Presidential candidates of the Labour Party(LP), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) and the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), yesterday, wooed voters as they marshaled out their programmes at The Arise News Presidential Town Hall ahead of the February 2023 presidential election. Among those invited, threeContinue Reading
Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi has told Nigerians not to vote for him based on ethnic or entitlement sentiments, but on the competence he comes with. The former Anamabra State Governor stated this during the Presidential Town Hall series organized by Arise TV on Sunday. According to Obi, heContinue Reading
BY GODDY OBINWA Northern States Christian Elders Forum (NOSCEF) has called on Nigerians, irrespective of ethno-religious differences to ensure that the same faith ticket for the 2023 general elections does not see the light of the day. The elders noted that if the same faith is not rendered useless inContinue Reading
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2023 general elections, Atiku Abubakar says one of the three naira notes about to be redesigned should have the image of former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Atiku, in a string of tweets on Saturday, also saluted the 85-year-old elder statesmanContinue Reading
■ As APC presidential candidate intensifies lobby Four out of five aggrieved governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), may finally take a position on the presidential candidate to support ahead of the 2023 general elections. The four PDP governors are Nyesom Wike of Rivers State; Seyi Makinde of OyoContinue Reading
■ Afenifere, YCE, Adeniran, others want FG to intervene BY GODDY OBINWA Fear has gripped travellers plying the Lagos-Ibadan following a new spate of kidnappings on the strategic highway linking the South-West. Yoruba Council of Elders, YCE, Afenifere; former Minister of Education, Prof. Tunde Adeniran and some other South-west leadersContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Four hundred and forty-six people have died in Kaduna State due to banditry, terrorism, and communal clashes between April and September 2022. The Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, stated this on Friday while presenting the 2nd and 3rd Quarter security report on securityContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Kanwan Katsina District Head of Ketare in Kankara Local Government Area Alhaji Usman Bello Kankara has expressed gratitude to Almighty Allah for the safe return of the Emir of Katsina Alhaji Abdulmumini Kabir Usman from Medical trip abroad. Alhaji Usman Bello Kankara stated this in anContinue Reading
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said it arrested 19,341 drug traffickers, seized 5,452 kilograms of illicit drugs worth N420 billion, and recorded 3,111 convictions between January 2021 and September 2022. The chairman/Chief Executive Officer, NDLEA, Brig General Buba Marwa (retd), stated this yesterday, when he appeared before the HouseContinue Reading
By Adolphus Duru Leader of pan Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo has charged Nigerians especially the youth to brace up for the struggle to make sure that the Labour Party presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi succeeds President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023. He cautioned that making Obi become theContinue Reading