Politics

Outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May formally tendered her resignation to Queen Elizabeth II on Wednesday as her successor Boris Johnson prepares to take over.   May arrived at the palace after earlier urging Johnson to deliver Brexit “in a ...

Controversial Ugandan singer and politician, Bobi Wine has officially announced that he will run for president in the country’s 2021 national elections.   The 37-year-old whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, will challenge President Yoweri Museveni, who has been in power for 33 ...

Going by several political permutations by analysts on social media, the immediate past governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode was expected to make the ministerial list released by President Buhari today.   The absence of his name of the list ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the Ministerial list released by President Buhari as colorless, stagnant, uninspiring and does not convey any sense of hope or purposeful governance under the All Progressives Congress (APC).   In a statement released ...

The Senate has announced the postponement of its annual recess for one week to enable members screen the ministerial nominees forwarded by President Muhammadu Buhari.   The annual recess was initially billed to start on Friday July 26th.   The ...

Below is the names of all the Ministerial nominees President Buhari sent to the Senate for confirmation.   Abia 1. Dr. Ikechukwu Ogar Adamawa 2. MUHAMMADU Musa Bello Akwa Ibom 3. Goodwill Akpabio Anambra 4. Chris Ngige 5. Sharon O. ...

Boris Johnson has been elected new Conservative leader in a ballot of party members and will become the next UK prime minister.   He defeated Jeremy Hunt comfortably, winning 92,153 votes to his rival’s 46,656. The former London mayor takes over ...

Yesterday, the Peoples Democratic Party of Nigeria called on the Federal Government to explain the whereabouts of an allegedly missing $1bn from the Excess Crude Account security fund.   The Presidency in its response on Sunday night declared that the ...

The Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has indicated that it has only five days more to wait for President Buhari to submit the list of his ministerial appointees before it proceeds on its two-month annual vacation, according to ...

Main opposition Peoples Democratic Party of Nigeria has called on the Federal Government to explain the whereabouts of an allegedly missing $1bn from the Excess Crude Account security fund. The PDP in a statement today said, “the Peoples Democratic Party of ...

Femi Fani-Kayode clashed with Dele Momodu over his comment of President Buhari being the ‘father of the nation’.   The Publisher of Ovation Magazine, Dele Momodu, in a tweet which was a response to the ‘explosion’ in different parts of the country, stated that ...

British finance minister Philip Hammond has said he would make a point of resigning before Boris Johnson became prime minister, saying he could never agree to his Brexit strategy.   Johnson is widely expected to win the governing, centre-right Conservative Party’s leadership ...

Ahead of the gubernatorial election scheduled to hold in Bayelsa State on November 16, a video of Bayelsa State lawmaker, Hon. Wilson Ayakpo Dauyegha in physical fight with the All Progressives Congress (APC) chairman in the state, Hon. Jothan Amos has ...

A statement released on Thursday by the All Progressives Congress, APC’s National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, confirmed the expulsion of the Party’s National Vice Chairman (North West), Inuwa Abdulkadir. Inuwa Abdulkadir was expelled from the ruling party over an alleged anti-party activity, ...

Ademola Adeleke has reacted to Governor Gboyega Oyetola’s comment of feeling ridiculed to contest in an election which he, the dancing senator was part of.   We reported that the Osun State Governor while receiving the leadership of the Social Democratic ...

The Bayelsa State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Support Group has accused former President Goodluck Jonathan, and his wife Patience of making surreptitious moves to cause confusion in the PDP by falsely encouraging multiple governorship aspirants to enter the race. The ...

Gboyega Oyetola, the governor of Osun state, says he felt very ridiculed when he contested the state governorship election with a person like Senator Ademola Adeleke popularly known as the Dancing Senator, in September 2018.   Speaking while receiving the ...

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu and the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Zamfara state, have been ordered to produce a document requested by the People’s Democratic Party, PDP and its Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. ...

The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Kano on Tuesday dismissed a prayer by Abba Kabir-Yusuf, PDP governorship candidate seeking to amend the names of witnesses earlier presented alongside the petition.   The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its governorship ...

The Peoples Democratic Party has called on President Buhari to declare a state of emergency on security in order to address insecurity situation in the country. The PDP National Chairman, Uche Secondus, made the appeal at a press conference on Tuesday ...

  Yesterday, the suspension of Omoyele Sowore as the National Chairman of the African Action Congress, AAC, and Malcom Fabiyi as the Deputy National Chairman was validated by a Federal High Court which sat in Abuja. Reacting to the court ruling in a series of ...

Senate President Ahmad Lawan has said he will not be a “rubber stamp” to the executive.   Mohammed Isa, a media aide to Lawan, quoted the senate president as saying this when he received Women Parliamentarians, a group led by ...

The suspension of Omoyele Sowore as the National Chairman of the African Action Congress, AAC, and Malcom Fabiyi as the Deputy National Chairman, has been validated by a Federal High Court which sat in Abuja on Friday.   Also ruling on the suit ...

  The Election Tribunal in Ibadan, Oyo State on Friday, July 13, 2019 dismissed a petition filed by Durodola Muftau Adelani of the Providence People’s Party (PPP) challenging the validity of the election that brought in Hon. Shina Abiola Peller ...

The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Osun State has replied Davido’s father, Dr Deji Adeleke, over claims that his brother, Ademola Adeleke was deprived of his victory in the 2018 Osun State election.   Adeleke had said that the ”day light ...