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The chief whip of the 9th Senate, Orji Uzor Kalu, on Wednesday spoke on the controversial plan to field a Muslim as the running mate of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu. There have been reactions across boards over the Muslim/Muslim ticket in the 2023 presidential election. Some Nigerians in their reactionContinue reading “Tinubu’s wife is a pastor, so there’s no need to be concerned about the Muslim/Muslim ticket – Orji Kalu”

The Delta House of Assembly accepted Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s proposal for a N25 billion loan for oil palm development on Tuesday. he governor’s request was contained in a letter read at a plenary session by the Speaker, Sheriff Oborevwori. Mr Okowa explained that the loan to be taken at the First City Monument Bank Plc would develop 17,345.5 hectares of palm plantation, designed to take advantage of CBN’s oil palm development initiative. Motion for theContinue reading “Okowa plans to borrow N25 billion for an oil palm plantation.”

Please spread the word about this story: With their popular candidates, the New Nigeria Peoples Party and Labour Party may pose a serious threat to the ruling All Progressives Congress and Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 general elections. Writes LEKE BAIYEWU Prior to the primaries held by various political parties to field candidates for the 2023 general elections, several parties, political groups, and prominent Nigerians were in the news for their search for a ‘Third Force’ to unseat and end the ruling All Progressives Congress and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party.  Since 1999, the two major political parties have governed Nigeria at the presidential level. The PDP ruled for 16 years, from 1999 to 2015, before the APC seized office in 2015 and ruled for seven years.  The next presidential election will be held in 2023, after the APC has served eight years in office, and the smaller parties are now forming alliances and realigning forces in order to take on the APC and the PDP.  The expected mergers and alliances, on the other hand, do not appear to have taken place yet. However, individual parties and candidates seem to be making efforts, perhaps from the regional and zonal levels. Out of the 18 parties presently registered with the Independent National Electoral Commission, the APC and the PDP included, two other parties are getting the attention of the electorate,Continue reading “Kwankwaso, Obi expand stakes in NNPP, LP, and threaten APC, PDP in presidential election”

She floored 5 men to clinch the party’s ticket Senator Aishatu Binani has emerged as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Adamawa State. In a historic victory, she floored five men to clinch the party’s ticket in the just concluded governorship primary election in the State. Binani has now become the first womanContinue reading “APC Primaries: Aisha Binani wins APC governorship ticket in Adamawa”

Sen. Bassey Otu, a former lawmaker who represented Cross River South in the National Assembly, has emerged as governorship flag bearer of the All Progressive Congress (APC). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that at the party’s governorship primary election, held at the U.J Esuene Stadium in Calabar, Sen. Otu emerged the winner afterContinue reading “Sen. Otu wins APC guber primary in C/River”

The APC governorship primary in Oyo State, which was set to take place on Thursday at the Obafemi Awolowo Stadium in Ibadan, has been postponed. The APC Primary Committee, led by Sen. Tokunbo Afikuyomi, has postponed the primary, according to the Nigerian News Agency (NAN).Sen. Teslim Folarin, Chief Adebayo Adelabu, Chief Niyi Akintola (SAN), Dr. Azeez Adeduntan, Mr. Akeem Agbaje, and Mr. Hakeem Alao are among the six governorship aspirants in the state, according to NAN. All members ofContinue reading “Oyo APC governorship primary postponed to Friday”

The withdrawal of former Anambra State Governor Peter Obi from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will cost the party nearly 15 million votes in the 2023 presidential elections, according to a group called Coalition for Peter Obi’s Presidential Aspiration. The group made this recognized in a declaration signed through its Chairman, Marcel Ngogbehei, on Thursday, May 26, 2022, following the legit affirmation of Obi’s resignation from the PDP. Reacting to the development, the employer reconciled the Presidential aspirant for yielding to its request to unload the competition celebration that allows you to shapeContinue reading “Peter Obi’s exit will cost PDP 15m votes – Group”

News from pluse.ng IMA ELIJAH An easy follow-up of all that has been going on since ASUU strike kicked off. Why is ASUU on strike? ASUU started a one-month warning strike on February 14, 2022, to demand that the Federal government fulfill the 2009 agreement. The agreement signed by the FG with the union requiresContinue reading “Timeline: 100 days of ASUU strike monitored by Pulse”

5 likely scenarios in this year’s final The main storyline for the upcoming final has focused on it being a replay of the 2018 edition, where Real Madrid won their 13th Champions League trophy. It is difficult to tell how a high-stakes game like this could play out. Here are five ways the Champions League finalContinue reading “UCL“

Warner Bros. head of DC Unit, Walter Hamada, has testified in the ongoing Johnny Depp defamation trial over claims by Heard’s lawyers that DC considered replacing the actress for ‘Aquaman 2’ over her domestic violence backlash. Hamada testified in court that Depp’s allegations played no role in the production considering her replacement for the film’sContinue reading “Johnny Denies considering replacing Amber Heard in ‘Aquaman 2’ over domestic violence”