Presidential Aspirants

BREAKING: Buhari appoints seven new ministers, communicates names to Senate.

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed replacements for the ministers who resigned in May to contest the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress...

Breaking: APC presidential aspirant in last minute vote-buying, doles out $3m each to three Northern governors sympathetic to Osinbajo – PSN investigation

Humongous amounts of money in the realm of $2 million and $3 million are being invested into vote-buying at the ongoing All Progressives...

2023: APC sets new date for screening of presidential candidates

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has announced a new date for the screening of the party’s presidential candidates ahead of the 2023 election....

Again, APC shifts presidential aspirants’ screening

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has again postponed indefinitely, the screening exercise for its presidential aspirants earlier scheduled to commence today, Monday, May...

Sylva, Malami, Tallen return as ministers, attend FEC meeting

Three of the 10 ministers who were bade farewell last week by President Muhammadu Buhari,  featured prominently at Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council (FEC)....

Ngige backpedals, continues in office as minister

In a bid to escape resigning from office to pursue his presidential aspiration, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has beat...

BREAKING: Third Buhari’s minister, Akpabio, quits

  A third minister in the Buhari administration has quit his job in compliance with the President’s directive. He is the Niger Delta...

2023 Presidency: Science Minister, Onu, heeds Buhari’s directive, resigns

The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, has given his office in pursuit of his presidential aspiration. Onu, according to sources...

Presidential race: Junior Education Minister, Nwajiuba, blazes the trail, quits

... aspiring ministers and other appointees to hand in their letters of resignation on or before Monday the 16th of May, 2022

Buying Presidential Nomination Form for me a hoax, insult, unauthorized, says ex-President Jonathan

"We want to state that if the former President wanted to contest an election, he would make his intentions clear to the public...

Breaking: Ex-Pres. Jonathan obtains N100m presidential forms by proxy

  The immediate past President of Nigeria, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, may have made good his intention to run for President on the platform...

JUST IN: Senate President Lawan, Oil minister Sylva, Gov. Ayade pick APC presidential forms

Ahead of May 17 deadline for the picking of nomination and expression of interest forms, more aspirants on the platform of APC have...

Nigeria’s Apex Bank Governor, Emefiele, is an employee, not eligible to contest — Adegboruwa (SAN)

The Central Bank Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, is ineligible to contest for the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Lagos lawyer,...

Just in: AfDB President, Adesina, picks APC presidential nomination form

Another technocrat, the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) and Nigeria’s former Minister of Agriculture, Dr Akinwunmi Adesina, may have joined the...

Lagos meeting of APC leaders, presidential aspirants fail to present concensus aspirant for May 30 primaries

The Friday meeting called by the leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Southwest has failed to agree on a concensus...

Southwest presidential aspirants, Tinubu, Osinbajo, governors, others meet APC leaders in Lagos

In a bid to persuade some presidential aspirants to step down, leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Southwest are currently...