Raymond Ozoji,  Awka The incumbent lawmaker representing Nnewi-North state constituency in the 6th Anambra State House of Assembly Hon. Amalachukwu Kenneth Anazodo has debunked allegations of personal affinity with Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State over his ambition to return to the state assembly in 2019, saying he has no such deal whatsoever. Anazodo who made his position known at ...

A presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, on Friday visited former President Goodluck Jonathan in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital, to seek his advice, support and blessing. Bafarawa, a former Governor of Sokoto State, while at the ex-President’s Guest House in Baybridge area of the state capital, boasted that the PDP would wrest power ...

By Henry Gbadebo Yesterday, I again stumbled on a report making the rounds that Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode is planning to defect to another party over alleged conclusion of All Progressives Congress, APC leadership, especially Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to replace him with another governorship candidate in the 2019 elections. Haba! Kilode? The report specifically claimed that Ambode had ...

The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Akinwumi Adesina, has taken the case for expanded partnerships and investments in Africa to the Netherlands. On a three-day visit this week, he met with government officials and private and public sector business leaders and affirmed the accord between the Bank and the Dutch government’s development agendas and foreign policy. At a ...

Nigeria and Germany on Friday in Abuja signed two Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) in agriculture and commerce. The first agreement was signed between the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) and the German-Africa Business Association. The First Deputy National President of NACCIMA, Hajiya Saratu Iya-Abubakar, signed on behalf of Nigeria, while Dr Stefan Liebing of ...

Support groups of former Vice President and leading presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, on Friday purchased and presented the nomination and expression of interest forms to Atiku, urging him to contest for the ticket of the PDP in the 2019 election. The groups, who stormed the headquarters of the Atiku Presidential Campaign Organization in Wuse 2 ...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) says the 30th August, 2018 resolution of the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) on the mode of the Party’s primary election has been subject to different and misleading interpretations. In a statement signed by the Acting National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena, the APC made the following clarifications on NEC’s resolutions: Primary elections into all elective ...

Nobel laureate Professor Wole Soyinka has criticised President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, accusing it of having a penchant for flouting the decisions of the judiciary under the guise of national interest. In a statement entitled “Buhari’s Pernicious Doctrine”, Soyinka said that the President must have thought about his own travails under a military dictatorship and concluded that it was also in the ...

The National Executive Committee of the All Progressives Congress on Thursday adopted the direct primary method for the selection of its presidential candidate, while states will be allowed to choose which of the methods best suits their peculiarities. The party however said that states willing to use the direct primary method should write officially to the National Secretariat. This was ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on Wednesday a serious genital infection has been reported in patients taking a certain class of diabetes drugs, with one death and 11 others hospitalized. The warning pertains to a class of medicines called SGLT2 inhibitors, first approved in 2013 to lower blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. The U.S. ...