The Senator representing Anam­bra Central Senatorial District, Senator Uche Ekwunife, has said she has no political grudges against the Presidential candidate of Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, winning the February 25th, 2023 Nigeria Presidential election. She warned politicians to stop inciting statements that would tarnish her long existing relationship between her and Mr. Obi, after the general elections. The Senator also stressed the importance of local govern­ment autonomy in the state and the country at...

…Seeks IGP to intervene The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has raised an alarm over continued clampdown on the opposition parties in Imo state by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) The group at a press conference in Abuja, released video footage of the third attack on the country home of its Spokesperson, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere by unknown Gunmen on the 7th February 2023. It sought the intervention of the Inspector General of Police...

Professor Chukwuma Soludo, Anambra State Governor has described the passage of late Chief Mbazulike Amechi as the end of an era, stressing that the deceased was a true nationalist and detribalized Nigerian. Governor Soludo stated during the church service by the Catholic Bishop of Nnewi Diocese, Most Reverend Jonas Benson Okoye, in honor of the first Aviation Minister held in Ukpor, Nnewi South Council Area, on Thursday. While conveying his condolence message, Professor Soludo acknowledged...

Governors Nasir El-Rufai and Badaru Abubakar of Kaduna and Jigawa states respectively have faulted President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive limiting the legal tender status of old notes to only N200, describing it as a total disregard of the Supreme Court’s stance on the matter. In a nationwide broadcast on Thursday, President Buhari said the old N500 and N1,000 banknotes ceased to be legal tender on February 10. He, however, directed the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)...

President Muhammadu Buhari has called for a lifting of the blanket visa ban clamped down on Nigerians by the government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The president, on Monday, said he made the request during a telephone conversation with the UAE president, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. President Buhari said he called Sheikh Al Nahyan to commiserate with him on the death of his mother-in-law, Sheikha Maryam Al Falasi, during which important issues...

The deputy governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos state, Funke Akindele, has urged Lagos youths to vote for PDP’s presidential candidate and governorship candidate in the state during the upcoming general election. Akindele gave the charge at a youth programme organised by the Lagos Youths Movement (LYM) in the Alimosho area of Lagos yesterday. She said a vote for the Lagos PDP governorship candidate, Abdul-Azeez Adediran, also known as Jandor, is...

A former lawmaker, Shehu Sani, has advised Nigerians to focus on the upcoming election rather than staging protests over the naira and fuel scarcity in the country. Sani, who represented Kaduna Central senatorial district in the 8th National Assembly, made this known via his Twitter page on Wednesday. He also urged the southeast to resist any sit-at-home order that is geared towards boycotting elections in the region. Sani tweeted, “The general public must avoid any...