Politics

Republican Mike Johnson elected US House speaker The US House of Representatives has elected Republican Mike Johnson as its speaker after a turbulent three weeks that left the rudderless chamber unable to carry out its basic duties. The 220 to 209 vote ...

The Deputy President of the Senate, Jibrin Barau, has sworn in Amos Yohanna, as the new Senator representing Adamawa North Senatorial District   Yohanna (PDP, Adamawa), replaces Senator Elisha Abbo (APC) who was sacked by the Court of Appeal Court on Monday last ...

Atiku, Obi’s Appeals: Supreme Court to deliver judgement tomorrow The Supreme Court is scheduled to deliver judgement on Thursday, October 26, 2023, in the cases of the Labour Party and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi; the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ...

  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has removed the names of the Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Timipre Sylva, and his deputy, Mr Joshua Maciver, from the list of qualified candidates for the November 11th Governorship ...

  The Abuja division of the Court of Appeal has nullified the victory of the Senate Minority Leader, Simon Mwadkwon, in the February 25 Plateau North senatorial election. This was as the Appeal Court ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, ...

  Popular Nigerian actress, Tonto Dikeh has dumped African Democratic Congress (ADC) for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), The Nation reports. The politician ran as the 2023 deputy governorship candidate of the African Democratic Congress in Rivers State gubernatorial ...

  Former governor of Ekiti State and chieftain of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, Ayodele Fayose, on Sunday, commended the performance of incumbent Governor Biodun Oyebanji of the ruling All Progressives Congress. Fayose, who spoke at a special thanksgiving service at Cathedral Church ...

The Supreme Court has scheduled next Monday, 23 October, to hear three appeals challenging the judgement of the Presidential Election Petition Court affirming President Bola Tinubu’s election The court’s registrar, Zainab Garba, on Thursday, issued the hearing notice. The appellants – ...

The Senate has appointed the All Progressives Congress (APC) Senator representing Kwara South, Lola Ashiru, as the new Deputy Majority Leader The upper legislative chamber also appointed the Senator representing Ebonyi North Senatorial District, Nwebonyi Peter Onyeka, as the new ...

I’m sorry, sacked Senator Abbo apologises to Akpabio Embattled senator representing Adamawa North Senatorial District, Elisha Abbo, has apologised over his allegation that the Senate president Godswill Akpabio plotted his removal by the Court of Appeal. Abbo made the apology while speaking in ...

The ousted Adamawa North senator, Elisha Abbo, has alleged that Senate President Godswill Akpabio has a hand in the Appeal Court ruling which removed him from office. Abbo, who was reacting to the court’s ruling, claimed that four other senators ...

The opposition National Party has won the New Zealand election, taking enough seats to form a coalition with its allies on the right wing of politics. Incumbent prime minister Chris Hipkins, of Labour, phoned National’s leader Chris Luxon to concede ...

Court disqualifies Sylva from Bayelsa governorship poll A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has disqualified the candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the Bayelsa State Governorship Election, Timipre Sylva from the contest. A member of the All Progressives Congress in ...

The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar has explained the discrepancies in his Senior School Certificate Examination, SSCE, certificate. Atiku offered the clarification through Dele Momodu, today in a post on his social media platform, X. According ...

  INEC to transmit results of Bayelsa guber poll manually The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it plans to transmit results of the Nov.11 Bayelsa governorship election manually. The state INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) Mr Obo Effanga, stated this in ...

  The election petition tribunal sitting in Akure has nullified the election of a member of the Ondo State House of Assembly representing Ileoluji/Okeigbo constituency, Hon. Nelson Akinsuroju of the All Progressives Congress, APC. While ruling on a petition filed ...

Ex-US President, Donald Trump is leading the country’s current President, Biden in new poll. Trump is leading with 10 points in a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll. The 77-year-old trounced the Democrat 52% to 42% in a hypothetical rematch of the ...

  Rwanda’s president says he’ll run for a fourth term Rwandan President Paul Kagame has announced for the first time that he plans to run for a fourth term in next year’s elections. “I am happy with the confidence Rwandans have ...

Judges of the Kano governorship election tribunal are not physically in court, Daily Trust reports. The tribunal is set to deliver judgment in a petition filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to challenge the victory of Governor Abba Kabir ...

  Shettima appoints Peter Obi’s running mate’s brother as Special Adviser The spokesperson for the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has has been appointed as the Special Adviser on Political Matters to Vice President Kashim Shettima. Hakeem, a retired Federal ...

Obaseki Obaseki locks out his deputy from Govt House The breakdown of relations between Edo state governor, Godwin Obaseki and his deputy, Philip Shaibu, took a new turn this morning with the governor’s decision to bar his estranged deputy from the Government House. ...

  The Ondo State Commissioner for Women Affairs, Olubunmi Osadahun, has been attacked at Oke Agbe in Akoko area during the distribution of palliatives to cushion the effect of fuel subsidy removal by the government. It was gathered that the ...

The spokesperson of Peter Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council, Yunusa Tanko, has revealed that Peter Obi’s legal team may file an appeal at the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Obi is also said to have no plan of changing members of his ...

The Governor of Kano State, Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf, has sacked his Commissioner for Land, Adamu Aliyu Kibiya, and another aide. The Commissioner for Land, Adamu Aliyu Kibiya, was recorded in a viral video making alleged threatening remarks concerning the ...

  President Bola Tinubu on Thursday said he is not the type of president that will give excuses for failure, assuring that he will deliver the dividends of democracy to the people.   The president spoke when he received high-powered 62-man ...