2027: High hurdles before candidates, parties
PARTIES and candidates for the presidential, 469 National Assembly, 28 governorship and 993 state assembly seats have high campaign hurdles to scale for the 2027 general polls.
400 Bakassi natives arrive Nigeria with tales of woes
No fewer than 400 returnees from the ceded Bakassi Peninsula have arrived Nigeria with gory tales of inhuman treatment meted to them by the Cameroonian gendarmes.
$40m ECOWAS loan splits Kano Assembly
By AbdulSalam Muhammad KANO — Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) legislators in Kano State House of Assembly have threatened to drag the House to court following the approval it gave to the state government to secure $40 million ECOWAS loan. Minority leader of the House, Alhaji Gambo Salau told newsmen in Kano that there are procedural […]
Enwerem’s son escapes two-week jail term
FIRST son and family head of the late Senate President, Chief Evan Enwerem, Mr Miguel Enwerem, yesterday narrowly escaped being sent to two-week jail term for failing to comply with an order of a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos.
Post-amnesty: Uduaghan parleys with ex-militant leaders
EX-MILITANT commanders drawn from various camps that hitherto were operational during the creek war met with Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, expressing confidence that the meeting had afforded them the opportunity to address most of their immediate problems.
2011: PDP moves to retake Abia
By Tony Nwankwo LAGOS—The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says it is ready to retake Abia State, which it lost to the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) in 2007. Speaking in Lagos, preparatory to the party’s rally in Umuahia, Abia Central, this weekend, Lagos lawyer and party stalwart, Mr. Chinwengozi Obike, said the party was now vibrant […]
