Category: National/Politics

APC Sweeps Kano Council Polls

All seats in the Saturday’s local government election held in Kano State were won by candidates of the All Progressives Congress, APC, the Kano State Independent Electoral Commission, KANSIEC, Chairman, Dr Sani Malumfashi, announced on Sunday in Kano. He said in a statement that the party swept all the chairmanship and councillorship seats in the…

Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has asked the Federal Government and the National Assembly to put an end to emergency rule imposed on three states in the northern part of Nigeria. ACF, a pan-northern socio-political organisation, said the state of emergency imposed on Adamawa, Borno and Yobe by the FG in May 2013, should not be…

Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described the reported public endorsement of Akinwunmi Ambode as the befitting next governor of the state by Rilwan Akiolu, the Oba of Lagos, as “undemocratic”. The party, in a statement signed on Thursday by its Publicity Secretary, Taofik Gani, said the monarch’s action is an…