Politics

The Serving Overseer, The Citadel Global Community Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has called for a change of guard in the country, saying those around the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) look tired. Bakare, at the state of the nation ...

The lawmaker representing Iseyin/Itesiwaju/ Kajola/Iwajowa federal constituency of Oyo State, Mr Shina Peller, says he has nothing against the presidential ambition of the All Progressives Congress leader, Bola Tinubu, contrary reports in some quarters. He made the clarification in a ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Friday, declared that his faith in a better Nigeria remains unshakable. Obasanjo insisted that, the country would not be destroyed by the myriads of challenges confronting it. Obasanjo disclosed this during the opening of Abeokuta ...

Former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar has said Nigerians are not bothered where their next President will come from but are hopeful of a leader desirous of addressing the challenges facing the nation.     Atiku stated this in ...

  The Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, on Wednesday expressed his willingness to contest the 2023 presidential election only if Nigerians canvassed his candidature. The two-time governor of Abia State, however, said his ambition for now ...

Mrs Cynthia Nwala, the leader of Etche Local Government Legislative Assembly in Rivers State was beaten and nearly stripped during a fracas at the council secretariat on Monday. Mrs Nwala’s car was also vandalized. Nwala alleged that it was the ...

The Senator representing Kano Central, Ibrahim Shekarau, has told Southern governors to stop using threats and gang up against the North in the quest for the 2023 presidency. The federal lawmaker, who was a former governor of Kano State, noted ...

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is still recieving visitors in London.   The Northern caucus of the House of Representatives led by Deputy Speaker, Ahmed Idris Wase have visited the All Progressives Congress National Leader, in London.   More photos below…   ...

  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has zoned its National Chairman position to the Northern region of Nigeria.   According to some political commentators, the action by itself confirms the party zoning the 2023 presidency to the southern region. Chairman ...

Ekiti State Governor and Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Kayode Fayemi, says only God knows what his political future holds in the 2023 general elections. Fayemi made this known on Sunday when he spoke on THISDAY Live, an interview ...

The Peoples Democratic Party has again accused the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government of corruption over its decision to retain the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, as the naira further depreciated to N580/$1. This was contained ...

Ahead of the 2023 general elections, former governor of Borno State and a chieftain of ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, has declared that for the party to retain power at the centre for the next 50 ...

Newest APC member, FFK has again defended his defection.   Fani-Kayode says the APC he criticised back then is not the APC of today.   His words below;

Mr Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, has said some of the persons who vilify his principal publicly return to Aso Rock for dinner. The presidential spokesman said this while commenting on the return ...

Prominent Nigerians including a former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Attahiru Jega, and a political economist, Professor Pat Utomi, will on November 1 unveil a mega political movement labeled Rescue Nigeria Project. This was confirmed in a communique, ...

  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals were returned to power on Monday in a hotly contested election against the rookie Conservative leader Erin O’Toole, according to TV projections.   This is even as Erin O’Toole, leader of Canada’s opposition ...

The candidate of the Young Progressives Party in the forthcoming Anambra State Governorship Election, Ifeanyi Ubah, says there will be trouble if the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra insists that the November 6, 2021 election won’t hold. Ubah, who represents ...

A three-time member of the House of Representatives and Chairman, House Committee on Aviation, Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, has expressed optimism that a female President would be possible in the 2023 election provided women were given the opportunity. According to her, if ...

Fani Kayode is not only taking his words back, he is also acting them. Fani one defected to APC from PDP on thursday and was welcomed by the President in Abuja has gone to the home of Isa Pantami, the ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected moves by President Muhammadu Buhari to demand for another $4billion and €710 million loans. PDP described the move as further mortgaging the country, warning the National Assembly to protect generations unborn. In a ...

Controversial Nigerian Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has accused former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, of being a traitor after defecting to the All Progressives Congress. The Kaduna-based Islamic cleric said this in a Facebook post titled, ‘Judas of Oduduwa’, ...

Finally, Femi Fani-Kayode has formally dumped PDP and efected to the All Progressives Congress, APC.   Fani-Kayode’s defection was disclosed when Mai Mala Buni, Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Caretaker Committee presented him to President Muhammadu Buhari today. ...

The All Progressives Congress on Wednesday said it would welcome former President Goodluck Jonathan should he decide to join the party. It also said he, like every other new entrant, would enjoy the rights and privileges extended to all members ...

Ugandan prosecutors on Wednesday slapped additional charges of terrorism as well as aiding and abetting terrorism on two opposition National Unity Party (NUP) MPs. The lawmakers – Mohammed Ssegirinya and Allan Ssewanyana, who are allied to the opposition leader Bobi ...

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila says he has no plan to unseat Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu as he is doing well and deserved a second term ticket. In an interview aired on Channels TV on Tuesday, Gbajabiamila said ...