2019 CAMPAIGN WILL FOCUS ON SECURITY, ECONOMY AND FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION – PRESIDENT BUHARI
President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday in Abuja said his re-election campaign will focus on the scorecard of his administration in the key areas of security, economy and the fight against corruption. Speaking at a Christmas Homage by residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) led by the Minister, Mohammed Bello, President Buhari said these three overarching […]
CHRISTMAS: KADUNA NUJ Felicitate With Christian Brothers
The Exco members of NUJ, Kaduna Council wish to felicitate with our Christian brothers on the occasion of Christmas . As you celebrate, we urge you to imbibe the spirit of love, peace and unity as exemplified by Jesus Christ . In a press statement issued in KADUNA and sighed by its secretary Comrade John […]
Buhari may extend IG’s tenure by six months, CUPP kicks
Olalekan Adetayo and Adelani Adepegba President Muhammadu Buhari may have approved a six-month tenure extension for the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, Sunday PUNCH has learnt. But the opposition political parties, under the aegis of the Coalition of United Political Parties, are threatening to drag President Muhammadu Buhari before the court over the plannedtenure extension. The President was said […]
Christmas: I’m urging you to pray for Peaceful Elections in 2019-Gov Bindo
The Adamawa State Governor senator Muhammed Umaru Jibrilla Bindow has called on all Christians in the state to cease this very special moment of Christmas celebrations to pray fervently for the state and entrench Love and peace that is been thought as cardinal reasons for the birth of Jesus Christ. In a statement signed by […]
Senator Shehu Sani to Buhari, Visit Zamfara Attack Victims before you commence campaign
Comrade Shehu Sani, senator representing Kaduna central, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to pay a condolence visit to Zamfara State before commencing his campaign rally. Buhari is billed to flag off his re-election campaign in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state capital, on Friday. But Sani asked the president to pay a visit first to crisis-torn Zamfara, […]
MY TAKE ON ZAMFARA PROTESTS
BY NA ALLAH MOHAMMED ZAGGA Are the protests in Tsafe local government against insecurity spontaneous or politically staged managed? I am beginning to smell a rat about these protests. Why target and destroy public property in order to make a point? Why mobilise only the displaced persons in particular local government for the violent protests? […]
Kwara APC Gubernatorial Candidate Disrupts IEDPU Convention
The gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress( APC) in Kwara state, AbdulRahman AbdulRasaq and his supporters today disrupted the Ilorin Emirate Descendants Progressive Union(IEDPU) 53rd annual conference. The event which took place at the Emir of Ilorin’s forecourt had been going on smoothly until AbdulRahman and one Yahaya Seriki attempted to turn the event […]
Abe to APC: Amaechi Has Turned Friends into Enemies, We Won’t Allow Him Decide Our Fate
Says those who created crisis in the party should apologise The Senator representing Rivers South-East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Magnus Ngei Abe, has said that neither the future of the All Progressive Congress (APC) nor the fate of its members can be determined by an individual.This is as he stated that those who […]
That Ekweremadu’s Prescription for Executive-Legislature Feud
By Sufuyan Ojeifo I watched a part of the televised conversation between the deputy senate president, Senator Ike Ekweremadu and host of the political programme, “Roadmap 2019”, Ladi Akeredolu-Ale on Channels Television in the night of Monday, December 17, 2018. The interviewer tried to run rings round Ekweremadu but, as usual, the deputy senate president was […]
Election 2019 and the Meaningless Campaign Slogans
By Magnus Onyibe Sloganeering and symbolism are very effective and critical tools used by marketing experts to attract and retain the attention of their targeted audience. They are conceived with a view to ingraining messages into the memories of targeted audience through its catchy or clever appellation.As such, it is not by sheer happenstance that […]