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Wednesday, 19 October 2022 06:23

25 states refused to vote on constitution amendment bills. These are their demands

Only 11 of Nigeria’s 36 state legislatures have considered and voted on the 44 constitution amendment bills passed by the National Assembly earlier in the year. The states whose houses of assembly have voted on the bills are Abia, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Delta, Edo, Kaduna, Katsina, Kogi, Lagos, Ogun and Osun states. This comes about six months after the bills were passed and transmitted to the states for their legislative votes. Twenty-five other states have failed to consider the bills. The states have threatened to take no action on the bills unless four more constitutional amendment bills are considered and…

Monday, 17 October 2022 06:15

Zamfara orders media shut for covering political rally

Zamfara state in northwestern Nigeria ordered five media outlets to close on Sunday after they covered a political rally for the opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP), which took place in violation of a state ban on political activities. The order to close came after Governor Bello Metawalle, a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress, banned political activities, including meetings at individuals' homes, on October 13 due to the security situation in the state. The ban includes campaigning for February 2023 presidential elections, which began nationwide last month. Zamfara state, along with much of northwestern Nigeria, is battling armed groups…

Sunday, 16 October 2022 06:03

Peter Obi, a man who carries his own suitcases, could be Nigeria’s next president - The Economist

An interview with an outsider who says he will actually do something about corruption “This is a case of Goliath and David,” says Peter Obi, a long-shot candidate who has unexpectedly taken the lead in the race to become president of Africa’s most populous country. “The big people are there, but allow this small person to do it. And I know I can do it.” As public campaigning was about to begin in late September, Nigeria was rocked by the release of three polls showing Obi well ahead of the two candidates for the main parties that have misruled Nigeria…

Sunday, 16 October 2022 06:00

Northerners need a Northerner - not Yoruba, not Igbo - as president - Atiku

Atiku Abubakar, former vice-president, says northerners need a president who hails from the north. Abubakar, who is the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), spoke on Saturday at the interactive session of the Arewa townhall policy dialogue in Kaduna. Abubakar, who hails from Adamawa in the northeast, told his audience which included a significant percentage of persons of Hausa and Fulani extraction, that they don’t need an Igbo or Yoruba as president but “someone from the north”. The former vice-president said he had criss-crossed Nigeria’s 36 states and understands their peculiarities and diversities. Atiku said northerners should trust…

Sunday, 16 October 2022 05:54

What to know on Day 1 of China’s 20th Communist Party Congress

China's 20th Communist Party Congress kicked off on Sunday, with Xi Jinpingpoised to clinch his third five-year stint in charge - a mandate that would secure his stature as the country's most powerful ruler since founding leader Mao Zedong. * Xi began a speech opening the week-long session touting the ruling party's safeguarding of national security, maintaining social stability, protecting people's lives and taking control of the situation in Hong Kong, which was rocked by anti-government protests in 2019. * China will unwaveringly support the private economy and let the market play decisive role in resource allocation, Xi said. *…

Saturday, 15 October 2022 06:10

Court nullifies Adamawa APC guber primary, says party has no candidate for 2023

The Federal High Court sitting in Yola has nullified the ticket of the All Progressive Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Adamawa State, Aishatu Binani, for the 2023 general elections. In a ruling on Friday, the court presided by A.M Anka asked Binani to desist from parading herself as the APC candidate in the state. Anka ruled that the primary election was void due to the issue of over-voting and fielding of delegates from Lamurde Local Government Area where a congress was not conducted. A former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Nuhu Ribadu, who contested at the primary…

Wednesday, 12 October 2022 05:48

INEC strikes out 2.7m names over double registration

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said new Permanent Voter Cards (PVC) would be made available by November. At a National Endowment for Democracy event in Washington DC in the United States, INEC Chairman, Mahmoud Yakubu, said 2.7 million double registrations were weeded out of the last Continuous Voters Registration exercise conducted by the commission and about 50% of the new PVCs are ready but yet to be distributed to collection centres. He also raised concerns about the rising levels of insecurity across the country, saying the Commission has its fingers crossed. “It is a perennial issue because, at the…

Tuesday, 11 October 2022 06:21

Huge crowd storms Uyo as PDP launches Atiku campaign

Governors, ex-governors, and top chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party in the camp of the presidential candidate of the party, Atiku Abubakar, and his running mate, Ifeanyi Okowa, on Monday, arrived in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, in no fewer than 15 private and chartered jets for the formal inauguration of the party’s campaign ahead of the 2023 poll. Findings by The PUNCH indicate that aside from the Governors of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, and his counterparts in Oyo State (Seyi Makinde), Benue State (Samuel Ortom), Abia State (Ikpeazu Okezie), and Enugu State (Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi), other governors elected on…

Sunday, 09 October 2022 05:37

PDP says Tinubu’s nomination as APC’s presidential candidate invalid for this reason

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the nomination of Bola Tinubu as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is “invalid, null and void”. In a statement released on Saturday by Debo Ologunagba, the party’s national publicity secretary, the PDP hinged the illegality of Tinubu’s nomination on a September 30, 2022 judgement which nullified the actions of Mai Mala Buni. Buni, the Yobe state governor, is the immediate past chairman of the APC national caretaker committee. Under his leadership, the party conducted a convention which produced Abdullahi Adamu as the national chairman. In June, the Adamu-led executive conducted a…

Friday, 07 October 2022 06:06

Tinubu returns from UK trip

Presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, returned to Nigeria from London, Thursday evening. He was received at the airport by APC chieftains, including the Vice Presidential candidate of the party, Kashim Shettima. Tinubu left the country on September 24 spending 12 days in London before returning to Nigeria. Thisday

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Wednesday, 05 October 2022 05:49

Ogun 2023: PDP, LP candidates missing on INEC list

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday released a list of 13 governorship candidates and their parties in Ogun State, with the flagbearers of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party (LP) conspicuously missing. INEC had earlier said that Labour Party did not submit its list of candidates before the deadline. But the party vowed to challenge the matter in court saying they submitted it electronically. Contacted, National Publicity Secretary of the party, Abayomi Arabambi, said, “We are in court and the matter will be determined by the court this October.” Resident Electoral Commission (REC) in the state, Niyi…

Tuesday, 04 October 2022 05:52

PDP crisis deepens as Forum of Candidates and Aspirants joins 5 govs to demand Ayu’s resignation

Five governors of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) led by Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike have given the presidential candidate of the party, Atiku Abubakar conditions he must meet before they can support him in the 2023 general election. A highly placed source told our correspondent that the PDP standard bearer is seriously under pressure to succumb to their demands few days after the flag off of campaigns by political parties. The governors in Wike’s camp include those of Enugu, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi; Benue, Samuel Ortom; Oyo, Seyi Makinde and Abia, Okezie Ikpeazu. Following the meeting by the governors at the weekend…

Tuesday, 04 October 2022 05:49

Women hold Tinubu campaign rally in Lagos

The women’s wing of the All Progressives Congress, Lagos State chapter, on Monday, staged a solidarity walk for the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, and his running mate, Kashim Shettima. The rally was also organised to mobilise support for the second-term bid of the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, and his deputy, Obafemi Hamzat. The rally, which was held at Onikan Stadium and spanned Lagos Island, was attended by wife of the state governor, Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu; wife of the deputy governor, Oluremi Hamzat; the state APC chairman, Cornelius Ojelabi; former state deputy governor, Oluranti Adebule; and the state APC women…

Monday, 03 October 2022 06:25

Premium Times has updated its analysis of the 2023 presidential race. Verdict: ‘Obidients dominate as Tinubu, Atiku face domestic problems’

Peter Obi’s supporters got their noses in front of the field in the opening week of the campaigns for the 2023 presidential election. While the two major parties are still trying to put their houses in order, the upstart Obidients are already in the streets showing off their numbers in simultaneous outings across the country. They appeared to have seized the initiative in this campaign from the moment in June when Obi abandoned his bid for the ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and entered the race on the pony of the then unfashionable Labour Party. Since then, the…

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