SOKOTO CLERICS TRAINED ON FACT-CHECKING, COMBATING OF FALSEHOOD

By Ankeli Emmanuel (In Sokoto State)

A Fact-Checking media firm, Alkalanci, in collaboration with the Sokoto State Ministry of Religious Affairs, has organized a 2-day workshop for Islamic clerics on building resilient communities against falsehood.

SOKOTO COURT DISMISS CONGRESS FRAUD CASE FILED BY FACTIONAL PDP MEMBERS

By Ankeli Emmanuel (In Sokoto State)

People's Democratic Party (PDP'S ) Public Relations Officer, Hassan Sayinlawal, has stated that a High Court sitting in Sokoto, Monday dismissed a case filed by former governor Attahiru Bafarawa's faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) challenging the conduct of the party’s ’s congresses in the state.

SOKOTO PDP CHAIRMAN COMMENDS FOLLOWERS ON LOYALTY, UNITY

By Musa Ubandawaki (Sokoto State Correspondent)

The Chairman Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Sokoto state chapter, Alhaji Bello Aliyu Goronyo, has commended followers of the party for their maturity and continued loyalty to the leadership of Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal and the party.

SOKOTO STATE 100 PERCENT BEHIND PDP, SAYS EX-APC GUBER ASPIRANT

By Ankeli Emmanuel (in Sokoto State)

Former Minister of Transport and one of the candidates that recently contested the gubernatorial primaries in the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Sokoto state, Yusuf Suleiman, has affirmed that the seat of Caliphate state is one hundred percent behind the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)

SOKOTO STATE GOV-ELECT DEBUNKS ALLEGATION OF SETTING UP COMMITTEE TO PROBE GOV TAMBUWAL

By Ankeli Emmanuel (In Sokoto State)

In a sharp response to media reports that the incoming APC government in Sokoto State will be probing every single finances of the State under governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, the governor-elect, Ahmed Aliyu, has said he is not ready for such an exercise.

Soludo: FROM "SOLUTION" TO "DISSOLUTION"

By Jude Ogechi Eze

This is actually a wrong time to author any write-up on executive Governor of Anambra state — His Excellency, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, since he's already enmeshed in a tussle, analogous to the ongoing Ukraine-Russia war, with the "Obidients." And so, it is necessary to raise a caveat, that this piece was formerly sketched to appraise Soludo's six months in office, before his needless assault on Peter Obi's probity and daylight disavowal of his presidential ambition.

SOUTHERN GOVS MEET IN ENUGU, RE-AFFIRM STAND ON 2023 PRESIDENTIAL POWER SHIFT TO SOUTH

* Calls For Expeditious Action On Anti-Open Grazing Law, Re-commits To Fiscal Federalism

By Valentine Nnamani (Bureau Chief South East, in Enugu)

The Nigerian Southern Governors’ Forum, on Thursday, met in Enugu and reviewed the state of the nation and the progress of implementation of the decisions reached in their previous meetings and further resolved, among others, that it re-affirms its earlier position that the 2023 Presidency must come to the South.

SOUTHERN HYPOCRISY WILL HELP ATIKU TO SUCCEED BUHARI

By Azu Ishiekwene

After last weekend's primary by the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) which produced former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as the party’s candidate for next year’s presidential election, political leaders in the South have been hurling abuses at the North for betrayal.

Special Funds Account Story: TRACING THE MISSING BILLIONS!

By Celestine Okafor (Group Politics Editor & National Assembly/Senate Correspondent) @CelestineOkaf11

The plenary session of the Nigerian Senate on Tuesday, April 30, 2013, was almost a bedlam. Passions ran very high. Senators who spoke on the floor of the Senate Chamber, one after another, screamed with both angst and guilt. Even the Senate President (former), David Bonaventure Mark, mumbled in bitterness and spoke with subdued voice.

STAKEHOLDERS CANVASS FOR MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN TO CONTRIBUTE TO NATION BUILDING

By Princess Simon (Bureau Chief North Central, in Minna)

A case has been made for the federal government and other nation builders to reconcile traditional values with progressive ideas involving women’s participation in nation building as a significant contributor to stability and not being viewed as a risk factor.

State Assembly Election: PDP IN EARLY LEAD IN OSUN STATE

• * Urge Voters To Protect Their Votes

By Obafemi Adefaye (Osun State Correspondent, in Oshogbo)

Situation report from the 26 state constituencies of Osun State House of Assembly election has shown the Osun People's Democratic Party (PDP) is in early lead and poised to deliver all her candidates on the ballot.

State Assembly Polls: OSUN PDP CONGRATULATES ELECTED CANDIDATES, THANKS OSUN VOTERS FOR THEIR MASSIVE SUPPORT

• * Describe Murdered Party Members As Martyrs Of The Electoral Victory

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief) @CelestineOkaf11

The Osun People's Democratic Party (PDP) has congratulated all her elected candidates in the just concluded House of Assembly election for their victory at their different local constituencies.

State of The Nation: ATIKU, GOV MAKINDE VISIT INB IN MINNA

By Princess Simon (Bureau Chief North Central, in Minna)

Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and the Governor of Oyo state, Seyi Makinde on Tuesday visited former Military Head of State, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB), over issues that may not be unconnected with state of the nation.

State Of The Nation: TAKE NIGERIA BACK TO WHERE YOU MET IT, SENATOR DINO MELAYE TELLS BUHARI

By Sule Tahir (Jigawa State Correspondent, in Dutse)

Worried by the prevailing socio-economic challenges in Nigeria, a former federal lawmaker, Senator Dino Melaye, has pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari to take the country back to where he met it in 2015.

State Reproach: THE MANY AFFLICTIONS OF NIGERIAN JOURNALISTS

By Jude Eze

Of late, the press in Nigerian has been unfairly blamed by many state actors for the multisectoral tragedies bedevilling the country. Journalists are becoming scapegoats for the failings of the current regime. Pressmen are guilt-tripped at every turn. In fact, the government's stock-in-trade is gaslighting the masses and guilt-tripping the press; which are basic characteristics of despotic regimes thriving on propaganda.

State's Titles/Slogans In Nigeria: A MISNOMER OR TRUE REFLECTION?

By Eze Jude O.

At the return to democracy in 1999, the federal government under former President Obasanjo was bent on redefining our global image, reorientating our psychosocial spirality, and re-engineering our national order. Having been under the junta regime for 33 out of our then 39 years of nationhood, the government felt we should begin our democratic experiment by walking our consciousness back into what is the norm and ethos of living in a free world where people rule themselves by those they choose through the electoral process.

Stinking NDDC: DETAILS OF SHOCKING MASSIVE LOOTING REVEALED AT NASS PROBE PANEL

Chilling revelations were made on Monday at the public hearing of the House of Representatives committee investigating the massive looting and abuse of power and failure of moral authority of the worst kind, at the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).

Stolen Journalist: WHERE IS SEGUN OLATUNJI, EDITOR OF FIRST NEWS?

( A Nigerian NewsLeader Editorial)

Nigerians and indeed the media community in Nigeria woke on Saturday morning, March 16, 2024, to learn of the abduction of one of its citizens and the Editor of First News Newspaper, Mr Segun Olatunji.

STOP CALLING ME SUPREME COURT GOVERNOR, HOPE UZODINMMA WARNS DETRACTORS

•  Threatens Legal Action

By Desmond Ukandu (Group Politics Editor)

Imo state Governor, Hope Uzodinma, has sternly warned his detractors and political opponents to stop describing him as "Supreme Court Governor" or be prepared to face the full wrath of the law. He described such people as mischievous and ignorant.

STOP COLONIZING SOUTH EAST APC, SENATOR KEN NNAMANI TELLS GOV UZODIMMA

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11

Apparently dissatisfied with what he viewed as the unhealthy role the Imo State governor, Hope Uzodimma, is playing in the affairs of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) in Nigeria, former Senate President, Senator Ken Nnamani, has advised the Imo governor to desist from attempting to "colonize" the party, especially in the South East geo-political zone.