The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has placed the total number of newly registered voters as 14,551,482 ahead of the 2019 general election. The Chairman of the Commission, Mahmood Yakubu made the announcement during the Commission’s third quarterly consultative meeting…
IGP Idris begs Edwin Clark over police raid of Abuja residence (NTA)
Ibrahim Idris, the inspector general of Police (IGP) has apologised to elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark over an unauthorised raid carried out by some policemen on his house in Abuja. Idris, who has already detained the informant and the four…
APC cuts down price for presidential, gov aspirants form after protest (Punch)
The All Progressives Congress will Wednesday begin the sale of expression of interest and nomination forms to its aspirants for the 2019 elections. The APC, in a statement Tuesday, said that during the sale of the forms, which would end…
Police arraign doctor for operating teenager without parent’s consent (New Telegraph) *Lagos to mass produce coconut bread (Nation)
Police arraign doctor for operating teenager without parent’s consent (New Telegraph) A medical doctor, Dr. Ejike Orji, has been arraigned by the police before Magistrate O. O. Otitoju of a Lagos Chief Magistrate’s Court in Igbosere for carrying out an…
I wept seeing challenges Nigerians face daily-Atiku Abubakar
Former vice president Atiku Abubakar has explained his reason for crying when he was presented with the PDP presidential nomination form in Abuja. The support groups of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Friday purchased for him the Peoples Democratic…
2019 general elections will be violence-free,says Kalu (Guardian)
Chief Orji Kalu, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former governor of Abia has predicted that the 2019 general elections would be violence-free across the country. Kalu made the prediction on Friday in an interview with the…
Lagos monarch decries attack on Prince (Vanguard) *Buhari departs for China today (Dailytrust)
Lagos monarch decries attack on Prince (Vanguard) The family of Oba Sadiku Olarinde of Oguntedo in Satellite Town Community, Oriade Local Council Development Authority, in Lagos State has called on the Police to investigate the gunshot attack on the son…
Imo APC crisis: Senator Araraume denies joining APGA (Vanguard)
Senator Ifeanyi Araraume, one of the governorship contender under the Imo state, All Progressives Congress, APC, Thursday said he has not joined the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in the state, to actualize his 2019 ambition. Araraume spoke to Vanguard in…
Ekiti poll tribunal: Fayemi, APC hire 35 lawyers for defence (SUN)
Ekiti State governor-elect, Kayode Fayemi, on Wednesday, filed his defence to the petition by the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the state Deputy Governor, Prof. Kolapo Olusola Eleka. In the 2,558-page defence with over 3,000 documents as…
Top female South-west politicians Okoya-Thomas, Kemi Nelson fight dirty
The battle for supremacy between two of the most powerful Lagos female politicians, South West All Progressives Congress (APC) Women Leader, Chief Mrs. Kemi Nelson and Lagos APC Women Leader, Hon. Jumoke Okoya-Thomas appears to have taken a new dimension…