The factional national chairman of Labour Party (LP), Lamidi Apapa, on Wednesday, had shouting match at the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja over a seat. In a viral video on social media, Apapa was seen fighting over seats reserved for some top members of the Labour Party including the …
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20 Lawyers Volunteer To Represent Labour Party Candidates At Tribunal
The Lagos State chapter of the Labour Party says no fewer than 20 lawyers and legal professionals have volunteered to help the party and its candidates retrieve their allegedly stolen mandates. The party at a meeting with some of its candidates in the last general elections, said that a legal …
Read More »Abia Labour Party Lawmaker Backs Abass As House Of Rep Speaker
The lawmaker representing Isuikwuato-Umunneochi Federal Constituency in Abia State, Amobi Ogah, has called on fellow colleagues in the House of Representatives to support the consensus candidate of All Progressives Congress, Tajudeen Abass, as Speaker ahead of the 10th Assembly inauguration. The Labour Party member-elect, who drummed up support for Abbas …
Read More »IMO LABOUR STRIKE: Governor Uzodinma Bows To Pressure
Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma has finally surrendered to the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, as its industrial action entered day 5. The Organised Labour announced a strike throughout the state last Wednesday as a result of the disruption of the Workers’ Day celebration. A temporary injunction prohibiting the Nigerian …
Read More »Labour Party Dissociates Self From Apapa-faction
THE crisis rocking the Labour Party has blown up as the Kaduna State chapter on Saturday dissociated itself from the Lamidi Apapa-faction of the party. The party also suspended three of its chieftains for anti-party activity. Rising from a State Executive Council emergency meeting in Kaduna, the party identified those …
Read More »Labour Party Suspends Three Members
THE Labour Party, Kaduna State chapter, has suspended three of its card-carrying members that took part in what it called “the so-called NEC meeting” that took place in Bauchi, Bauchi State on Wednesday, May 3, 2023. Among those suspended are Bashir Idris Aliyu, Alhaji Ibrahim Sidi Bamali and Engr Michael …
Read More »Unknown Gunmen Kills Labour Party Chairman
UNKNOWN gunmen causing mayhem in Benue State have killed a Chairman of the Labour Party, Mr. Nathaniel Ochoche. Ochoche, who was the Edikwu Ward 2 Chairman of the party in Apa Local Government Area of the state, was murdered alongside four others at the weekend. The party’s Publicity Secretary in …
Read More »Primaries Conducted By Sacked Chairman, Abure In Bayelsa, Imo, Kogi Illegal – Labour Party
THE Labour Party (LP) has said that the governorship primary elections conducted in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi states by its suspended National Chairman, Julius Abure are illegal, null and void. The party in a statement titled, “Perspectives of the Labour Party (LP) 15th and 16th April, 2023 Imo State Gubernatorial …
Read More »UK Labour Suspends Prominent MP, Diane Abbott
THE United Kingdom’s main opposition Labour Party suspended prominent member Diane Abbott as an MP on Sunday, pending an investigation into comments she made that Jewish people were not subject to racism “all their lives”. Abbott, the first black woman to become an MP in the UK, said in a …
Read More »Labour Party NWC Reinstated Dienye Pepple As Rivers Chairman
THE National Vice Chairman South South of the Labour Party, Favour Reuben, says the National Working Committee of the party has mandated Dienye Pepple to pilot the affairs of the party in Rivers State. Recall that Pepple was suspended by the former National Chairman of the party, Julius Abure, and …
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