Courtesy Punch Unidentified gunmen have beheaded Mrs. Amina Suleiman, the daughter of the Director General of Governor of Nasarawa State, Umaru Tanko Al – Makura’s Campaign Organisation, Mr. Musa Illu. PUNCH Metro learnt that the deceased, who was seven months pregnant, was assassinated on Monday in her home in Katsina State. It was gathered that her husband, Mr. Mohammed Suleiman, ... Read More »
Men of the Operation-Mesa attached to 35 Artillery Brigade, Alamala, Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Tuesday intercepted a truck loaded with 3,600 ballot boxes at Odogbolu, along Sagamu-Ijebu Ode Expressway. The soldiers were said to be on a stop-and-search operation when they intercepted the truck, its driver and the content of the vehicle were said to have been handed over to ... Read More »
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Lagos State, Jimi Agbaje, has said he will retain the 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) created by the Bola Tinubu administration, if elected. Agbaje told reporters in Lagos that he would grant greater autonomy to the LCDAs and the original 20 local government areas. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports ... Read More »
Today in the front pages of the Punch and the Sun Newspapers, Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State jettisoned all norms and decency associated with that exalted office and consequently put the whole of Nigeria in danger. Governor Ayo Fayose in one fell swoop passed a death sentence on the Presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC Genera Muhammadu Buhari ... Read More »
A live debate organized by an Ibadan-based private radio station, Space FM, for candidates in the February 28 governorship election in Oyo State provided a veritable platform for the incumbent Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi and one of his predecessors, ex-Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala, to sell their manifestos to the people of the state. The governorship candidate of the Accord Party, Senator ... Read More »
Gen. Buhari in a reaction to the publication, issued a statement on his Facebook page on Monday morning, saying: Governor Fayose of Ekiti State released an advert in the front of the Punch and Daily Sun newspapers this morning, abusing a Bible verse and insulting Muslims, especially Northerners. He put three former Heads of State who are Muslims and Northerners ... Read More »
An All Progressive Congress (APC) group in Kwara State has accused the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) of planning to manipulate the Nigeria Police and other security agencies into arresting it’s stakeholders ahead of the February General Elections in the state. In a statement issued in Ilorin and signed by its director, Mr. Kayode Jimoh, The Kwara APC Advocacy Group ... Read More »
FOLLOWING the execution by firing squad of two Nigerians, Messers Solomon Chibuike Okafor (alias Namaona Denils) and Daniels Enemuo (alias Diarrassoube Mamadou) by the government of Indonesia for drug offences, the Federal Government has summoned the Indonesian Ambassador to register Nigeria’s protest over the execution. The summon came after government said it received the tragic news of the execution of ... Read More »
Courtesy Thiaday The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), has expressed his frustration over the campaign of calumny by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against him, dismissing allegations propagated by the ruling party over his health, his stewardship at the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) and the controversy over his failure to submit photocopies of ... Read More »
The All Progressives Congress (APC), Rivers State Chapter, on Saturday declared the game over for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with regard to the February 2015 general elections. This followed the endorsement, earlier in the day, of APC Presidential Candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.), and the Rivers State APC Gubernatorial Candidate, Dr. Dakuku Adol Peterside, by non-indigenes in the State. ... Read More »
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