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Okpebholo extends Olive branch to Ighodalo, dedicates victory to Edo people  The Edo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, has unanimously upheld the election of Governor Monday Okpebholo of the All Progressives Congress, APC. A three-member panel of the tribunal said

Governor of Enugu State, Dr. Peter Mbah, on Wednesday -today, April 3 – welcomed the gubernatorial candidate of the Labour Party (LP), in the 2023 governorship election, Chijioke Edeoga, back into the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) fold, commending the ex-opposition flagbearer

The Presidency has disclosed that  President Bola has left Abuja, the FCT, for Paris, France, on a two-week ‘working visit’. According to a statement issued by the Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, during the visit, the President will appraise his

The Edo Governorship Election Petition Tribunal will on Wednesday, deliver judgment in the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Asue Ighodalo, against the Sept. 21, 2024 governorship election in Edo. The PDP and Ighodalo are challenging the

Chief Martin Onovo,  the Presidential Candidate of the defunct National Conscience Party (NCP) in the 2015 general election, says  only unity and emergence of a strong candidate could secure victory for the coalition of opposition leaders  in 2027. Onovo, an

Decries ‘crippling TSA bureaucracy President Bola Tinubu says  his administration removed the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) from the Treasury Single Account (TSA) to expedite development and enhance  participation of residents in governance. The President said this when he received FCT residents

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Ibinabo Joy Dokubo, has appealed to the President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to reconsider the duration for the State of Emergency that was recently proclaimed in Rivers State that resulted in

The Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and the State government have enaged each other in a game of blame over last Thursday’s killing of travellers by vigilante members at Uromi, headquarters of Esan South East Local Government Area of the

The House of Representatives is proposing that the President should be elected from the Senate, while the Prime Minister would come from the House, if the bills to return the country to parliamentary system of government are eventually passed into law.