Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court, Abuja has fixed Thursday for hearing in a suit seeking to nullify the elections of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) respectively. The former Minister of State for Education, Barrister Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, who resigned from the …

The Asokoro, Abuja residence of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has been streaming with high profile visitors within the last 24 hours. Atiku left Nigeria for the United Arab Emirates after meetings with the organised private sector and top echelon of the Nigerian media in Lagos penultimate week, in furtherance of his presidential campaign. He  is the flagbearer of the …

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has reiterated that the party’s embattled National Chairman, Rt. Hon. Iyorchia Ayu could not be force to resign his position as demanded by a group loyal to Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike. This is in reaction to the decision of the group to pull out of the PDP presidential campaign …

The presidential campaign organisation of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is to be chaired by Akwa Ibom State Governor Udom Emmanuel with his Sokoto State counterpart Aminu Waziri Tambuwal as Director General. According to a statement on Thursday by the party’s National Organising Secretary, Umar Bature, Emmanuel will be supported in his assignment by two other governors. Bauchi State Governor …

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has unveiled his strategic steps to revive the Nigerian economy working with the private sector, if elected in the 25 February election next year. His goals, which were presented to a private sector forum, organised by the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Tuesday, were encapsulated in eight …

Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has said that Nigeria requires an experienced politician as President in 2023 and not a novice. The Kaduna-based scholar and former Army captain said the candidates of the two main political parties – Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC); and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic …

At the first attempt to inaugurate the National Assembly of the aborted Nigeria’s Third Republic in 1992, then Lagos West Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu, and now a presidential candidate for the All Progressives Congress, revealed why former Head of State, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd.) singled him out for a handshake after the Presidential address to the assembly despite Tinubu’s frontal …

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has pointed out that Nigeria’s economy is in deeper trouble than the Federal Government, controlled by the All Progressives Congress (APC) is willing to admit In a statement in Kano on Tuesday, the former Vice President said that the key sectors of the economy were either growing slowly …

For those who may not know, Atiku Abubakar, Nigeria’s former Vice President, who is now the presidential flagbearer of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), is an extremely organised character. He is a system’s person who is meticulous, painstaking and regulations-compliant. Ask those who know him closely, or have worked with him in the past. Ask Chris Mammah, his former Media …

It was four days to his 57th birthday. It’s exactly five years ago on Sunday, 5th March 2017, that Onukaba Adinoyi-Ojo, one of Nigeria’s finest, most innovative and most resourceful journalists of recent time, died in continually befuddling circumstances. He had attended the 80th birthday celebration of his erstwhile benefactor and boss, Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria’s pioneer President in the current …