Tag: eagle square
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Finally, a new Nigerian patriarch – By Louis Odion
To frame the epic coronation at the Eagle Square Tuesday night casually as Jagaban’s triumph is to omit one significant detail: a major detour in the movement of the forces of Nigeria’s history. As 2,322 enervated party delegates began to disperse from the Abuja coliseum strewn with the shards of broken aspirations and the cadavers…
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How Tinubu got 1, 271 votes to emerge winner of the APC presidential primaries
Former governor of Lagos State and national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has accomplished a major feat towards realizing his ambition to become Nigeria’s next president, by emerging first among 23 contenders for the All Progressives Congress presidential ticket. Tinubu scored 1, 271 from the total 2, 102 votes cast…
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APC Convention: Journalists barred from gaining access to cover event
Nigeria and foreign journalists who had applied to cover the special convention and presidential primary of the All Progressives Congress, APC are denied entry in to Eagle Square venue of the primary elections. Some of the journalists who stormed the Eagle Square venue of the convention were turned back by heavily armed security operatives.
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President Buhari cautions APC leaders over 2023 General Elections
Guidelines released by the electoral umpire does not permit us any room for delay
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BREAKING: Security beefed up at Presidential Villa as armed thugs storm Eagle Square
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) on Tuesday beefed security at the Supreme Court gate of the Presidential Villa after armed thugs were seen in their numbers walking around the Eagle Square. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports the armed thugs were seen putting on black shirts with others not wearing shirts at all as they walk around the…
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2019: We are not responsible for Kwankwaso’s inability to use Eagle Square – APC
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has denied reports that it is responsible for the inability of Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso to use the Eagle Square in Abuja for his presidential declaration on Wednesday. Kwankwaso, a former governor of Kano recently defected from APC to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and has expressed interest to run…
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PDP National Convention: Eagle Square agog as delegates arrive
The Eagle Square Abuja venue of the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) national convention is already agog with music ahead of the beginning of the convention. According to reports no fewer than 2, 000 members of the PDP, arrived the venue of the party’s national convention. Party loyalist were seen beating drums and singing various…