A native of Katsina state who promised to trek from Lagos to Abuja if General Muhammadu Buhari from the All Progressives Congress won the presidential poll, has been seen in Niger state.

His name is Hasheem Suleiman. He was in Lagos when Buhari was announced the president-elect of Nigeria. Hasheem left Lagos at about 5am the next day and arrived in Ibadan around 6pm.

A group known as the Catholic Caritas Foundation of Nigeria has condemned the alleged anti-Igbo threats issued by the Oba of Lagos, Rilwanu Akiolu, to Igbo leaders in Lagos on April 5, Sunday.
The group flayed Oba Akiolu’s comments as unbecoming in a democratic setting where people should be allowed to vote according to their free will.
According to Premium Times, it queried why other ethnic groups living in Lagos who vote for Jimi Agbaje will go scot-free while the Igbos who vote for Agbaje will drown in the Lagoon?
The group also called on the Oba to withdraw his curse and appeal to the people to vote for APC in the coming election rather than invoking ancestral powers for destruction.

 
The national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, said that he played a major role in the victory of President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2011 general elections.
According to The Sun, Tinubu made this statement on Saturday, March 14, during the Ndigbo APC governorship rally held at the Onikan Stadium in La­gos.

The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCPCO) will on Monday file a formal complaint against First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, for purportedly calling on Peoples Democratic Party supporters to “stone” anyone who come to the state asking for change.

The letter of complaint signed by Rivers State Governor and Director General of APCPCO, Rotimi Amaechi, will be dispatched to the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Inspector General of the Nigeria Police (IG) and the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), among others.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned the recent call by the president’s wife, Patience Jonathan, that Nigerians should stone those calling for change.
According to the APC, the First Lady’s statement is a reflection of the mind of her husband, Goodluck Jonathan.

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.), is back in Nigeria, after being away for over a week.

He arrived in Abuja from London this morning, at about 5.45am, on British Airways Flight #083.

Buhari arrives from London at the Abuja airport

Despite the fact that his flight landed very early in the morning, Buhari, who looked hale and hearty, was received by a large crowd at Nnamdi Azikiwe International airport.
He spoke very briefly to journalists before‎ heading for a waiting car that took him away.
Buhari told reporters he was physically and mentally fit.
Asked whether he went abroad to seek medical attention, Buhari said he took some time off the campaigns to get some rest.

Patience called on Nigerian women to vote en-masse for the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) during the forthcoming presidential election.
Speaking on Tuesday during the PDP women presidential campaign rally held in Kogi state, the first lady stated that Buhari is unfit and too old to be the Nigeria’s president Daily Times reports.
“Wetin him dey find again? Him dey drag with him pikin mate,” she said in Pidgin English.
“Old man wey no get brain, him brain don die pata pata.”
Moved by the cheers of the crowd, the first lady sporadically sang to taunt her husband’s main challenger at this month’s presidential election.

A group, The Republican Mind on Friday gave a dire warning to all political gladiators rocking the country’s political scene ahead of the general elections.
The National Chairman of the group, Shittu Mohammed, while s

The ongoing war between former president Olusegun Obasanjo and President Goodluck Jonathan took a remarkable turn yesterday during the 90th birthday celebration of ex-leader Shehu Shagari in Sokoto, as Obasanjo avoided the president.

It was reported that Obasanjo arrived when President Goodluck Jonathan was inside Shehu Shagari’s house but refused to come out of his vehicle until Goodluck Jonathan had finished and left.
Those present could not stop laughing as the former president was repeatedly poking his tongue at them from inside his vehicle.

A nine-year-old girl has done the unexpected to the All Progressives Congress.

Nicole Benson, who is said to be a student of Greensprings School, Lekki campus, has donated her lunch money and more to the All Progressives Congress (APC). She also wrote an engaging, heartfelt letter to the opposition party. Below is Nicole’s letter, which was addressed to Lagos state governor, Babatunde Fashola, and the APC.

We earlier brought you the news that The Nigerian Army had flushed out members of the terrorists group, Boko Haram from Gulak, in the Madagali local government area of Adamawa state and still basking in the euphoria of this, residents are doing the unexpected.
Recent reports reveal that the residents of Gulak town, burst into wild celebration in Yola on Friday, February 27, after they were informed that their homeland had been freed from the control of Boko Haram, which captured the town last year.

Nigeria’s First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has urged Nigerian women to reject the All Progressives Congress (APC) in next month’s general elections, saying the opposition party will take the country back to analog days.
Popularly called ‘Mama Peace’ by her admirers, Mrs Jonathan, told  women at Orerokpe, Okple local government area of Delta state that any woman who votes for the APC is an enemy of herself.

Vanguard reports that the First Lady, who was speaking at the PDP Women for Change Initiative Presidential Rally in the state, praised the benevolence of the PDP administration to women in the country, citing the Youth Enterprise With Innovation in Nigeria (YouWin) and Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P), as some of the empowerment programmes that the Goodluck Jonathan administration was using to empower women and youths in the country.
She said: “The PDP is a party that talks less and does more, unlike the APC that tells new lies every week. When you catch them today, they will tell another lie tomorrow. We (PDP) do not tell you about change because we are not bus conductors that ask for change.

Editor’s note: The All Progressives Congress presidential candidate General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.) addresses the Royal Institute of International Affairs today, February 26, at Chatham House in London. His speech was titled: Prospects for Democratic Consolidation in Africa: Nigeria’s Transition.
Speech highlights:

• Nigeria is now battling with many challenges
• The growth of democracy on the continent
• Nigerians and the whole world are intensely focused on this year’s elections
• Boko Haram has sadly put Nigeria on the terrorism map
• Nigeria will return to its stabilising role in West Africa
• On corruption, there will be no confusion as to where I stand
• The work of making Nigeria great is not yet done

Buhari speaks at Chatham House, London on February 26, 2015.

(APC Press Releases) – Permit me to start by thanking Chatham House for the invitation to talk about this important topic at this crucial time. When speaking about Nigeria overseas, I normally prefer to be my country’s public relations and marketing officer, extolling her virtues and hoping to attract investments and tourists. But as we all know, Nigeria is now battling with many challenges, and if I refer to them, I do so only to impress on our friends in the United Kingdom that we are quite aware of our shortcomings and are doing our best to address them.
The 2015 general election in Nigeria is generating a lot of interests within and outside the country. This is understandable. Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country and largest economy, is at a defining moment, a moment that has great implications beyond the democratic project and beyond the borders of my dear country.
So let me say upfront that the global interest in Nigeria’s landmark election is not misplaced at all and indeed should be commended; for this is an election that has serious import for the world. I urge the international community to continue to focus on Nigeria at this very critical moment. Given increasing global linkages, it is in our collective interests that the postponed elections should hold on the rescheduled dates; that they should be free and fair; that their outcomes should be respected by all parties; and that any form of extension, under whichever guise, is unconstitutional and will not be tolerated.

In a recent interview with ‘Mo Abudu of Ebony Life Tv’, All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari speaks about how he intends to move Nigeria forward if he is elected president.

Gen. Muhammadu Buhari

However the former military head of state noted that change will not happen immediately, as Nigeria’s problems did not start overnight.

 
It’s the second time President Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari are going head to head, and this time the rivalry between them is fiercer than ever.
Both have them have gone round the country to canvas votes and convince the Nigerian people that they’re the best man for the job. They’ve each made promises and taken shots at each other. Now the president has said he’s better than Buhari and everyone else who will be on the ballot.
“I haven’t seen anybody among the 14 presidential candidates that can run the country better than me,” he said last week. “If I’m bad, give Nigerians a better alternative. Get a better material that you don’t need to intimidate people or tell lies to market.”

Jonathan admits there could be Nigerians more competent and qualified than him to run for president, but he thinks the opposition parties haven’t picked candidates with the right credentials.

The Guardian issued a public apology regarding the photo of Muhammadu Buhari which was provided as the one allegedly taken in London.

The trip of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate to the UK was associated with numerous controversies. Some alleged that the opposition was lying about the r

Ekiti state Governor, Ayodele Fayose, today, February 22, has called on the The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the forthcoming 2015 presidential election, General Muhammadu Buhari, to swear by the Holy Quaran that he didn’t visit the United Kingdom for medical treatment.
Governor Fayose also boasted that the presidential candidate of APC, Gen. Buhari, “will never be Nigeria’s President again.”
Fayose who spoke through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said, “I wish they can see spiritually what I am talking about that Buhari, despite the hullabaloo, will never be president. I predicted my return as Ekiti State Governor and I am saying it again that Buhari will never rule Nigeria again.

The Federal Government of Nigeria has continued to express its confidence in securing a nonviolent election when Nigerians cast their votes come March 28 and April 11.
This was the assurance of President Goodluck Jonathan who recently in an interview with Thisday, revealed that he underestimated the Boko Haram Islamists group who have continued to terrorize the north-eastern part of the country.

President Goodluck Jonathan has said he is not ready to join issues with former President Olusegun Obasanjo over the latter’s decision to tear his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) membership card. Jonathan, who granted an interview to a team of Nigerian Tribune editors, in Lagos, on Thursday, said that senior citizens must always remember the need to keep Nigeria united even when they have cause to disagree politically. President Jonathan stated that Obasanjo remained his father, adding that disagreement should be expected between political children and their father.

Director of Defence Information, Major General Chris Olukolade, revealed through a statement: “Not even the strategy of mining over 1500 spots with land mines on the routes leading to the town could save the terrorists from the aggressive move of advancing troops”.

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He added, “All the land mines were skillfully cleared one after the other. Eventually, the resistance of the terrorists collapsed and the land forces finally stormed the town in the early hours of Friday.

Nigerian soldiers after anti-Boko Haram operation

“Many of the terrorists died while an unknown but substantial number of them fled with various degrees of injury, in the series of encounter along the routes of advance as troops headed for Baga.