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FCT Election: Obi, Obidients Rally Support For ADC AMAC Candidate

02.10.2025

The Labour Party (LP)candidate in the 2023 election, Mr Peter Obi and members of Obidient Movement, have thrown support to the African Democratic Congress (ADC) Chairmanship candidate for the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Dr Moses Paul. At a special Independent programme organised by the ADC chairmanship and councillorship candidates to sensitise AMAC residents ahead...

Crisis Brews As INEC Rejects Bye-Election For Fubara’s Chieg Of Staff

01.10.2025

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has come out to say, it will not conduct a bye-election into the Ahoada East Constituency Two, because the seat is presently occupied by Rt. Honourable Ehie Edison. Ehie, who is currently the Chief of Staff to Governor Siminialayi Fubara, was a one time Deputy Speaker of the Rivers...

ADC Kicks Against Plan To Sell NNPCL

01.10.2025

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) is against the plan to sell the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), and said it amounts to selling off the nation’s energy sovereignty. Organised labour in the petroleum industry, the the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association...

Get Ready To Receive More Opposition Govs Into APC

01.10.2025

President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has asked President Bola Tinubu to prepare to receive more governors from the opposition parties, whom he claimed were putting finishing touches on their resolve to join him (Tinubu) in the ruling party. According to a statement released in Abuja on Wednesday by Jackson Udom, Special Assistant To President...

Nigeria @65: Our Economy Regaining Strength Under Tinubu

01.10.2025

As Nigeria celebrates its 65th Independence anniversary, a member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Adewale Temitope Adedeji, has praised Nigerians for their resilience. In a statement by his media office on Wednesday, Adedeji urged Nigerians to sustain their trust in the government of President Bola Tinubu to continue to meet the yearnings...

Obi Decries Leadership Failures, Says ‘A Great Nigeria Is Still Possible’

01.10.2025

The Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, Mr Peter Obi, has called on Nigerians to draw strength from the resilience of the past while demanding accountability from today’s leaders, as the country marks its 65th Independence Anniversary. In a statement issued on Wednesday, titled “A Great Nigeria is Still Possible,” Obi reflected on...

Group Launches To Promote, Project, Defend APC Programmes In Lagos

01.10.2025

Some politicians in Lagos State have launched a group, ‘The Progressives Group Lagos ‘, to promote, project and defend the programmes, policies and agenda of the All Progressives Congress (APC), both at the state and national level. The group, in a statement announcing its launch on Wednesday, congratulated Nigerians on the occasion of their 65th...

Action Alliance Faults Court Judgment On Party Leadership

01.10.2025

The National leadership of the Action Alliance (AA) has faulted the judgment of a Federal High Court, Osogbo, Osun State, purportedly affirming the Adekunle Rufiai Omoaje-led executive as authentic leaders of the party. While noting that the judgment was fraudulently procured by Omoaje, the party explained that the issue of the authentic leadership of the...

Osun 2026: APC Releases Timetable, Activities

01.10.2025

The National Leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Tuesday, released the official timetable and schedule of activities for the 2026 governorship election in Osun State. This is as the party outlines key dates for nomination, screening, delegate congresses, and the primary election as its prepares for the gubernatorial poll in the state. In...

Nigeria @ 65: Still On Quest For Nationhood Nigeria’s Unfulfilled Dreams Despite Abundant Resources

01.10.2025

It is another opportunity for Nigerians to take stock in the journey of nation building as we mark the 65th Independence Anniversary of our country today, FELIX NWANERI reports At independence from colonial rule on October 1, 1960, Nigeria held the hope of black renaissance. For the country’s founding fathers and the citizenry, it was...

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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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