Akwa Ibom Rally: PDP Alleges APC Diverted N478m NDDC Fund to Rent Crowd for Buhari
Says heads of ministries, parastatals in Buhari’s Campaign Council are conduit pipes (Press Release) The PDP Presidential Campaign Organization (PPCO) accuses the Buhari Presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC) of secretly drawing over N478 million from the coffers of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to rent a crowd and offset bills in President […]
Akwa-Ibom: Residents Mocks Akpabio, Says Buhari Campaign Flag off ‘Total Flop’
The national flag-off of the APC Campaigns in Akwa Ibom begun on a wrong note as the much touted mass defections of PDP stalwarts ended up as a mirage, Akwa-Ibom government has said. It mocked Senator Godswill Akpabio, Obong Nsima Ekere and other APC leaders who had boasted days before the campaign in Uyo that […]
Saraki: Late Shagari was the Last of the First and Second Republic Titans
President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has expressed sadness over the death of the first elected President of Nigeria, Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari who he described as the last of the First and Second Republic titans.Saraki in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, in Ilorin, described […]
First Executive President, Shehu Shagari dies at 94
By Ado Hassan, Sokoto FORMER President and the Turakin Sokoto, Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari is dead. Shagari who was second republic president died at the National Hospital, Abuja Friday night at the age of 94 following a brief illness. Confirming the news of the death of the elder statesman, Nura Mahe, his grand son […]
Atiku’s Criticism of 2019 Budget High on Rhetoric, Low on Real Solutions
By Femi Adesina (Press Statement) The presidential candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, last weekend, issued a statement in which he described President Buhari’s 2019 budget proposal as fundamentally flawed and failing to address current realities. He went on to identify the said “current realities”, which in any case were issues […]
Alex Badeh assassination : Family releases their side of the story on how Badeh was killed
Family of late former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Vice Marshal Alex Badeh, has refuted claims by the suspects linked to his death that they killed him to seize alleged huge sums of money he had on him to buy farmland. The family insisted that contrary to the claim, Badeh did not discuss any issue […]
Tragedy Hits Benue PDP As Over 30 Die On Way To Abba Moro Campaign Flag Off
…..flag off postponed indefinitely By EMMANUEL OLOFU DICKSON, Otukpo Tragedy has hit Benue Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as no fewer than 30 persons were said to have died on their way to the flag off of the Senatorial campaign of the party’s candidate in Zone C. AUTHENTIC News Daily gathered from a statement signed by […]
LG Boss applauds Gov El’rufai over Local Government Reforms
By EDDY OCHIGBO , Kaduna, North central, Nigeria. The much needed headway towards institutionalizing a citizen-centered democratic governance culture in local government administration, is largely dependent on genuine commitment by decision-makers to adopt bottom-top approach to governance. Chairman Lere Local Government Council of Kaduna state, Honorable Abubakar Buba, who made this known while speaking at the […]
Sokoto APC swells, receives over 50,000 PDP decampees
By Ado Hassan,Sokoto AS campaigns for elective positions ahead of the 2019 polls commence, Sokoto state chapter of the All Progressives Congress(APC) has started reaping results with no fewer than 50, 000 new converts joining its fold Thursday after dumping the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party(PDP). Those who added to the political force of the […]
” IF DECLARATION OF STATE OF EMERENCY IN ZAMFARA CAN BRING TO AN END, THE KILLINGS AND KIDNAPPINGS OF MY PEOPLE, I SUPPORT IT” – GOV YARI
The Executive Gov of Zamfara State and Chairman Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Hon Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar has today Thursday, 27th December, 2018, said that if declaration of state of emergency in his state is the only means of ending the killings and kidnappings of the innocent people in the state by bandits and other criminals, he […]