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There are just two days left till the presidential election. Awemi Dio Maisamari, the president of the Southern Kaduna People’s Union (SOKAPU), and Ishaya Dary Akau, the chairman of the Southern Kaduna Leadership Council, said at a press conference on Thursday, that after comparing the capabilities of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), and the Labour Party (LP), they found that the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has a wider reach than Labour Party (LP).However, the Southern Kaduna People’s Union (SOKAPU), has chosen to support the Presidential Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar.According to the Southern Kaduna People’s Union…

Finnish police on Thursday released a popular pro-Biafra separatist agitator, Simon Ekpa, hours after he was arrested and grilled.Switch Nigeria earlier reported that Finnish authorities arrested Ekpa. The police escorted the separatist out of his apartment in Lahti.Ekpa was later released on Thursday evening after the police allegedly arrested him for a suspected crime in Finland.The Finnish Central Criminal Police confirmed Ekpa’s release on Thursday, according to HS reports. The police claimed that its operation in Lahti and the subsequent arrest of the pro-Biafra agitator were in connection with the ongoing preliminary investigation.“The person being questioned today is suspected of…

Gunmen have reportedly killed the Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance in Ohofia Agba Ward, Ishielu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Monday Idoko. It was learnt Idako was shot in the head in his Onueke village, in the Ezza South Council, of the state at about 11 p.m. on Wednesday. A family relative who spoke in tears and pleaded anonymity said in a telephone interview that the assailants entered the village and dragged out the victim while asleep before shooting him in the head. “My brother the story is very traumatic. It was a family member that alerted…

The governorship candidate of the Labour Party in Adamawa State, Umar Mustapha, and his supporters, on Thursday, declared their support for the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress, Bola Tinubu, ditching the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi. Mustapha’s withdrawal of support for Obi followed the collapse of Umar Mustapha’s LP structure in Adamawa into that of the APC. Umar who announced his backing of Tinubu said he found the people who ran the Labour party in the state to be as bad as the system he wanted to see changed. Mustapha who’s popularly known as Otumba said his decision…

Politicians, businessmen, and other senior civil servants were also on the ground to welcome the President. President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday arrived in Daura, his hometown, Katsina State ahead of Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections. The presidential jet touched ground at the Umaru Musa Yar’adua Airport at exactly 4:41 pm, ten minutes after which the jet was opened for the President and his entourage to come down and proceed to Daura on a white helicopter. Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State, some members of his cabinet comprising the State Chief Judge, Justice Musa Danladi Abubakar; Commissioner of Health, Engineer…

Home to Nigeria’s second-largest city and the economic heart of the country’s Muslim north, Kano was key to getting Buhari elected and re-elected four years later mainly on his twin promises of fighting jihadists and corruption. When shoe salesman Haruna Abubakar voted for President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 and again in 2019, he was one of more than a million Nigerians backing the former army chief in his stronghold of northern Kano State. Home to Nigeria’s second-largest city and the economic heart of the country’s Muslim north, Kano was key to getting Buhari elected and re-elected four years later mainly…

The NLC mandated all its political committee members in the states to intensify their work in mobilizing workers to vote for Peter Obi. The leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has directed all workers to work for the success of the Labour Party for the general election in line with an earlier resolution of its National Executive Council. This was contained in a statement signed by the National Secretary, NLC National Political Commission, Comrade Chris Uyot, dated 21st February 2023. Consequently, the NLC mandated all its political committee members in the states to intensify their work in mobilizing workers…

The Atiku/Okowa campaign says 2023 election is a grand opportunity Nigerians to liberate themselves from the APC. A photo combination of Atiku Abubakar and Ifeanyi Okowa. The Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organization has charged Nigerians to see the February 25, 2023 Presidential election as an opportunity to deal the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its Presidential Candidate, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a devastating electoral punch for the anguish, pain, sufferings, mass killings and untold hardships they visited on Nigerians in the almost eight years of the APC calamitous administration. The Atiku/Okowa Campaign in a statement on Tuesday urged Nigerians to recompense…

“And in the area of education, we will ensure free education where children of the poor will stop payment of school and examination fees from primary, secondary, and university level.” The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso on Monday promised to implement free education from primary to tertiary level if elected president in Saturday’s election. Kwankwaso also pledged to degrade insecurity by tripling the number of soldiers, the police, the Civil Defense Corps, and others. He, however, decried the level of insecurity, economic downturn, poor road networks, and lack of qualitative education among other…

The vice-presidential candidate of Labour Party, Datti Baba-Ahmed, says a Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket will not work in Nigeria, given all the ethnoreligious complexities of Nigeria. Nigeria has a Muslim majority in the North and a mostly Christian South, with its over 200 million population further split into over 250 tribes. Baba-Ahmed shared his stance on the viability of a same-faith ticket in the light of the two Muslims presented by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for this Saturday’s competitive presidential poll. APC presidential candidate Bola Tinubu hails from Iragbiji in the southwestern state of Osun State, while his running…