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A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP chieftain, Dele Momodu has said the presidential candidate of the party, Abubakar Atiku cannot unilaterally remove  the PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu. Momodu, a veteran journalist and publisher of Ovation Magazine, made this assertion on  Thursday while speaking during an interview on Arise Television’s The Morning Show. Momodu said those...

The Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, has replaced his Ekiti State counterpart, Kayode Fayemi, as the Chairman, Nigeria Governors’ Forum. Tambuwal assumed the position on Thursday at the National Economic Council meeting in Aso Rock Villa, Abuja, after Fayemi transferred the baton of office to him. The Director, Media and Public Affairs of NGF, Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, confirmed the...

Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike has vowed to use his media chat on Friday to expose ill characters in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) priding themselves as national leaders. He said after the chat it would be left for Nigerians to decide if such people were still worthy of the ovation being accorded to them. Wike wondered how the...

The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has declared that he will not leave the Peoples Democratic Party for any reason. The governor stated that he was rather interested in preserving the sanity of the party and would stay back to fight for the enthronement of unity, inclusivity, equity and peace in the PDP. Wike made the declaration at...

New-age Afrobeats ambassador and Mavin Records top act, Rema has set a new record in Africa, beating music greats like Wizkid, Burna Boy and others from the continent by so doing. The Raves and Roses creator notched this feat by becoming the most listened African act on Spotify for the month of September with 18.9 million monthly listeners....

Lagos State Special Offences Court, Ikeja has sentenced an assistant Pastor of the Redeem Christian Church of God (RCCG), City of David Parish, Victoria Island, Ayodeji Oluokun, to two years imprisonment for issuance of $1.6 million dud cheque. Oluokun was charged alongside his company, Peak Petroleum Industry Nigeria Ltd, on an amended six-count charge bordering on issuance of...

The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Wednesday, worsened as Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and those sympathetic to his cause vowed not to be part of the Presidential campaign council set up its candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. PDP last week announced Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State as chairman of its campaign council.Both...

The National Industrial Court has ordered the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), to call off the ongoing Strike. Delivering a ruling on the interlocutory injunction filed by the Federal government, Justice Polycarp Hamman restrained ASUU from continuing with the industrial action pending the determination of the suit. Justice Hamman who is a vacation judge ordered that the...

At this point, it is safe to say no matter how well you keep up with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its leaders and all the drama within, you cannot predict what happens in the next event or episode. Last time was the raging call for the resignation of the party’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, and for...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has invited three former service chiefs to campaign for its presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar. Ishaya Bamaiyi, Kenneth Minimahand Martin Luther Agwai, all retired lieutenant generals and former chiefs of army staff, were named as members of the party’s Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), which has the mandate to organise the...