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The host governor of the 2025 PDP National Convention, Gov. Seyi Makinde, says the outcome of the conversation will turn the fortunes of the party’s national outlook. Makinde stated this on Saturday in his welcome address at the ongoing PDP convention, held at the Lekan Salami Stadium, Ibadan. The governor, who noted that PDP had sacrificed a lot to make the convention a reality, charged all the delegates to remain united and peaceful throughout the period. He also commended the efforts of the Convention Organising Committee, chaired by Gov. Umaru Fintiri of Adamawa, who received the convention flag. Declaring the…

As National Convention Elects Arapaja New National Secretary The National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party has come to end in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital with the emergence of a former Minister under the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki. Turaki, a lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, who hails from Kebbi State in the North West geo-political zone, served as Minister of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs (2013–2015) and Supervising Minister of Labour and Productivity (2014–2015). In what the party described as “a landmark moment for Nigeria’s opposition politics,” it said that over 3,000 delegates from…

Safiu Kehinde President Bola Tinubu has charged Nigerian journalists to anchor their report on verified information and also embrace the principle of balance in their stories. Tinubu urged the journalists to continue upholding the highest standard of journalism through. The President gave the charge at the ongoing 12th Nigerian Guild of Editor’s Conference in Abuja on Wednesday. The government in his address maintained that the press is free to criticise the government but do so with knowledge and fairness. “Verification must be your anchor; balance must be your principle; and professional judgement must be your guide. “I urge you therefore…

Days after crying out for help, Lagos popular fabric merchant Bisi Bamidele, popularly called Bisbam, has confirmed the arrest of her driver, Ibrahim who made away with her huge sums of money. Mrs Bamidele had gone on social media to expose how the driver duplicated her house keys and went back to the house to enter into her apartments and took away huge sums of money including those in foreign currencies. She had narrated how policemen in Lagos had asked that the relations of the driver who were picked up needed to be released since Ibrahim had disappeared without any…

The People’s Republic of China on Tuesday warned the United States to stay off the internal affairs of Nigeria saying use of religion or ethnicity to dabble in Africa’s most populous country is unacceptable. China says it supports the Nigerian government as it “leads its people on the development path suited to its national conditions”. While speaking with journalists in Beijing, Mao Ning, spokesperson of China’s foreign ministry, said “as Nigeria’s comprehensive strategic partner, China firmly opposes any country using religion and human rights as an excuse to interfere in other countries’ internal affairs, and threatening other countries with sanctions…

Thugs Wield Dangerous Objects to Pave Way for New Acting Chairman  The newly appointed factional chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, AbdulRahman Mohammed on Monday took over the administration of the national headquarters of the party amidst a forceful entry. NPO Reported earlier that the suspended National Secretary of the party Samuel Anyawu, had led some protesters to the headquarters and forced their ways into the premises. A detachment of policemen had earlier been stationed at the headquarters of the opposition PDP which has gone down with internal crisis. Its crisis deepened on Friday as the Damagun-led faction suspended Anyawu…

A group, the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) at the weekend described as  impressive road infrastructure projects by the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The group said said it came to the conclusion after painstakingly assessing works done in various sectors of the Nigerian economy in the last two years. Members of the steering committee of the CUPP, who were on the independent inspection team, said their intention was to go by themselves to assess the situation across key zones, so as to be able to counter the Federal Government’s propaganda in that sector. The Coalition’s National Spokesperson,…

Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose, on Saturday expressed his support for the newly appointed factional National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, AbdulRahman Mohammed. NPO Reported earlier that the Samuel Anyawu-led faction of the party had on Saturday suspended the Usman Damagun-led faction. After its suspension, the faction had gone ahead to appoint Mohammed as the acting National Chairman after the National Working Committee of the party had suspended Anyawu. Fayose, hours after the emergence of the new factional chairman said Reacting to the emergence of Abdulrahman Mohammed, Fayose said the PDP was in dire need of a…

Tragedy struck in the early hours of Saturday as the former Chairman of the Lagos Council of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, Dr. Qosim Akinreti lost his wife, Mrs Noimat Omobola Akinreti. The news of the death was shared by colleagues of the Voice of Nigeria Head of Digital Media on the platform of the Nigerian Guild of Editors of which he is a member. As at the time of this report, Akinreti’s associates were said to be at the cemetry where the wife’s remains were to be interred according to Islamic rites. Akinreti is a well known Nigerian…

United States President Donald Trump has designated Nigeria a “country of particular concern” He said the degree of killings of Christians in Nigeria has reached an alarming peak adding that the United States cannot continue to watch without taking actions. His categorization came shortly after Nigeria’s Minister of Information Mohammed Idris appeared on Cable News Network defending allegations that Christians are the target of killings in Nigeria. ”Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria,” he said in his post on Truth, the microblogging App he set up after he was banned from X. He assured of the readiness of…