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The Labour Party Youth Wing has proposed an alignment with the All Progressives Congress and groups supporting President Bola Tinubu ahead of the 2027 presidential election.The proposal was contained in a statement signed by the Edo State Labour Party Youth Leader, Ken Omusi, on Saturday, posted on the party’s official X handle following a virtual meeting involving the party’s National Youth Leader, Prince Kennedy Ahanotu, five national zonal youth leaders and 32 state youth leaders.According to the statement, the meeting was held on Friday to discuss the party’s political direction amid what the participants described as a prolonged crisis within the Labour Party and the future of youth participation ahead of the 2027 elections.The youth leaders reportedly mandated Ahanotu to ...

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) vice-presidential candidate, Rotimi Amaechi, has blamed the Tinubu administration's economic policies for the death of his mum.Amaechi's mother, Madam Mary Amaechi, passed away in July at the age of 89.In a chat with Channels Television on Friday night, October 2, Amaechi said the removal of subsidy amongst othe policies have brought untold hardship on Nigerians, including him. According to him, many people, including his mum, have passed on.‘’Where are the funds that supposed to be from the outcome of the fuel subsidy removal? Where  are they? The essence of removing the subsidy according to the president is to better the lives of Nigerians. I want to feel it. Everybody wants to feel it. Nobody hates Tinu...

The Director-General of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Senator Abdul’Aziz Abubakar Yari, has appealed to northerners to allow President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to complete his eight-year tenure as a way of respecting the established principle of rotational presidency in Nigeria.Yari, who spoke to journalists at the Kano Government House after holding a closed-door meeting with Kano State Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf on Saturday, said the only viable option now was for the North to be gentlemanly in the arrangement and allow Tinubu to complete his eight-year tenure.The former Zamfara State governor said the North should understand and respect the political arrangement that brought the presidency to the South in 2023, arguing that the presidency had been held by a northerner for ...

Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed November 19 for judgment in a suit challenging the emergence of former Governor Yahaya Bello as the senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for Kogi Central.The judge fixed the date on Monday after lawyers in the suit adopted their final brief of arguments.A senatorial aspirant of the APC in Kogi Central, Momoh Yusuf Obaro, had dragged the APC, Yahaya Bello and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, before the court claiming to be lawful winner of the May 18 primary election conducted by the party.He prayed the court to declare him the candidate of the APC and that his name be forwarded to the electoral body as such.The aspirant also requested the court to compel INEC...

The Presidency has insisted that President Bola Tinubu can govern Nigeria from anywhere in the world. In a statement issued on Sunday, September 27, by his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, the Presidency clarified that the President does not need to be physically present in Abuja to perform his executive duties, assuring the public that President Tinubu is hale and hearty. The response comes amid growing public scrutiny and criticism from opposition figures regarding the President’s extended stay abroad after exhausting his official three-week leave. Addressing the concerns, Onanuga stated:“Nigeria’s President is hale and hearty. He has been on a working vacation, which he is perfectly entitled to. “In this digital age, he does not need to ...

Men of the Akwa Ibom State Police Command have arrested a 40-year-old man, Ubong Ntiense, over the alleged production and distribution of adulterated alcoholic beverages and recovered five cartons of suspected fake dry gin in Ikot Ekpene.In a statement released, the command's spokesperosn, DSP Timfon John, said the suspect was arrested on September 26, 2026, at about 1:45 pm by operatives of the command during a stop-and-search operation along Aba Road.John stated that the suspect was intercepted while allegedly conveying the products to Essien Udim Local Government Area for delivery.The statement reads“The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has intensified its ongoing crackdown on the production, distribution and circulation of counterfeit and adulterated alcoholic beverages ...

President Bola Tinubu has unveiled an investment package of more than $7 billion for the development of the Ogun State Blue Marine Special Economic Zone and the Gateway Deep Seaport, describing the projects as a major step towards strengthening Nigeria’s maritime economy and attracting foreign investment.In a statement by his Spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, on Thursday, the President spoke in Paris, France, during the signing of Memoranda of Understanding between the Ogun State Government and DP World, a global ports and logistics operator, for the development of the projects.Tinubu assured domestic and foreign investors that the Federal Government would continue to provide regulatory clarity, policy stability and a predictable business environment to support long-term investments in Nige...