A group of Northern leaders on Friday predicted that the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu will emerge as Nigeria’s next president next year.
The leaders, who are members of 100% Focus Movement, a pro-Tinubu Northern coalition, asserted that the South does not have a choice, but to vote for Tinubu.
The leader of the group, Ibrahim Mohammed, said the South, particularly the South West, needs to vote for the candidate in appreciation for what he has done in the region.
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Ahead of next year’s election, the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) has vowed to do everything within its power to mobilise Nigerians to reject the emergence of another northern president in the forthcoming 2023 presidential election saying that Nigeria may cease to exist if that is allowed to happen.
The National Publicity Secretary PANDEF, Ken Robinson, made this disclosure on Tuesday when the Leadership of the organisation paid the presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) Prince Adewole Adebayo a consultative visit on Tuesday in Abuja.
PANDEF disclosed that it has concluded plans to organise people from Niger Delta …
Reports reaching Africa Daily News, New York has it that an ex-soldier have been arrested for allegedly providing terrorists who lurk in the northwestern state with ammunitions; a couple of other notorious bandits were also arrested.
Sa’idu Lawal, the prime suspect, is alleged to have terrorized localities in the states of Niger, Kaduna, Katsina, Kebbi, and Kaduna – making life unbearable for residents of these states.
Despite his voluntary retirement from the Nigerian Army in 2021, Sa’idu Lawal, a native of Zamfara State, has been providing armed support to bandits in the North West.
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Media mogul and a Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), High Chief Raymond Dokpesi provided insights as to why he believes the party is presently entangled in the current crisis before it.
Speaking to newsmen yesterday, Dokpesi accused the former President, Goodluck Jonathan of abandoning the power rotational arrangement in place in the party hence the current crisis befalling the party.
The High Chief asserted that in 2015 he advised former President Jonathan to break and allow for a candidate from the North to complete their eight years tenure started by late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua but he refused.…
Controversial Islamic cleric and preacher, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has condemned the wrong measures being deployed by the Federal Government in the ongoing fight against the Boko Haram insurgency in Northern Nigeria, claiming that both sides of the divide have committed crimes.
Gumi made this assertion in a statement issued on Sunday, pointing out that if the next President of the country follows the same trajectory, it would result in a greater insurgency in the land.
He said, ‘The recent BBC Africa Eye documentary and Daily Trust documentaries about the insurgency in Zamfara State have exposed the ethnic and tribal undertones …
No fewer than 22 persons were kidnapped on Friday in a community within Abuja, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), following an attack by some yet-to-be-identified gunmen.
Police authorities in the FCT who confirmed the attack to reporters revealed that the attack happened within Rafin Daji, a boundary community Between Niger State and the FCT.
The acting FCT police spokesman, Oduniyi Omotayo told reporters that the gunmen attacked the community at the time farmers were cultivating their farmland.
‘The farmers were on their farmland working when gunmen outnumbered and kidnapped them,’ the spokesperson wrote in a brief WhatsApp message.
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The Governor of Rivers State and a presidential aspirant on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Nyesom Wike, has vowed to stamp out banditry in the first six months of his presidency.
The governor pledged that if elected president, his administration would provide the logistics and gadgets necessary for the security agencies to expeditiously end banditry in the country.
Governor Wike made these promises when he spoke at a meeting in Abeokuta with PDP delegates from Ogun State on this month’s presidential primary of the party, saying he would prioritise the protection of life and property of every …
The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide have admonished to the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), to embrace equity and justice by standing with the South East region to produce the next Nigeria president in 2023.
Ohanaeze made this call through the National Publicity Secretary, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Alex Ogbonnia, while reacting to the statement made by the NEF that the presidential race should be thrown open in 2023.
The Apex Igbo group postulated that in ‘1994, some Nigerian patriots conceived an article of faith and principle of rotation of power that guarantees equity and inclusiveness for all the diverse components of the country.’…
Nigeria’s main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has released its official timetable and schedule of activities for the 2023 general elections.
The party fixed the presidential and governorship Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms at ₦40 million and ₦21 million, respectively.
The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, made this disclosure while briefing journalists at the end of 95th National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting, on Wednesday at the PDP National Secretariat, Wadata Plaza, Wuse Zone 5, Abuja.
PDP Publicity scribe also revealed that the party approved the establishment of a 37-member Zoning Committee, adding that ‘the …
In view of the insecurity bedevelling the north, the Federal Government has been told to urgently increase the revenue allocations to the Northeast geopolitical zone.
The interim chairman of the Coalition of Northeastern Patriots (CONEP), Alhaji Suleiman S.K. Bauchi, made the call yesterday at the group’s meeting held at the Command’s Guest House, Bauchi.
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The chairman lamented that apart from insecurity, the North-east zone has the highest rate of youth unemployment in Nigeria today.
He added that left with nothing to do, the youth of the zone are susceptible …
This is coming as bandits in Zamfara State have surrendered 50 guns within the past one week, in acceptance of the state government’s offer of two cows for every gun returned.
The governor said such politicians believed that by sponsoring violence and other acts of criminality, they would be blackmailing the
