Politics

  The Rivers State deputy governorship candidate of the African Democratic Congress in the 2023 election and Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh,  has said that she would not stop contesting the election until she realised her ambition. She said her chances ...

  Man kidnapped and kiIIed in Enugu 3 days after he was issued a UK visa for a Masters degree program A 30-year-old Nigerian man, Augustine Somuadina Ali, was kidnapped and k!lled by unknown assailants three days after he received ...

The Director of Strategic Communications of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Council, Dele Momodu, on Monday, insisted that the February 25 presidential election, which produced President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, was manipulated. In a statement tagged, ...

  Former President Goodluck Jonathan said members of his cabinet feared being jailed when the immediate past President, Muhammadu Buhari, won election in 2015. Jonathan, while speaking in an interview aired by Arise TV on Monday, said some of his ...

  The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Imo State, has called on the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to, upon assumption of office, discontinue the silence of the Federal Government over Senator Hope Uzodinma’s alleged use of state apparatus to oppress ...

  I will probe N241bn debt, Abba Gida-Gida fires first shot at Ganduje We TOLD you, it will be a ball in Kano, didn’t we? The incoming governor of Kano state, Abba Kabir Yusuf (popularly known as Abba Gida Gida), has vowed ...

  The General Overseer, Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye has predicted a new Nigeria in a new song he composed. He led members of the RCCG to sing the new song on Sunday during the worship ...

  President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won Turkey’s presidential election, defeating opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu in Sunday’s runoff vote and stretching his rule into a third decade. With 99.43% of the votes counted, preliminary official results announced by Turkey’s Supreme ...

  The wife of the President-elect, Remi Tinubu, has said the wealth of the country belongs to citizens, saying that her family does not need Nigeria’s money to survive. She promised that with the help of God and the support ...

  The Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has said he will never call the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, his president. The cleric and politician, during a webinar on Saturday, alleged a series of malpractices during ...

  Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State has dissolved his cabinet. Abiodun dissolved his cabinet in line with the provisions of the law, ahead of his second term inauguration on May 29, 2023. The governor announced the dissolution of the ...

  A Nigerian, Dr Adekunle Osibogun has been elected as the Deputy Mayor of Buckingham in England, United Kingdom for one year. He will deputise for the new Town Mayor who was also elected for a period of one year. ...

  The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has dissolved his cabinet ahead of his swearing-in ceremony on May 29, 2023. Sanwo-Olu and his deputy, Obafemi Hamzat, will be sworn in for a second term of four years on May 29. The Head ...

  Governor AbdulRazaq AbdulRahman of Kwara state has emerged as the new Chairman of Nigeria Governors Forum. This is contained in a press statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Rafiu Ajakaye Wednesday morning to journalists in Ilorin. According to ...

  Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has dismissed the possibility of defecting to the All Progressives Congress, APC, after leaving office. Ortom, however, vowed to support and work for the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, as a Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, ...

  Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has absolved himself of blame in the situation that led to the relocation of the $19bn Dangote refinery from Ogun State to Lagos. Abiodun, who confirmed that he was Chairman, Olokola Free Trade Zone, in Ogun ...

  The Presidential Election Petition Court on Tuesday gave the pre-hearing report on three different petitions seeking to nullify the outcome of the 2023 presidential election. The court also presented the trial schedule. The chairman of the five-man panel of ...

  Former singer, ElDee the Don has said septuagenarians shouldn’t be contesting for presidency in Nigeria. He said it is a sign of failure for someone in his 70s to still be pursuing an ambition, stressing that such a person ...

A former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio, has called on Nigerians and members of the incoming 10th National Assembly not to assess him using his brief tenure as Minister of Niger Delta Affairs. Akpabio said he preferred to ...

The private jet of the two-term governor of Lagos State landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja at about 2.15pm where he was welcomed by his supporters, party members and some governors. Among the delegation were his Vice-President-elect, ...

  The President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari(retd), has approved the appointment of Toyin Madein as the substantive Accountant-General of the Federation. This was contained in a statement, dated May 19, 2023, which was signed by the Director, Communications, Office of the ...

  As preparations for the May 29 inauguration ceremony of the president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, are underway, the Federal Government has directed security agencies to cordon off Federal Secretariat Complexes Phases l, Il, Ill and Ministry of Foreign Affairs ...

  The Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brig Gen YD Ahmed, has said the discharge certificate being paraded by Enugu State Governor-elect, Peter Mbah, was not issued by the body. Brig Gen Ahmed, while appearing on Arise ...

  The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) has reserved ruling in the application filed by Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for a live broadcast of the proceedings. The court took the decision after the application was moved ...

  The factional National Chairman of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Lamidi Apapa, who was mobbed at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, the venue of the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, on Wednesday, has thanked God for saving his ...