Atiku Abubakar reportedly worked with US PR consultants ahead of the 2019 presidential vote [Twitter @bolanle cole]
Politics

How Atiku worked with Donald Trump’s campaign strategists in the 2019 Election

The report also states that these PR professionals helped get Atiku on U.S soil on January 17, 2019 and arranged meetings with top U.S lawmakers for the presidential candidate, as part of a series of well orchestrated makeovers of a presidential candidate who has been battling corruption allegations since he left office as Vice President […]

Charly Boy protests against Libya slave trade
Politics

OurMumuDonDo: Group’s members say Charly Boy remains their leader

Mrs Folake Agunbiade, who is the Knowledge Management and Learning Manager of the group, stated at a press conference in Abuja. Agunbiade described as baseless, trending reports in social media, that Charly Boy had been relieved of his position as the group’s leader because of an alleged financial misdeed. “In this wise, the management of Ourmumudondo […]

gov plateau
Politics

APC’s Lalong wins Plateau Governorship Election

Incumbent Governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong, has bagged another term in office after winning the supplementary election held on Saturday, March 23, 2019. Lalong, who ran on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) polled 595,582 votes, while Jeremiah Useni of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), secured 546,813 votes, according to the Independent […]

President Muhamamdu Buhari
Politics

Canada says Nigeria’s 2019 elections ‘credible’, congratulates Buhari

Canada’s High Commission in Nigeria has certified Nigeria’s 2019 general elections to be credible, despite admitting that it was also plagued by logistical challenges, irregularities and violence. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) conducted Presidential and National Assembly elections on February 23, and conducted Governorship and State House of Assembly elections two weeks later on […]

Nollywood actress Omoni Oboli who served as INEC official accrediting voters
Politics

7 states exempted from Saturday’s governorship polls

The affected states, Anambra, Bayelsa, Edo, Ekiti, Kogi, Ondo and Osun, will not be participating because their governorship elections held at different times or off season. This was mainly due to court judgments that nullified the election of their governors at different times in the past. However, the State Houses of Assembly elections will be […]

Sanwo-Olu and Agbaje, Lagos governorship candidates, meet at a function (Daily Post)
Politics

List of front-line Governorship candidates contesting election across the States

Nigeria will conduct governorship elections on Saturday March 9, 2019 in 29 States of the federation. Here are the front-line candidates in all the states where the elections will hold, except for states where candidates of political parties have been excluded because of litigation. Delta State Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa (PDP) Great Ovedje Ogboru (APC) Abia […]

Governor Ibikunle Amosun.
Politics

APC suspends Amosun, Okorocha for anti-party activities

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has suspended both Ogun State governor, Ibikunle Amosun, and Imo governor, Rochas Okorocha, for anti-party activities. The Adams Oshiomhole-led committee reached its decision during a meeting in Abuja on Friday, March 1, 2019, and has forwarded a recommendation to the party’s national executive committee […]

INEC Boss, Mahmood Yakubu
Politics

INEC postpones announcement of results to Monday

The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu has moved the collation of election results to Monday, February 25, 2019, by 11:00 am. The presidential and national assembly elections held on Saturday, February 23, 2019. Election marred by violence Reports from several polling booths across the nation shows that violence was the […]

2019 election- NYSC DG solicits army, police protection for corps members
National Politics

NYSC says INEC has promised to improve safety and welfare of corps members

The management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) said the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has promised to improve the safety and welfare provisions of corps members that would be deployed as ad hoc staff for the general elections. In a statement released in Abuja on Tuesday, February 19, 2019, Mrs Adenike Adeyemi, the […]

Senator Dino Melaye
Politics

PDP has bought secret cameras to record APC’s rigging plans, Melaye boasts

Senator Dino Melaye (Kogi West – PDP) has revealed that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has taken deliberate steps to foil any attempts to rig the 2019 general elections. While speaking during the PDP’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting in Abuja on Tuesday, February 19, 2019, Melaye said the opposition party has bought secret cameras to record […]