Politics

  Kenya President William Ruto has been given a 48-hour ultimatum by the public to step down, as citizens demand a new government committed to “transparency, accountability, and good governance”. The call for resignation has gained significant traction on social ...

  President William Ruto has announced that he will not sign the controversial Finance Bill 2024 into law, following widespread protests and public opposition. The bill had proposed tax increases that many Kenyans felt would unfairly burden them. In a ...

  Dapo Abiodun, Governor of Ogun State, has been elected as the Chairman of the Southern Governors’ Forum, with Anambra State Governor Chukwuma Soludo serving as his deputy. This announcement was made by Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Governor of Lagos State and ...

The Southern Governors’ Forum is currently holding a meeting in Abeokuta, Ogun State, marking their first gathering since the passing of former chairman, Rotimi Akeredolu, in December 2023 According to Vanguard, meeting is taking place at the Presidential Lodge, Ibara ...

Apparently weary of the leadership struggle between the Julius Abure-led Labour Party (LP) and his camp, the Deputy National Chairman, South, of the LP, Lamidi Apapa has collapsed his faction and accepted Abure as the national chairman of the party ...

  The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election Atiku Abubakar on Saturday visited immediate past President Muhammadu Buhari at his residence in Daura, Katsina State. Atiku who was accompanied by the immediate past Governor of Sokoto State ...

  Donald Trump has said he will grant green cards to foreign graduates from US colleges, in an apparent softening of his typically hard-line view on immigration, a key election issue The Republican candidate made the remarks in a podcast, ...

  Imo State Governor Hope Uzodimma says he is sure the policies of the President Bola Tinubu administration will lead to Nigeria’s economic prosperity. Uzodimma said this at an interactive session with journalists in Owerri on Wednesday. He noted that journalists needed to ...

  The Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has announced the expulsion of Dan Orbih, Hon Philip Shaibu and Hon Omoregie Ogbeide-Ihama from the party The Anthony Aziegbemi-led state executives announced the purported expulsion of the trio ...

  An Ondo State High Court sitting in Akure, the state capital, has declared the creation of the 33 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) by the late Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu as unconstitutional and illegal. According to the presiding judge, Justice A.O ...

A Federal High Court in Kano, on Thursday, nullified the reinstatement of Muhammadu Sanusi II as the 16th Emir of Kano The court also nullified all the actions taken after the controversial reinstatement. The presiding judge, Justice Abdullahi Liman, said, ...

  South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa was sworn in for a second full term as president in Pretoria on Wednesday, after his weakened African National Congress (ANC) struck a government coalition deal. Chief Justice Raymond Zondo led Ramaphosa’s oath of office ...

  The Chairman, Katcha Local Government Area of Niger State, Danlamin Abdullahi Saku, has been reportedly beaten to a pulp by party supporters over debt Daily Trust gathered that the chairman was currently being admitted at an undisclosed hospital in the state. ...

  Sequel to the expiration of the tenure of the 23 local government Chairpersons, Rivers Governor, Siminalayi Fubara has directed Heads of Local Government Administration, HLGAs, across the state to take charge of affairs of their various Councils until further notice. ...

  After losing in his party, PDP, a former deputy governor of Edo State, Philip Shaibu, is now supporting the candidate of another party, APC Shaibu on Sunday, said he would be supporting the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Monday ...

  OPC tackles Tinubu over sufferings of Nigerians, NEGLECT of group despite mobilising votes for him in 2023 The Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) has released a press statement tackling President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over the sufferings of Nigerians and allegedly neglecting ...

  Former presidential candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has extended his sympathies to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu after the latter’s public fall at Eagle Square in Abuja on Wednesday Atiku, who was Tinubu’s opponent in the 2023 election, tweeted his concern, ...

  The Presidency has fired shots at former Vice President Atiku Abubakar after he subtly mocked President Tinubu who tripped and fell on Wednesday. Tinubu had climbed the waiting vehicle to review the parade at the Eagle Square where the ...

  A High Court, sitting in Kano, has granted an order restraining the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, from arresting the 2023 Presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, and seven others. The court presided over ...

  A group of lawmakers in the House of Representatives are seeking alterations to the 1999 Constitution to pave the way for the rotation of the Presidency among the six geo-political zones of the country. They also want an amendment ...

  Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), has accused Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s candidate, of being fraudulently packaged to deceive Nigerians. Sowore made this claim in a recent interview, stating that he has consistently ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday tendered his resignation to the country’s President Droupadi Murmu after his cabinet recommended the dissolution of the lower house of parliament Lok Sabha.   Murmu accepted the resignation of Modi and the council ...

The candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 presidential election, Peter Obi has said members of the Obidient Movement are in different political parties. Obi said this because of the recent decision to create a directorate for the Obidient Movement. Taking ...

  The Kaduna State House of Assembly has received a report from its committee investigating funds, loans, and contracts awarded during the tenure of Nasir El-Rufai, which found that most loans were not used for their purpose and due process ...

  President Joe Biden rebuked former President Donald Trump as a “convicted felon” on Monday, telling donors his predecessor “snapped” after losing the 2020 presidential election and would be worse if he won in November. “For the first time in American history a ...