The Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has vowed to take it in good faith if he loses the presidential election. Atiku explained that he would not be the first loser; hence he would take his loss in good faith. Speaking on BBC Pidgin on Tuesday, Atiku said: “I am not the first loser, neither am I going …

The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has re-echoed his message of economic prosperity to Nigerians at his campaign rallies in Anambra and Cross Rivers States. In Awka and Calabar, capital of Anambra and Cross Rivers States, on Tuesday, Tinubu said his focus as president would be to create jobs for the teeming unemployed people in …

All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has vowed to prioritise employment opportunities for the vast majority of Nigerians who are willing and ready to work, especially the people of Akwa-Ibom State. Before a massive crowd at the Nest of Champion Stadium, Uyo on Monday, Tinubu thanked the people of the state, especially APC members and urged …

Barely a year to the 1993 general elections, an amorphous body, which later turned out to be the vehicle for truncating the 12 June 1993 general elections – the Association for Better Nigeria (ABN) – surfaced. Although when it did nobody gave it any attention as it had an office at Toyin Street, not far from the street adjoining the …

In times past, Nigerian leaders were fond of snubbing the local media and travelling abroad to break important news stories that qualify as “world exclusives” to foreign media. Some put this down as a factor of the colonial mentality still ravaging African leaders centuries after the slave trade and decades after these countries had obtained what is derisively referred to …

A huge crowd of party supporters and other residents on Monday thronged the streets of Bauchi to receive President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on a campaign tour of the state. Tinubu, who had spent the night at the capital of the North Eastern state, joined the APC National Chairman, Senator …

Scholars are divided over the most appropriate description and perception of Esu in Yoruba cosmology. The more widely held notion is to make it the lexical parallel of Satan or the Devil in the English Language. Esu, within this context, connotes evil and devilry in all its ramifications. He is the purveyor and conveyor of wickedness, mischief, anguish, grief, even …

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has asked for the support of the Federation of Construction Industry in Nigeria (FOCI) in order to achieve his administration’s target of massively developing the country’s infrastructure if elected president. During his consultative session with FOCI at Wells Carlton Hotels in Abuja on Thursday, Tinubu said: “We must …

In over two decades since Nigeria’s return to constitutional democracy, this is the longest politicians have had to campaign before a general election. And that is a good and bad thing. It’s good because it is giving politicians a longer runway to meet more citizens and also for citizens to have more time to engage them on what they plan …

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Tuesday in Ilorin charged the people of Kwara State to vote for him and the candidates of the party in this year’s general elections in order to cement the freedom from exploitation, which he said they achieved four years ago. Tinubu and his entourage virtually shut …