Former Nigeria’s Vice-President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has urged Nigerians not to lose heart and hope as Nigeria can become the headquarters for hope in 2019. Atiku said this in his New Year message to Nigerians. Below is the full text of the message: “My dear fellow citizens, “As 2018 comes to an ...

By Casmir Igbokwe Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo used this phrase “prophetic stones” in January 2009. In an advertorial titled “The power of the prophetic stone,” Ashimolowo urged Nigerians to join him in his church and be the first to be launched into favour, breakthrough and excellence that year. Those who would join him in his church, he promised, would be the ...

Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Peter Obi, has described the death of former President of Nigeria, Alhaji Shuhu Shagari, as a national loss with so many lessons and challenges for Nigeria. Obi, representing Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, spoke on Sunday while in Sokoto with former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, to commiserate with the family of Shehu ...

The Coalition of Ethnic Nationalities for the Atiku Agenda (CENTAA) has condemned the invitation of the police to battle Boko Haram insurgence, and demanded the removal of the Inspector General of Police, Alhaji Ibrahim Kpotum Idris. CENTAA said that drafting policemen against insurgents in the North East was not only unconstitutional, it amounted to sending them on a suicide mission ...

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party has reacted to a statement by President Muhammadu Buhari accusing the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar of planning to smuggle in looted funds into the country just before the February 2019 elections.   In a statement the media adviser to Atiku, Paul Ibe, said, “This new accusation, ...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sent an urgent appeal to two UN special rapporteurs urging them to “prevail upon the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and the leadership of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to reach an agreement to end the ongoing strike by ASUU, which continues to have real and dire consequences on the right to higher education, specifically university ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday asked the Igbo to be wary of promises from the All Progressives Congress ahead of next year’s general elections. Obasanjo, who spoke at a stakeholders’ meeting at Ukpor in the Nnewi South Local Government Area of Anambra State, said the APC had no plans to hand over the presidency of the country to the ...

Leah Sharibu’s mother, Rebecca, is worried that her daughter is spending the Yuletide in Boko Haram captivity despite the Federal Government’s promise to secure her release before now. Her friend and senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science, University of Jos, Dr Gloria Samdi Puldu, made this known on Friday. Sharibu was one of the 110 female students of ...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has condoled with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over the death of some of its members who died following a fatal accident on Otukpo-Agatu Road in Benue State while travelling for the campaign flag-off of a Senatorial candidate on Friday. In a statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary,  Mallam Lanre Issa-Oniru, the APC said ...

Raymond Ozoji, Awka Dr. Chike Amobi an Abuja-based legal practitioner and member Uche Ekwunife Campaign Organization has boasted that Sen. Uche Ekwunife will wash the incumbent senator for Anambra-central, Sen.Victor Umeh, and other candidates for the senatorial election next year aside. The American-trained legal luminary who hails from Eziowelle in Anambra-central senatorial district, further boasted that Uche Ekwunife would be ...