Author: Chinedu Ibeakanma

Chinedu Ibeakanma is a trained journalist. He holds a masters degree in Mass Communication and you’ll often find him writing breaking news stories on politics, sports, business, lifestyle, and other interesting beats. Chinedu is also a broadcaster and when he is not in the studio, you will find him analysing critical issues that affect humanity
2023: Give Ticket To Who Will Not Run Away After Election – Wike To PDP Leaders 
Elections, News, Nigeria

2023: Give Ticket To Who Will Not Run Away After Election – Wike To PDP Leaders 

The governor of Rivers State, Mr Nyesom Wike, who is a presidential aspirant under the platform of the main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at the weekend tasked stakeholders and founding fathers of the party to give the presidential ticket to someone who will not run away from the party. The Presidential aspirant equally vowed to put David Umahi’s successor in Ebonyi State during the forthcoming 2023 general election.Wike made this known while addressing stakeholders and political leaders of PDP in Ebonyi State during his consultation visit to the people of the state.According to him: “I’m here in Ebonyi State to let you know that you should not border on the setbacks you have, that the law must take its prepared place at the right time. I don’t want to send any d...
2023: Aisha Buhari Urges Aspirants To Pick Women As Running Mates
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2023: Aisha Buhari Urges Aspirants To Pick Women As Running Mates

The first lady, Aisha Buhari, has urged political parties to always consider women as running mates to candidates contesting elections into various positions across the country. Buhari was speaking on Saturday night when she hosted Presidential Aspirants from various political parties to a Ramadan (Iftar) breakfast at the State House, Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Iftar was organised by the first lady to provide opportunity for the aspirants to share love and happiness with one another in the spirit of Ramadan and in a quest for nation building. She said, fair-play for women in politics was to ensure their greater participation in elective positions. “ In fact, it is high time women are adopted as running mates at all levels considering their vot...
Atiku Not Part Of Northern Consensus Arrangement — Dokpesi
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Atiku Not Part Of Northern Consensus Arrangement — Dokpesi

Ramond Dokpesi Former Vice President and leading presidential aspirant, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has said that he was never a party to the northern consensus arrangement. The Technical Committee for the Actualization of Atiku Abubakar’s Presidency in 2023, in a statement by its chairman, High Chief Raymond Dokpesi, said the former VP did not subject himself to any purported consensus process and thus not bound by any of the recommendations and conclusions of the report. “As an avowed nationalist, Waziri Atiku Abubakar strongly believes that Nigeria has never been as divided as it is today. “He strongly believes that any ‘consensus’ arrangement premised on any regional, zonal, ethno-religious, and/or sectional gang-up will further deepen and widen this divide, and worsen the woun...
Tinubu, Umahi, Mohammed, Ngige, Other Attend Aisha Buhari’s Iftar Dinner
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Tinubu, Umahi, Mohammed, Ngige, Other Attend Aisha Buhari’s Iftar Dinner

Aisha Buhari National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; Governors Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State; Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State and the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, are among the presidential aspirants at the Iftar dinner hosted by the First Lady, Dr. Aisha Buhari. The dinner took place at the Old Banquet Hall, Presidential Villa, Abuja. Recall that the First Lady had sent out invitation to all presidential aspirants of different political parties, ministers, governors and some other personalities for Ramadan Iftar dinner on Saturday. Read Also: 2023: Osinbajo Seeks Oyo APC Delegates’ Support For Presidential Bid As early as 6:20p.m., some of the expected dignitaries had started entering the venue of the event, which w...
Alaafin Of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, Dies at 83
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Alaafin Of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, Dies at 83

Lamidi-Olayiwola-Adeyemi-III The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, has passed on. He was 83 years old. The top Yoruba monarch died in the late hours of Friday, according to palace officials. Adeyemi died at the Afe Babalola University Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti. The late Alaafin’s first son, Prince ‘Tunde, and other children had received the monarch’s remains at Idi-Igba, Oyo town early Saturday morning. Palace sources confirmed that traditional rites had begun without giving details about his burial arrangement yet. Adeyemi ruled for 52 years before his demise, making him the longest-reigning Alaafin. By tradition, the head of the Oyomesi, Basorun of Oyo, High Chief Yusuf Ayoola, would take over pending the appointment of a new Alaafin. Read Also: Buhar...
2023: Osinbajo Seeks Oyo APC Delegates’ Support For Presidential Bid
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2023: Osinbajo Seeks Oyo APC Delegates’ Support For Presidential Bid

Yemi Osinbajo Nigeria’s Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, says he has garnered enough experience to lead Nigeria as the president come 2023. He made the disclosure on Friday in Ibadan during a parley with Oyo State All Progressives Congress (APC) delegates. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mr Osinbajo had visited Ibadan to pay homage to the Olubadan of Ibadanland and meet with the delegates. The vice president had on April 11 declared his intention to seek his party’s ticket to run for the office of President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Mr Osinbajo said that everything he learnt as vice president and acting president had prepared him for the office. “I have served in the Federal Government of Nigeria for the past seven years. And I have been involv...
2023: INEC Budgets N239bn For Poll Materials, Presidential Run-Off
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2023: INEC Budgets N239bn For Poll Materials, Presidential Run-Off

INEC The Independent National Electoral Commission will spend not less than N239.2bn on procuring voting materials and vehicles that will be used in the 2023 general election. This is according to the 2023 General Election Project Plan that was launched by INEC in Abuja on Thursday. The commission stated that N239.2bn, which constitutes 78.44 per cent of its N305bn budget, would be spent on 10 critical items which included ballot papers, operational vehicles, ballot boxes, allowances of ad hoc workers, printing of result sheets, logistics and procurement of accreditation devices. Also included in the N239.2bn budget is the N27.1bn set aside by the commission for possible run-off elections, including the one for the presidential poll. Run-off elections are conducted in the e...
Killings: ‘If I Were Buhari, I Would Have Resigned’ – Wike
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Killings: ‘If I Were Buhari, I Would Have Resigned’ – Wike

Nyesom Wike Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Thursday, in Jalingo, the capital of Taraba State, said any government that cannot protect the lives and property of its citizens does not deserve to be in power. Wike, a presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), stated this while in the state to canvass support of both delegates and party’s stalwarts. Not comfortable with the alleged manner the All Progressives Congress (APC), under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari, is currently handling the security challenges bedeviling the country, Wike said he would have resigned if he was the president. According to him, “I would have resigned if I were President Buhari. I would have addressed Nigerians and tell them that I have tried my bes...
Why Osinachi’s Husband Has Not Been Arraigned –Police
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Why Osinachi’s Husband Has Not Been Arraigned –Police

Justice The Nigeria Police Force on Wednesday said Peter Nwachukwu, the husband of the late gospel singer, Osinachi Nwachukwu, has not been charged to court because the police await the outcome of post-mortem examinations on the deceased to ascertain the cause of death. Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, made this known in a statement on Wednesday while giving an update on the matter. Adejobi also said the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, received the Minister of Women Affairs, Dame Tallen, today in his office at the Louis Edet House, Force Headquarters, Abuja. “The Minister discussed amongst other things, the plight of women in Nigeria, particularly in relation to gender and domestic-based violence. She pointed out the recent case of the famous gospel ...
Buhari Explains Pardon Granted Ex-Gov
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Buhari Explains Pardon Granted Ex-Gov

Joshua Dariye and Jolly Nyame President Muhammadu Buhari says his anti-corruption war is on course despite the pardon granted to two former State chief executives. Former Governors of Plateau (Joshua Dariye) and Taraba (Jolly Nyame) were recently given a clean bill years after conviction for graft. Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu clarified the recent note presented to the Council of State after the Presidential Advisory Committee on the Prerogative of Mercy (PACPM) report. His statement Wednesday night said it was a culmination of a process begun by the convicts and others concerned in line with the constitution. Shehu maintained that Section 175 (1) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) empowers the President to exercise his constitutional powers to grant a pardon. ...