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The All Progress Congress has announced that its national convention will hold on February 26, 2022. This was revealed by the Chairman, Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee and Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni, on Tuesday. He was speaking at the Progressives Women Congress held in Abuja. New members of …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says fresh registration in the third quarter of the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) nationwide has hit 5,027,204 as at Monday. INEC in its weekly update on CVR for Quarter 3, Week 2, in Abuja on Tuesday also disclosed that the registrants had completed …

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Governors have arrived Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, ahead of their meeting, Naija360 Media reports.The Governors who arrived the state capital, Port Harcourt, on the 16th of January, 2022 were received with a warm welcome by His Excellency, the Executive Governor of Rivers State, …

The spokesperson of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Baba-Ahmed, has urged northers to vote carefully come 2023. This he said was due to the disappointments faced during the Presidency of Buhari. Speaking with journalists in Kaduna on Saturday, January 15, Baba-Ahmed said President Buhari is a “disappointment” to the north …

Former Military Head of State, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) has explained why he didn’t remarry after the death of his wife, Hajiya Maryam Babangida. Maryam, who was Nigeria’s First Lady between 1985 and 1993, died at the University of California’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Centre (JCCC) in Los Angeles, United States …

Otunba Christopher Alao-Akala, a former governor of Oyo State, is dead. Details of his death are sketchy as at press time. Born on June 3, 1950, at Ogbomoso in the Ogbomoso North Local Government Area of Oyo State, Alao-Akala had his elementary school at Osupa Baptist Day School, Ogbomoso before …

Chairman of the Public Opinion Leaders Group, a unit of The Progressive Project (TPP), Shettima Umar Abba Gana, yesterday said President Muhammadu Buhari didn’t disclose the identity of his preferred candidate ahead of the 2023 presidential election, during an exclusive interview with Channels TV on Wednesday because he was being …

Governor Hope Uzodimma will use the occasion of the sixth edition of Imo stakeholders forum scheduled to hold on Tuesday to name those who are sponsors and financiers of insecurity in the state. Imo Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Declan Emelumba, stated this in a statement on Sunday. Emelumba said …

Catholic priest, Ejike Mbaka has raised an alarm of a plot to kill him after a row with the Catholic Diocese of Enugu in May last year. Giving his new year message, Mbaka recounted how he was asked to shut down his Adoration ministry in Enugu for one-month and embark on a retreat …

The hero of the anti-apartheid struggle, died a week ago, aged 90, after a life spent fighting injustice.   His ashes were “interred at St. George’s Cathedral in a private family service early today (Sunday)”, an Anglican Church statement said.     Archbishop Thabo Makgoba placed his remains under an …