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The Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun while on a campaign visit to Tai Solarin University Of Education, Ijebu-ode on Thursday, 29th January was attacked by some angry students of the State-owned university who appeared not to have forgiven him over his numerous attempts to initially scrap the institution. On his arrival to the institution, TASUED students on campus who became aware of his presence immediately trooped out in large numbers. Initially, it appeared to the Governor and his campaign team the students had gathered to cheer them. There was a wind of change when some students hurriedly brought out sachets water (pure water) and in a jiffy, it became a chorused act as other furious students joined in stoning Governor Ibikunle Amosun with various objects they could lay their hands on. The Governor became ruffled before he was able to run to safety and quickly drove off with his convoy. Before now, Amosun had been against the existence of the university...

A huge turn out for APC presidential rally held at the Teslim Balogun stadium,Lagos  yesterday. Despite initial fear of the rain the crowd still show love.

The All Progressives Congress has denied a report by the immediate past Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, that the APC presidential candidate, Maj. Gen Muhammadu Buhari(retd.), was pelted with stones in Lagos on Friday. Obanikoro had issued a statement condemning the purported stoning of Buhari on the Lagos Island, where the APC presidential candidate and other party leaders went to pay homage to the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu. However, the APC, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said Obanikoro was only trying to impress President Goodluck Jonathan because he had been nominated as a minister. The party said Buhari and the party leaders were not stoned but rather received cheers from bystanders, who are eager for a change in the leadership of the country. The statement read, “Gen. Buhari and other top leaders of the APC rode in an open bus from the Palace of the Oba of Lagos to the Teslim Balogun Stadium venue of the ...

All Progressives Congress (APC) says it will declare two days of public holiday before the February 14, 2015 presidential election, TheCable reports. This was disclosed on Friday at the ongoing APC presidential campaign rally at theTeslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, Lagos. Details later.....

Osun state governigr Rauf Aregbesola, on his way to the APC campaign this afternoon, throwing cash and recharge cards to his supporters. Sitting down on top of the bus. Funny man!.

Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, wife of former leader of the now rested Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, NDPF, Asari-Dokubo has reacted to the recent call by General Theophilus Danjuma (rtd.) for the arrest of her husband over some inciting comments. Danjuma had on Wednesday called for the immediate arrest of the Niger Delta ex-militants, Asari-Dokubo and Boyloaf over their recent threats to blow up the nation if their kinsmen, President Goodluck Jonathan was not re-elected in February 14.“You should arrest Asari Dokubo, Tompolo,Boylop and other Niger Delta militants for making reckless statements, which in any way does not mean keeping Nigeria as one entity and creating war situation,” the former general had said. Reacting to Danjuma’s assertion, Asari’s wife took to her Facebook page to blast the ex-soldier for calling for her husband’s arrest. Her post reads:“Rtd General Danguma said Asari Dokubo, Tompolo and others should be arrested. Question...

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(retd.), has promised to combat insecurity, corruption and unemployment head long, if elected as President in next month’s presidential election. Buhari stated this on Thursday during the APC presidential rally held at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin, the Edo State capital. Accompanying Buhari were the National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun; a national leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; the vice presidential candidate of the party, Prof.Yemi Osinbajo; the Director-General of the Buhari Presidential Campaign Organisation and Rivers State Governor,Rotimi Amaechi; Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole; and former governors of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi and Segun Oni. Others were state party leaders, state executive council members as well as serving national and state legislators. The former Head of State explained that APC had decided to focus its attention on the...

The Lagos State governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola, SAN, yesterday, made the disclosure at the 8th Annual Lagos State taxation Stakeholders’ conference held in Ikeja, accused Jaykay Pharmacy, owned and managed by the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Jimi Agbaje of owing the state N1.6 million as unpaid land use charges. But in a swift reaction, Mr Agbaje faulted the claims made by the governor that his company defaulted in the payment of the land use charge. Fashola, who explained that Land Use Charge, LUC, was a consolidated tax combining ground rent and tenement rate, said: “Tax is prescribed by the 1999 constitution. It states that it shall be the duty of every citizen to declare its income to the appropriate and lawful agency; and pay the required tax promptly.” Accusing Agbaje’s pharmacy of defaulting in the payment of land use charge to the coffers of the state, the governor said, “you will remember that in 2...

This governor no dey taya?. See what he has for Buhari again. Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has pleaded with leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC, especially former Lagos State governor, Senator Bola Tinubu to be human enough to allow the party’s presidential candidate, Major General Mohammadu Buhari (rtd) embark on his planned medical trip abroad. The governor said Buhari was being prevented from traveling abroad for medical treatment, despite his ill-health so as to avoid controversies. Special Assistant to the Governor on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka quoted Governor Fayose as saying at a campaign rally in Omuo Ekiti, Ekiti East Local Government that "Buhari is a car with a damaged engine but being packaged by Tinubu and his cabal whose only interest is the wealth of Nigeria." He said; "In all the campaign rallies held by the APC,  Buhari never spoke for more than six minutes. "Buhari will just utter some words t...

Former Chairman of Lagos Island local government area and Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro has urged residents of Lagos not to vote for the governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Akinwunmi Ambode, stating that he does not have what it takes to manage the state. “When I was the chairman of Lagos Island, Ambode was a council treasurer and I can tell you that he (Ambode) doesn’t have what it takes to manage a state like Lagos. Ambode was forced to resign as a civil servant by the government and we must look into his record,” he said. Obanikoro also noted that Ambode is a puppet to the power that be in the state, while recommending the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olujimi Agbaje as the man of the people with the capacity to manage the state. “In Lagos State, we have a case of the puppet and puppeteer and Lagosians are saying that both of them must be thrown away on February 28. Agbaje is a man of...

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) will lead the military to the North-East to fight the Boko Haram insurgents if voted into power on February 14, his running mate, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), said on Monday. Osinbajo expressed concern over deepening insecurity in the country and accused President Goodluck Jonathan of reneging on his promise to protect Nigerians. Fielding questions from a group of youths at a town hall meeting in Abuja, the APC vice presidential candidate said Buhari as President and Commander-In-Chief would lead by example. The town hall meeting held under the aegis of Act Now Professionals. Osinbajo told the gathering how the Buhari-led government would end insurgency in the country, especially in the North-East states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa. He also explained how the APC-led government would rescue the over 200 female students of Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, seized since Ap...

The Independent National Electoral Commission has rejected the governorship nominations of seven political parties. The rejection which affected several states of the federation, according to INEC, was as a result of the parties’ inability to nominate running mates. The parties and the states affected are – Peoples Party of Nigeria ( PPN ) in Delta state, Labour Party in Niger State, New Nigeria Peoples Party in Ogun State, Unity Party of Nigeria in Oyo State, United Democratic Party in Rivers State, and Peoples Democratic Movement in Sokoto and Zamfara States respectively. In a decision extract issued and signed by the Director (Commission’s Secretariat), Ishiaku A.Gali, the commission also approved that the House of Representatives election in Ado/ Opoku/Ogbadibo Federal Constituency of Benue State, being uncontested, the nominated candidate should be declared elected on the day of the election by the Returning Officer. Section 187 of the Electoral Act ...

Research has it that the former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo aka OBJ, has finally defected to the GMB-Driven party – APC. This is a shocker but speaking with the former President OBJ himself at his farm in Ota, he has given a few reasons why his defecting should not just be accepted by Nigerians but should also be applauded. Find his statement below: “ I have reason to believe that most or should I say all of you are wondering why I have chosen to defect to the defunct APC and I must say that if I had been told that I would have to switch party some 5 years ago, I myself would have argued it. I believe in transparency and integrity but unfortunately, PDP is an opposite of such attributes. They dwell in deception and in the lowest form of debase if I may say. I believe change is what Nigeria needs and regardless of whether GMB can deliver or not, it is still change in a way. Nigeria needs to be delivered from a useless government that has taken over si...

PRESIDENTIAL Campaign Organisation, PCO of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Sunday, declared as false media report that the Minister of Defence, General Aliyu Gusau said that General Muhammadu Buhari passed his Cambridge/WASCE examination in 1961 and that they attended Katsina College together. In a statement by the Director of Media and Publicity of PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, the report was part of what he described as opposition propaganda and desperate bid to cover “the wrongdoing of their presidential candidate whose integrity they have so much flaunted. “It has been brought to our attention that a number of online publications and newspapers have published a false story suggesting that General Aliyu Gusau, the Minister of Defence, has defended General Buhari on the certificate issue and has said that they attended Katsina College together. “This is pure falsehood and crass disinformation, and it is indicative of the...

Below is what the former president allegedly said:- The truth of the matter is that Jonathan is aware that Buhari is qualified to contest for President Election but some hawks with Jonathan, do not want him to contest because they believed that he will win and come for them. The issue came up in 2007, and we investigated and found out that his WASEC is with the military and that was why he was allowed to contest in 2007. Buhari cannot listen to anyone about his certificates because as a General of Nigeria Army, he will speak when he chooses, not by Femi Fani Kayode and Okupe asking him. Fayose and other corrupt People including Kashamu do not want Buhari because of his anti corruption slogan. Even Jonathan did not finish his PhD course but when it was presented we stated that, it does not matter but many people do not know because it was PDP thing. I see Buhari as the next President and Jonathan is aware of that, and that is the reason they are hitting him everywhere...

The President of Nigeria’s Court of Appeal between 1999 and 2009, Justice Umaru Abdullahi, on Wednesday said he sat for the West African School Certificate exams in 1961 alongside Muhammadu Buhari, the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress. In an interview with newsmen on Wednesday, Justice Abdullahi, 75, said he and a few other prominent Nigerians were Mr. Buhari’s classmates at the Provincial Secondary School, Katsina (now Government College, Katsina) and that the APC candidate was among the most brilliant students then. “I, Buhari and some others had the best results during our final examinations in secondary school back then,” Leadership quoted the retired judge as saying. “He was a very brilliant student in school, no doubt; we attended the same school from primary to secondary school.” The report also quoted a retired Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Coomasie, as confirming Mr. Buhari’s attendance and graduation fr...

National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Bola Tinubu, has accused President Goodluck Jonathan of being insincere that he knows nothing about the 400,000 barrels of crude oil which the former Lagos State governor said was being stolen from Nigeria daily. Tinubu, who spoke at the flag-off of Governor Abiola Ajimobi’s campaign in Ibadan on Saturday, insisted that Jonathan was allegedly responsible for oil theft and that he should be removed by all Nigerians during presidential election. He said, “God will not take us back to the bad days again. We will not see PDP here again because God has chased them away. Segun Oni and Oyinlola have realised that PDP is not the right party. Leaders of the party have deceived us for too long but I did not allow them in Lagos. “In the past, Oyo was a violent state but that has disappeared and we will not go back to the dark days. APC stands for the actualisation of better future for our children....

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday said that there had not been any free and fair elections in the country since Nigeria’s independence in 1960, as what had been happening since then was that people have been “ buying and selling votes.” Jonathan, however asked Nigerians especially the youths not to allow anybody to buy their votes during the forth coming elections as this would not be allowed to continue. . He spoke at Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, while addressing a large crowd of party supporters at the Abakaliki Township Stadium in the course of his nationwide wide campaign. Jonathan who is also, the presidential candidate of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, wished that he would live to see a woman emerge as the president and as a governor in the country, pointing out that this was the major reason he had deliberately appointed women into prominent positions to expose and prepare them for greater challenges ahead. Culled from Vanguard ...

Defections Hit Ondo PDP As Jonathan Cancels Campaign. Although, it is unconfirmed, reports have it that all former Speakers in Ondo State House of Assembly, five Commissioners in Mimiko’s administration and eight local government chairmen in Ondo State are right now at a defection rally in Akure where they dumped PDP for APC. Scores of councillors are also part of the defection train. They are being led by former Chief of Staff to the late Governor Segun Agagu, Mr Femi Agagu. The greatest shock at the rally is the defection of former Speaker Victor Olabimtan, a director in President Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation and also a current member of the Federal Civil Service Commission. In all, 48 PDP leaders in Ondo are leading thousands of their supporters to dump PDP for APC at a ceremony currently taking place at APC secretariat along Oyemekun Road, Akure. The defection earthquake has forced Jonathan Campaign Organisation to cancel tomorrow campaig...

President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday tasked Nigerians to stop the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhamadu Buhari (retd.) from wining the February 14th presidential election. The president, who spoke in Osogbo at the presidential campaign of the Peoples Democratic Party said that Buhari would unleash more hardship and unnecessary punishment on Nigerians if he won the poll. Jonathan said that Buhari had an opportunity of ruling the nation as a military Head of State but failed to transform the nation. According to him, Buhari had the opportunity to ensure an effective mass transit system in the country but did not do anything about it. He said, “We have done reasonably well despite the challenges before us. All of you saw the train that just passed through this place now. We promised to resuscitate railway and we did it. All of you saw the train; we can even end the campaign with that. ” Those who are the opportunity to do it but d...