LP Crisis: Chairmen Forum calls for emergency NEC meeting

Following the crisis in the national office of the Labour Party (LP), the Chairmen Forum, which comprises the 36 chairmen of LP across the federation including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has called for a meeting of the National Executive Council (NEC) of the party to address the crisis. It will be recalled that on Friday in Abuja, 28 state chairmen of the LP overpowered a team of police men mounting guard at the gate of...

Kogi Guber: women group supports power shift to Kogi-West.

A group of women in Kogi State have staged a road work, advocating for a power shift to Kogi-West senatorial district in the next governorship election. The women, in their hundreds, drawn from the three senatorial districts of the state during the  road work in Lokoja on Saturday called on all political parties aspiring to succeed Governor Yayaha Bello in January 2024 to consider allowing Kogi-West to produce the next governor. Alhaja Salamotu Asabe Danfulani...

Datti won’t engage Soyinka in any debate, LP media team says

The media team of Labour Party’s presidential and vice presidential candidates in the 2023 election, Peter Obi and Datti Yusuf Baba-Ahmed, has said that there is not going to be any debate between Datti and the Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka. It will be recalled that Soyinka recently dared Datti-Ahmed to a public debate following the latter’s comment in an interview with Channels TV, where he stressed that “whoever swears in Tinubu ” has “ended...

APC Enugu State Chapter Expels Former Governor Barr Chime and 5 Others

The Enugu State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress has announced the expulsion of six of her members who were determined to have engaged in anti-party activities. The expelled members include a Former Governor of Enugu State Barrister Sullivan Chime, Former Speaker Enugu State House of Assembly Eugene Odoh and the Director General of the Voice of Nigeria, Osita Okechukwu. Others include Ozor Joel Mamel, Mr. Maduka Arum (Mama) and Chief Flavor Eze. However, two...

Lorry Kills Three As Anambra Revenue Agents Struggle For Steering Wheel With Driver

At least three people were killed and three tricycles crushed in an accident at the Onitsha end of the River Niger Bridge in Anambra State. The accident caused a gridlock that extended from the Asaba end of the Head Bridge to Oko Market and the Onitsha end of the bridge close to Upper Iweka. It was gathered that the accident occurred at about yesterday as a lorry conveying vegetable oil to Asaba, collided with three...

What Southeast Might Expect from the Incoming Tinubu Regime? OJukwu Jnr, Okagbue, Others React

As Nigeria’s President-Elect Bola Tinubu prepares to take over from President Buhari, there are huge concerns as to the direction the country is headed with the new administration. Top on this list of concerns are; the economy, security and the country’s unity. The major challenge for the incoming government is how to fix the nation’s nearly broken economy, broken security across regions and broken ties among Nigeria’s ethnic nationalities. Significantly, the 2023 general elections appear...

Thugs, policemen, break into Labour Party national headquarters

… As party asks Buhari to call APC to order The national headquarters of the Labour Party in Abuja on Thursday witnessed a massive attack, as a detachment of the Nigerian Police and thugs believed to be working for the All Progressives Congress (APC) broke into the building and chased away workers. A statement signed by the national chairman of the party, Barrister Julius Abure stated that the invaders who are armed reportedly pulled down...

TETFund: Buhari approves N320bn intervention funds for public tertiary institutions 

In a move to boost public tertiary institutions across the country, President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the sum of N320,345,040,835. (Three hundred and twenty billion, three hundred and forty-five million, forty thousand, eight hundred and thirty five Naira only) for the 2023 intervention funds. Arc. Sonny Echono, the Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), said this in Abuja, while speaking at the Fund’s annual strategic planning workshop with all heads of beneficiary institutions....

Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank has told the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) to transmit its proceedings live. He said this on Thursday in a statement, stressing that it has become necessary to ensure transparency in the conduct of the tribunal. Frank also noted that  the move would make Nigerians feel a sense of belonging by keeping them abreast of the progress or otherwise of hearings of...

Easter Christian pilgrimage starts April 26 – NCPC boss

Rev. (Dr.) Yakubu Pam, the Executive Secretary, Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC) has said that the Commission would commence the 2023 Easter pilgrimage exercise to Israel and Jordan on April 26. The NCPC boss made the remark at  Jericho during a prayer meeting with pilgrims of Ekiti, Plateau, Osun, Kwara States, self-sponsored pilgrims in the ongoing 2022 December pilgrimage exercise in Israel. Pam thanked President Muhammadu Buhari for providing the Commission the enabling environment to operate, as...

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