January 2022

The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike has explained why he believes that the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) governors and other stakeholders should work tirelessly for the party to produce the next Nigerian president in 2023.

He called on all those fanning the embers of discord over the issue of zoning of presidential ticket and dividing governors, to focus their energy on rebuilding and strengthening the party ahead of the 2023 general elections.

Governor Wike made these statments when he paid a courtesy call on the Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, at the Government House, Yenagoa, on Monday.…

A national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has revealed that he has informed President Muhammadu Buhari of his intention to contest for his seat as the next President of Nigeria in 2023.

He, however, maintained that he has yet to formally inform Nigerians of his intention to succeed the President.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that Tinubu made this statement on Monday while briefing State House correspondents after he met with President Buhari at the Aso Villa in Abuja.

According to him, the President is a democrat and therefore, has not asked him to …

Former Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has debunked speculations of him defecting from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Kwankwaso stressed that he had no plan to dump the PDP for the APC, maintaining that he is still committed to ensuring his party’s victory in 2023.

Speaking with Channels Television yesterday in an interview which was monitored by Africa Daily News, New York, the former governor admitted that there are issues regarding him in the PDP.

He recalled how his supporters were unfairly treated during the party’s congress in Kaduna in 2021.

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The UN Security Council has announced that it will meet next Wednesday in an informal session to address the latest developments in Sudan as demonstrations against military rule in the African nation continue.

According to diplomatic sources, the session will be behind closed doors, the sources said Friday, adding that the meeting was requested by six of the council’s 15 members.

A common position of the Security Council ‘is not expected, as China and Russia would oppose it,’ a diplomat said on condition of anonymity.

Africa Daily News, New York undertsnds that Beijing and Moscow in the past have stressed …

The Senator representing Imo West in the red chambers of the national assembly, Rochas Okorocha has accused the State Governor, Hope Uzodinma of being in charge of a killer squad known as Hopism Strike Force, HSF.

Okorocha alleged that the killer squad was behind the insecurity crisis rocking Imo State.

Speaking with journalists at his Owerri residence, the former governor alleged that the strike force comprised the military, police, DSS and Ebubeagu.

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Okorocha dared the governor to open up on who killed a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), …

The Director-General of Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), Dr. Lukman Salihu has asked the Chairman of the Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) and the Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni to honourably resign if he fails to conduct the party’s convention tentatively slated for February.

According to him, the party leaders must understand that the survival of the party was at stake and any attempt to continue to contemplate postponement of the convention would simply mean gambling with the future of the party.

Lukman’s demand for Buni’s resignation was made known in a letter dated January 5, 2022 titled,…