Politics

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 ...

Femi Fani-Kayode has reacted to the continued detention of Omoyele Sowore, embattled publisher of Sahara Reporters, despite fulfilling his bail condition.   In a post shared on his Facebook page, FFK wondered why anyone is surprised Sowore is still in ...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) governors under the auspices, Progressive Governors Forum, have denied media reports that there is a cold war between President Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.   The governors described the reports of a feud between ...

The Independent National and Electoral commission (INEC) on Thursday September 26, revealed that only 62 out of 2,970 women won elective positions in 2019 election.   INEC’s Deputy Director & Head of Gender Division, Blessing Obidegwu who spoke at a 2-day workshop meant ...

Donald Trump took to Twitter to blast Adam Schiff, who is the head of the House Intelligence committee investigating him in the current Whistle blower story engulfing the White House. Another tweet after the cut.  

Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State has vowed to sack any of his aide who will dare to insult President Buhari.   Umahi was elected on the platform of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. He also warned that any of ...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has denied reports that there is a rift between President Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. For many weeks now, Nigerians have been inundated with reports that the President and his Deputy are at logger heads. ...

As Tweeted by the US President ..Guess he’s feeling the pressure of the impeachment proceedings underway…  

Shehu Sani, the Immediate past senator who represented Kaduna Central in the 8th Senate has lambasted Governor Nasir El-Rufai for enrolling his son in a public school, calling it a political stunt for 2023.   He further said the action is not ...

Chief Rashidi Ladoja, the former Governor of Oyo state has revealed that former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo was behind his impeachment in 2006 after he opposed his third term agenda.   The impeached Oyo Governor on Tuesday September 24, ...

Tunde Bakare, the founder and senior pastor of Latter Rain Assembly, a Lagos-based pentecostal church has declared he would be Nigeria’s next president come 2023.   Bakare, in a video which has gone viral on social medial, declared that he would ...

Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the last general election, really means business to overturn the verdict of the Presidential Elections Petitions Tribunal, PEPT, that confirmed President Buhari’s re-election.   According to a report ...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has countered claims of President Buhari’s failure in governance hindering the fulfillment of promise they made to Nigerians during their campaign.   Speaking at the burial ceremony of Mrs Moroluke Fakoyede, mother of the Economic and ...

Former Vice President and Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar in his reaction to the September 11th dismissal of his petition against President Buhari’s election, evoked subtle threats of eternal damnation to all blocking his path.   ...

Hassan Marafa, the former Emir of Bakura in Zamfara state has emerged the Deputy Chairman of the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).   Marafa emerged during the party’s state congress held in Gusau on Monday, September 16th. He was ...

Zulfat Suara, a US-based Nigerian woman who made headlines months ago after declaring her interest to contest for political office in Nashville, has also made history by becoming the first Muslim to be elected to a Metro seat in Nashville. ...