Reading Time: 2 minutesFormer Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, has again secured the highest number of votes at the presidential primaries of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).  Atiku polled 371 – the highest votes – in the election which was held at MKO Abiola Stadium in Abuja on Saturday. He beat his closest challenger, Rivers…

Reading Time: 2 minutesA federal high court in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state capital, has ruled that former President Goodluck Jonathan is eligible to contest the 2023 presidential election. On Friday, Isa Hamma Dashen, the presiding judge, delivered judgment in the matter with Suit No: FHC/YNG/CS/86/2022. The judge held that Jonathan’s right to vie for the…

Reading Time: 2 minutesA federal high court in Abuja has refused to grant bail to former Imo state governor Rochas Okorocha. Okorocha had filed an ex-parte application praying the court to release him on bail on the ground that he is a presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and…

Reading Time: 2 minutesOndo State Governor Rotimi Akeredolu has said the next president of Nigeria must be from the Southwest region when he received Bola Tinubu, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Tinubu was in Ondo to meet with APC delegates on his presidential bid Akeredolu, who is the Chairman of the…

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has condemned the brutal killing of Harira Jubril, the pregnant woman who was killed by unknown gunmen alongside her four children in Anambra State. How gunmen murdered the woman and her kids at the Isulo, Orumba North Local Government Area of the state CAN in…

Reading Time: 2 minutesSome students of Paul University, Awka (PUA), Anambra State, have expressed worries about the incessant strikes embarked upon by the lecturers of the institution. The private Christian university was founded in 2009 by Bishops of the five ecclesiastical provinces of the Anglican Church East of the Niger to provide undergraduate training…

Reading Time: 2 minutesPeter Obi, former governor of Anambra State and erstwhile presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP has formally joined the Labour Party (LP) to contest the 2023 presidential election. Obi registered as a member of the party on Friday in his ward in Anambra State He is…

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Indigenous People of Biafra has denied any involvement in the killing of a pregnant woman and her four children in Anambra State says terrorists may have followed the family from the Northern Nigeria   The outlawed group which was accused of being behind the killing and other criminal activities going…