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  1. Iroka Chinedu

    Politics Knocks as Buhari says he hasn’t done too badly - Punch news

    The Peoples Democratic Party, the Coalition for Nigeria Movement, the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights and the Campaign for Democracy on Sunday knocked President Muhammadu Buhari for saying he had not done badly, as well as blaming past leaders for the poor state of the economy. The...
  2. Iroka Chinedu

    Politics Buhari meets Tinubu in London - The Nation

    President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday met behind closed doors with chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, in London. The President’s Personal Assistant on Social Media, Alhaji Bashir Ahmad, made this known on his tweeter handle, @BashirAhmad, in Abuja. Click...
  3. Iroka Chinedu

    Politics APC Governors Close Ranks with Buhari, Ditch Oyegun, Exco - This Day

    After a flurry of meetings spanning over 24 hours, the All Progressives Congress (APC) Wednesday finally caved in to President Muhammadu Buhari’s rejection of the tenure elongation approved for the elected and appointed executives of the party at all levels, and resolved to go ahead with...
  4. Iroka Chinedu

    Politics Atiku Fights Back, Tours UK to Improve Image - This Day

    Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has launched a major campaign to repair several years of damage done to his image by his erstwhile boss, ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, as he traversed the United Kingdom in the last one month, talking to international opinion moulders on his true essence...
  5. Iroka Chinedu

    Politics MASSOB raises alarm over 2019 elections - The Sun

    The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has said that re-electing President Muhammadu Buhari into office for a second term and indeed politics in Nigeria generally are no longer of interest to them, but the actualization of Biafra. Speaking against the...
  6. Iroka Chinedu

    Politics PDP knocks presidency for allegedly insulting Nigerians - The Sun

    The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday berated the Presidency for allegedly insulting Nigerians, who criticised the failure of the Federal Government in the handling of insurgency and governance in the country. The PDP in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan...
  7. Iroka Chinedu

    Politics Buhari urges Nigerians to preach love, peaceful coexistence - premium times

    President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday urged Nigerians to live in peace with one another for the progress of the country. The president made the call in Kaduna in a message to the 32nd Maulud celebration of prominent Tijjaniya sect cleric, late Sheik Ibrahim Nyass. Click here to read more
  8. Iroka Chinedu

    Politics Ekiti 2018: APC’ll use federal, state, local powers to defeat Fayose, Fayemi boasts - premium times

    The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Kayode Fayemi , has boasted that the All Progressives Congress(APC) will deploy all the governmental advantages it has to wrest power in Ekiti from the Peoples Democratic Party come July 2018 He also threatened that once the PDP was roundly defeated...
  9. Iroka Chinedu

    Politics I won past elections without big politicians, only God raised me – Okorocha - Dailypost

    The Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has on Saturday, said that the then leader of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, late Chief Odumegwu Ojukwu could not raise his hand as the party’s flag bearers in 2011. Okorocha said this while claiming that all the big names in Imo State never...
  10. Iroka Chinedu

    Politics PDP: Time for defectors to return - vanguard news

    When I take a graphic look and do not see some persons that were our men and women anymore in the PDP political ship, I ask, what happened? When we hear the reasons adduced by many of them who have STEPPED ASIDE from the umbrella, I cannot but say that the human attitude leaves much to be...
  11. Iroka Chinedu

    Politics Adams Oshiomhole: An Avatar for APC’s Resurgence - vanguard news

    My intervention is not a confirmation of any sort that my boss, Adams Oshiomhole, whom I served as Chief of Staff from 2012 to 2016 when he was in the saddle as governor of Edo state is interested in the position of national chair of our great party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). On...
  12. Iroka Chinedu

    Politics Released insurgents killing people in Taraba, other places — Bwacha - Punch news

    The Deputy Senate Minority Leader, Emmanuel Bwacha, who is representing Taraba South Senatorial District in the National Assembly on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, speaks on herdsmen killings in his state among other issues with journalists. I have told President (Muhammadu...
  13. Iroka Chinedu

    Politics We’re not aware of Adeola’s gov ambition, says Ogun APC - Punch Ng

    The All Progressives Congress in Ogun State has said its member representing Lagos West Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Olamilekan Adeola, had not contacted it on his governorship ambition in the state. The state Publicity Secretary of the party, Sola Lawal, said on...
  14. Iroka Chinedu

    Politics Arewa pastors’ are political job seekers — Northern Christian elders - Punch news

    The Public Relations Officer of the Northern Christian Elders Forum, who is also the Secretary-General of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Northern Zone, Sunday Oibe, tells press in an interview that the ‘Arewa pastors’, who recently visited President Muhammadu Buhari at the Villa, do not...
  15. Iroka Chinedu

    Politics Tinubu’s panel halts Oyegun’s tenure elongation –APC Chief - Punch news

    The Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress in the South-East, Mr. Hyacinth Ngwu, has said Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s reconciliation panel saved the party from imminent trouble by halting the process of extending the Chief John Odigie-Oyegun-led National Working Committee’s tenure by one...
  16. Iroka Chinedu

    Politics 2019 election: Buhari, not party, to determine Osinbajo’s fate, says APC - Punch news

    The All Progressives Congress has said it will not force anyone on President Muhammadu Buhari as his running mate if he wins the party’s presidential ticket. Consequently, the ruling party said it would not compel the President, who recently told the APC leadership of his intention to seek a...
  17. Iroka Chinedu

    Politics N30tn revenue leakage report will shock Nigerians, says Senate - Punch Ng

    The report by the investigations conducted by the Joint Senate Committee on Customs, Excise and Tariff and Marine Transport into the alleged revenue leakages in the import and export value chain, valued at N30tn, is due for presentation, SUNDAY PUNCH has learnt. A member of the committee, who...
  18. Iroka Chinedu

    Politics Why the North will still vote for Buhari in 2019 –Matthew Kukah - Punch news

    The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Kukah, speaks to TOBI AWORINDE on the socio-economic situation in the North, President Muhammadu Buhari’s performance and the forthcoming 2019 elections You were one of those who vehemently opposed Muhammadu Buhari’s presidency from the...
  19. Iroka Chinedu

    Politics Why the North will still vote for Buhari in 2019 –Matthew Kukah - Punch news

    The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Kukah, speaks to TOBI AWORINDE on the socio-economic situation in the North, President Muhammadu Buhari’s performance and the forthcoming 2019 elections You were one of those who vehemently opposed Muhammadu Buhari’s presidency from the...
  20. Iroka Chinedu

    Politics Hearing in Melaye, others’ case stalled as judge hands off suit - Tribune news

    The criminal case brought against the senator representing Kogi west senatorial district, Dino Melaye and three others, at the Federal High Court, Lokoja was stalled on Thursday as the presiding judge, Justice Phoebe Ayua, washed her hands off the matter. The judge said she could not go ahead...
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