Politics

Following the controversy trailing the conferment of chieftaincy titles on the senator representing Anambra South senatorial zone, Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, three traditional rulers in Anambra State have officially withdrawn the titles from him. The traditional rulers are Igwe F.E. Ebelendu of ...

Political economist, Professor Pat Utomi, has said the presidential candidates of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP; Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi, and New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, have agreed to form a mega party ...

  Uzodimma’s Inauguration: Tinubu and Obasanjo all SMILES President Bola Tinubu and ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo were among the top dignitaries at the inauguration of Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State for a second term in office. Both politicians put their ...

A campaign vehicle belonging to Philip Shaibu, Edo State deputy governor and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, gubernatorial aspirant, has been reportedly attacked by armed men suspected to be hoodlums. The hoodlums vandalized the vehicle in Ekpoma, Esan West Local Government ...

Former President Donald Trump won the Iowa caucus in a blowout Monday night — confirming his standing as the clear front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination   With 97% of the expected vote in, Trump had 51.1% support, followed ...

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi has praised President Tinubu for his style of governance, saying the President is doing well He says. he is sure that when Tinubu leaves office, Nigeria won’t be the same again. He ...

A former Governor of Ogun State, Gbenga Daniel has said President Bola Tinubu will turn around the fortunes of Nigeria According to Daniel, the senator representing Ogun East, Tinubu will do the needful, hence the need to keep supporting him. ...

  Atiku Abubakar,  the Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate in the 2023 election, has declared readiness to lead a coalition of opposition parties to remove the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, come 2027. Atiku disclosed this in a congratulatory message ...

  President Bola Tinubu has implored governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to design and implement policies that prioritize all Nigerians and to always consider the national interest above political affiliations. The President, who received ...

A chieftain of the Labour Party (LP), Kenneth Okonkwo has said Doyin Okupe wouldn’t have remembered any “ideological differences”, if Labout Party had won the presidential election. He also said, as far as he is concerned, Okupe left the party when he resigned as the ...

Chidi Amadi, the Chief of Staff to Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has resigned   The Commissioner for Information and Communications, Joseph Johnson, confirmed Amadi’s resignation to The Punch. Johnson said Fubara would announce a replacement for Amadi, a loyalist ...

  The Labour Party has reacted to the resignation of Dr Doyin Okupe, the former Campaign Director of its Presidential Campaign Council in the last election. Okupe had tendered his resignation from the party on Monday following ideological differences that ...

Doyin Okupe has left the Labour Party The former Director General of Peter Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Organization, resigned from the Labour Party, LPm today, as the New Year starts proper for many. Okupe anchored his resignation on ideological differences that ...

  The Vice President of Nigeria, Kashim Shettima and some state governors have paid a courtesy visit to President Bola Tinubu at his Bourdillon home in Lagos State. They visited the President to pay Christmas homage. The governors that went ...

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Daniel Bwala, has suggested that the current administration of President Bola Tinubu may end up like his predecessor, saying he does not see light at the end of the tunnel. Bwala said ...

  A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dele Momodu, has asked the leaders of his party to punish the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike. Momodu said he would have punished Wike long ago for working against ...

The Supreme Court has reserved its judgement in the Kano governorship appeal The apex court reserved its judgement after hearing parties in the appeal. On November 17th, the Court of Appeal affirmed the election petition tribunal’s judgement, removing Governor Abba ...

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has vowed to sanction members who worked against its coorporate interests, including the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, at the appropriate time Acting National Chairman of the party, PDP, Amb. Umar ...

Senate president, Godswill Akpabio, on Wednesday, December 20, swore in former governor of Plateau state and immediate past minister of labour and employment, Simon Lalong, as the senator representing Plateau South The Court of Appeal had declared Lalong as validly ...

The 26 members of the Rivers State House of Assembly have withdrawn their impeachment notice against Governor Siminalayi Fubara, according to the notice of withdrawal read on the House floor on Wednesday The lawmakers, who are former Governor Nyesom Wike’s ...

Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State and his immediate predecessor, Nyesom Wike have agreed to end the political crisis rocking the state. The agreement was reached after President Bola Tinubu and other stakeholders met with the two warring factions on Monday. A ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday, December 19, reserved judgments in two appeals filed by Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, candidate of the Labour Party (LP) and his counterpart in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Azeez Adediran against the election of Lagos state governor, ...

Former APC National Chairman Adamu retires from politics The former All Progressives Congress, APC, National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, has retired from partisan politics. Adamu said he’s developing allergies for political activities, hence the need for retirement. He spoke on Saturday ...

  The Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has said he will support whoever emerges as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the State Governorship Elections slated for September 21, 2024. Obaseki, who stated this in Abuja on Thursday ...

Further deepening the crisis in Rivers State as four commissioners have so far resigned Governor Siminalayi Fubara’s cabinet   The state Commissioner for Social Welfare and Rehabilitation, Inime Chinwenwo-Aguma, and the Commissioner for Works, George-Kelly Alabo, are the latest among ...