A huge crowd of Lagos State residents on Saturday converged on Onikan – a cultured neighbourhood in the heart of Lagos Island – for an All Progressives Congress (APC) rally. Clad in branded yellow shirts and ankara brocade, the crowd dominated the city centre with pockets of political carnival. Thousands of ordinary citizens and party stalwarts trooped to Mobolaji Johnson …

The Convener of The BIG-TENT, Prof. Pat Utomi has announced that two former heads of state have endorsed the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi for the 2023 elections, The BIG-TENTis a coalition of political parties, social movements and civil society organisations. The political economist did not however name the former rulers. He said in Abuja at …

Former Osun State Governor, Mr Adegboyega Oyetola; and his party, the All Progressives Congress, the petitioners before the state’s Election Petition Tribunal hearing matters emanating from last 16th July governorship election closed their case on Saturday. Also at the hearing, the panel admitted original copies of Form CF001 and all its attachments used by the state’s new governor, Senator Ademola …

The presidential campaign council of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has yet again confirmed that it would not participate in the Presidential Town Hall meeting, which Arise TV News scheduled for Sunday. The campaign council had earlier announced its position on the Town Hall meeting. Last month, the campaign spokesman, Barrister Festus Keyamo said: “Firstly, many radio and TV networks in …

From Monday 12th December, Nigerians will be able to collect their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) in each of the country’s 774 Local Government Areas (LGAS). This will last till 22nd January, 2023. In a statement on Friday, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said that the collection of PVCs would be decentralised to various wards from 6th January. This will …

Delta State governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Ovie Omo-Agege has condemned the practice of advance fee fraud (otherwise known as 419) among some youth in the state. To arrest the trend, he said that such youths would be discouraged from criminality, and retrained into tech savvy nerds. At a campaign rally at Owa-Ekei, Ika North East …

Labour Party vice presidential candidate, Senator Datti Baba-Ahmed has dismissed what he described as “a false narrative been spread nationwide that Mr Peter Obi is against the production of oil in the north; nothing could be farther from the truth”. At a media conference in Abuja on Thursday, Baba-Ahmed said that the “false narrative” has been spreading that, Labour Party …

All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has promised to make Bayelsa State what it truly should be: one of the nation’s largest producers of oil, if he becomes president. At the party’s presidential rally on Thursday at Oxbow Lake Pavilion Swalli in Yenagoa, the state capital, Tinubu accused those who had governed the state in the …

All the members of the state party executive committee, 69 local government chairmen and the party local government chairmen of the Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have passed a vote of confidence in the leadership of the recently ratified acting state chairman of the party, Sooko Taju Lawal. The motion was moved by the Chairman of …

A multi-dimensional roadshow, comprising power bikers, activation rigs and mobile advertising vans, was spotted across cities in Lagos State on Wednesday with flashes of an appealing slogan: A Greater Lagos Rising. The overall activities formally flagged off the re-election campaign of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. In riverine communities, hundreds of residents rolled out branded canoes in a special sea show, traversing …