President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed over the decisive victory won by his party in the just concluded parliamentary elections, returning him to office for another five years. Reacting to the outcome of the elections as announced over the weekend, the President told the Ethiopian leader: “On behalf of the…
Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki has urged Nigerians to turn out enmasse and register with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during its nationwide online electronic registration of members which will commence in a fortnight. Obaseki, who stated this while addressing members of the PDP e-registration committee on Monday, in Abuja, explained that the pilot scheme…
Senator Shehu Sani, who represented Kaduna Central in the 8th Senate, has dumped the Peoples Redemption Party. This was contained in a letter signed by the ex-lawmaker and addressed to the chairman of the party in ward six, Tudun Wada, Kaduna. The letter obtained by The PUNCH was titled, ‘Formal Notification Of My Decision To Step Aside…
Abductors of the Emir of Kajuru in Kaduna state, have demanded a ransom of two hundred Million Naira for his release. The second class tradition ruler was abducted by bandits from his palace in the early hours of Sunday morning together with 13 members of his family. READ: DSS manhunt: South-West Governors Hiding Sunday Igboho,…
…It’s demeaning for govs to respond to herders’ group, says Akeredolu’s aide One of the umbrella bodies of herdsmen in Nigeria, the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, has alleged that South-West governors are “hiding” wanted Yoruba activist Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho. Spokesman for the group, Saleh Alhassan, stated this in an exclusive interview with The PUNCH on…
The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has faulted the recent comment of Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State over. Bello had during a maiden edition of the ‘Governor Yahaya Bello seminar for political and crime correspondents’ in Abuja on Friday, described rotational Presidency as “unconstitutional”, adding that “Nigerians should be allowed to make their…
Former gubernatorial aspirant of the All Progressives Congress in Gombe State, Muhammad Barde, on Monday, defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, claiming “bad governance” as the sole reason for his defection. He revealed that he defected in February 2021 when he failed to revalidate his membership with the governing party. Barde said, “I have formally…
Abductors of the provost of College of Agriculture and Animal Science Bakura, in Zamfara state are demanding the sum of five million naira ransom before the victim regains freedom The provost of the college Habibu Mainasara and two other persons were abducted early hours of Sunday at their Residence in Bakura A member of the…
The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to sack Zamfara Governor and his Deputy – Bello Muhammad Matawalle and Mahadi Aliyu Gusau – over their defection from the party to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The request forms part of the reliefs being sought in a suit, marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/489/2021…
