The Speaker of Taraba State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Joseph Albasu Kunini has urged political office seekers to shun campaigns of calumny ahead of the 2023 general elections.  Making the clarion call on Monday in his welcome address at resumption of plenary after recess on Monday, Prof. Kunini appealed to all contestants to eschew politics of bitterness, which is …

Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has said that Nigerians and the President to be elected in 2023 will have to make tough economic decisions to reset the country. While delivering a keynote speech on Saturday at the seventh KadInvest, an annual event organised by the Kaduna State Investment Promotion Agency, the former Emir of …

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has said that the sins of the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are so grievous that if they are disclosed his children would disown him. “If people know what we know, if we release what we have, Ayu’s children will go to him and say we are no longer your children”, Wike …

Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has said that the track records of achievements and capacity of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to build a formidable team are enough grounds to elect him as the next president of Nigeria. Tinubu is the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to which the Governor belongs. At a symposium to unveil the Yasin for …

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva has predicted the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu would convincingly win the 2023 election. The former governor of Bayelsa State was also sure that the party, which has no governor in the six South-South states at the moment, would completely takeover the geopolitical …

With about four months to the 2023 general elections, Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu has called on religious leaders to sensitise their followers against electoral violence and other acts inimical to democracy. At the fifth Greater Nigeria Project conference of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) held on Friday at the Vineyard Christian Ministries, Ajao Estate, Sanwo-Olu implored the …

  The event marking the World Teachers’ Day in Lagos State turned a platform to share testimonies of the positive transformation recorded in state’s teaching service by the administration of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.   Teachers cheerfully shared their experiences in the last three years, giving Sanwo-Olu a pass mark in raising the standards of education through investment in infrastructure and …

Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the general elections, the Kwara State Commissioner of Police, Mr Paul Odama  has cautioned various political parties in the state not to heat up the polity with hate speeches, inciting statements and personal attacks, assuring that the command would provide a level playing ground for all of them. He sternly warned the political parties …

Efforts by the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to resolve the issues between the party leadership and the group of Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike have not yielded desired result. The meeting on ended inconclusively. Wike and his supporters, among whom are Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State and his Benue State counterpart, are demanding …

The Electoral Hub has advocated that the campaign for the 2023 elections, which commenced with those for the national elections last Wednesday, should be issue-focused, inclusive and policy based. The organisation, which is committed to strengthening electoral governance and accountability in Nigeria, is an affiliate of the Initiative for Research, Innovation and Advocacy in Development (IRIAD). It essentially aims at …