Politics

Uganda Presidential Candidate Bobi Wine, with real name Robert Kyagulanyi, claimed there were “widespread fraud and violence” as counting gets underway after polls closed in a hotly contested election. However, the 38-year-old singer remains hopeful of victory over 76-year-old Yoweri ...

The Deputy Governor of Oyo State, Rauf Olaniyan, has vowed never to end the rift between him and his boss, Seyi Makinde, a source close to the deputy governor told SaharaReporters.   It was reported that the deputy governor indicted ...

A Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed the alleged certificate forgery suit brought against Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and one of its members, Edobor Williams.   Justice Ahmed Mohammed, in a ...

The Peoples Democratic Party has described the 2021 New Year address by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), as empty, directionless and a confirmation that Nigeria is leaderless. The PDP lamented that the speech by the President addressed nothing ...

Edward Onoja, the Deputy Governor of Kogi State, says God will help his boss, Governor Yahaya Bello, to become Nigeria’s president in 202, despite the Governor saying his only ambition for now is to serve the people of Kogi during ...

  Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo state has said that by 2022 Nigerians will be able to determine whether they need restructuring or a Yoruba presidency.   Some Nigerians have been clamouring for power to be rotated to the Southern region of ...

Senator Theodore Orji (Abia Central) has promised to quit politics in 2023.   He also vowed to resist pressures to seek positions that will keep him in active politics beyond 2023. Senator Orji would be completing his eight years in ...

APC and PDP supporters have continued to clash in Ondo state and this time it happened at the tribunal. There was pandemonium today at the High Court Road, Akure, the Ondo State capital as the supporters of the All Progressives ...

Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, has said he received a vision from God that he would be Governor long before he joined the race. He said this while addressing a congregation at a service held to commemorate the second anniversary ...

Senator Elisha Ishaku Abbo, who represents Adamawa North, has defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Senate President, Ahmad Lawan made the announcement on the floor of the Senate. Abbo, a first- term lawmaker, was elected in 2019 to the ...

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State says another Peoples Democratic Party governor is planning to join Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi, in the All Progressives Congress.   Wike said this on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ programme on Wednesday. The governor ...

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has slammed his Ebonyi State counterpart, Governor David Umahi, over his reasons for leaving the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).   According to him, Governor Umahi left the PDP because he wants to be the presidential ...

Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, said he has no regrets leaving the Peoples Democratic Party to join the ruling All Progressives Congress.   He was reacting to criticism of his political switch to the APC on Tuesday. The governor who ...

  The Akeredolu Campaign Organisation has condemned a recent statement credited to the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the last governorship election,  Mr Eyitayo Jegede, saying some people were after his life . Jegede in a statement by ...

  President Donald Trump has accused the mainstream American media of taking sides and not reflecting on his side of the story, asking as to why does the “Fake News Media” continuously assume that President-elect Joe Biden will ascend to the ...

Former President Barack Obama has said senior US Republicans are undermining democracy by going along with President Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of election fraud.   In an interview with CBS News, due to air on Sunday, Mr Obama said President-elect ...

  Pastor Tunde Bakare, the General Overseer of the Citadel Global Church, has expressed hope of becoming Nigeria’s President. Bakare said just as Joe Biden emerged as the United States, US, President-Elect, he would also become president. The clergyman, who ...

Joe Biden has defeated President Donald Trump in Arizona to become the second Democratic presidential candidate since 1948 to win the longtime Republican stronghold.   According to AP, Biden has been declared the winner of Arizona and its 11 electoral ...

  Rapper Kanye West voted for himself in the US presidential election and appeared to concede defeat in his 2020 bid as he posted the image of an electoral map with the caption ‘WELP KANYE 2024’. Kanye West’s bid for ...

Pastor Tunde Bakare, founder, The Citadel Global Community Church, on Monday said there is no going back on his plan to vie for the 2023 presidency.   Bakare had said in September 2019 that he would be crowned the next ...

Kwara State Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq has imposed 24-hour curfew in Ilorin following violent protest and looting of properties by hoodlums.   The governor announced the curfew late Friday night in a statewide broadcast. He said he just had an emergency ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s yesterday’s speech on the protests rocking the nation, as disappointing and completely disconnected from the realities of the tragic occurrences in our country in the last two weeks.   Disclosing ...

         The Ondo State All Progressives Congress has expelled a member of the state House of Assembly, Mrs. Favour Tomowewo, over alleged anti-party activities during the last Saturday’s governorship election in the state.   Tomowewo, who is the only female ...

                          Only Pele has scored more goals for Brazil than the Neymar who surpassed Ronaldo for the second-most goals for Brazil with a hat-trick against Peru on Tuesday. ...

                                                    Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, on Tuesday visited the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari ...