Politics

  President Muhammadu Buhari has been sworn in for his second term in office The President took the oath on Wednesday, May 2019 with dignitaries from different parts of the world in attendance at the Eagles Square, Abuja.   The ...

The outgoing Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha who formally vacated the State Government House on Tuesday, while addressing his supporters in Owerriindirectly called off the fight he declared before the 2019 Gubernatorial election in the State. In the video, Imo ...

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has revealed that handing over to the incoming governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu won’t have been possible without the support of Lagosians. Ambode made this known in a social media post shared today as he officially handed over ...

Speaker Yakubu Dogara has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari should be blamed for the delay in the passage of the 2019 budget Buhari had yesterday placed the blame on the leadership of the national assembly saying: “I told them, how do they ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has said the people calling baba go slow during his first administration will be shocked at what will happen in his 2nd term in office. Buhari said this during a media chat which was aired on Nigerian Television Authority ...

Justice Aminu Aliyu of the Federal High Court, Minna, on Monday, May 27, 2019, ordered the Commissioner of Police, Niger State Command, to arrest former Niger State Governor Muazu Babagida Aliyu and compel his appearance in court on June 13, 2019. The ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has said he rates the Senate President Bukola Saraki and The Speaker of the House, Yakubu Dogara, very low. “I told Saraki and Dogara that by holding the budget for 7 months, you’re not hurting me, you’re ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has blamed President Muhammadu Buhari for rise in suicides and other social ills in the country. The opposition party made this allegation in a statement signed by the PDP’s spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Sunday, May 26, 2019, Pulse ...

APC elders have advised President Muhammadu Buhari not to appoint senator Godswill Akpabio as minister in his next administration. In a letter sent to President Buhari which was also made available to newsmen, the APC elders earned the president not to ...

  Rotimi Amaechi, the minister of transportation in Nigeria, has said his ultimate ambition is to make heaven when he dies. He made this statement at the thanksgiving and birthday celebration organized and celebrated at St. Gabriel Chaplaincy, Catholic secretariat ...

  The wife of the governor of Lagos State, Mrs Bolanle Ambode has handed over to the wife of the state’s governor-elect, Dr Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu. Bolanle Ambode who was the chairperson of the Committee of Wives of Lagos State Officials (COWLSO), handed ...

  An Indian politician broke down in tears after he saw the results of his election. After the votes were counted, he had 5 votes yet there are 9 members of his family who are eligible to vote.   The politician ...

  Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika has stated that reports of a division among ministers in the Federal Executive Council (FEC) over mode of implementation of the National Carrier project was untrue. Hadi Sirika made this known in reaction comments ...

  The Supreme Court of Nigeria has ruled that PDP won the Zamfara governorship election held March 9th, APC governor, Abdulaziz Yari, is the outgoing governor of the state. The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the APC did not ...

Theresa May resigns as UK Prime minister. The PM has come under increased pressure from her own party over her failed Brexit plans. The Prime Minister has announced that she is to leave her position within weeks. Theresa May met ...

Lagos State Governor-elect, Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, has stated his plans for the first 100 days when he resumes as governor. During a recent interaction with select journalists in Lagos, the Lagos State  Governor-elect opened up about his plans for Lagosians and what ...

Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, FFK, has expressed delight at Wole Soyinka and Olusegun Obasanjo waking up to a Fulanization agenda in Nigeria. Obasanjo had stated few days ago that the agenda behind the insecurity caused by Boko Haram and Herdsmen ...

Former Presidential aide, Reno Omokri has asked Nigerians to decide if APC chieftain Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is a brave man or coward. In a tweet he shared, Reno Omokri wondered why Tinubu responded when he was attacked by the Peoples Democratic Party, ...

A presidential aide, Lauretta Onochie has replied former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on his defamatory claim and demand of N500M. Atiku’s lawyer, Mike Ozekhome (SAN), few days ago sent a letter to Onochie demanding for five hundred million Naira, (N500m) and a ...

  The Ogun State Police Command has uncovered plots by unscrupulous elements to disrupt the inauguration of Dapo Abiodun as governor of the State come May 29. The police revealed that the elements plan on carrying out orchestrated rallies, processions and assemblies ...

The outgoing Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, stated that spending four years in office has made him grow wiser politically.   He made this known while speaking with state house correspondents during what he termed a “thank you visit” to President ...

Kaduna State governor, Mallam Nasir El Rufai has stated that he has no apology to tender regarding his comment in defeating the godfather in Lagos State politics. At a forum in Lagos last Friday, El Rufai was quoted as giving steps towards ...

Nigerian born British Labour politician, Dr. Kate Anolue from Anambra State has been sworn in as the Mayor of Enfield, UK. This is the second time she is assuming this position and she said she is “thrilled” to be a ...

A former Vice-Chairman of Kosofe Local Government Area in Lagos State, Segun Aka-Bashorun, has revealed how former Governor Babatunde Fashola (SAN) was prevented from fighting corruption by “the godfather”. According to him, Fashola had put in place mechanisms to promote transparency in ...

The Osun PDP party chairman Soji Adagunodo has vowed that the party will head to the Supreme Court to challenge the Appeal Court ruling which declared Governor Gboyega Oyetola winner of the 2018 Osun governorship election. Speaking to pressmen shortly after ...