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YOU WANT TO TURN THIS COUNTRY TO NORTH KOREA OR RUSSIA – BODE GEORGE WARNS AFTER POLICE HALT PDP MEETING A prominent chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Bode George, has condemned the blockade of the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja by security operatives, describing it as a dangerous drift toward authoritarianism. George, a former Deputy National Chairman of the …

COURT GRANTS KOGI SENATOR NATASHA BAIL ON FRESH CHARGE Embattled Kogi lawmaker, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has been granted bail on self-recognition in a case involving her and the federal government. Akpoti-Uduaghan made herself available on Monday morning before the Federal High Court in Abuja for her second arraignment over alleged defamation of Senate President Godswill Akpabio and former Kogi State …

APC FIXES JULY 24 FOR NEC MEETING TO REPLACE GANDUJE The All Progressives Congress (APC) National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting will be held on Thursday, 24th July, 2025, at the Party’s National Secretariat. Deputy National Secretary, Barr. Festus Fuanter, disclosed this after Monday’s National Working Committee (NWC) meeting.

66 ABIOLA’S ‘CHILDREN’ FAILED DNA TEST As Nigeria marked the 32nd anniversary of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election, last week, Olalekan Abiola, one of the children of the late business mogul and politician, Chief MKO Abiola, the widely acclaimed winner of the election, spoke to Sunday Vanguard during the anniversary at the family residence in Ikeja, Lagos on …

2927: I’,LL ACCEPT COALITION’S OFFER TO SERVE ONE TERM, HAND OVER TO NORTH – PETER OBI Peter Obi, a former presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, has claimed he would honour any coalition agreement which could require that he serves a single term and hand over to the North in 2031. According to Obi, he is not desperate for …

POLICE TAKE OVER PDP SECRETARIAT IN ABUJA As tension continues to mount over the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting, which is expected to hold on Monday, armed policemen have taken over its secretariat. According to an official of the party who spoke to newsmen, the police were deployed to stop the proposed NEC Expanded Caucus Meeting. …

APC LAUNCHES FRESH MOVE TO PULL FIVE GOVERNORS The ruling All Progressives Congress has boasted of wooing at least five more governors to its camp amid a wave of defections by opposition bigwigs, federal lawmakers, and endorsements for President Bola Tinubu’s re-election.” The move comes in the wake of Friday’s resignation of the immediate past National Chairman of the APC, …

SAUDI ARABIA OKAYS AMINU DANTATA’S BURIAL IN MADINA The Saudi Arabian government has approved the transportation of the body of late prominent business man and philanthropist, Alhaji Aminu Alhassan Dantata, from Abu Dhabi to the holy city of Madina for his final rites. Alhaji Mustapha Abdullahi Junaidu, the Private Principal Secretary to the late Dantata, announced this in a Facebook …

Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde and the Minister, Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike As the crisis within the Peoples Democratic Party deepens over the position of National Secretary and the disputed 100th National Executive Committee meeting scheduled for Monday (today), a major showdown appears imminent as party leaders are at odds, with rival factions planning to hold separate NEC and …