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Zamfara APC Endorses Tinubu For 2027, Buries Factional Claims

01.11.2025

Zamfara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has unanimously registered it’s unreserved support for the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to solely be it’s Presidential candidate come 2027 elections. This follows a party stakeholders meeting for restoration of unity and mutual understanding within the APC organized by Senator Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar on the platform...

MC Oluomo Denies Owing Nollywood Actors After Tinubu’s 2023 Campaign

01.11.2025

The National President of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo, has denied allegations that he failed to pay Nollywood actors who participated in President Bola Tinubu’s 2023 election campaign. MC Oluomo described the allegations as false and misleading, insisting that he personally financed the campaign and...

Suluhu Wins Tanzania Election Amid Reports Of 700 Deaths

01.11.2025

Tanzania’s electoral commission has declared President Samia Suluhu Hassan winner of the country’s disputed general election, securing nearly 98% of the votes. The announcement, made early Saturday, came amid widespread protests and allegations of voter suppression and violence, with opposition groups and rights organizations reporting hundreds of deaths. John Kitoka, spokesperson for the main opposition...

Anambra Poll: No Serious Opposition To Soludo’s Re-Election, Says Obigwe

01.11.2025

As the storm gathers in Anambra ahead of the November 8 gubernatorial election, Coordinator APGA Media Warriors Evangelist Chinedu Obigwe spoke to OKEY MADUFORO on sundry issues. Excerpts: A total of 16 candidates are contesting against Governor Charles Soludo in the forthcoming election; how does your Governor stand? Governor Soludo’s second term in my own...

Some Fulani Elites Sponsoring Banditry For Expansionist Agenda –Middle Belt Leader, Pogu

01.11.2025

…says cost of crisis runs into billions of dollars as food production, supply are disrupted …wants Tinubu to change Minister of Defence, Minister of State Defence Dr. Bitrus Pogu is the President of Middle Belt Forum (MBF). In this interview with OLAOLU OLADIPO, he shared his views on the spate of banditry in the country...

PDP Convenes Emergency Meeting In Abuja

01.11.2025

Following Friday’s judgment of the Federal High Court in Abuja halting its planned National Convention billed for November 15 and 16 in Ibadan, Oyo State, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has summoned an emergency meeting of its National Working Committee (NWC). A member of the NWC, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not...

Shettima, Ngige Absent At APC Mega Rally

01.11.2025

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has claimed it has eight days to end the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) control in Anambra State. This is notable as both Vice President Shettima and Senator Chris Ngige were absent at the rally, contrary to the party’s claims that they would attend. No reason was provided for their...

Ogbuku Exonerates Self From Media Report

01.11.2025

Chief Samuel Ogbuku (PhD), the Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), has emphasised that any comments or opinions expressed by anyone on political matters in Bayelsa State should be regarded strictly as their personal views and not as a representation of his views. This was as he dissociated himself from a recent report...

Court Judgement: We’re Going Ahead With Our Convention

01.11.2025

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has said it will go ahead with its November 15 National Convention, despite the Abuja High Court judgment. PDP, in a statement issued by the National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, the judgment does not vitiate its ability to proceed with the processes and activities towards the National Convention to elect...

PDP Convention: I’m Both Happy, Sad Over Court’s Judgment – Wike

31.10.2025

Federal Capital Territory ( FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike, has expressed mixed feelings over the ruling of the Federal High Court in Abuja restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC) from recognising the outcome of the forthcoming People’s Democratic Party (PDP) national convention. Recall that Justice James Omotosho, in his ruling, held that the PDP...

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I apologise for saying no heaven without tithe – Adeboye

04.10.2024

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has apologised for saying that Christians who don’t pay tithe might not make it to heaven. Adeboye who had previously said that paying tithe was one of the prerequisites for going to heaven, apologised for the comment while addressing his congregation Thursday...

Protesters storm Rivers electoral commission, insist election must hold

04.10.2024

Angry protesters on Friday stormed the office of the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, singing and chanting ‘Election must hold’. They defied the heavy rainfall spreading canopies, while singing and drumming, with one side of the road blocked. The protest came after the Rivers State governor stormed the RSIEC in the early hours of Friday...

Man who asked Tinubu to resign admitted in psychiatric hospital

04.10.2024

The Adamawa State Police Command has disclosed that the 30-year-old Abdullahi Mohammed who climbed a 33 kv high tension electricity pole in Mayo-Belwa last Friday has been admitted at the Yola Psychiatric hospital for mental examination. The Police Public Relations Officer of the command SP Suleiman Nguroje, told Arewa PUNCH on Friday in an exclusive...

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