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Punch Newspapers Sections Published 30 January 2021 Amid the rush to enlist new party members, JOHN ALECHENU examines the renewed battle between the governing All Progressives Congress and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party ahead of the 2023 general elections The ruling All Progressives Congress and the opposition People’s Democratic Party are set to use their fresh membership registration to enlist new members ahead of the 2023 general elections. The development seems to have renewed the old rivalry between the two leading parties which are now jostling to gain the attention of the vo...

Ayo Akanji pays tribute to Sam Nda-Isaiah, publisher of Leadership Newspapers who passed at 58 Those at the top are not always ogres, as this writer finds out. Bosses are human, too. I first met the Chairman, (Sam Nda-Isaiah) Kakaki Nupe, as an energetic young lad, freshly out of NYSC and trying to navigate myself around the political climate of Nigeria. I grew up reading dozens of African pre-independence and post-independence political books in my dad’s library and profoundly admired the art of politicking. I got influenced by them, but had zero chance of having a grip on this dynamic gam...

Punch Newspapers Sections Our Correspondents Amid the controversies over where the ruling All Progressives Congress might zone its presidential ticket for the 2023 election, a chieftain of the party and Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, has said the founding fathers of the party won’t speak on the zoning arrangement until 2021. He said nine among those of them who founded the APC were still in the party and that they would speak at the appropriate time whether or not there was an agreement on the zoning of the presidential ticket of the party for the 2023 election. He said,...

Moses, also APC Caretaker Chairman, Nassarawa Eggon Local Government Area (LGA) of the state, said this on Sundday during a thanksgiving service at Evangelical Reformed Church of Christ (ERCC) Ogba, Akun Development Area of the state. He also called on the people of Nasarawa North to support Sen. Godiya Akwashiki ( APC- Nasarawa North) to enable him to succeed. He said that Sule and Akwashiki were doing well in their positions, hence the need for the people to continue to pray and suppo rt them to succeed. ” I organised this thanksgiving service to appreciate God over my life and over my po...

ON THE GO Nigeria has only three dollar-billionaires as Alakija drops off Forbes list Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy, has only three dollar-billionaires, according to Forbes 2021 world billionaires list released on Tuesday.Advertisement They are Aliko Dangote, chairman of Dangote group; Mike Adenuga, chairman of... MATTERS ARISING: Striking doctors receive N5,000 hazard allowance but senators get N1.2m for newspapers Did you know? A Nigerian doctor gets N5,000 as monthly hazard allowance while senators are paid 248 times higher (N1.24 million) to buy newspapers monthly....