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 Politics / PDP: Kashamu’s Faction Names Daniel, Abati As Senatorial, Deputy Gov Candidates by newsbook: 7:21am On Nov 01, 2018 |
The faction of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun State recognised by the Independent National Electoral Commission to produce the candidates for next year’s elections has named a former governor of the State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, as its candidate for Ogun East Senatorial District and former presidential spokesman, Dr. Reuben Abati, as the running mate of its governorship candidate, Leke Shittu. The development was contained in a statement by the faction, led by Bayo Dayo as chairman and backed by Senator Buriji Kashamu, on Wednesday. Read More at: https://www.thenewsbook.net/pdp-kashamus-faction-names-daniel-abati-as-senatorial-deputy-governorship-candidates |
| Politics / Tinubu Backs Oshiomhole Against Plotting APC Rebels by newsbook: 10:34pm On Oct 31, 2018 |
National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has dismissed the call for the resignation of the national chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, saying party supremacy must be respected. Tinubu made his position known when he fielded questions from State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House Abuja on Wednesday. Read More at: https://www.thenewsbook.net/tinubu-backs-oshiomhole-against-plotting-apc-rebels |
| Politics / Jide Sanwo-olu Visits Akinwunmi Ambode In Alausa by newsbook: 5:53pm On Oct 30, 2018 |
Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos state, on Tuesday visited Akinwunmi Ambode, governor of the state, at the government house, Alausa, Ikeja. Obafemi Hamzat, a governorship aspirant in the state, and James Odunmbaku, leader of the Mandate Movement, the group which backed Sanwo-Olu to pick the governorship ticket, were among the APC leaders who joined Sanwo-Olu. Read More at: https://www.thenewsbook.net/jide-sanwo-olu-visits-akinwunmi-ambode-in-alausa |
| Politics / Ekiti Election: PDP Votes Were Deliberately Voided – Witness Tells Tribunal by newsbook: 5:16pm On Oct 30, 2018 |
A petitioner’s witness on Tuesday told the Ekiti State governorship election tribunal, that votes for the Peoples Democratic Party were deliberately voided by staff of INEC during the July 14 governorship election. The witness, Omobuljo Bankole, specifically said that the PDP votes were voided in Unit 009, Ward 4 of Ido-Osi Local Government Area. Bankole stated this while testifying before the tribunal, headed by Justice Suleiman Belgore, sitting at the FCT High Court, Apo. Read More at: https://www.thenewsbook.net/ekiti-election-pdp-votes-were-deliberately-voided-witness-tells-tribunal |
| Sports / Riyad Mahrez Dedicates Goal To Leicester City’s Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha by newsbook: 11:34am On Oct 30, 2018 |
Manchester City winger Riyad Mahrez dedicated his match-winning goal against Tottenham Hotspur to Leicester City owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, who tragically passed away in a helicopter accident this past weekend. Mahrez scored the only goal of the game in the sixth minute of the match as the Citizens extended their unbeaten start to the season. The 27-year-old joined the Sky Blues following a successful spell with the Foxes where he most notable played a starring role in leading the club to a first English Premier League title. Read More at: https://www.thenewsbook.net/riyad-mahrez-dedicates-goal-to-leicester-citys-vichai-srivaddhanaprabha |
| Sports / La Liga: Real Madrid Thought I Was Dispensable – Cristiano Ronaldo by newsbook: 5:54pm On Oct 29, 2018 |
Juventus star, Cristiano Ronaldo, has that his decision to leave Real Madrid for Juventus became imperative when the club’s president, Florentino Perez, no longer saw him as being indispensable. Ronaldo’s former club, Real Madrid were thrashed 5-1 by their greatest rivals, Barcelona, in Sunday night’s El Clasico. Ronaldo told France Football magazine, “I felt within the club, especially from the president, that I was no longer considered in the same way as I was at the beginning. Read More at: https://www.thenewsbook.net/la-liga-real-madrid-thought-i-was-dispensable-cristiano-ronaldo |
| Politics / Emmanuel Bwacha: PDP Has 80% Chances Of Winning Presidential Election by newsbook: 2:27pm On Oct 29, 2018 |
The Deputy Senate Minority Leader, Emmanuel Bwacha, has said the chances of his party, the People’s Democratic Party winning the 2019 presidential election were well over 80 per cent. Bwacha, who represents Taraba South in the National Assembly stated this on Monday in his hometown of Donga in an interview with journalists. The senator maintained that the poor performance of the ruling All Progressive Congress has brightened the chances of PDP winning the presidential election as well as other elections in the country next year. Read More at: https://www.thenewsbook.net/emmanuel-bwacha-pdp-has-80-chances-of-winning-presidential-election |
| Sports / Mikel Obi Breaks Six-month Goal Drought by newsbook: 7:06am On Oct 29, 2018 |
Former Chelsea star John Obi Mikel netted his first goal in six months as Tianjin Teda were beaten 4-2 by Shanghai Shenhua on game week 27 in the Chinese Super League on Sunday. The Super Eagles captain had not scored in a competitive game since finding the net against Guangzhou R&F on April 14 prior to today’s clash at Tianjin Olympic Center Stadium. Giovanni Andres Moreno scored with a header to open the scoring for the visitors in the 14th minute, only for Mikel to restore parity eight minutes later. Read More at: https://www.thenewsbook.net/mikel-obi-breaks-six-month-goal-drought |
| Politics / Presidency: Muhammadu Buhari Certificate Saga Is Dead Issue by newsbook: 7:25am On Oct 28, 2018 |
The Presidency and the ruling All Progressives Congress have hit back at the Peoples Democratic Party after the opposition party took President Muhammadu Buhari to task over his Secondary School certificate. The Presidency dismissed the flak from the PDP as an indication of idleness on the part of those speaking for the party on the matter, while the APC branded the criticism trivial. “The certificate saga is a dead issue, only idle people will consider it,” the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, Femi Adesina, told The Nation yesterday when contacted. Read More at: https://www.thenewsbook.net/presidency-muhammadu-buhari-certificate-saga-is-dead-issue |
| Politics / Ogun APC Crisis: Amosun’s Men Plot Mass Defection, Emerge Candidates For 2019 Po by newsbook: 7:01am On Oct 28, 2018 |
Many associates and aides of Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State are in the process of defecting from the All Progressives Congress. They are aggrieved by the rejection of the nomination of Amosun’s anointed governorship candidate, Adekunle Akinlade, and a few others by the national leadership of the party. The Nation gathered that such Amosun loyalists have already cut deals with other political parties, including the Democratic Peoples Party and the Action Democratic Party, ahead of their defection from the APC. Read More at: https://www.thenewsbook.net/ogun-apc-crisis-amosuns-men-plot-mass-defection-emerge-candidates-for-2019-polls |
| Politics / Billionaire Atiku Abubakar Declares Paltry N20m Yearly Income by newsbook: 11:17am On Oct 26, 2018 |
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar, believed to be a multi-billionaire has declared a paltry yearly personal income of N20 million. The shocking revelation was contained in the credentials that Atiku filed with the the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The PDP candidate, who prides himself as a businessman and job creator said he earned only N60.2 million in three years and paid a paltry N10.8 million tax between 2015 and 2017. Read More at: https://www.thenewsbook.net/billionaire-atiku-abubakar-declares-paltry-n20m-yearly-income |
| Politics / APC: Nnamdi Kanu’s Reappearance Is To Pursue Selfish Interest by newsbook: 8:10am On Oct 26, 2018 |
The All Progressive Congress (APC), Enugu State chapter, has said that the reappearance of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), would have no significant effect on the 2019 general election. It could be recalled that the IPOB leader went missing in September last year after the military invaded his home town in Abia State during the operation Python Dance. It was reported that the video which showed where the IPOB leader praying in Jerusalem surfaced online recently. Read More at: https://www.thenewsbook.net/apc-nnamdi-kanus-reappearance-is-to-pursue-selfish-interest |
| Politics / IGP Invites Gov. Emmanuel’s Campaign Team For Questioning Over Apc’s Petition by newsbook: 6:52am On Oct 26, 2018 |
The Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel, has elected to lead his team of Campaign Coordinators to the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, who summoned them and accused them of various misdemeanours based on a petition by the All Progressive Congress Chairman in the State, Ini Okopido. The Chairman of the APC in Akwa Ibom State had sent a petition to President Muhammadu Buhari with various allegations described as unfounded against the Udom Emmanuel Campaign Organisation. Read More at: https://www.thenewsbook.net/igp-invites-gov-emmanuels-campaign-team-for-questioning-over-apcs-petition |
| Politics / Buhari To INEC: My Credentials Still With Military by newsbook: 5:57am On Oct 26, 2018 |
President Muhammadu Buhari has told the Independent National Electoral Commission that his credentials are still with the Nigerian Military. Buhari said this in an affidavit that accompanied his form for the 2019 presidential election to INEC. He said in the affidavit: “I am the above named person and the deponent of this affidavit herein. All my academic qualification documents as filled in my Presidential form, APC/001/2015 are currently with the Secretary of the Military Board as of the time of this affidavit.” Read More at: https://www.thenewsbook.net/buhari-to-inec-my-credentials-still-with-military |
| Sports / Enyimba Crash Out Of CAF Confed Cup by newsbook: 6:21am On Oct 25, 2018 |
Enyimba on Wednesday crashed out of the 2018 CAF Confederation Cup after they lost 1-2 (1-3 aggregate) to hosts Raja Casablanca of Morocco. Enyimba had lost by a lone goal to Raja Casablanca in the first leg in Aba. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Enyimba looked bright and eager at the start in Casablanca, but by the time they let in a soft goal in the first half stoppage time, the fight was all but taken from them. Read More at: https://www.thenewsbook.net/enyimba-crash-out-of-caf-confed-cup |
| Sports / UEFA Champions League: No Messi, No Problem As Barca Sink Inter by newsbook: 5:55am On Oct 25, 2018 |
Barcelona came through their first test without the injured Lionel Messi, earning a convincing 2-0 win at home to Inter Milan to take control of Champions League Group B on Wednesday. Midfielder Rafinha opened the scoring against the club where he spent the latter half of last season, bursting through the middle and finding Luis Suarez, then turning the Uruguayan’s cross in on the volley in the 32nd minute. Read More at: https://www.thenewsbook.net/uefa-champions-league-no-messi-no-problem-as-barca-sink-inter |
| Politics / Amosun: Tinubu, Osoba, Oshiomhole Conspirators by newsbook: 10:29am On Oct 23, 2018 |
Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun is still sulking over the decision of the National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress to uphold the candidacy of Dapo Abiodun as the governorship candidate for the state. On Monday, he poured his frustration on Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Aremo Segun Osoba and party chairman Adams Oshiomhole, accusing them of conspiracy in dumping his preferred candidate, Abdulkabir Adekunle Akinlade. Read More at: https://www.thenewsbook.net/amosun-tinubu-osoba-oshiomhole-conspirators |
| Politics / Peter Obi: Igbo Leaders Not Against My Nomination by newsbook: 9:56am On Oct 23, 2018 |
Former Governor of Anambra State and the Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Peter Obi, yesterday stated that Igbo leaders including South East Governors never disagreed on his nomination as VP candidate but disagreed with the process that led to his emergence. Obi who visited Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State at the government house, Abakaliki noted that he was in Ebonyi to familiarise with the state and also intimate them about his nomination as the vice Presidential candidate of PDP in the forth coming general election. Read More at: https://www.thenewsbook.net/peter-obi-igbo-leaders-not-against-my-nomination |
| Politics / Fayose Is Being Persecuted, Says Fani-kayode by newsbook: 5:29am On Oct 23, 2018 |
The former Minister of Aviation Chief Femi Fani-Kayode yesterday accused the Federal Government of persecuting former Governor Ayodele Fayose. Fani-Kayode was at the Federal High Court in Lagos in solidarity with Fayose during his arraignment by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for alleged money laundering. The former minister, who is also on trial for alleged money laundering in the same court, said Fayose was being oppressed. Read More at: https://www.thenewsbook.net/fayose-is-being-persecuted-says-fani-kayode |
| Politics / Balarabe Musa To Nigerians: Don’t Return PDP To Power by newsbook: 5:19am On Oct 23, 2018 |
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) campaigners got a bloody nose yesterday. Nigerians should not return the party to power, an elder statesman said. Second Republic Governor of old Kaduna State Alhaji Balarabe Musa believes the country would be worse off if the main opposition party is allowed to come back. Read More at: https://www.thenewsbook.net/balarabe-musa-to-nigerians-dont-return-pdp-to-power |
| Politics / Over 200,000 Supporters Abandon Atiku Abubakar, Defect To APC by newsbook: 9:17am On Oct 22, 2018 |
Over 200,000 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members and supporters of former Vice President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar have defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The defecting Atiku’s loyalists who are members of the ‘Atiku Care Foundation’ in the North-West Zone on Sunday dumped the Foundation and collapsed into Arewa Media Group Organisation for Buhari 2019 Campaign. Read More at: https://www.thenewsbook.net/over-200000-supporters-abandon-atiku-abubakar-defect-to-apc 1 Like 1 Share |
| Politics / 2019: Jerry Gana Loses Out As SDP Affirms Donald Duke As Presidential Candidate by newsbook: 7:43am On Oct 22, 2018 |
The Social Democratic Party (SDP) Sunday affirmed ex-Governor Donald Duke as its presidential candidate. It said Duke was validly nominated at the party’s October 6 national convention and his name already submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The party said ex-Minister of Information Prof. Jerry Gana congratulated, hugged and wished Duke well after the shadow election. Read More at: https://www.thenewsbook.net/2019-jerry-gana-loses-out-as-sdp-affirms-donald-duke-as-presidential-candidate |
| Politics / Oshiomhole Raises Alarm: There Is A Gang Up To Remove Me by newsbook: 6:20am On Oct 22, 2018 |
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, on Sunday raised the alarm about a gang up to remove him from office. Oshiomhole’s alarm was contained in a press statement by his media aide, Simon Ebegbulem. He alleged that conservatives within the party are ganging up to pass a vote of no-confidence in him. Read More at: https://www.thenewsbook.net/oshiomhole-raises-alarm-there-is-a-gang-up-to-remove-me |
| Politics / Group Threatens To Picket Lagos Assembly Over Ambode’s Impeachment Plot by newsbook: 7:05am On Oct 20, 2018 |
A Lagos-based civil rights movement, Save Lagos Group (SLG), has threatened to picket the Lagos State House of Assembly next week if it goes ahead with alleged plans to impeach Governor Akinwunmi Ambode. It also warned Mr. Mudashiru Obasa led State House of Assembly against being the tool to be used by some selfish individuals to impeach Ambode, saying that the group had prepared to legally, constitutionally and democratically resist any attempt to by the State Assembly to impeach the governor. Read More at: https://www.thenewsbook.net/group-threatens-to-picket-lagos-assembly-over-akinwunmi-ambodes-impeachment-plot |
| Politics / Billboard Controversy: Buhari Didn’t Summon Me To Abuja – Governor Emmanuel by newsbook: 2:12pm On Oct 19, 2018 |
The squabble over campaign billboards in Akwa Ibom state is getting messier by the day, as the two main political parties in the state – the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) – engage each other in a battle of wits ahead of the 2019 general elections. After the reported police’s arrest two days ago of the Commissioner for Environment in the state, Iniobong Essien, for allegedly preventing President Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign billboard to be hoisted at a location within the state capital, Governor Udom Emmanuel came out on Thursday refuting report that he was summoned to Abuja by Mr Buhari. Read More at: https://www.thenewsbook.net/billboard-controversy-buhari-didnt-summon-me-to-abuja-governor-emmanuel |
| Politics / Atiku Abubakar: I Will Retire Muhammadu Buhari Back To Daura by newsbook: 10:20am On Oct 19, 2018 |
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has said he will “retire” President Muhammadu Buhari back to Daura in 2019. Abubakar stated that Nigerians and not politicians would decide between a failed government and one with solutions. In a statement issued by his spokesperson, Paul Ibe, on Thursday night, the former Vice President insisted that he was “well-wired” to provide leadership for the country. Read More at: https://www.thenewsbook.net/atiku-abubakar-i-will-retire-muhammadu-buhari-back-to-daura |
| Politics / Fayose To Magu: I Must Not Die In EFCC Cell As You Have Boasted by newsbook: 7:17am On Oct 19, 2018 |
Former Ekiti State Governor, Chief Ayodele Fayose, who presently is being detained by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission has alerted members of the public of an audio recording conversation currently circulating on the social media in which the EFCC acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, boasted that nothing will happen should he die in their cell, saying that nothing should happen to him. https://www.thenewsbook.net/fayose-to-magu-i-must-not-die-in-your-cell-as-you-have-boasted 17 Likes 3 Shares
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| Politics / EFCC: Fake Ibrahim Magu Tape On Ayodele Fayose In Circulation by newsbook: 11:50am On Oct 18, 2018 |
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in an alert Thursday flagged an audio circulating in the social media in which the Acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, purportedly made comments to the effect that, nothing will happen if former governor Ayo Fayose, dies in custody. According to EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, the fake audio tape did not disclose the place where the conversation occurred and the person that Magu was supposedly talking to. Read More at: https://www.thenewsbook.net/efcc-fake-ibrahim-magu-tape-on-ayodele-fayose-in-circulation |
| Politics / APC Panel Upholds Candidacy Of Shehu Sani For Kaduna Central by newsbook: 11:36am On Oct 18, 2018 |
The appeal panel set up by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to consider protests arising from the primaries of the party across the country has upheld the decision of the party to return Senator Shehu Sani as the candidate of the party for the Kaduna Central Senatorial District. It will be recalled that while the National Headquarters of the party had approved Sani as the only contestant for the position, the Kaduna chapter of APC had gone ahead to conduct a primary which was won by Mallam Ubah Sani, a special adviser to Governor Nasir El-Rufai. Read More at: https://www.thenewsbook.net/apc-panel-upholds-candidacy-of-shehu-sani-for-kaduna-central |
| Politics / Akwa Ibom Church Leaders Back Udom Emmanuel’s Re-election Bid by newsbook: 9:43pm On Oct 17, 2018 |
Church leaders under the aegis of Spiritual Fathers Forum (SFF) has affirmed their support for the re-election bid of Akwa-Ibom State Governor, Emmanuel Udom. Led by the Prelate Emeritus of the Methodist Church Nigeria, Dr Sunday Mbang, SFF said it endorsed Udom because the Akwa Ibom governor had delivered quality governance in almost all the critical sectors in the state. “Udom’s transparent Christian life in the governance of Akwa Ibom endeared him to us as Christians extremely significantly,” SFF said in a statement. Read More at: https://www.thenewsbook.net/akwa-ibom-church-leaders-back-udom-emmanuels-re-election-bid |
| Politics / 2019: US Has No ‘anointed Candidate’ – Envoy by newsbook: 4:27pm On Oct 17, 2018 |
The United States government on Wednesday affirmed that it will support Nigeria’s electoral processes, but has no ‘anointed candidate’ ahead of the 2019 general elections. Philip Franz Seitz, the Political Officer of the United States Embassy in Nigeria made this assertion during a courtesy visit to Governor Masari in Katsina. “The United States supports free, fair, transparent and credible elections, we are looking forward to a peaceful electoral process in 2019.” Read More at: https://www.thenewsbook.net/2019-us-has-no-anointed-candidate-envoy 1 Like |
| Politics / APC Reiterates It Will Field Candidates In Zamfara by newsbook: 10:54pm On Oct 15, 2018 |
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that it will field candidates for all elective positions in Zamfara in the 2019 general elections, despite the insistence of the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) that its candidates stand disqualified. Malam Lanre Issa-Onilu, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, stated this while reacting to the insistence of INEC’s Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu on Monday in Abuja on the issue. Read More at: https://www.thenewsbook.net/apc-reiterates-it-will-field-candidates-in-zamfara |
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