THE Senate Deputy President, Ovie Omo-Agege, has boasted that the ruling All Progressives Congress would produce the successor to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), come 2023. Omo-Agege, representing Delta Central Senatorial District at the National Assembly, spoke in Asaba on Wednesday while congratulating the new executives of the Delta State chapter of APC, led by Chief Omeni Sobotie, ...
The Indigenous People of Biafra has accused the Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma and the security agencies of masterminding the incessant abductions and killings going on in the South East. In a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, on Saturday, the group noted that the Ebubeagu security outfit, in collaboration with the Nigeria Army and police, has ...
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Friday, said Nigeria will support efforts to bring peaceful resolution and reconciliation on the Korean Peninsula. He said the Korean peninsula has been a flashpoint of conflict, lingering many decades and therefore deserves the attention of world leaders for a peaceful resolution. Buhari said this during the opening of World Summit 2022, ...
National Assembly member and Peoples Democratic Party governorship aspirant in Ekiti State, Senator Biodun Olujimi, has given on the possibility of dumping the party alongside her supporters. Olujimi said the shoddy way her faction of the party in the state was treated by the national leadership in the build up to the January 26 primary election which she described as ...
Aviation workers have suspended their planned industrial action billed to commence today. This followed a Memorandum of Settlement reached by the workers and the Federal Ministry of Aviation in the early hours of Tuesday. Both parties signed the agreement at the end of a conciliation meeting held at the instance of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment. The meeting ...
There are indications that prominent groups in the South-West may not persuade the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo and a former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, eyeing the presidency to reach a consensus, investigations by Sunday PUNCH have revealed. While Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State had informed the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), about his ambition ...
The Ebonyi State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has vowed to challenge the purported election held by the Inter-Party Advisory Council in the state on Friday, in court. The PDP in the state, said it was not notified of the exercise, adding it was surprised when it was called, on Friday, that the election would hold, same day. The ...
The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has tackled opposition Peoples Democratic Party for offering Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governorship ticket for the 2023 election. A former PDP spokesperson, Ganiu Taofik, had told The PUNCH that the party is ready to receive Sanwo-Olu ahead of the 2023 governorship election in the state. But APC in a statement ...