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Reno Omokri, former aide to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan has listed what Nigerians should prepare themselves for under President Muhammadu Buhari’s Next Level should he win 2019 election. Omokri listed six areas where he thinks Nigerians should get ready for. He wrote: As @MBuhari launches #NextLevel campaign, Nigerians should get ready for: * #NextLevel poverty * […]

Mr Mustapha Maihaja, Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), on Monday supervised the distribution of food items to about 480 persons displaced by flood in Niger. Most of the IDPs in the camp were displaced by the flood from Gungu community in Shiroro Local Government Area of the state. Maihaja said that […]

Tehran and Washington are not holding talks in Oman over the existing sanctions imposed on Iran by the United States, Iran’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday. “Iran and the United States have had no talks, not in Oman or anywhere else,’’ Bahram Qasemi, the ministry’s spokesman, said in his weekly news conference. In the meantime, […]

Party leaders from the Southeast and Southwest are worried over the tenure framework in the document tagged People’s Policy” of the candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. The policy is for launch on Monday less than 24 hours after President Muhammadu Buhari launched his, Next Level. The policy plan of the 72-year-old […]

Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari on Monday met behind closed doors with representatives of Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) over the disagreement between the organised labour and state governors on the proposed N30,000 minimum wage. The Amal Pepple Tripartite Committee on the Review of National Minimum Wage, had on Nov. 6, submitted its report to President Buhari […]

President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, on Monday assured Nigerians that legislative duties in the National Assembly would not be relegated to the background in view of the commencement of the 2019 electioneering. Saraki, according to a statement by his Special Assistant on Print Media, Chuks Okocha, in Abuja, made the assertion while […]

Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has launched his policy plan for Nigeria and promised to attract investments and support 50 million Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises, if elected as president in 2019. At the launch in Yola, Abubakar said the purpose was to double the size of Nigeria Gross […]

The Atiku Campaign Organisation has said that the People Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, will defeat President Muhammadu Buhari in the forthcoming general election with a wide margin to make it difficult for the ruling party to attempt rigging. Spokesman of the campaign team, Segun Sowunmi also revealed on Monday in Abuja […]

The Director-General of the Buhari Campaign Organisation and the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has explained why President Muhammadu Buhari titled his campaign ‘Next level’. Amaechi said the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration has lived up to the 2015 campaign promises by delivering on the change promised, hence the reason for the adoption of the […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has filed a suit against a radio presenter, Akanda Oro, popularly known as Awikonko, for accusing Obasanjo of complicity in the murder of Bola Ige. According to The Punch, Oro, also an online journalist, alleged on live radio that Obasanjo killed Ige. Awikonko was quoted as saying: “Obasanjo’s murder of Bola Ige, […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday inaugurated campaign manual for his re-election in 2019 with a call on politicians to be peaceful and decent in their campaigns and avoid any act capable of setting the nation ablaze. Speaking at the launch of the Campaign Manual/Next Level Document at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, […]

The decomposing body of one Samuel Wanjoku, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, who was kidnapped last week Saturday along Ubima Omawan road in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State have been recovered in a forest in the area. Late Wanjoku, the immediate younger brother to the member representing Ikwerre State constituency in […]

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it has seized 241 million Tramadol tablets in 11 containers, weighing 118 metric tonnes. Head of Public Affairs of the agency, Mr Jonah Achema, said in a statement on Sunday in Abuja that the seizure was made at the Apapa Port in Lagos. The agency had earlier […]

Two female twins abducted by gunmen in Dauran village of Zurmi Local Government Area of Zamfara State have been released. The State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Mohammed Shehu, who confirmed their release to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Gusau, said that the victims were being debriefed by the command in Gusau. […]

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, says he has forgiven those who plotted to illegally impeach him as Governor. He spoke on Sunday at St. Mary’s Catholic Parish, North Bank Makurdi during a thanksgiving service in his honour and the Majority Leader of the Benue State House of Assembly, Rt Hon. Avine Agbom. Ortom explained that […]

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Osun State has called out Governor Rauf Aregbesola, describing his eight years tenure as a monumental failure. It argued that the governor will go down in history of the state as the worst since the return of democratic rule in 1999. PDP said contrary to what the governor was […]

President Muhammadu Buhari says his administration is committed to national unity and religious harmony. He urged Nigerians to embrace the effort. He gave the assurance on Sunday during the 10th Anniversary of Muslim Ummah of South West Nigeria (MUSWEN) and N5bn launch of MUSWEN International Centre in Ibadan. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that […]

Wife of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Hajiya Titi Atiku Abubakar, has revealed why she married the politician. Titi said her husband is a man of integrity, and wondered why he was being refered to as corrupt. She said she married Atiku for his honesty and patriotism. Mrs. Abubakar said […]

The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagos State, Jimi Agbaje, has unveiled some of his plans and policies for Lagosians and how he plans to execute them when elected as the governor in 2019. While fielding questions from the Lagos residents during a Twitter Question and Answer session with the hashtag […]

Hajiya Titi Atiku Abubakar, wife of the Presidential Candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar has said that her husband is a man of integrity, stressing that she married him for his honesty and patriotism. Mrs Abubakar disclosed this while receiving a campaign group, Women for Atiku, that no one knew Atiku better than she does, […]