The action never stops: the signals of what to expect in 2015 keep getting closer and clearer; our economy continues adjusting to the tides of falling oil prices; insurgency seems to be weaning more souls off the face of the earth. From relative non-violent primaries to unending 'verbal pugilism' in the political space, the past week was a mix of the good, the bad and [...]
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has lampooned Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, saying that President Goodluck Jonathan is going into the 2015 presidential contest with the main opposition party’s national leader, Bola Tinubu – not Buhari. Speaking on Sunday through Olisa Metuh, its spokesman, PDP branded Buhari as merely a front for Tinubu to "whom he had already surrendered [...]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said the speculated running mates of its presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, are fit to be president, asking for prayers as the party takes the final decision this week. Chibuike Amaechi, governor of Rivers state, Adams Oshiomhole, governor of Edo state, Kayode Fayemi, former governor of Ekiti state, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, former governor of Lagos state, [...]
Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has condemned the recent bomb attacks in Kano and Jos, assuring citizens that terrorism will never prevail in the country. On Wednesday, six people were killed in twin bomb blasts at the Kano textile market, while on Thursday, two more explosions near the Terminus market in Jos killed 32 people and [...]
Muhammadu Buhari, former military head of state, is likely to emerge flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2015 presidential election. As at the time of filing this report, Buhari was clearly ahead of four other aspirants participating in the presidential primary of the party, still going on at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, Lagos. The other aspirants are Rabiu Kwankwaso, governor of [...]
The Peoples Democratic Party has accused, Muhammadu Buhari, a presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, of playing “cheap politics” with the security challenge of the country. The party was reacting to Buhari’s declaration speech in which he flayed the Jonathan administration for failing to end insurgency in the northeast. It also accused the former head of state of being insensitive, and [...]
Muhammadu Buhari, a former head of state and presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says corruption is denying Nigerians the opportunity of benefiting from the resources of the country. He accused the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of encouraging corruption and sustaining impunity, urging Nigerians to vote out the party during the forthcoming general election. Buhari, who was in Yenagoa, [...]
John Oyegun, the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says some members of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), are seeking to enlist as members of the opposition party. Speaking at the national secretariat of APC on Monday when Muhammadu Buhari, former Nigerian head of state and presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC), submitted his nomination and [...]
Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, speaker of the house of representatives, will receive the backing of Bola Tinubu, national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) if he picks the presidential nomination form of the party, TheCable understands. This is already generating some tension within the party, with a group writing to the national chairman, John Oyegun, to warn him about dumping Muhammadu Buhari, a retired major general [...]
Aminu Tambuwal, speaker of the house of representatives, and governors belonging to the All Progressives Congress (APC) were neither present nor represented at the Council of State meeting convened by President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday. Muhammadu Buhari, a former head of state and presidential aspirant on the APC platform, was also absent at the meeting, which was called, among other things, [...]
Muhammadu Buhari, a former head of state, has welcomed Aminu Tambuwal, speaker of the house of representative, to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Tambuwal announced his defection from the ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to the APC, on Tuesday. He had earlier registered as a member of the APC on October 20, 2014. Speaking at the special convention of the party [...]
Last week started on a cheery note in Nigeria with the World Health Organisation (WHO) declaring the nation free of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). On the international scene, the sentencing of Oscar Pistorius attracted considerable attention. Here is a roundup of last week's top stories. CEASEFIRE OR CROSSFIRE? Hopes were high when Alex Badeh, an air chief marshal and chief of defence staff, [...]
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said Nigeria has got to a stage where religion has become a major determining factor and no party should pick a candidate and running mate of the same faith. He said unlike the past when attention was not really paid to issues of such nature, the country has got to a stage where sentiment is being [...]
The public declaration of Muhammadu Buhari’s presidential aspiration, swearing in of Ayodele Fayose as governor of Ekiti state, 'sack' of Stephen Keshi as coach of Super Eagles and announcement of ceasefire by Boko Haram were some of the prominent stories in the news last week. Here is an overview of the leading headlines. ATIKU VS BUHARI? Atiku Abubakar and Muhammadu Buhari, top [...]
Muhammadu Buhari, a presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), believes that having the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in government in 2015 would be catastrophic for Nigeria. The former head of state spoke at a meeting of APC northern leaders and stakeholders in Kaduna on Saturday. Buhari expressed concerns about the deliberate plot by the PDP to polarise the country [...]
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