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Monday, 20 June 2022 07:03

A presidential hopeful in Kenya is running on a cannabis and snake venom platform

Kenya is facing inflation, unemployment and public debt. But George Wajackoyah, one of the four presidential candidates in the Aug. 9 polls, wants to get the economy back on track by legalizing cannabis and farming snakes. His rivals—former prime minister Raila Odinga and deputy president William Ruto—promise a $60 monthly stipend for unemployed citizens and several economic reforms. Meanwhile, on Twitter, TikTok and Whatsapp, Wajackoyah, a trained lawyer, figures that since a sack of 90 kilos of raw cannabis is worth $3.4 million, Kenya needs fewer than 2,000 sacks to repay its foreign debts. Wajackoyah and his running mate Justina…

Sunday, 19 June 2022 03:15

APC’s Biodun Oyebanji wins Ekiti governorship election

Candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Biodun Oyebanji, has officially been declared winner of the Ekiti State governorship election. Chief returning officer of the election, Kayode Adebowale, in the early hours of Sunday announced Oyebanji winner in Ado-Ekiti, the capital city. Oyebanji secured 187,057 votes to defeat his closest challengers, Segun Oni of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) who polled 82,211, and Bisi Kolawole of the Peoples Democratic Party who scored 67,457 votes. Oyebanji is the anointed candidate of the incumbent governor, Kayode Fayemi. Born December 21, 1967, Oyebanji hails from Ikogosi-Ekiti, in Ekiti West local government. Of…

Sunday, 19 June 2022 03:14

Tinubu writes Buhari, thanks president for being ‘neutral’ during APC presidential primaries

PRESS RELEASE The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has described President Muhammadu Buhari as a “true leader, brother and friend” who demonstrated a “sense of purpose, composure, and maturity” in the weeks leading to the Special Convention of the Party. In a letter to the President, which he personally signed, Tinubu expressed gratitude for the President’s congratulatory letter to him, adding that while all the contestants expected Buhari to “choose” his successor, he simply allowed a level playing field. According to him, “You belonged to everybody in the party and you belonged to none of…

Saturday, 18 June 2022 06:45

Ekiti elects new gov today as INEC debuts with e-transmission of results

Ruling All Progressives Congress, Peoples Democratic Party, Social Democratic Party and 13 other political parties are jostling to produce the next governor of Ekiti State in today’s election. The exercise is scheduled to hold across the 2,445 polling units in the 16 local government areas of the state. The other parties include Accord Party, African Action Congress, African Democratic Congress, Action Democratic Party, All Progressives Grand Alliance, Allied Peoples Movement, Action Peoples Party, Labour Party, New Nigeria People’s Party, National Rescue Movement, Peoples Redemption Party, Young Progressives Party and Zenith Labour Party. Meanwhile, in a sequel to the signing into…

Saturday, 18 June 2022 06:39

Mbaka apologises to Peter Obi, supporters over ‘stingy man’ comment

Ejike Mbaka, spiritual director of Adoration Ministries, Enugu, Nigeria (AMEN), has apologised over the remarks he made about Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP). The cleric had on Wednesday described Obi as “stingy”, asking his followers not to vote for him in the 2023 presidential election. Mbaka’s comment had elicited widespread criticism from many Nigerians as well as the Enugu Catholic diocese. Reacting to the blowback, Mbaka asked for forgiveness from Obi’s supporters and noted that he was misunderstood. Mbaka said the former Anambra governor is his “friend and brother” and he wishes him success in his…

Friday, 17 June 2022 06:45

Atiku has picked Delta gov Okowa as running mate. This is what the PDP presidential candidate told party stakeholders as his reasons

Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has announced Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa, as his running mate. Abubakar made the announcement Thursday at the PDP headquarters in Abuja. Read the full statement by Abubakar below: Let me begin by, once more, commending our great Party for organizing and concluding, arguably, the best and rancour-free Convention, which produced me as our flag-bearer for the next year’s Presidential Election. Once more, I commend my fellow aspirants in that contest. I thank them for their sportsmanship. They put up spirited fights because they cared and care for our country. I…

Friday, 17 June 2022 06:44

Ejike Mbaka slams LP presidential candidate Peter Obi as ‘stingy’. Here’s how Nigerians reacted to the Catholic priest

There is an outpouring of anger and condemnation by Nigerians over comments by an outspoken Catholic priest, Ejike Mbaka, against Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi. Mbaka, during his weekly ministration service on Wednesday, said Obi would not be president of Nigeria in 2023 because he is a “stingy man who does not give out money to people”. He also said until Obi returned to his Adoration Ministry to apologise for refusing to donate to the ministry when he was asked to do so, his ambition to become president of Nigeria would be fruitless. But many Nigerians, across different…

Saturday, 11 June 2022 06:10

INEC reports surge in voter’s registration in Southeast, Lagos, Kano

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday said its centres across Southeastern states have recently witnessed “sudden turnout of prospective registrants.” INEC said it has, therefore, deployed additional 209 voter enrolment machines to the five Southeastern states as well as Lagos and Kano to ease the congestion at the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) centres. The commission disclosed this in a statement by its National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee in Abuja on Friday. Okoye said that the commission received reports from states indicating an unprecedented surge in the number of citizens that wished to register…

Friday, 10 June 2022 06:31

‘I’m surprised people assumed the presidential contest will create a wedge between the VP and I’, Tinubu says in surprise visit to Osinbajo

Presidential candidate of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, on Thursday evening paid an unscheduled visit to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the latter’s Aguda House residence, Abuja. The APC flag bearer first visited President Muhammadu Buhari before proceeding to Aguda House. Tinubu defeated Osinbajo and 12 others at the just concluded presidential primary of the APC. Tinubu polled 1,271 votes to emerge victorious while Osinbajo polled 235 votes to come third behind Tinubu and ex-transport minister Rotimi Amaechi who polled 231 votes. The visit occured a few hours after Osinbajo congratulated Mr Tinubu for the victory and…

Wednesday, 08 June 2022 13:57

2023: Tinubu has emerged presidential candidate of APC. This is all that happened before the former Lagos gov achieved this feat

After months of intense horse-trading among various power blocs within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), former Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu, was Wednesday declared winner of the presidential primary of the party. At the presidential primary concluded in Abuja Wednesday, Tinubu, who polled 1,271 votes, defeated 13 others in the race. His closest opponent was the former minister of transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, who scored 316 votes. Tinubu, while declaring his intention to run for the presidency of Nigeria in January, said it has always been his lifetime ambition. He disclosed this at the State House shortly after visiting President…

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Tuesday, 07 June 2022 15:12

Poll of eligible delegates across the country projects Osinbajo to emerge APC presidential candidate

A poll conducted by the Democratic Research Initiative, a Research and Strategy Institution, has projected a landslide victory for Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo, in the ongoing presidential primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The party fixed its primary election for June 6 to 8 at Eagle Square, Abuja. The results of the poll conducted by sampling voting decisions of eligible delegates across the country placed the vice-president ahead of the 22 other aspirants jostling for the presidential ticket of the ruling party. Apart from Osinbajo, the other aspirants cleared by the John Odigie-Oyegun-led screening panel are a former Governor of…

Tuesday, 07 June 2022 15:11

Five APC presidential aspirants reject govs’ shortlist of 5 aspirants submitted to Buhari

PRESS RELEASE “In the past few hours we have been bombarded with calls and messages from our supporters and concerned Nigerians on a list of five Presidential aspirants submitted to President Buhari to choose from. “As long as we are concerned no list has been submitted to Mr. President, the move by the Governors is considered a joke taken to the extreme with the aim of playing with the intellect of Nigerians particularly us from the South-East. “Mr President’s directive is very simple, that all Presidential aspirants including those from the North should meet and harmonise inorder to produce a…

Tuesday, 07 June 2022 06:39

APC presidential primaries: Governors, NWC members meet as consensus plot thickens

A closed-door meeting of the National Working Committee (NWC) and governors who are members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) kicked off in Abuja last night (Monday). The meeting held at the APC National Secretariat at Wuse 2 area of the City Centre. Our correspondent gathered from sources at the party’s headquarters that the meeting is likely to take a final decision on who should be fielded as the party’s presidential candidate for the 2023 poll. The party’s presidential primary is slated for Tuesday. The APC had screened 23 aspirants to contest its ticket at the primary but two contestants…

Tuesday, 07 June 2022 06:38

Presidency to Tinubu: No individual can claim to have installed Buhari as president

The Presidency has dismissed the claim of Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), that he brought President Muhammadu Buhari into power. While addressing APC delegates in Ogun State last week, Tinubu had boasted that without him, Buhari would have lost in 2015. “You have not heard this from me before. This is the first place I am saying this. If not me that led the war front, Buhari wouldn’t have emerged. He contested first, second and third times, but lost. He even said on television that he won’t contest again.” “But I went to his home…

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