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March, 2015

  • 31 March

    Tension, Uncertainty As Buhari Leads With 2 Million Votes, Jonathan Hopes

    buhari & jonathan

    Younews‘ emphasis on the obvious 50/50 chances of Jonathan and Buhari still stands. It’s a close race. Now Buhari has an edge with 2 million votes, but possibilities for reversal of fourtunes with result from more States this morning. Results from 18 states and the Federal Capital Territory so far released by the Independent National Electoral Commission on Monday showed ...

  • 29 March

    Buhari Set To Break Jinx, Sitting President Jonathan Set To Go

    jonathan & buhari

    It is not conclusive yet, and only INEC can declare, but so far, the facts speak for itself. For Buhari to beat Jonathan in Aso Rock Polling Unit; the die is cast! In the history of elections in Nigeria, no ruling party has lost power at the centre. A number of incumbent governors have failed to get re-election mandate. Oyo ...

  • 29 March

    2015 Election Turns Tinubu To Phenomenon In Strategic Leadership

    asiwaju bola ahmed tinubu

    Tinubu is a phenomenon that will one day become a course of study in political science department of many universities. Aside from the fact that he has developed and empowered many people (which other Yoruba leaders who have held powerful and influential positions like him did not do), his political sagacity is something else. In 2003, he was the only ...

  • 23 March

    Peterside Warns Against Voting On Emotions, Says PDP Has Failed Nigerians

    Dr. Dakuku Peterside

      Dr. Dakuku Peterside, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Rivers State has described the performance of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP under the present administration at the centre as abysmally low and unparalleled in the history of public administration in Nigeria. He warned that the current economic gloom, insecurity and political challenges facing Nigeria can only ...

  • 23 March

    Uduaghan Denies N50b Bond Allegation

    uduaghan

    The Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, on Sunday denied borrowing another N50 billion from the capital market. The governor, who described the allegation as bizarre, wondered what he would do with such money barely two months to the terminal date of his administration. In a statement routed through his Commissioner for Information, Chike Ogeah, in Asaba on Sunday, Governor ...

  • 23 March

    Gani Adams Explains OPC’s Anti-Jega, Pro-Jonathan Stance…. The NMillions Involved

    gani adams & jonathan

    The National Coordinator of a Yoruba group, Odua Peoples Congress, Gani Adams has come out to say Yes, He is working for Jonathan for approving a contract for the OPC to protect pipelines across the South-West. Adams said the contract would provide at least 5,000 jobs for his boys and 10,000 jobs for other youths in the South-West. He said ...

  • 23 March

    Sen. Smart Adeyemi Reinforces Reasons Why Nigerians Should Vote Jonathan

    Senator Smart Adeyemi

    A few days to the presidential and National Assembly elections, Senator Smart Adeyemi has given reasons why the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), President Goodluck Jonathan, will be re-elected on March 28. Adeyemi, who is seeking to represent Kogi West Senatorial District again in the Upper Chamber, listed the qualities working in Jonathan’s favour, among others, as: ...

  • 13 March

    Professor Odinkalu Visits Peterside, Speaks Glowingly On His Exploits In Public Service

    Dr. Dakuku Peterside

    Professor Chidi Odinkalu, Chairman, National Human Rights Commission has described Dr. Dakuku Peterside, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Rivers State as a public servant per excellence. Odinkalu who is on a fact-finding mission to Rivers State said this during a courtesy call on Peterside at the Greater Together Campaign office in Port Harcourt. The chairman who ...

  • 13 March

    At ONELGA, Peterside Speaks On Good Leadership, Patriotism

    Dr. Dakuku Peterside

    Dr. Dakuku Peterside, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Rivers State has described good leadership as key to freedom, justice and economic emancipation of any people. The APC candidate who said that progress comes only when competent and visionary people are given opportunity to serve in government warned that except Nigerians vote for capable people, the nation’s march towards building a great nation ...

  • 13 March

    Nigerians Await Jonathan’s Reaction To Tinubu’s Revelation On Interim Government

    senator bola ahmed tinubu

    The story is hot in town, and Fani Kayode has reacted, but Nigerians and indeed the whole world awaits comment from President Jonathan. With the election less than three weeks away and the outcome possibly against them, the Goodluck Jonathan Presidency and the hardliners in the PDP have embarked on a new strategy to put brake on the momentum APC ...