Politics

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 ...

  The councillors of Ijebu East Local Government of Ogun State on Thursday impeached the suspended Chairman of the local government, Hon. Wale Adedayo, over allegations of financial misappropriation and diversion of council funds, among other allegations made against him.   ...

Appeal Court sacks Elumelu, declares LP’s Okolie winner The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, has set aside the judgment of the National and State House of Assembly Election Tribunal in Asaba, Delta State. The court affirmed the ...

  LP leadership knew Obi lost 2023 presidential election- Soyinka   The Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, has accused the Labour Party of attempting to deceive Nigerians about the outcome of the February 25 election outcome. Soyinka made this declaration on Wednesday, during an ...

  Banky W has said it’s a miracle to have another chance to re-run Singer turned politician, Banky W has admitted it is a miracle for his constituency to have an opportunity for a re-run. The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate for ...

  Banky W reacts to sack of LP’s Attah, says there’s hope Singer turned politician and preacher, Banky W, has reacted to the sack of Labour Party’s Thaddeus Attah by an election tribunal sitting in Lagos State. The National Assembly Election Petitions ...

The parliamentary election petitions tribunal has sacked Thaddeus Attah of the Labour Party as the winner of the House of Representatives election for Eti-Osa federal constituency. Giving the judgment on Monday, the tribunal also ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission ...

The Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, said that Peter Obi of the Labour Party is Bola Tinubu’s John the Baptist.  TGB reports that he asked the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi ...

  Anambra State Governor Chukwuma Soludo has reflected on the distribution of appointments by President Bola Tinubu, saying that he is fair to the Southeast geo-political zone.   The governor, who is the National Leader of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), ...

  Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, has said the All Progressives Congress in Osun State is purging itself of unwanted members through expulsion. Oyetola, who spoke in Osogbo at a mini reception organised in his honour by the ...

  The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the last general elections, Peter Obi, has rejected the judgement of the Presidential Election Petition Court read on Wednesday. Obi insisted that he would exhaust every legal process available to him. Speaking in ...