Politics

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has affirmed the election of Mr Yahaya Bello as the governor of Kogi State. A five-man panel of justices of the court upheld Governor Bello’s election in a judgement delivered on Saturday in ...

American billionaire rapper Kanye West has announced that he would run for president in 2020 in an apparent challenge to President Donald Trump, with whom he has a friendly relationship with and his presumptive Democratic rival, former Vice-President Joe Biden. ...

The ruling All Progressives Congress APC has challenged the Peoples Democratic Party PDP to come clean on the nature of its relationship with the now arrested Instagram celebrity, Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, also known as Hushpuppi. APC in a statement by ...

  Former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign and joint committees outraised President Trump by $10 million in the month of June, Biden’s campaign announced Wednesday. The campaign, in combination with the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and their joint fundraising committees, ...

At least 30 prominent Nigerian activists, academics, and other professionals have formed a new political movement called National Consultative Front. Its founders said the new party will have an ideological outlook and mobilise Nigerians to take power like the African ...

There was drama in Kenya earlier this week when two nominated senators Beatrice Kwamboka (ODM) and Mary Seneta (Jubilee) engaged in a scuffle before parliamentary security separated them. The scuffle over a post is said to have led to the ...

Ondo State Deputy Governor, Agboola Ajayi, has dissociated himself from posters carrying his photograph, campaigning for governorship under the platform of the Social Democratic Party. His posters in SDP had flooded the social media lately. Ajayi, who recently joined the ...

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday struck out a suit seeking the disqualification of Governor Godwin Obaseki from contesting the forthcoming governorship election in the state for allegedly forging his university certificate. The suit was filed on May ...

British rock band The Rolling Stones are threatening President Donald Trump with legal action for using their songs at his rallies despite cease-and-desist directives. The Stones in a statement on Sunday said that their legal team is working with music ...

Immediate-past National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole said he has accepted the decision of the National Executive Committee NEC to dissolve the National Working Committee NWC which he chaired until Thursday. He said President ...

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has boasted that he would be governor again for another four years. The Governor made the boast Friday morning, while making his acceptance remarks, after being declared winner of the People’s Democratic Party’s primary ...

  Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has emerged the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party candidate for the September 19 governorship election in the state.   Obaseki emerged the party’s candidate during the primary held at the Samuel Ogbemudia ...

The crisis in the All Progressive Congress (APC) continues to deepen as the Acting National Secretary of the party, Arc Waziri Bulama was barred by armed policemen from entering the National Secretariat. Bulama while addressing the media on the event ...

Governor Godwin Obaseki is set to clinch the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship ticket as his fellow aspirant, Kenneth Imasuangbon stepped down a few hours to the delegate election. 2, 229 party delegates thronged the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, Benin City ...

The Nigerian police have chased out staff of the All Progressives Congress at its national secretariat in Abuja, as they sealed off the office for the second time this week. Two police patrol vans and two Peugeot 604 cars were ...

The Governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu, has fired all aides attached to his deputy, Agboola Ajayi. He took the decision on Tuesday following the defection of Mr Ajayi to the opposition party in the state, the Peoples Democratic Party. ...

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the closure of the National Secretariat of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The IGP sent the directive through the Commissioner of Police in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Bala ...

Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu has emerged the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the September 2020 election. Imo state governor, Hope Uzodinma declared Ize-Iyamu winner of the direct primary election with a total of 27,838 votes to defeat ...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers has suspended a former Deputy National Secretary, Victor Giadom, over alleged acts of gross infractions of the party’s Constitution. Livingstone Wechie, the Media Adviser to the Acting Chairman of APC in Rivers, Igo ...

Drama ensued at the Government House in Ondo on Saturday night as a team of policemen led by Commissioner of Police Bolaji Salami stopped the Deputy Governor Agboola Ajayi from exiting with official vehicles. Ajayi, who has been at loggerheads ...

Amid the fanfare that greeted Governor Godwin Obaseki’s pitching tent with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to contest for re-election in Edo State, his Deputy, Rt. Hon. Comrade Philip Shaibu has also led his supporters in defecting to the PDP. ...

The Peoples Democratic Party has granted the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki a waiver to contest the party’s governorship primary in the state. This was announced by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, shortly after the governor joined the ...

The much-awaited day finally came as Governor Godwin Obaseki formally joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) after his recent resignation from the All Progressives Congress. He was received by the leadership of the party led by the state Chairman of ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has asked the 15 political parties participating in the September 19 Governorship Election in Edo state to ensure that their primary elections are conducted within the next 10 days as earlier indicated in their ...

Victor Gaidom, deputy national secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has nullified the disqualification of Godwin Obaseki, governor of Edo, from the party’s governorship primary election in the state. Gaidom declared himself as the national chairman of the APC ...