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President Jonathan pictured above visiting the mother of late President Umaru Yar'Adua in Katsina earlier today . 

Gen Buhari will address all controversies surrounding his academic certificates at a press conference tomorrow ,  January 21st  by 9am in Kano. The APC presidential candidate made this known through the Director of the APC's Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu.

PDP presidential campaign organization spokesperson, Femi Fani Kayode says the sensational advertorial by Ekiti state governor, Ayo Fayose on APC's presidential candidate, Buhari yesterday January 19th was solely his opinion and not a representation of the PDP or President Jonathan. Fani Kayode stated this while speaking to newsmen in Abuja today January 20th...  "Governor Ayo Fayose is a distinguished leader of our party. A democratically-elected governor and someone we have immense respect and affection for, but he released this advert in his own name. That represents his own personal opinion, which he is entitled to. What I can tell you on our part, as the presidential campaign organisation, is that it does not represent the opinion of the campaign organisation or indeed that of the president. It is his opinion, which he is entitled to, and he is somebody that we have immense respect for; he is a leading member of the party. I have spoken with him and w...

APC held their presidential campaign in Kano today and the crowd that came out was massive. 

The APC has reacted to the statement the military released today about Buhari's certificate.See below The All Progressives Congress (APC) has warned that those who are bent on destroying its Presidential Candidate, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, on the basis of his certificates may end up destroying the country's military. In a statement issued in Lagos  on Tuesday  by its National Publicity Sec. Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party warned that the PDP and the Jonathan Administration are playing a dangerous game by trying to compromise the military in order to satisfy selfish political objectives, and urged the military, as a symbol of national unity, to beware of those who may be seeking to use it to achieve selfish and divise ends. It said the statement credited to the Nigerian Army Director, Army Public Relations, Brig-Gen. Olajide Olaleye, at a press conference in Abuja  on Tuesday , that the Army is not in possession of Gen. Buhari's certifica...

I guess his vote has that power..

Gmb- good morning mr. President. GEJ- good morning sir. Gmb-how are you mr. President? GEJ- fine thank you sir. Gmb and GEJ together- how is the campaign going? Then laughter from both men. Fellow Nigerians, vote for whom you will vote.  Save the insults and bickering. In politics, there's no permanent friend, no permanent enemy. But there's permanent interest. Spend your time promoting your candidate. Insults are like mess in this game, stinks only for a while. It can never form shit.  If you wknow the history of buhari and ibb, you will marvel at the fact that both men can sit together today. If you know the history of ffk, you will marvel that he's working for GEJ today. Don't fight! Just let the ballot speak. As for me and my household, we are voting GEJ Bovi A video posted by Bovi (@officialbovi) on Jan 20, 2015 at 7:34am PST

ISIS militants have executed 13 teenage boys for watching the Asian Cup football match between Iraq and Jordan last week. The young football fans had been caught watching the game on television in the Iraqi city of Mosul, which is controlled by the Islamic State.  The teenagers were rounded up and publicly executed by a firing squad using machine guns, anti-ISIS activist group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently reports. 'The bodies remained lying in the open and their parents were unable to withdraw them for fear of murder by terrorist organisation,' the group writes on their  website. Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently is a small activist collective which secretly documents the shocking violence and oppression ISIS has brought to their home city. They said the 13 teenagers were rounded up by ISIS militants in the Al-Yarmouk district of Mosul, and executed in public. The boys' 'crime' - breaking religious laws by watching football ...

According to the PDP, former President Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari said these things about APC presidential candidate Gen.   

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Find the press statement below... Ekiti State Governor, Mr Peter Ayodele Fayose have reacted to certain negative comments that trailed the advertorial he caused to be published on the front pages of Punch and Sun newspapers of last Monday, saying that he has no apology over the advertorial as it contained facts. Fayose who stated this through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday said that the truth can never be covered indefinitely, insisting that the All Progressive Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate, General Buhari was too old and sick to be president of this country. The Governor said that the advertorial was his personal opinion as citizen of this country and not opinion of the PDP and I stand by it. The Governor asserted, " I wish to refer to the late President Umaru Musa Yar; Adua who former President Olusegun Obasanjo claimed was hale and hearty to lead this country and subsequently took ill and died. "I must assure all...

The Nigerian Army says it does not have in its possession the original or copies of the credentials of the presidential candidate of the APC, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari. The position of the army was made known at a press conference in Abuja today Jan. 20th. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig, Gen O. Laleye addressed news men. What he said below...  Gentlemen of the Press, I am pleased to welcome everyone back from the Christmas and the 2015 New Year festivities. On behalf of the Chief of Army Staff, officers and soldiers of the Nigerian Army, I wish you all a happy and more fulfilling 2015. Since our last media briefing on 31 December, 2014, some issues relating to the Nigerian Army have occurred and this briefing is holding specifically to address them. I will begin with the Major General Muhammadu Buhari certificate controversy. Gentlemen, let me state clearly that the Nigerian Army holds the retired senior officer in very high esteem and respect and woul...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential campaign train today visited Zamfara state, as the ruling party”s message of transformation berths in the North-west zone of the country. The President’s campaign team who visited Kebbi and Sokoto states yesterday provoked a lot of frenzy in the sleepy town of Gusau, the state capital, where the shouts of “Sai Goodluck!” rented the air. The team of the President includes Vice-President Namadi Sambo, PDP Chairman, Alhaji Adamu Muazu, Director General of the Goodluck/Sambo 2015 campaign organisation, Dr. Ahmadu Ali, his deputy, Mr. Peter Obi amongst others. Pictures from the rally are courtesy of Sahara reporters and Presidential Spokesperson, Dr. Reuben Abati, who was also the President’s entourage See the pictures below: The mammoth crowd patiently awaits the arrival of the President and his team Another view of the massive crowd at the arena Security operatives keeps the excited crowd at ba...

Former Head-of-States, and presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, has said unless transparency and justice characterised the conduct of the 2015 general elections, a bloody dispute might erupt within the country’s political class. He stressed that only the election of credible politicians into public offices would rescue the nation from the current mess. Buhari stated: “The magnitude of corruption and insensitivity in Nigeria leadership is legendary, but that there is a storm of awareness now. “God willing by 2015, something will happen. They either conduct a free and fair election or they go a very disgraceful way”. On the question of whether he would run in 2015 presidential election or not, Buhari said the CPC leaders should organise themselves first while he reconsidered his position as to whether he will contest or not. “That was what I told those who have visited me in the past but the press wrote that I said I have changed my mind about ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has listed underage politicians as candidates for February 14 elections into the two arms of the National Assembly, the Senate and the House of Representatives. According to the final list of candidates released by the Commission January 13, and posted on its websites, 22 contestants who are below the stipulated age of 35 years, from about 13 political parties, were cleared for the Senate poll. Another 25 candidates below 30 years were cleared to contest the House of Representatives election. The candidates submitted their forms to the electoral body through their parties last year, which means they will be a year older in 2015. View list here. Section 65 (1) of the 1999 Constitution states that “Subject to the provisions section 66 of the Constitution, a person shall be qualified to be elected as a member of (a) the Senate if he is a citizen of Nigeria and has attained the age of thirty-five years of age;...