Christian group, Christians in Power Network, CIPN, has advised the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its flagbearer at the forthcoming 2019 general elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to choose a former minister of aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, as their vice presidential candidate.

NNEWI—The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, yesterday blasted those jubiliating over the emergence of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, saying he will not make the needed difference Nigerians are clamouring for.

In what appears a first major electoral loss in the 2019 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has banned the ruling All Progressives Congress APC from fielding candidates for governorship, state and federal legislative elections in Zamfara state.

LAGOS—FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo said yesterday Nigeria needed a President who understands the economy.

ABUJA—Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, yesterday, fixed October 23 to hear a suit seeking to invoke an order of mandamus to compel Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to investigate National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Adams Oshiomhole, for allegedly diverting public funds to his personal use.

•Truce good for the nation, says Chekwas Okorie, CISLAC •As Saraki reads 17 letters from Buhari •Buhari requests N346bn budget for NDDC By Emmanuel Aziken and Henry Umoru ABUJA — Anxiety over a showdown along party lines between All Progressives Congress, APC, and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, senators on the resumption of the Senate yesterday, […]

THE sons of Oba of Lagos, Rilwanu Akiolu, Obama Kayode Akiolu and former Minister of State for Defense, Musiliu Obanikoro, Ibrahim Obanikoro, yesterday, clinched the House of Representatives tickets as the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Lagos State officially released results into Senatorial, House of Representatives, and state House of Assembly, amid protest by aggrieved groups.

THE pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, yesterday, disagreed with former Lagos State governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu that the herdsmen terror being witnessed across the country is a fallout of water scarcity.

IMMEDIATE past National Secretary, Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has dismissed as unnecessary the brewing tussle for the vice presidential slot of the party, saying that the position had been zoned to the South-East

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo is certainly not a fan of Atiku Abubakar, his former vice-president, who is now the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party. His various testimonials about his former deputy are trending online.

The polity was astir, yesterday, over the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari and former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, as the presidential standard bearers of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, respectively.

The Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Sunday night congratulated Atiku Abubakar on his emergence as the 2019 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP but immediately took him to task on what it described as the dents in his life.

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Sunday emerged the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP for the 2019 presidential election.

When our women want to give birth, they travel to do so. In the process, sometimes the boats will spoil and the women will deliver inside the boats. Sometimes the babies or the mothers will die

The tanker, on high speed, lost control and fell on the car, spilling its content which instantly went up in flames