1999 to 2015 when it lost power to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
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