The Presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), Obiageli Ezekwesili has announced her withdrawal from the forthcoming election slated for February 16. In a statement made available to Vigil360, the spokesperson for the Obiageli Ezekwesili Presidential Campaign Organisation, Ozioma Ubabukoh,

Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has said his ex-Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, was not a messiah but would make a better leader if given the opportunity by Nigerians in the forthcoming presidential election. The former leader made this known on Tuesday in an interview with BBC Pidgin. He maintained that the current administration had failed Nigerians and must not be reelected.

The Minister of Transport and Director General of President Muhammadu Buhari's reelection campaign, Rotimi Amaechi, on Monday, said the administration of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo was more tyrannical than that of Abacha, stressing that the former leader sent him into a 10-month exile in Ghana in 2006.

The Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption, Prof Itse Sagay (SAN), has slammed former President Olusegun Obasanjo for attacking President Muhammadu Buhari in his recent press conference.

President Muhammadu Buhari has reportedly ordered the immediate prosecution of the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal and the erstwhile Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ayo Oke.

The President on Monday approved the removal of Dr. Bichi Baffa, the Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund). Dailypost reports that Baffa has been replaced by former Executive Secretary Prof. Elias Suleiman Bogoro. He was Executive Secretary between April 2014 and February 2016, before Prof. Bichi Baffa was appointed to replace him.