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Pro-Jonathan group, Niger Delta Renaissance Organisation (NDRO) has implored Minister of State for Education, Nyesom Wike to refrain from heating up the polity with his ambition to govern Rivers State. In a statement released on Wednesday by its Spokesman, Mr. Kingsley Bejikini, the Organisation cautioned him against decisive tendencies, saying his gubernatorial ambition amounts to […]

The breakaway faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chaired by Alhaji Abubakar Baraje-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has denied reports from the Alhaji Bamanga Tukur faction that the meeting with President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan at the Presidential Villa on Sunday 15th September 2013 yielded positive results, describing reports of agreeing that Jonathan can contest […]

Senators under the platform of the newly registered All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday wrote the Senate to formally inform their colleagues of the founding of the coalition party. Senate President, David Mark read the letter, titled Notification of the Registration of All Progressives Congress (APC) and Status of Senators of the Merged Political Parties to […]

The battlefield of the crisis currently ravaging the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) shifted to the Federal House of Representatives on Tuesday, when members of the faction of the party chaired by Alhaji bamanga Tukur gate-crashed a prearranged meeting between the leadership of the lower chamber and the faction chaired by Alhaji Kawu Baraje-led, also attended […]

Embattled National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur will not quit the political scene just yet, despite clocking 78 years last Sunday. In a statement issued on Tuesday by his media aide, Oliver Okpala, Tukur debunked suggestions of senility in some quarters, saying he remains a force to be reckoned with in […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged the Federal Government to act fast to prevent Nasarawa from becoming another trouble spot in the country, saying the mindless violence being perpetrated by the Ombatse cult/ethnic militia in the state is fast spiralling out of control.  In a statement issued in Lagos on Monday by its Interim National Publicity […]

As tempers calm, there appears to be light at the end of the tunnel in the crisis currently ravaging the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as seven of the governors who formed the splinter faction of the party have withdrawn their demand for President Goodluck Jonathan to rescind his 2015 presidential ambition. Chairman of the Peoples […]

The Middle-Belt Forum on Monday lambasted former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mallam Nasir El-Rufai for describing President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor as “spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). According to the group, El-Rufai, as a former public office holder has the moral responsibility not to […]

Nigerians are no longer eligible to participate in the annual Diversity Visa Lottery Programme of the United States, at least for another one year. According to the U.S. Department of State, Nigeria was one of the countries barred from participating in the upcoming DV-2015 because more than 50,000 of their citizens immigrated to the United […]

The new Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has denied the supposed resignation of Alhaji Tanko Isiaku Gwamna as National Treasurer, saying he was instead sacked. In a statement by the Baraje faction titled PDP Sacks National Treasurer, Alhaji Tanko Isiaku Gwamna, For Being a Mole and A Saboteur • Replaces Him with Engr. Abubakar Gambo Umar, the party confirmed that […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has put the blame for last week’s blockade of the Rivers State Government House squarely on President Goodluck Jonathan, saying his unbridled disposition towards cheap political vendetta has pushed him to commit impunity and unconstitutionality perhaps more than any other President in the country’s history. In a statement issued in […]

Members of the new Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) will embark on a seven-day fasting and prayer for quick resolution of the ongoing industrial action of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), beginning from Monday, 16th of September 2013.  According to National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Abubakar Baraje, the spiritual intervention will be made due […]