The Commandant General, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Ahmed Abubakar Audi, has pledged the commitment of the Corps to protect the rights of women and assist in ending violence against women in politics. He made this known when he paid a courtesy visit to the UN Women Country Representative, Ms. Beatrice Eyong at the UN House in Abuja. Read More
President Muhammadu Buhari, this week, commended the collective efforts of nations in tackling global security challenges and called for more collaboration to check terrorism, banditry and insurgency plaguing nations, including Nigeria. The President made the call when he received the letters of credence of the Canadian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ambassador James Kingston Christoff and Ambassador of Mexico to Nigeria, Read More
Universities don and Islamic cleric, Professor Abdul Afis Oladosu, has tasked Muslims in Nigeria to vote wisely for God- fearing leaders in the 2023 elections. Professor Oladosu stated this Sunday while delivering a lecture titled: “2023 General Elections: Muslims and the implications of an ambivalent righteous majority,” at Obafemi Awolowo stadium, Ibadan, to mark the new Islamic year, Hijrah1444 AH, Read More
Stakeholders and chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has set up a high-powered committee to reconcile aggrieved party members and halt the gale of defection in Kaduna state. The reconciliation team comprises the State Working Committee, chairmen of various local government areas, elected representatives, elders and members of the State Executive Council. The development was coming five days after Read More
Fresh from the successful conduct of two end of tenure elections in Ekiti and Osun states, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has once again assured that the conduct of the 2023 general election will be taken a notch higher and will be the best ever in the history of the country. Prof. Yakubu gave Read More
With 2023 polls around the corner, activities have stylishly taken off with the candidates’ supporters and fans expressing their preferences for them. However, one thing that has registered its presence is the plethora of prophecies by some prophets. How far can this go, TOPE SUNDAY asks in this report? Nigeria is a peculiar country and its peculiarity makes it one Read More
The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, has chosen Bishop Isaac Idahosa as his running mate for the 2023 general elections. The party made the announcement on the official Twitter page Thursday. “Our VP Pastor Bishop Isaac Idahosa from Edo State,” the party tweeted. Idahosa is the Senior Pastor of God First Ministry, also Read More
Soon after the declaration of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the winner of the APC presidential primary election on the 8th instant, a heated debate as to who his running mate will be ensued. This is profoundly because BAT is not only a southerner by region, he is also a Muslim by faith. Therefore, unlike a southern Christian who can Read More
Ahead of 2023 general elections, the Nigeria Security and Security Defense Corps (NSCDC) has said it will deploy new strategies to address electoral voilence and put an end to insecurity in the country. Commandant General of the NSCDC, Ahmed Audi, said this Thursday in Abuja at the quarterly Commandant General’s Conference, held at the Corps headquarters. The conference brought together Read More
No doubt, vote buying has become a disturbing feature in Nigeria’s democracy with its attendant negative consequences. It has become a major issue in party primaries and other elections. Vote buying has heightened the monetisation of the electoral process where the highest bidder gets the trophy. There were allegations that the just concluded Ekiti state governorship election was marred by Read More
Spokesman of the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP), Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, was among the names published by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as successful candidate that will be participating in the 2023 General election. The commission published the lists of successfully nominated candidates from the 18 political parties that will be participating in the 2023 general election. Ugochinyere Read More
Yoruba Council Worldwide and Nigerian Youth Coalition has called on Nigerians from the 36 states of the federation to rethink 2023 general elections and encourage more people to get their Permanent Voters Card (PVC).’’ The Global President, Yoruba Council Worldwide and Nigerian Youth Coalition, Mr Aare Hassan made the call at a news conference on the state of the nation Read More
The South-south zonal organising secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Dr. Blessing Agbomhere, has demanded for the resignation or outright sack of the Akwa Ibom State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr Mike Igini, over the role played in the controversy rocking Governorship and Senatorial primary elections in the state. The APC chieftain accused Igini of “biased, partial and reasonably shows Read More
Let me start my admonition in this manner, it is likely that you have seen this somewhere, in one way or the other, the current Governor of Katsina state, Aminu Bello Masari, was the state’s commissioner for works, housing and transport from 1991 to 1993. He was the speaker of House of Representatives between 2003 and 2007. He is 72 Read More
As the 2023 general elections draw nearer, everything humanly possible should be done to engender active participation by the people. The importance of elections in the democratic process cannot be over-emphasised. The electorate not only use such legitimate platform to elect candidates of their choice, deficient and non-performing political office holders are replaced with more competent persons. Therefore, partaking actively Read More
A member of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Hon. Nze Chidi Duru, has said both Peter Obi of Labour Party (LP) and Musa Kwankwaso of New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), or another are not threat to emergence of presidential candidate of APC, Bola Tinubu in 2023 general elections. Hon. Duru, who is the Read More
A non-profit, socio-cultural organization interested in supporting and ensuring good and credible governance in Ebonyi state on the aiges of Association of Ebonyi Indigenes Socio-Cultural in Diaspora (AEISCID), has warned the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against contempt of Court and manipulation by some ‘desperate politicians.’ The group urged the leadership of the PDP to be firm, Read More
Major House of Representatives aspirants in the just concluded Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primaries for Ideato North and South Federal constituency have finally conceded defeat to the winner, Barrister Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere. They pledged to work with him to ensure a resounding victory in the general election. Barr. Onyeka Ikenta, Uzomba Chidinma, and Mr Collins Obioha in their separate messages Read More
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced final guidelines for the conduct of general elections in the country. INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, revealed this on Friday during a meeting of the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES) at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja. According to the INEC chief, the electoral umpire has virtually concluded the planning processes Read More
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, a governorship candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kastina state, Dr. Dikko Umaru Radda, has expressed confidence that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will conduct the freest elections in the country. Radda said the new electoral act signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari allows the transmission of results from Read More
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has eventually agreed to extend the deadline given for various political parties to conduct primaries ahead of 2023 general elections. A press statement by the commission’s Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, on Saturday said the political parties now has between June 4 and 9, 2022 to conduct and conclude primaries. Read Read More
Poised to ensure the redemption of the country from the current spiritual and political slumber, the Initiative for Better and Brighter Nigeria (IBBN), a CSO, has pledged to sensitise a new breed of Nigerians with the view to saving the country from miscarriage during the 2023 general elections. The group, with the message against vote buying during the forthcoming general Read More
As National Conventions for election of presidential candidates of political parties for the 2023 general elections approach, TAIYE ODEWALE writes on imminent exclusion of statutory delegates. Meaning of party primaries Primary elections are conducted by political parties for the purpose of nomination of candidates for available elective positions from ward councilorship, to chairmanship of local government Councils, membership of State Read More
Ahead of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) National Convention slated for May 28 and 29, 2022 to elect the party’s candidate, the party has insisted that only democratically elected delegates will vote at its primaries. PDP National Organising Secretary, Hon. Umar M. Nature, in a statement on Saturday disclosed that the new date for the State Houses of Assembly primaries. Read More
As the 2023 general elections draws closer, the need for continuous advocacy for women inclusion in diverse spaces formed the core of a webinar on making the recent 35 per cent affirmative action court ruling work, ENE OSHABA writes. The 100 Women Lobby Group (WLG) as part of its strategy to ensure that the 35 per cent affirmative action court Read More
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