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 Unknown  gunmen, on Saturday morning, killed the Ebubeagu Security Network Commander of Ogboji Ward in Ezza North local government Area of Ebonyi State, Mr. Charles Nwankwo. According to Leadership ,  the gunmen invaded his house at Ogboji community at about 1am and shot him dead and made away with his motorcycle and Pump Action gun.  It was also gathered that unknown gunmen earlier on Friday evening invaded Mkpuma Akataka in Izzi local government area of the State where members and supporters of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) were holding their consultative meeting and opened fire on them. It was revealed that two persons were killed by the gunmen while two others sustained different degrees of gunshot injuries. It was also revealed that the hoodlums, who were said to be two in number, reportedly operated with a motorcycle and were said to have quickly zoomed off after carrying out the attack. Confirming the incidents, the State Commander, Ebubeagu Secu...

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Wednesday mocked the Presidency over its claim that President Muhammadu Buhari walked 800-metre as evidence of his fitness to run in 2019. Mr Abubakar, who is eyeing the presidential ticket of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said he would work to create jobs for Nigerians and not build “illusion”. The former vice-president was apparently responding to a claim by the Presidency that Mr Buhari walked 800 metre from Eid praying ground in Daura on Tuesday. Earlier the governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, had last week said that Mr Buhari was “too old” to rule the country beyond 2019. But the News Agency of Nigeria reported that after the Eid prayers, Mr Buhari shunned protocol and opted to trek some 800 metres, acknowledging cheers from Nigerians who lined up on his home route to catch a glimpse of him. Presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu, had said that Mr Buhari demonstrated his fitness to run for a second term b...

Immediate past Deputy National Publicity Secretary of All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has urged the presidency to stop using propaganda on Nigerians concerning the health status of President Muhammadu Buhari, adding that the President’s 800 metres walk is not an achievement to the country. Comrade Frank said since the seat of power has decided to play politics with mere 800 metres walks, it will be better for President Buhari and other presidential aspirants to take up a walking contest at the National Stadium in Abuja where all Nigerians will see them and not only in Daura. The President was reported to have walked 800 metres from the praying ground back to his residence in Daura during Sallah prayer on Tuesday. But reacting in a statement on Wednesday to what Frank consider a propaganda, he asked whether there were Surveyors measuring the distance covered during the presidential walking? According to the Bayelsa born politician, for presidency to mak...

By Josephine Ella-Ejeh President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday resumed his official duty at the Presidential Villa. Buhari who returned to Abuja from London after  10-working- day vacation is presently meeting behind closed doors with the nation’s security chiefs. Reports said the meeting which started at 11.25am is holding inside the President’s office at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Details later…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says President Muhammadu Buhari, in his desperation to achieve a personal ambition, is holding the nation to ransom by refusing to sign the Electoral Act Amendment bill, passed by the National Assembly to check manipulations in the 2019 general elections. President Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) are quavering because the draft law effectively checked all their machinations, which they have been deploying in rigging past elections and intend to use in the 2019 general elections. The amendment bill, which is in the overall interest of the nation, embattles President Buhari because it eliminates openings for major malpractices including the use of underage and alien voters, vote buying, alteration of results and manipulation of voter register, which the APC intends to use to rig the 2019 elections. Such provisions include granting INEC powers to utilize Full Biometrics Accreditation of voters with smart card readers and other t...

Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto State has affirmed that it is true that President Muhammadu Buhari has health challenges and also accused a cabal of running his (Buhari”s) government. Tambuwal also declared that he had been under tremendous pressure to join the 2019 presidential race. Addressing thousands of youths and students who stormed the Governor’s Office in appreciation of his involving the youths in his administration, Tambuwal said, “We supported Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 to become President unconditionally and we admit that Buhari has integrity but that’s not the only requirement for leadership. “We are aware that the President is affected by serious challenges of health and is being held captive by a cabal that runs Nigeria for their personal interests.” Buhari faced a major medical challenge in 2017 that saw him spending the better part of the year outside the country. He left the country on January 19, 2017, on what the Presidency described then as a...

By Josephine Ella-Ejeh The Independent National Electoral Commission has extended the deadline for voter registration from August 17, 2018  to August 31, 2018, a press statement released on Tuesday said. The statement by the commission explained that the  decision was  to give more people the opportunity to vote next year. Between April 2017 when the Continuous Voter Registration exercise began and August 2018,  the INEC said over 12 million persons had registered. Even after the registration of fresh voters stopped, the INEC said  it would continue to distribute PVCs until February next year. “The commission wishes to inform the public that the ongoing collection of PVCs will not end with the CVR exercise. Collection of PVCs will continue until close to the general elections,” it added.

By Josephine Ella-Ejeh Presidential aspirant under the platform of Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, on Monday visited the former military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida in Minna. This was contained in a  statement signed by Yusuf Abubakar, Director, Media and Publicity, Bafarawa Campaign Organisation(BCO) on Tuesday in Abuja. Abubakar said that Bafarawa’s Minna trip was in continuation of political consultations on his presidential aspiration in 2019. Babangida and the former Sokoto State Governor, met behind closed doors at the host’s hilltop residence, he said, adding, Bafarawa’s discussion with Babangida was fruitful. The media aide said that Bafarawa was accompanied on the visit by the Director General of BCO, Sen. Paul Wampana, Mrs Becky Igwe, Alhaji Sani Kabiru, Dr Amanze Obi and Dr Iliya Stephen, among others. Meanwhle, Governor Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo of Gombe state  on Tuesday, held a closed door meeting with former presiden...

The Governor of Gombe State, Ibrahim Dakwambo, is currently in a closed door meeting with the former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Mr Dakwambo, a presidential aspirant under the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) arrived his host’s private residence located inside the premises of Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta and shortly entered into the meeting. The meeting comes less than 24 hours after Senate President Bukola Saraki also met with Mr Obasanjo. None of the officials spoke about the details of their meeting which held few days after Mr Saraki also met with ex-military ruler, Ibrahim Babangida. Mr Obasanjo also recently played host to another PDP presidential aspirant, Kabiru Turaki, and visited ex-President Goodluck Jonathan. The meetings are believed to be in preparation for the 2019 elections with Mr Obasanjo pledging to spearhead a coalition to oust incumbent President Muhammadu BUhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Mr Obasanjo suppo...

The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday insisted that the Inspector-General of Police, must arrest and produce the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu in court on August 16, 2018. Justice Stephen Pam gave the order following the absence of Yakubu’s team of lawyers in court and there was no explanation as to why they were absent. “At the commencement of proceedings, counsel to the applicant, Kanayo Okafor, informed the court that the Court of Appeal on Monday asked the court to stay proceedings in the matter. “The counsel to the respondent is not in court and no reason has been given for their absence. “The contempt proceedings and the bench warrant issued for the arrest of Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman still subsists, the I-G is to carry out the order of the arrest of Yakubu. “This court being a court of record has nothing to prove that there was an order for stay from the Court of Appeal.” However, while the judge was...

By Josephine Ella-Ejeh The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, would still remain the running mate of President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 presidential election, the Presidency  said on Monday. Speaking  in an interview with State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu,said the victories recorded by the ruling All Progressives Congress in legislative elections held in three states over the weekend indicates that victory is sure for the Buhari/Osinbajo presidential ticket in 2019. ....Details later

By Josephine Ella-Ejeh President Muhammadu Buhari and the leadership of the ruling All Progressive Congress(APC)  have been indicted of corrupting the nation’s electoral process through their devious love for massive vote buying. Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, said in a statement in Abuja, that the Senate and House of Representatives bye-elections held in Bauchi, Katsina and Kogi States respectively at the weekend, have further exposed the desperation of the APC to win local, regional, state and national elections at all cost. Frank said  the ‘vote buying policy’ now adopted by the Buhari-led administration will further weaken the base of the nation’s democratic enterprise and return the country to its inglorious past where outright manipulation of the electoral process to confer undue advantage on the ruling party held sway.  “It is a pity that after increasing hunger and poverty i...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)  has said  the All Progressives Congress (APC) lacks the legislative number and constitutional facilities to remove Senate President, Bukola Saraki and his Deputy, Ike Ekweremadu. In a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan on Friday in Abuja, the party advised the Presidency and the APC to “accept the reality’’. It said that Presidency and the APC, having realized that there was no way they could muster the constitutionally required two-third votes of the 109 senators, representing 73 senators, was now engaged in under-hand tactics. These, according to it, include the invasion of the National Assembly. “Even before then, Nigerians were already aware of moves to use humongous funds to induce lawmakers to trigger crisis in the National Assembly and pave the way for the removal of presiding officers. “Now that they have discovered that there is no way they can achieve their devious intentions, they...

The immediate past Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives (APC) Comrade Timi Frank, has revealed that the current administration was planning to freeze accounts of major opposition leaders ahead of the 2019 general elections to render the opposition party incapacitated. Frank, who raised the alarm specifically listed former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Senate President Bukola Saraki, Rivers state governor Ezenwo Nyesom Wike, Sokoto state governor Aminu Tambuwal, National Chairman of PDP, Uche Secondus and former governor of Kano state, Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso among others in the latest plot. The plot, according to Frank also mentioned the Speaker, House of Representative, Yakubu Dogara, who is believed will leave the APC soon. Apart from the major opposition leaders, Comrade Frank revealed that some businessmen and women who are sympathetic to the opposition parties are also targets in the plot. The Bayelsa born politician alleged that President Mu...

Former Director-General of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Malam Muhammad  Sani Sidi, on Tuesday joined the Gubernatorial  race in Kaduna. Sidi, who was sacked in April   by the Buhari administration for corrupt practices,   gave the indication when submitting his letter of intent to the State Executive of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Kaduna. The  entrance of Sidi brings to four the politicians seeking  the PDP ticket  to run for the Governorship seat  in Kaduna State. Sidi said: "I consider the warm reception you have accorded me and my supporters here as an honour and a rare privilege, considering the short notice I gave you in the midst of your very busy schedules. I remain forever grateful for the honour and privilege “I am here for two reasons. First, I am here to express my appreciation to you Mr. Chairman and your working committee for all your efforts and sacrifices to ensure ...

Senate President Bukola Saraki is currently addressing a World Press Conference. Saraki had led Principal Officers of the National Assembly to the conference. He condemned the siege laid by the security operatives of the Department of State Services on the National Assembly on Wednesday, saying it’s “an assault on democracy.” He said, “It is a matter of record that yesterday, lawmakers and staff of the National Assembly were prevented from entering the National Assembly Complex by heavily armed security agents of the Department of State Services (DSS). All entries to the Complex were blocked.” “The National Assembly, the seat of democracy in Nigeria, was under lockdown. Senators and Members of the House of Representatives were prevented from gaining access.” “The ensuing standoff was a show of shame that played itself out over several hours in full view of the country. “In no circumstances should this have happened. And we as a nation reaped the bitter fruits i...