Politics

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The 26 members of the Rivers State House of Assembly have withdrawn their impeachment notice against Governor Siminalayi Fubara, according to the notice of withdrawal read on the House floor on Wednesday The lawmakers, who are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

  Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has congratulated his predecessor, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, on the latter’s 56th birthday, amid political tension in the state. In the birthday post shared on Fubara’s X page, the state ...

The Speaker of Ondo State House of Assembly, Olamide Oladiji, today, December 13, declared Deputy Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa as acting governor, following the receipt of the letter from Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu on transmitting power He, however, clarified that a constitutional ...

Court jails APC chieftain 1-year for vote buying in Lagos The Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced Wahab Hammed, a ward Leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the Surulere Local Government Area of the state, to ...

A group of seven opposition political parties on Wednesday formed a new coalition in a bid to strengthen democracy in the country The movement tagged the Coalition of Concerned Political Parties was formed in Abuja at a meeting attended by ...

  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday in Abuja directed all intra-party litigants to withdraw their court cases. The directive in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Debo Ologunagba, after the party’s National Working Committee’s (NWC) ...

The opposition Peoples Democratic Party in Ondo State, on Tuesday, said the state has been grounded economically by an alleged cabal, which hijacked the government of ailing Governor Rotimi Akeredolu   It, therefore, demanded that  Akeredolu should transmit power to his deputy, Mr ...

COP28: Peter Obi lied, FG sponsored 422 delegates, not 1,411 – Information Minister The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Alhaji Mohammed Idris, said the Federal Government sponsored 422 delegates to the ongoing COP28 in Dubai, not 1,411. Peter Obi ...

The Peoples Democratic Party has criticized the proposed N27.5 trillion budget for the 2024 fiscal year by President Bola Tinubu to the National Assembly as deceitful, adding that it has no mechanism for economic recovery Tinubu, on Wednesday presented the ...

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP candidate in the just concluded Kogi State Governorship election, Senator Dino Melaye has announced his decision not to seek legal redress following his electoral loss. Melaye said his decision was hinged on the fact that ...

Protesters today again stepped out on the streets of Kano over the sacking of Governor Abba Yusuf by the Appeal Court.   Two weeks ago, the appeal court panel upheld the verdict of the tribunal led by Justice Oluyemi Akintan Osadebay which sacked Yusuf on ...