The presidential candidate of the Alliance for New Nigeria Fela Durotoye has called for the resignation of the global senior pastor of Commonwealth of Zion Assembly Biodun Fatoyinbo. Fatoyinbo was accused by Busola Dakolo, a celebrity photographer and wife of singer Timi Dakolo, of raping her twice in a week when she was still a…

Sir, I am a papist and I avoid occasions that would make me miss Sunday Masses. "Expediency rules over principles" sometimes, so you can't avoid it. And so Linda called me, while I was in a burial service in Port Harcourt where I was living at the time before I moved to Abuja. I cabled…

After much headaches and hitches, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) finally conducted the much-awaited 2019 Presidential election on February 23, 2019.

Many voters, yesterday, refused to vote during the gubernatorial and House of Assembly elections, as low turnouts were recorded in most polling units visited.

There has always been that benignness about humans, that kind disposition towards others that makes people donate to a cause. Crowdfunding has helped express our humanness better and easier. Easily you could help an immigrant kid from a war-torn state through college, contribute to a cancer patient's treatment, get the first African bobsled athletes to…

Presidential candidates of Young Progressives Party (YPP) Kingsley Moghalu and that of the Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN) Fela Durotoye have condemned violence and killings during Nigeria's presidential and National Assembly elections. Ballot snatching, killings and other forms of violence characterised Nigeria's general election that commenced on Saturday, February 23. Contrary to hitch-free polls promised…

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Fela Durotoye, the presidential candidate of the Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN), both residents of Victoria Garden City (VGC), Lagos, on Saturday voted at same polling unit–Code 33, Unit 2 in the estate. Osinbajo, who arrived at the unit at 10:28 a.m, voted at 10:53 a.m. while Durotoye voted at…

Presidential Candidate, Alliance For New Nigeria (ANN), Mr Fela Durotoye, says the most important thing is for Nigerians to win, whatever the outcome of the Presidential election, once it is free and fair. Durotoye made the assertion while speaking with newsmen after casting his vote alongside his wife, Tara, at Polling Unit 033, Ward 4,…

41 years ago in the 1978 Nigeria Presidential Election - the front runners were Alhaji Shehu Shagari, Chief Obafemi Awolowo and the Chief Nnamdi Azikwe, (all now late). The Nigerian power brokers at the time stressed the need to elect a Northerner to balance power rotation, elect a Muslim to balance the Christian leader of…

Nigerian lawmaker Ben Murray-Bruce has berated the campaign team of the Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN) presidential candidate Fela Durotoye for allegedly hijacking a nonpartisan initiative to mobilise voters for the postponed Nigeria presidential and National Assembly elections. Nigeria’s electoral body, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) postponed the general elections a few hours to the…

Presidential Candidate of the Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN) Fela Durotoye has urged Nigerians not to be discouraged in exercising their civic rights despite the postponement of the 2019 general elections. "We all woke up to the news this morning to very disappointing news that INEC has postponed the elections by a week- and too…

The just concluded ‘presidential’ debate is incontrovertible proof that Nigerians must cast revolt vote to throw out the two geriatric contenders, Muhammadu Buhari, All Progressives Congress Congress, APC, and Abubakar Atiku, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in next month’s poll. They failed to show up before Nigeria to evince their eligibility for our trust. That is…