Benue: PDP withdraws case against Ortom in court A Federal High Court sitting in Makurdi has dismissed a suit filed by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Benue State challenging the nomination of Samuel Ortom as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress. PDP in the suit alleged that there was no primaries. It asked the INEC not to ...

The embattled National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Adamu Muazu, Wednesday, resigned as chairman of the party following pressure from party leaders, stakeholders and supporters of the party. In a letter he wrote to the Deputy National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, Muazu, noted that due to the abysmal performance of the party in the 2015 general elections, ...

Borno needs $20m to resettle IDPs – Shettima The Borno State Government has disclosed that it would require over $20m to resettle people displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency back to their communities. This was disclosed by the state governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, while addressing a delegation of the Red Cross in Maiduguri, the state capital. The delegation was led ...

Jonathan not dissolving his cabinet tomorrow – Information Minister Minister of Information, Mrs Patricia Akwashiki, has refuted the claim that President Goodluck Jonathan would dissolve his cabinet tomorrow. She affirmed that the president was yet to make his position known on the matter. The minister made the clarification during a familiarisation visit to the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON) ...

Fani-Kayode accuses Mu’azu, PDP NWC, of ruining Jonathan’s reelection chances The Director of Media and Publicity of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Organisation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has once again lambasted the Adamu Mu’azu- led National Working Committee (NWC) of ruining the party. Fani affirmed that for the PDP to regain its lost glory, persons like Mu’azu and his ...

Niger lawmakers abandon impeachment plan on Gov. Aliyu after receiving N17 million each According to reports, the impeachment against the Niger State Governor, Aliyu Babangida, may have been dropped as members of the state House of Assembly pushing for the governor’s removal have been allegedly paid N17m each with the additional promise that their other demands would be met as well. The ...

The former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Professor Chukwuma Soludo has said that the Abia State Governor-elect, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu has the capacity and all it takes to re-position Abia and make Igboland great again. Prof Soludo said this when he played host to Dr Ikpeazu at his Enugu residence yesterday. Soludo who confessed that he has not been ...

Women groups decry sign of marginalization under Buhari A coalition of women groups led by Women in Politics Forum, WIPF, has expressed fears that the administration of President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, will not favour women. They made their feeling known in a press conference organized yesterday in Abuja. Their fear was predicated on the gender composition of Buhari’s transition committee which ...

Adamawa lawmakers direct State Government to refund N2bn CBN loan The Adamawa State House of Assembly has asked the state government to refund the N2billion Agricultural loan collected from the Central Bank on behalf of the state’s farmers. The lawmakers gave the directive yesterday at plenary after going through the report of an adhoc committee chaired by Hon Aminu Iya ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says despite losing control of the Federal Government and some of its states in the last general elections, it is still the truly national political party with strength and spread enough to regain pre-eminence. The party therefore stated that it is not contemplating a change of identity, noting that the unassailable vision of its founding ...