The best way to describe what has happened to Nigeria in the last 72 hours, beginning with the country’s first set of general elections on Saturday, February 25, 2023, is to echo Charles Dickens’ poetic, oxymoronic declaration in his novel … Read the rest
The Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi has cast his vote at polling unit 19 in the Agulu area of the Aniocha Local Government Area of Anambra State, Nigeria.
Obi and his wife Margaret cast their vote around 11:45am … Read the rest
It is yet another moment of transition for Nigeria as the country goes to the polls in 4 days’ time to elect a new President and members of the National Assembly in what amounts to a seventh cycle of general … Read the rest
A former Head of state, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida has denied endorsing Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate ahead of the February election.
Reports had emerged that Babangida had aligned with the position of former President Olusegun Obasanjo on endorsing … Read the rest
This certainly promises to be an interesting year for Africa where a total of 24 general, legislative and local elections would take place in the course of the year in Republics of Benin, Comoros, Cote d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Gabon, Ghana, … Read the rest
The All Progressives Congress (APC) and the major opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday lampooned former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, for declaring support for one of the presidential candidates, Labour Party’s Peter Obi.
In a special New Year message … Read the rest
A former Nigerian president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has endorsed Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party for president in next month’s election.
Obasanjo gave his endorsement in an open letter to young Nigerians on Sunday.
“None of the contestants … Read the rest
A businessman and prominent Anambra indigene, Prince Arthur Eze, has disassociated himself from the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi because he has seen that the former Anambra State governor cannot win votes in the South West and in the … Read the rest
One of the major problems that we have had to contend with since the return to civilian rule in 1999, and even long before then in previous electoral cycles and subsequently – 1959, 1979, 1983, 1993, 1999, 2007, 2011, 2015, … Read the rest
On September 29, the National Peace committee led by General Abdusalami Abukakar and the Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah organized an event in Abuja where Presidential candidates of the political parties for the 2023 general elections signed … Read the rest
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