Politics

Ahead of the November 16th Governorship election in Kogi State, a delegation led by the deputy governor of the State, Edward Onoja have gifted the traditional ruler of Igala, Dr Michael Ameh-Oboni II, with a white Rolls Royce Phantom.   Speaking at ...

Lagos State House of Assembly has issued another invite to former governor, Akinwunmi Ambode as contained in an advert in some national dailies today.   The Assembly wants Ambode to appear before it on Wednesday, October 30th by 1pm. The legislature, ...

Asuku Jamiu Abdulkareem, the new Chief of Staff to Kogi state governor, Yahaya Bello, has alleged that the impeached deputy governor of Kogi state, Elder Simon Achuba, left a charm in his government house apartment after he hurriedly exited the ...

Nyesom Wike’s election as the Governor of Rivers State has been upheld by the Supreme court.   A petition filed by the African Action Congress (AAC) and its candidate in the 2019 governorship election, Awara Biokpomabo Festus which was upheld by the ...

Ghanaian actor turned Politician, John Dumelo has been spotted pushing a garbage truck ahead of the 2020 Parliamentary election for Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency he is contesting in on the platform of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).   The actor who is working ...

Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has sworn-in Imonofi Osumah Inusa as the Chairman of Etsako West Local Government, after Yakubu Musa, the erstwhile chairman was removed.  Musa was removed over his alleged involvement in N46 million fraud in the council. ...

Rashida Yahaya Bello, wife of Kogi state governor, staged a mini party in the state house last night to celebrate the emergence of her friend, Mercy Onoja’s husband as the new Deputy governor of the state.   Edward Onoja, the ...

Justin Trudeau has won a second term as Canada’s prime minister after the country’s federal election, but his narrow victory means he will lead a minority government that will be forced to depend on other parties to govern.   The ...

Musa Wada, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the November 16, Governorship Election in Kogi, has described impeachment of the state Deputy Governor, Elder Simon Achuba, by the State House of Assembly as illegal and undemocratic.   Wada said this ...

John Baiyeshea, chairman of the panel that was set up to investigate allegations against the impeached Deputy Governor of Kogi State, Simon Achuba has disclosed that they couldn’t prove the allegation he was impeached for.   Recall that Simon Achuba ...

Babachir Lawal, the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, has said that APC National leader and former governor of Lagos state, Bola Tinubu, stands a chance of being a good President of Nigeria after President Buhari completes his tenure ...

Edward Onoja has been nominated as Deputy Governor of Kogi State by Governor Yahaya Bello, few hours after Simon Achuba was impeached by the Kogi state house of assembly over an alleged gross misconduct.   Onoja’s nomination as Deputy Governor came ...

  The deputy governor of Kogi State, Simon Achuba, has been impeached.   Simon who has been in a running battle with the state governor, Yahaya Bello, was impeached by members of the state Assembly today October 18th.   Recall that ...

Opposition party, PDP has reacted to the recent appointment of six aides for the office of the first lady by asking President Buhari to explain how it will be funded.   In a statement released on Thursday, Ocotber 17th, the party also asked ...

Adams Oshiomhole, the National Chairman, All Progressives Congress (APC) has warned Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State to stop blackmailing him and rather focus on delivery of good governance to the people.   This was contained in a statement signed by Oshiohmole’s ...

President Donald Trump has challenged Hillary Clinton to join the 2020 U.S. presidential race on condition that she gives an explanation regarding the notorious email scandal. Mocking her in a tweet moments ago, Trump wrote, ‘I think that Crooked Hillary ...

Ijaw leader and politician, Chief Edwin Clark who served under former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, as Federal Commissioner for Information in a recent interview with Vanguard said there is no politician in Nigeria better than Igbo politician.   When ...

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has said he has no plans to anoint anybody as his successor in 2023.   Ortom, while addressing PDP stakeholders’ on Friday, October 4th in Makurdi, assured them that he would allow the party to ...

Security has been beefed up in the Kano State metropolis ahead of the judgment to be delivered today by the Kano State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal.   The tribunal on Monday, September 30th  announced Wednesday as judgment day in the petition ...

Tunde Bakare, the general overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, insists he will become the next President of Nigeria after President Buhari completes his second term in 2023.   Last week, a video of the clergyman man making this declaration went ...

There’s a lot of confusing and pandemonium at the Bayelsa State House of Assembly complex as the embattled Speaker, Emmanuel Isenah, has been controversially impeached and replaced with a lawmaker representing Southern Ijaw Constituency 2, Monday Obolo.   Ranami Afagha, ...

Former Vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the last election, Atiku Abubakar has accused the federal government of persecuting judges defending the constitutional rights of Nigerians.   Atiku, in his independence message urged Nigerians ...

The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has adopted Governor Yahaya Bello as its candidate for the forthcoming November 16 governorship election in Kogi State.   National Organising Secretary of the group, Alhaji Aliyu Saleh, who made the ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disqualified 14 political parties from participating in the upcoming elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states for fielding invalid candidates.   Disclosing this in a statement in Abuja on Friday, September 27th, INEC National ...

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai has mocked the immediate past senator for Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, on Twitter.   El-Rufai not only referred to Sani as unemployable, he also said Sani is not good enough for a desk role ...