Politics

  Members of the Not-too-Young-to-Run movement in Gombe State, have complained at its conference that some state governors are preventing them from vying for public offices, by increasing the price of nomination forms. The National Leader of the movement, Hamza Lawal, ...

  The Bishop on the Niger, Anglican Communion, Onitsha, Anambra State, Rt. Rev. Dr. Owen Nwokolo has warned politicians not to drag the country into another civil unrest due to their unimpressive actions and utterances in recent times in the ...

Ahead of the 2019 general elections, Nigeria youths have been enjoined to constitute themselves into a formidable force and use their votes as weapon to stop those that have held the country to ransom since 1999. Besides, they were urged ...

  The Police Headquarters in Abuja has paraded the informant who allegedly gave the police false information to conduct a search on the home of elder statesman, Edwin Clark, in Abuja.   The suspect, identified as Ismail Yakubu, is resident ...

Its a known fact that former Kogi West Senator, Smart Adeyemi and his successor, Dino Melaye are sworn political enemies.   Both men don’t see eye to eye. However, Senator Smart Adeyemi’s wife, Yemisi died a few days ago and Dino Melaye decided ...

Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris has apologised to elder statesman, Edwin Clark over the raid of his house on Tuesday.   The IG sent a delegation of senior police officers, led by DIG Habila Joshak (DIG DOPs), alongside some commissioners of ...

Once again, fomer vice president Atiku Abubakar responded to the current VP, Yemi Osinbajo on his idea of ‘Restructuring’ and why its a necessity for Nigeria.   Osinbajo in a letter written to Premium Times described Atiku’s idea of restructuring as ‘understandably vague’. ...

Rapper MI Abaga is of the opinion that women make better leaders than men.   He said the reason for this is that women are trained to be responsible from a very young age, whereas it isn’t always so with ...

The ruling party APC has announced that presidential aspirants for the 2019 election in its party will pay N45 million to obtain the party’s Expression of Interest and Nomination forms while state governorship aspirants are to pick up the forms for ...

Former Governor of Cross River State and Presidential aspirant, Donald Duke, has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for Social Democratic Party (SDP).   Donald Duke who is expected to run on the party’s platform, declared his decision at the national secretariat of the SDP on Tuesday ...

Nigeria’s former Senate President David Mark, on Tuesday declared his interest in the Presidency and also picked up the presidential form to contest in the 2019 presidential election under the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.   The former military governor of Niger State who promised to turn the ...

  Former Governor of Kano state Ibrahim Shekarau has finally announced that he is leaving the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). This was disclosed by the media aide to the former Kano governor, Sule Ya’u Sule, in an interview with NAN ...

Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, will today honor the invitation by the police for questioning over one of his numerous publications.   Recall that the police had written to FFK last month asking him to appear for questioning in Abuja. ...

  Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s ex-aide, Waripamo-Owei Dudafa, who was arraigned before a federal judge in Lagos, disclosed that the N1.6 billion traced to him by EFCC was money donated for a church project in Otuoke, Jonathan’s hometown. According to Jonathan’s ex-aide, the launching for the church ...

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, has authoritatively mentioned that President Muhammadu Buhari is healthier than most Nigerians and so he is fit to rule the nation.   He said the two indices and experience of the President could ...

Dr Ike Ekweremadu, senator representing Enugu West constituency, has declared his interest to represent his constituency for the fifth time in the senate. In a statement on Tuesday morning, Ekweremadu averred that he was persuaded by his people to return to ...

A new report by an advocacy group, Good Jobs Nation, has revealed that more than 133,000 Americans have been sacked since President Donald Trump took office 18 months ago.   The study which alleged that the Trump administration has awarded more ...

                    Nigerian media personality, Dele Momodu who over the weekend revealed his conversation with Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has taken a swipe at President Buhari and his supporters.   Dele Momodu who disclosed that supporters of former president Goodluck ...

United States Senator, John McCain who died just over a week ago at 81, was buried on Sunday at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. A military flypast was performed with the squadron one plane short, to symbolise the dead senator.   The late Senator John ...

Female Presidential aspirant, Eunice Atuejide has expressed her disappointment in another aspirant Donald Duke, over his stance on homosexuality in Nigeria.   In an interview with Laila and Falz, Donald Duke said: “I don’t understand the emotional feelings a gay person ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has apologised to former US president Barack Obama for calling him a “son of a whore” in 2016, which sparked a new low in their nations’ long alliance.   Duterte lobbed the insult in response to steady criticism ...

A Zimbabwean VP, Kembo Campbell Mohadi, has cried out for help over the torture he receives from his wife, Tambudzani Bhugadi Mohadi.   The VP accused his estranged wife of sending threatening messages to him after he instituted divorce proceedings in 2017, ...

Nigeria’s Senate Deputy President, Ike Ekweremadu who addressed his constituents who converged to beg him to return to the Senate in 2019,  revealed that he gave the All Progressives Congress, APC, N5m in 2014. Ike Ekweremadu who addressed his constituents who presented him the Peoples Democratic ...

Frontline Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Aspirant, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, SAN, has laughed off insinuations in some quarters that he is fronting for another aspirant and would eventually step aside from the race.   “There is nothing like that. He will ...

Officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission in some council areas within the Ibadan metropolis in Oyo State have been accused of requesting money for PVC registration.   According to The Punch, some prospective voters, alleged that some individuals presented themselves s ...