Politics

  The immediate past governor of Osun State, Adegboyega Oyetola has stated that he has come back to the state to reclaim his mandate. Oyetola made this known on Monday during an interdenominational prayer session organised by the state’s chapter ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has officially endorsed the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, as his candidate for the 2023 election. Obasanjo said this in his New Year message made available to newsmen yesterday. According to Obasanjo, Obi ...

  Kylian Mbappe gave his reaction to taunts from Argentina World Cup winner Emiliano Martinez after a winning return to action with Paris Saint-Germain. Mbappe made his return to club action less than two weeks after suffering World Cup heartbreak ...

The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Taraba State, Emmanuel Bwacha, is mourning following the demise of his campaign coordinator in the Karim-Lamido local government council, Abdullahi Kanti. Kanti was said to have lost his life in ...

  The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, on Tuesday announced Akin Osuntokun, a former aide to President Olusegun Obasanjo, as the new Director General of his campaign council. Osuntokun replaced former DG of the Obi-Datti Campaign Organisation, ...

  The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has said one-year imprisonment or a fine of N500,000 awaits anyone found guilty of buying votes during the 2023 elections. The INEC Commissioner in Jigawa State, Professor Muhammad Lawal Bashar said this in ...

Chief Israel Nwosu, former executive chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State, has led about 600 members and supporters of the party across the electoral wards in Umuahia East Constituency to ...

  PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has underscored that he will retire to his hometown in Daura, Katsina State to rest and be far away as much as possible to avoid problems when he leaves office on May 29, 2023. The President ...

With about two months to the presidential election, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has explained why he shut down the Peoples Democratic Party Atiku/Okowa presidential campaign office in Port Harcourt. Wike said he sealed-off the campaign office because it ...

  In his latest onslaught against the Atiku Abubakar presidential campaign, Governor Nyesom Wike has sealed off the Rivers State Atiku/Okowa campaign office. The office, located at the GRA axis of Port Harcourt, was sealed off for producing noisy political ...

  The Theatre Arts and Motion Pictures Practitioners of Nigeria has said that veteran actor, Ebun Oloyede, aka Olaiya Igwe, will face a disciplinary committee, set up by the association, over a video that showed him praying n*de for the ...

  The polity was awash with cheers and jeers, yesterday, over President Muhammadu Buhari’s remarks that he had done his best for Nigeria since he came to power on May 29, 2015. President Buhari, who spoke in Washington DC, USA ...

President Muhammadu Buhari joined US President Joe Biden, Prime Minister Akhannouch of Morocco, and other leaders to watch the World Cup semifinal match between France and Morroco last night. The World Cup semifinal match ended 2-0 in favor of France.

  A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Bode George, has said that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, is not an indigene of Lagos State. George spoke on Tuesday morning on Arise TV’s Morning ...

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar has felicitated with Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State on his 55th birthday, despite their party crisis. Atiku prayed that good things would happen to Wike as he marks his 55th ...

  The wife of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, said the Muslin/Muslim ticket of the party will set a new tone in Nigeria’s political landscape come 2023. Tinubu said this on Wednesday during the APC ...

  Ahead of the forthcoming presidential election, a chieftain of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Osita Okechukwu, has said his party is only worried about Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate and not about Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate ...

  Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, and his colleagues – Seyi Makinde (Oyo) and Babajide Sanwo-Olu (Lagos) – on Friday received honorary doctorate degrees from Ajayi Crowther University in Oyo State. The trio was at the foremost Anglican university in ...

Popular socio-political activist, Deji Adeyanju, has mocked the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, for attending the Living Faith Church’s annual programme — Shiloh! Adeyanju said the Living Faith church founder, David Oyedepo, failed to endorse Obi during the ...

  Jaylen Smith has become the youngest mayor in the US just at age 18. He won the election Tuesday night. This makes him the youngest Black mayor in his country. According to election results, Smith received 218 votes while ...

A former deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives and candidate of the Labour Party in the July 2022 Osun State governorship election, Lasun Yusuf, has officially joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Mr Yusuf’s defection to the PDP was ...

  Nigerians of voting age resident in the United Kingdom and various parts of the world have dragged President Muhammadu Buhari and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) before a Federal High Court in Abuja seeking enforcement of their fundamental ...

  Liz Truss will fight to keep her South West Norfolk seat at the next general election. A spokesperson for the ex-PM confirmed the news this morning, as the deadline for Tory MPs deciding if they want to run for ...

A Nigerian lawyer and politician, Prince Chinedu Munir Nwoko, popularly known as Ned Nwoko, has accused men who do not marry more than one wife of contributing to immorality in society. The former lawmaker, who stated this in his recent ...

As the Nigeria Rail Corporation is set to commence Kaduna-Abuja rail transportation on Monday, the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba has ordered the immediate deployment of armed personnel along the Abuja-Kaduna route Force Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, in a ...