Politics

The National Working Committee NWC of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC has declared as inconclusive, last Saturday’s Governorship Primary Election in Edo state The decision was taken late Tuesday after an emergency meeting of the NWC.   Addressing newsmen ...

Armed thugs have invaded Lushville Hotel and Suites, Gapiona Avenue, Government Reservation Area (GRA), Benin, the collation centre of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the governorship direct primary election   They disrupted the collation exercise and attacked some stakeholders, ...

If you want to put in your money, then put your NAME on it. India’s top court has struck down a scheme that allowed people to make anonymous donations to political parties, calling it unconstitutional. Electoral bonds were launched by Prime ...

The Lagos State Police Command has clarified that the restriction on vehicular movement for the state by-election on Saturday will specifically apply to only the Surulere area of the state   The command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, made this clarification ...

Daniel Bwala, a former spokesperson to the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general election, Atiku Abubakar, met with President Bola Tinubu in Paris on Monday, January 29 Daniel Bwala disclosed this in a post on ...

Ifeanyi Ubah, the senator representing Anambra South senatorial district, has indicated interest in contesting the state’s governorship position in 2025     Ubah, stated this in a chat with journalists in his Nnewi country home.   He said: “I repeat, I ...

Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara has appointed Edison Ehie as his new chief of staff   Mr Ehie is the former speaker of the defunct four-member faction of the Rivers House of Assembly. In a statement on Sunday, the Secretary ...

Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State said he would not have been standing tall in the state without the support of President Bola Tinubu   Fubara said this on Sunday during a special thanksgiving service at St. Paul’s Anglican Church, ...

Troops of the Joint Task Force, Operation Hadarin, (OPHD) have arrested three suspected gun runners in Zamfara State It was gathered that one of the suspects, Aminu Ibrahim, is alleged to be the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ward chairman in ...

Ahmed Usman Ododo has taken the oath of office as the fifth democratically-elected Governor of Kogi State Ododo was sworn in by the Kogi State Chief Judge, Justice Josiah Mejabi, at the Muhammadu Buhari Civic Centre in Lokoja, the State capital. ...

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 ...