Politics

  The senator representing Ebonyi South Senatorial district, His Excellency Senator David Umahi has resigned from the 10th Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. An impeccable sources told reporters that Umahi who is the current deputy majority leader of ...

  The Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi has denied taking a picture with self-acclaimed Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa. Obi issued the denial in response to a viral ‘photoshopped image with Ekpa’. Speaking through the Head of Obi-Datti Media ...

  President Bola Tinubu has nominated former governor of Ebonyi State, Dave Umahi and his Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike as his ministers. The Senate President, Goodwill Akpabio unveiled the long awaited list of 28 ministerial nominees during plenary on Thursday. Femi Gbajabiamila, former ...

  Tribunal Sacks LP Rep member over Non-membership. (Breach of Section 77(2)(3) The National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Asaba, Delta State, has nullified the election of Mr. Ngozi Okolie of the Labour Party as member representing Aniocha/Oshimili Fed. ...

  President Bola Tinubu has appealed to justices of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PREPEC) in Abuja to exclude the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, and his party in the event of any rerun presidential ...

  Mr Jollof, has revealed that the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, “used and dumped” him. The Warri-born Internet sensation said he was a staunch supporter of President Bola Tinubu and the APC but decamped to the camp of the ...

  The Independent National Electoral Commission has bowed to pressure and finally recognised the Youth Party as a registered political party in Nigeria. The National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, INEC, Festus Okoye, in a statement on ...

  All Progressives Congress (APC) governors yesterday said they were in the final stages of plans with the Federal Government in providing post-fuel subsidy removal palliatives to Nigerians. The Chairman of the Progressive Governors’ Forum (PGF), Imo state Governor Hope ...

  Ahead of the proposed National Executive Committee and National Caucus of the All Progressives Congress (APC) scheduled for July 18 &19, 2023, in Abuja, the party’s National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu is believed to have resigned his position. Speculation ...

  Sen. Adams Oshiomhole has said if he had lost his senatorial ambition, his blood pressure would have risen to 360 millimetres of mercury (mmHg) Oshiomhole said this during the post-inauguration/thank you party hosted in his honour by friends and ...

  It was a day of reunion. For the first time in four years, former Governor Akinwunmi Ambode was reunited with his leader. That was after the seeming parting of ways, following the 2014 governorship primary, which he lost to ...

  The Bayelsa State Labour Party governorship candidate, Udengs Eradiri, has described Governor Douye Diri of the Peoples Democratic Party as clueless. According to Eradiri, the LP candidate in the November 11 state governorship election, Governor Diri has performed poorly ...

  Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio secured victory in the West African country’s presidential election with more than 56% of the votes to avoid a run-off against main rival Samura Kamara, the electoral commission said on Tuesday.   Bio, ...

  Oil-rich Gabon will hold presidential, legislative and local elections on August 26, the West African country said Tuesday, with President Ali Bongo Ondimba’s strong favourite to win against a divided opposition. Bongo has not yet said whether he will ...

    The Lagos State Deputy Governor, Obafemi Hamzat, has denied renouncing his Nigerian citizenship. According to a statement by the deputy governor’s media office, Hamzat described claims that he dumped his Nigerian citizenship as “misleading and inaccurate”. Last Thursday, ...

  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 ...