Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the founder and general superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Pastor William Kumuyi, has called for prayers. “We should pray to God to give us the best that will lead our country out of whatever challenges we have, to move further into great blessings for our country,” Kumuyi said yesterday while addressing journalists in Rivers State, ahead of the church’s crusade in Khana Local Government Area of the...

SOKOTO — One Nasiru Idris of Sabon Birni Local Government Area in Sokoto state has been arrested by the Police for possession of 101 permanent voter cards (PVCs). Commissioner of Police in the state, Hussain Gumel while briefing newsmen on Thursday, said the suspect was arrested in Sabon Birni on October 10, following credible information. Gumel, added that the suspect could not give account of how he got the PVCs, stressing that said the police would return all...

The New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) has addressed the speculations that the party’s presidential flag bearer, former Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso, would withdraw from the presidential race and support another candidate. Kwankwaso’s spokesperson, Ladipo Johnson, said it was too late for the NNPP to merge with any other political party ahead of the 2023 general elections. Johnson also said there were no ongoing negotiations between Kwankwaso and any of the presidential candidates about collapsing NNPP’s campaign...

By Handel Patrick (Staff Reporter)   Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed Saturday, November 11, 2023, for the conduct of Bayelsa, Imo, and Kogi States’ governorship elections. In a statement issued yesterday in Abuja by INEC national commissioner and chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, he said the tenure of the incumbent governor of Imo State ends on 14th January, 2024 while those of Kogi and Bayelsa States end on 26th January,...

By Handel Patrick (Staff Reporter) ONITSHA — Delta State Governor and the Vice Presidential Candidate of the People Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ifeanyi Okowa,  said his party, PDP will win the 2023 Presidential, the Senate, House Representatives, and State House of Assembly elections in Anambra State. Okowa who was represented by a PDP member of the presidential council and chairman of United Nigeria Airlines, High Chief Prof. Obiora Okonkwo at the 20th Coronation anniversary and...

Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), has vowed to dedicate all of his time and energy to Nigeria’s service. Tinubu said he won’t be a part-time president who will share his time between Dubai and Nigeria. Atiku, the former vice-president and PDP standard had spent most of his time in Dubai after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared President Muhammadu Buhari the winner of the 2019 election. Tinubu, according...

…says every political party hires crowds for rallies   A former Assistant Organising Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna State, Samuel Yohanna, says the disruption of the presidential campaign of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kaduna by thugs was because the PDP failed to fulfill its part of the bargain with the crowd they hired. Some unidentified thugs had on Monday disrupted the PDP rally in Kaduna State, beating the party...