The Minister of the FCT and former Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, is to face a disciplinary committee over alleged anti-party activities. While speaking on Channels TV on Monday, the party’s Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Ibrahim Abdullahi, said the disciplinary committee, led by Tom Ikimi, a former foreign affairs minister, had already invited the … Read more
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has called for an extensive probe into all the killings associated with the #EndBadGovernance protests which began on 1 August. The former Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential candidate made the call via his X handle on Wednesday, in the aftermath of the Nigerian Army owning up to the shooting of a16-year-old … Read more
Senate President Godswill Akpabio has accused the candidates who lost out in the 2023 presidential election of sponsoring the planned nationwide protest. Mr Akpabio spoke on Monday at the State House, Abuja, after he witnessed President Bola Tinubu’s signing of the new minimum wage bill into law. Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), … Read more
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar, has described as wasteful and a highway to fraud the claim by Works Minister Dave Umahi that the 700km Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway will tentatively cost N15.6 trillion. Atiku also knocked Mr Umahi for altering the project’s initial plan after Gilbert … Read more
A former Nigerian senator from Enugu State, Chukwuka Utazi, has revealed why he defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). PREMIUM TIMES reported that Mr Utazi, who represented Enugu North District in the 9th Senate under the PDP platform, defected to the APC during a meeting of the party … Read more
The presidency on Sunday dismissed a proposal by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on the management of Nigeria’s foreign exchange crisis and its impact on the economy. Presidential spokesperson Bayo Onanuga said Atiku got his “facts muddled up” and that his proposal was similar to that implemented by the Muhammadu Buhari administration which the current … Read more
A former National Legal Adviser of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mark Jacob, has given the “reason” Nyesom Wike supported President Bola Tinubu in the 2023 general election. Mr Wike, a former governor of Rivers State, is a member of the PDP. But the former governor supported Mr Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress candidate in … Read more
Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has asked President Bola Tinubu to show a clear direction of his government and stop groping in the dark. Atiku stated this in his New Year message to Nigerians on Monday. “The government must show a clear direction of its policy projections and desist from the subsisting behaviour of groping … Read more
Prominent Nigerians including former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar and former President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, have congratulated Christians as they celebrate Christmas. In separate statements released on Monday, the leaders urge Nigerians to embrace peace and unity during this period and to love one another for the sake of progress and growth … Read more
