Exclusive photos of the attacked SUV and vehicle MISCREANTS suspected to be loyalists of an All Progressives Congress (APC) serving Senator in Sokoto state waylaid the convoy of Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto state, a source in the state told News Point Nigeria exclusively. According to the source, the cars were coming back from the third leg of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) statewide electioneering campaign in Silame and Wamakko Local Government Areas, Sunday evening. The attackers threw stones at the moving vehicles in the convoy striking the front windscreen of the Governor’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity…
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NIGERIAN National Petroleum Company Ltd (NNPCL) and the Security Agencies on Friday, tracked, intercepted, and destroyed two oil vessels and two cars with stolen crude in Agge Community, Ekere-mor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, a source very close to the security companies told News Point Nigeria. Operatives of Tantita Security Services (owned by ex-militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo) engaged by the NNPC for pipeline surveillance in June 2022, were said to have carried out the raid after they got an intel report about the location of the theft on December 22. According to the source, four people were…
THE Speaker of the House of Representatives Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila has congratulated Nigerians for witnessing the New Year 2023. In a New Year statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Lanre Lasisi, the Speaker said the year 2023 will be significant for Nigerians, being the year that citizens will elect new leaders to pilot the affairs of the country. Gbajabiamila said he is optimistic about the opportunities and possibilities that lie ahead and urged Nigerians to remain resolute and determined as a people. He noted that 2023 is a defining year for Nigeria, which is why the citizens…
AMID speculation over Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike’s preferred presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, his Sokoto State counterpart, Governor Aminu Tambuwal says the party has lawful avenues of dealing with erring members. Since his emergence as the PDP presidential candidate earlier this year, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has faced apathy from five PDP governors under the aegis of the G5 or Integrity Group, including Wike, Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia), Samuel Ortom (Benue), Ifeanyi Uguwanyi (Enugu), and Seyi Makinde (Oyo). They argue that the PDP National Chairman Iyorchia Ayu, a northerner, must resign. Responding to allegations of meetings being held with…
We Will Win Without Them – Okowa Expulsion of Governors Will Cost Party After Victory – Expert THE Governor of Rivers state, Nyesom Wike, had denied having any deal with Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Wike, on his arrival with other G5 governors in Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital, asked the media to present the evidence that he held a meeting with Tinubu, carriers of the news to present evidence of his alleged interview with the BBC. The governor also alleged that Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)…
THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says the expulsion of the G5 governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would not in any way adversely affect their candidacy at the 2023 general elections. Festus Okoye, the spokesperson for the electoral body, told Peoples Gazette. “All the candidates that their names have been submitted will remain candidates until elections are over,” Mr Okoye explained to our ahead of the 2023 elections. The INEC spokesperson stated that a political party lacks the power to substitute any candidate, given that the polls are barely eight weeks away. “No political party can substitute any…