ABUJA — Labor Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, on Friday night, joined the Senior Pastor of Dunamis International Gospel Centre, Dr. Paul Enenche in intercessory prayer for Nigeria. Pastor Enenche led a special prayer session for Nigeria during the 2022 mid-year praise and worship tagged Judgemental Praise at the 100,000-capacity Glory Dome in Abuja on Friday. The event had in attendance top gospel music ministers such as Nathaniel Bassey, Frank Edwards, Buchi, Mercy Chinwo, Chioma...

Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, has called on the government and Nigerians to stop using foreign currencies like US dollars for local transactions. Obi’s advice is coming following the continued free fall of the Nigerian currency. The naira, which traded for N670 against the dollar on Monday, 25 July, nosedived to a record low of N720 per dollar as of Wednesday, 27 July. Decrying the massive depreciation of the naira, the...

AWKA — With five days to the end of the Continuous Voters Registration – CVR, by the Independent National Electoral Commission – INEC, there are genuine concerns that many people might be left out of the process considering the number of people still going to get registered for their PVCs. This means that some people might not be registered till the end of the exercise on Sunday, 31st July. Hence, Uzuegbuna Okagbue has urged INEC...

Mr. Peter Obi, a former governor of Anambra State, says he has all it takes to win the 2023 presidential election. Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, made the remark in an interview with Channels TV on Monday. When asked if there’s a possibility that he would join forces with the Peoples Democratic Party’s flag bearer, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, whom he ran in the 2019 presidential election, Obi’s answer was an outright ‘No’. He categorically...

Ekiti state governor, Kayode Fayemi, has said the Muslim-Muslim ticket fielded by the All Progressives Congress (APC) was done based on political strategy and not to undermine Christians. Fayemi said this on Friday during a courtesy visit by the new executives of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Ekiti state chapter, led by Emmanuel Aribasoye, its chairman. He noted the decision wasn’t taken to undermine Christians and urged Christians to be more involved in politics....

LAGOS — There are about seven million registered voters in Lagos according to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Olusegun Agbaje, the resident electoral commissioner (REC) of the state, disclosed this in an interview with NAN over the weekend. According to him, if the number of new registrants in the ongoing continuous voter registration (CVR) is added to the current number of registered voters in the state, this will amount to around seven million. “In...

Babatunde Fashola, minister of works and housing, has said right-thinking Nigerians will vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 general election. The minister said this when he was featured on Sunday Politics, a Channels TV programme. “Nigerians have had the opportunity of two governments,” he said. “On a very deep reflection, right-thinking and well-meaning Nigerians will re-elect our party into governance, I am optimistic about that. “I think we have served this...