PUO REPORTS

Deputy National Chairman (South) of the Reformed All Progressives Congress (R-APC), Chief Sam Nkire, has declared his support for the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). In a statement in Umuahia, Nkire said he decided to join forces with the PDP because he was convinced that Nigerians want the party back to serve them better. Nkire also said he had no regrets leaving...

Despite pressure from some forces, including members of his kitchen cabinet, President Muhammadu Buhari has foreclosed the reinstatement of sacked Department of State Services (DSS) Director-General Lawal Daura, The Nation has learnt. Some of the lobbyists, it was learnt, trailed the President to London to mount pressure for the reversal of Daura’s sack. He was relieved of his duties by then Acting...

Senate President Bukola Saraki on Wednesday boasted that the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will win the 2019 presidential elections. Saraki said this in Ilorin at a meeting with PDP members who came from the 16 local government areas of the state. He also expressed his confidence that his new party would emerge victorious in all the local government areas of...

The Senator representing the Akwa Ibom North - East Senatorial District, Bassey Albert, had on Tuesday, during a media event in Uyo, said no amount of intimidation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, will make him abandon the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Albert, the only PDP senator left in Akwa Ibom, said he was ready to stand by...

President Muhammadu Buhari has heaped praises on two airport workers who recently found and returned a bag filled with dollars, and other valuables, to its owner. He urged Nigerians to emulate the two security men who returned the handbag which was filled with valuables and forgotten at the Murtala Muhammed Airport by an American returnee. He added that such conduct “reflects...

Nationally, everyone knows where Channels Television stands on political and electioneering issues. The station leans towards the failed APC and her Federal Government. But I concede to Channels Television. It struggles from time to time to depict balance. However, on set, the station works to put on stream albeit surreptitiously, defence for the APC. The Port Harcourt State Constituency Three Election...

 The Bayelsa State Government has appealed to the World Bank to extend the State Employment and Expenditure for Results (SEEFOR) Programme in the state beyond September 2019, the terminal date for the programme. The state government noted that given the huge success of the SEEFOR programme in the state, there is need for the World Bank to either extend it...

The Ebonyi government must know that there is always a limit to which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.   It was Henry David Thoreau who said: “It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things”. This wise counsel ordinarily ought to be the daily meditations of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Ebonyi State, particularly its leader, Governor...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) describes the outburst of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, echoing the threats by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and agents of the Buhari Presidency, to force out the President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki, from office, as ominous and revealing. If anything, this unguarded statement by Miyetti Allah has exposed the synergy between...

The APC Federal Government is a tragedy of frightening dimensions. Through deliberate efforts of a clueless President, the institutions of democracy built over 16years are being destroyed on a daily basis. Never in the history of Nigeria had any administration damaged the structure of our security forces like the Buhari administration. People are now allocated soldiers, policemen, naval personnel and...