NATIONAL Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) chairman Retired Brigadier Buba Marwa has suggested that all candidates vying for elective office in Nigeria should subjected to a drugs test prior to elections.
Brigadier Marwa, who was once a presidential aspirant himself, has written top the chairman of the ruling All...
SEVERAL Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidates of Igbo extraction have agreed to work together to produce a consensus aspirant as the race to next year's elections heats up.
Although not constitutional, Nigeria's component parts have a gentleman's agreement that the presidency will rotate between the north...
FORMER president Dr Goodluck Jonathan has rejected the offer out to him by some of President Muhammadu Buhari's close associates who were offering him the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in next year's elections.
In the 2015 presidential elections, President Buhari defeated Dr Jonathan in what was...
FORMER Anambra State governor Peter Obi has thrown his hat into the ring for the 2023 presidential contest formally declaring himself a candidate at a campaign launch in Awka where he declared that he alone can unite Nigeria.
Mr Obi who governed Anambra State between 2006 and 2014, was the vice presidential candidate of the...
OHANEZE Youth Council (OYC) has asked former vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to drop his presidential ambition and support an Igbo candidate if he is really interested in keeping Nigeria as a united country.
Alhaji Abubakar is expected to declare his intention to stand in next year's presidential elections later this...
CROSS River State has been thrown into chaos after a federal high court in Abuja sacked 20 members of the Cross River State House of Assembly for defecting to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
All the affected lawmakers were members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) before their defection. They however,...
SENATOR Ademola Adeleke has suffered a major setback in his bid to become the next Osun State governor after an Oshogbo high court ruled that his opponent Dotun Babayemi was the authentic Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial candidate.
On Wednesday, Senator Adeleke emerged as the PDP gubernatorial candidate ahead of...
EUROPEAN Union (EU) election observers have visited Nigeria ahead of next year's general elections and stated that they would like to see free and fair credible polls that would allow the results to be accepted worldwide.
In 2023, Nigeria will gold elections and in the run-up to the polls, the EU election observation mission...
FORMER deputy senate president Senator Ike Ekweremadu has formally launched his 2023 Enugu State governorship bid declaring himself a candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party's (PDP) gubernatorial ticket.
Serving as the lawmaker representing Enugu West Senatorial District since 2003, Senator Ekweremadu was the number two...
SENATOR Ademola Adeleke as emerged as the Peoples Democratic Party's (PDP) gubernatorial candidate ahead of the Osun State July 16 governorship elections after coasting to victory in the party's primaries.
Yesterday, the PDP held its primary elections in the state capital Oshogbo and according to Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, the...
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