The Supreme Court has removed the last obstacle for Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo to contest the Anambra State governorship election as candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance. A five-man panel of the Supreme Court led by Justice Mary Odili confirmed Professor Soludo as APGA candidate, just as it also declared that Victor Oye is the authentic…
Northern leaders of the People’s Democratic Party have chosen former Senate President, Iyorchia Ayu, for the position of National Chairman of the PDP. Iyorchia Ayu was picked as a consensus candidate over former Katsina State Governor, Ibrahim Shema, and former Kaduna State Governor, Ahmed Makarfi. Ayu, a former Senate President, who is from the North-Central, emerged the…
The national leadership of the All Progressives Congress has fixed the conduct of state congresses of the party for Saturday, October 2, 2021. This was announced by the National Secretary of the APC Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Senator James Akpanudoedehe. Senator Akpanudoeehe also said that the sale of forms for the state congresses will begin tomorrow, Wednesday,…
More than two million Nigerians have so far taken part in the ongoing online continuous voters registration exercise by the Independent National Electoral Commission. INEC also says it has commenced the process of replacing all its facilities that were destroyed in recent violent attacks in the South-East. INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmoud Yakubu, made this known while giving…
A Federal High Court in Lagos has refused to hear a suit on the leadership dispute within the People’s Democratic Party. The suit was filed by Eddy Olafeso, Rashidi Sunmonu, Daisi Akintan, Bunmi Jenyo, and Wahab Owokoniran. The plaintiffs want the court to stop any member of the PDP, except the embattled National Chairman, Uche Secondus, from…
The Department of State Services has release eight of twelve persons who were arrested during a raid at the residence of Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, on July 1, 2021. Pelumi Olajengbesi – the lawyer who has been battling the DSS in court, confirmed the release of the eight persons after sixty-one days in detention. Addressing newsmen…