Politics

The witnesses the Peoples Democratic Party and Atiku Abubakar were hoping to present at the Presidential tribunal today, were allegedly attacked by gunmen.   Following the attack, Justice Mohammed Garba adjourned hearing on the PDP and Atiku /Obi Petition to Monday, the 15th ...

Aliyu AbubakarJa’afar as , one of the commissioners nominated by Governor Nasir el-Rufai, was rejected by the Kaduna State Assembly over his criticism of Nasir El Rufai’s policies in 2017.   Speaker of the House Assembly, Aminu Shagali, during the ...

  President Buhari has asked members of the National Assembly to give him more time to compile the names of those who will serve as Ministers in his yet-to-be-formed cabinet. President Buhari assumed office for a second term on May ...

The Court of Appeal will today rule in a suit filed against President Buhari, challenging his qualification for the 2019 presidential election.   A three-member panel of the Court of Appeal presided over by Justice Atinuke Akomolafe-Wilson, had on July ...

  Governor Emeka Ihedioha of Imo State has disclosed that when he took over from Owelle Rochas Okorocha as Governor of Imo State in May of 2019, he met an abandoned and neglected state secretariat powered by different hues and ...

Emma Ibediro, the All Progressives Congress’ national organizing secretary, has stated that Igbo Presidency is not a right.   Condemning the outright call for Igbo Presidency from the South-East region he is also from, Emma Ibediro said only a zone that has worked ...

  The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) made a surprise appearance on Monday at the hearing of the petition by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate in the last presidential election, Atiku Abubakar. This is ...

  Some of the women who contested for various political offices as candidates during the 2019 general elections in Bauchi State have lamented that they were tagged and labelled as ‘prostitutes’ for daring to participate in party politics.   Some ...

  The presidency has described as “very ridiculous, and even comical’’, the reaction of former vice president Atiku Abubakar, to the Supreme Court ruling affirming the election of Governor Gboyega Oyetola of Osun state.   Atiku, who was the candidate ...

Former vice president, Atiku Abubakar has reacted to the latest supreme court ruling in the Osun State governorship tussle.   The Supreme court this morning declared Gboyega Oyetola as the rightful winner of the disputed election thus putting an end ...

  Former Presidential aide, Reno Omokri has just declared that he’s now in apossesion of  incontrovertible proof that INEC has and had a server. According to him, his proof is in form of a signed confession by INEC’s spokesperson. See his ...

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has accused former Senate President Bukola Saraki of diverting N12 billion from the treasury of the Kwara State Government illegally while he was governor of the state between 2003 and 2011. The ...

  Peoples Democratic Party has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo to publicly declare their assets to prove to Nigerians and the world that they are not corrupt. The main opposition party also asked President of the Senate, ...

  The PDP candidate in the last Guber election in Osun state, Senator Adeleke has said he would become the governor of the state by July 5th. He expressed that he is confident that the Supreme Court judgment slated for ...

Mohammed Abubakar the former governor of Bauchi State, has slammed claims that he spent N2.3 billion to organise funerals for some of the indigenes of the state. According to Abubakar, he only spent N1.2 billion on funeral materials and not ...

  Ahmad Lawan, President of the Senate, has claimed his monthly salary as a Nigerian senator does not exceed N750,000. A former senator, Shehu Sani, in 2018 had disclosed that lawmakers received N13.5 million every month for running costs, apart ...

  The 2019 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar on Tuesday said the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal did not reject his request to check the purported central server of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as ...

  The Senator representing Enugu-West, Ike Ekweremadu has told the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to revisit the Nigerian constitution and be guided on the subject of de-registering underperforming political parties. In a statement, the Senator noted that INEC already ...

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, on Monday, shared a video of his visit to Lagos via Twitter. He also thanked the Lagos state government and the people of the state for the rousing reception he received ...

  The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on Monday dismissed an application filed by Atiku Abubakar and the PDP to inspect INEC server allegedly used in collating the Feb. 23 general election. Justice Mohammed Garba, Chairman of the panel held that ...

  Naetochukwu Chikwe popularly known as Naeto C has been appointed as Special Assistant to Governor Emeka Ihedioha of Imo State. Before being appointed as Special Assistant to Governor Emeka Ihedioha on Lagos Liaison, Naeto C served as a Committee member for the ...

  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reviewed the party’s cost of nomination forms for governorship position from five million naira to twenty million naira. This comes ahead of the November 16 governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states. According ...

The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Monday floored his opponents at the Election Petition Tribunal. Sanwo-Olu defeated the governorship candidates of Alliance for Democracy, AD, and Labour party, LP, Owolabi Salis and Prof. Ifagbemi Awamaridi, in the 2019 election ...

  Gov. Adegboyega Oyetola of All Progressive Congress (APC) on Monday asked the Supreme Court to dismiss all four appeals filed by the Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Ademola Adeleke challenging his victory in the 2018 Osun ...

The Immediate past governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha has been sworn-in as the senator representing Imo West senatorial district.   Okorocha was sworn-in today barely 48 hours after he was refused participation in the inauguration of the 9th senate on Tuesday. ...