Thugs on Friday disrupted the PDP primary elections organised to decide the party’s chairmanship candidate for Kanke, in the February 18 local government elections in Plateau. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the thugs, who invaded the Kwall Stadium venue of the election, beat up members of the PDP electoral committee and officials […]

2017 Anambra State Gubernatorial Election final result APC 98, 752 APGA 234, 071 PDP 70, 293 UPP 7, 903 Therefore by virtue of having scored the highest valid votes, Mr. Willie Maduabuchi Obiano of APGA is hereby declared the winner and elected as Governor of Anambra State count | 62

SENATE PRESIDENT READS EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATION FROM PRESIDENT The President of the Senate, on Tuesday, read five Executive Communications from President Muhammadu Buhari, asking the Senate to pass the following Bills: 1. The Raw Materials Research and Development Council Bill; 2. The Nigerian Natural Medicine Development Agency Bill; 3. The Chartered Institute of Treasury […]

Robert Mugabe resigns as President of Zimbabwe Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe has resigned as president of Zimbabwe with immediate effect after 37 years in power, the speaker of the country’s parliament has said. The announcement came during a parliamentary hearing to impeach him, following a military takeover last week. A letter submitted to parliament by […]

APC Will Soon Disintegrate – Sen. Jonah Jang By Francis Etuko Former Plateau state governor, Senator Jonah Jang is confident that the ruling All Progressive Congress will soon disintegrate. Speaking during an interaction with newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday, the Plateau state lawmaker said the opposition People’s Democratic Party will come out of its elective […]

Statement of resignation of His Excellency Atiku Abubakar Vice President of Nigeria, 1999-2007 from the All Progressives Congress On the 19th of December, 2013, I received members of the All Progressives Congress at my house in Abuja. They had come to appeal to me to join their party after my party, the Peoples […]

A Non-Governmental Organisation is training security personnel on how best to conduct themselves securing  elections, as Plateau prepares for Local Government elections. Mr Nelson Ananze, Acting Executive Director, Community Action for Popular Participation , said that the two-day training in Jos, was to help security personnel to be professional in their conducts before, during […]

The publicised 2018 budget presentation by Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State was unceremoniously called off yesterday following an apparent misunderstanding between the executive and the state House of Assembly.The action of the lawmakers is the first since Okorocha became governor in 2011. A statement issued on Sunday, November 26, by Okorocha’s Chief Press Secretary, […]