From: Essien Ndueso, Uyo Media reports alleging that Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State supervised the beating of a member of the House of Assembly, has been described as false by Hon. Onofiok Luke, the man alleged to have been beaten in the reports. In a press release, titled... Read more

By John Okiyi Kalu During the build up to Anambra elections, about 181 thugs from Osun state were arrested by Imo state police command with weapons and charms at Disney Hotel Owerri. Many of us were worried about their presence in APC controlled Imo instead of Anambra or the... Read more

The Kawu Baraje-led splinter faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has challenged the Federal Government to account for the $5 billion which according to reports allegedly disappeared from the nation’s Excess Crude Account (ECA). The faction threw the challenge after the disclosure made by the Chairman, Nigeria Governors’... Read more

The Baraje-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)  has has described the party’s suspension of its factional chairman, Alh. Abubakar Kawu Baraje as a sad abuse of the PDP constitution dismissing the decision as “undemocratic” and “unacceptable.” In an unrepentant statement reacting to the suspension and made available to www.Africanewscircle.com, the... Read more

  Following the Court of Appeal’s reinstatement of the former Osun State Governor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, as the National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Baraje-led faction of the party says “the days of Alhaji Bamanga Tukur and his illegal National Working Committee (NWC) in the Wadata... Read more

  Diana Okon-Effiong, Calabar Chief (Dr) Matthias  Offoboche, a PDP Chieftain and former Deputy Governor of Cross River has called for power shift to the Northern senatorial District in the 2015 governorship election. Offoboche also said that it was unfair for people to use the 1979 Calabar-Ogoja Accord to... Read more

The renegade faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned in strong terms what it said was a second attempt by the police to disrupt its G7 caucus meeting which took place on November 3, 2013, at the Kano State Governor’s Lodge in Asokoro, Abuja, where the faction had... Read more

  From: Diana Okon-Effiong, Calabar The choice on who succeeds the Cross River State Governor, Senator Liyel Imoke in 2015 has pitched the governor against the Senate leader, Sen. Victor Ndoma-Egba (SAN). Already there are disagreements between the governor and his deputy, Efiok Cobham over the same issue. The... Read more

  The last may not have been heard of the visit of Niger State Governor, Babangida Aliyu’s visit to President Goodluck  Jonathan as the Alhaji Kawu Baraje-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has denied the alleged resignation of Governor Babangida Aliyu from its fold. Reliable sources told... Read more

The factional Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) under the leadership of Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje has filed a notice of appeal over last week’s ruling by a Federal High Court, Abuja, restraining it from using PDP’s logo and colours and recognizing the Alhaji Bamabga Tukur-led National Working Committee (NWC) as... Read more