Politics

Governors elected on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party will meet in Abuja on Wednesday (today) to decide the fate of the party’s national chairman, Uche Secondus. The meeting will, among other things, consider the report and recommendations of ...

Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi state has asked God to give the country a personality with “good heart” like President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023. Governor Umahi expressed this wish during an interactive session with State House correspondents after meeting with ...

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State on Sunday, said he is praying to God and awaiting His direction for his second term. Makinde, who disclosed this during the 2021 Hijrah luncheon held at the Government House, Agodi, Ibadan, declared that ...

Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State and other members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Caretaker/ Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, CECPC have been sacked. A Delta State High Court sitting in Asaba, Wednesday, restrained the Governor and the others ...

Senator Ademola Adeleke has arrived Nigeria after a two-year academic sojourn to the United States of America where he went to pursue a Diploma in Criminal Justice at the Atlanta Metropolitan State College, Georgia   Adeleke, it is anticipated, would ...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has reacted to the flurry of campaign activities signposting his interest in the 2023 election. In a statement signed by his spokesman, Laolu Akande, Osinbajo disowned the campaigns. “The Office of the Vice President wishes to ...

The Caretaker Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State, Rasaq Salinsile and former Chairman of the party, Adelowo Adebiyi and five others have been arraigned before an Osogbo Magistrate’s Court. Other five persons who were also arraigned; ...

The leadership crisis currently rocking the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, worsened on Monday as High Court in Rivers State has restrained Uche Secondus from parading himself as the National Chairman of the party. The order was given by Justice ...

  Former Minister of Aviation Femi Fani-Kayode on Saturday defended his fond appellation of Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, after labelling the Islamic scholar a ‘sociopathic Jihadist’ some three months ago. According to the ex-minister, politics is ...

Embattled national chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, met former President Olusegun Obasanjo behind closed doors on Thursday in Abeokuta, Ogun State. Messrs Obasanjo and Secondus claim their discussions centred around “nation-building.” “One thing that Secondus told me ...

Femi Adesina, presidential spokesperson, says it is too early for President Muhammadu Buhari to support any aspirant for the presidency in the 2023 general election. Adesina stated this on Friday during an interview with Channels Television. The presidential spokesman was ...

Osun State Governor , Gboyega Oyetola, has appealed to the members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), in the state to give peace a chance and allow the ongoing appeal process run its full course. The governor, therefore, directed ...

Doyin Okupe, an erstwhile aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, on Friday claimed that former Head of State, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, IBB, is considering him for the presidency in 2023. Okupe disclosed this while appearing on Arise News TV. The former ...

Nigerian youths can find solutions to some of the toughest challenges facing the country and the African continent, says the All Progressives Congress (APC). Ismaeel Ahmed, the National Youth Representative in the APC Caretaker and Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), ...

Former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB), might have canceled out a former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and a former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, from the 2023 presidential run, because they would be in their ...

There was a mild drama on Thursday as Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike stormed the venue where members of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) were meeting. Wike’s sudden appearance at the meeting must have unsettled ...

Former Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki is back home after being grilled by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Saturday in Abuja. A statement issued by Yusuph Olaniyonu from Saraki’s Media Office confirmed that Saraki went to the ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has demanded a forensic investigation into reports that the United States (US) Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has linked head of IGP Intelligence Response Team, DCP Abba Kyari, to international fraudster, Abbas Ramon, popularly known ...

  Serving overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare has weighed on certain things he believes are occurring in the Buhari-led administration. In a recent sermon, the former running mate of Buhari challenged him to come for ...

  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has withdrawn from the July 24 council polls in Ogun State.   Chairman of the party in Ogun, Hon Sikirulai Ogundele made the announcement on Thursday July 22, barely 24 hours to the election. ...

A 15-year-old girl who sat her Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) at Bwikya Muslim Primary School in Hoima City in western Uganda last year has allegedly committed suicide after she reportedly performed poorly. Relatives told police that Daphine Kimuli disappeared from ...

  The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, AGF Abubakar Malami has said that he has no intention to run as the Vice presidential candidate to former President Goodluck Jonathan. There have been reports making the rounds ...

  The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, AYCF, has declared that the North still has four years to rule Nigeria, after the tenure of President Buhari. Governors of the southern states had demanded that the region should produce Nigeria’s next president ...

  The national working committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has disowned a letter announcing the suspension of Rochas Okorocha, former governor of Imo. A letter dated July 12, 2021, and signed in the name of Mai Mala ...

Senator Shehu Sani, who represented Kaduna Central in the 8th National Assembly, has resigned his membership of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP). In his resignation letter dated July 9, 2021 addressed to PRP chairman in ward 6, Tudun Wada, Kaduna, ...