The army said on Friday in Port Harcourt it arrested six suspected political thugs and recovered arms and ammunition from them after soldiers raided their hideout.

Ibrahim Babajide Obanikoro wants to represent Eti-Osa Constituency 2 in the Lagos State House of Assembly on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP. Though he contested for the same seat in 2011, he lost but he is optimistic that he would emerge victorious at the end of the exercise. He speaks on his plans, mission and vision for Eti-Osa if given the opportunity to represent the people.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the All Progressive Change, APC will next Saturday finally redesign the political map of Kaduna State, after the APC made sweeping, but not surprising defeat of its major contender, the PDP, in the last Presidential and National Assembly elections.

IT is three days to the governorship and state assembly elections. As expected, the election fever is on the rise across the country as politicians, especially contestants in the elections, intensify their campaigns to attract and garner last minute endorsement from the electorate. As political parties and contestants make frenzied efforts to outdo their opponents and rivals before the April 11, 2015 elections, expectations are high that victory could be around the corner.

RIGHT from the enthronement of civil rule in Nigeria in 1999, Ebonyi has been a PDP-controlled state which produced the first executive Governor of the state, Dr. Sam Egwu among other elected individuals.

AS the country gets ready for the governorship election on Saturday, April 11, 2015, the two major political parties in Akwa Ibom State, the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, and All Progressives Congress, APC, have once again commenced traversing the nooks and crannies of the state to woo the electorate.

Olorogun Olori Magege is the chairman of the Delta State Waste Management Board and a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. In this interview he affirms that the victory of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the presidential election would not benefit the local chapter in Delta State

LESS than four days to the governorship and House of Assembly elections, the two major political parties, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Congress (APC) have intensified their campaigns and strategies to win the polls in Rivers State.

IF the outcome of the March 28 Presidential and National Assembly polls in Bauchi State and the political atmosphere is anything to go by, the All Progressives Congress (APC) will record easy victories in Saturday’s Governorship and State Assembly elections in the state.

Next Saturday’s governorship and House of Assembly elections in Imo State is going to be a battle royale between the All Progressives Congress, APC, the ruling party and the People’s Democratic Party, PDP.