Politics

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has urged Nigerians to vote for the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, in 2023, saying he is the best person that can help deliver Nigeria from its challenges. Ortom, who spoke while commending Obi for visiting camps of the Internally Displaced People, IDPs, in the State on Christmas day prayed that God would bless Obi’s presidential ambition. Earlier, Obi encouraged the internally […]

Just few months to the 2023 general election, the Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi has banned street campaigns by political parties, threatening to seal off party secretariats and offices of defaulters. Umahi also banned pasting of posters on critical infrastructure, including electric poles, concrete medians, roads, flyover bridges and other critical infrastructure of the State by all the Political Parties in the State. The governor, who made this known […]

The Executive Director of advocacy group, YIAGA Africa, Samson Itodo has decried the persistent attacks on offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), describing it as disturbing. Itodo, who spoke to newsmen, described the recurring attacks on INEC offices as a waste of taxpayers’ money, adding that same will be used to rebuild the destroyed facilities. According to him, there has been no fewer than 52 attacks on the […]

Doyin Okupe has resigned as the Campaign Director-General of the Labor Party’s 2023 presidential candidate Peter Obi. Okupe in a letter addressed to Obi yesterday said it is better not to allow his interest to distract his campaign and that of the party, hence his decision to step aside, pleading that Obi appoint a new Campaign DG who can continue the assignment with zero distractions. He stated that he has […]

The 9th Assembly yesterday confirmed the appointment of the Special Assistant to the President on New Media, Lauretta Ifeanyi-Onochie as the substantive Chairman of the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC, despite criticisms trailing her nomination The Senate at the plenary also confirmed 12 others following the screening of the nominees conducted last Friday at the National Assembly complex as requested by President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari had also […]

The National Chairman of the African Democratic Congress ADC, Ralph Okey Nwosu has described his Party as the only truly viable political platform that has the interest and welfare of the people at heart. Nwosu who was represented by the Enugu State Chairman of the Party Stella Chukwuma made this remark at the Flagging Off/ Official Unveiling Of The Manifestoes Of its Governorship/ Deputy Governorship Candidate Pastor Donatus Obi Ozoemena […]