Politics

  Rivers State Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has called on Transportation Minister Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi to join hands with him to develop the state. It was the end of the road yesterday for the Rivers State All Progressives Congress (APC) in ...

  The All Progressives Congress (APC) has argued that former Vice President and candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the last presidential election, Atiku Abubakar is not a Nigerian by birth. The APC argued that by virtue of ...

  The house of representatives has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to appear before it and address Nigerians within 48 hours on the incessant killings in parts of the country. At its sitting on Thursday, the lower legislative chamber accused the president ...

Lai Mohammed and Atiku Abubakar   The minister of information, Lai Mohammed has asked Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to stop “overheating the polity”. Addressing a press conference in Abuja on Thursday, Mohammed advised Atiku ...

Rochas Okorocha and Emeka Ihedioha   Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, on Wednesday asked the state governor-elect, Emeka Ihedioha, to stop creating tension in the state. Okorocha, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Sam Onwuemeodo, accused Ihedioha of ...

  Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has accused the governor-elect, Emeka Ihedioha, of impersonating him. He said for Ihedioha, who was announced winner of the governorship election in the state by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in Owerri, to ...

  The Lagos State Government has refused to disclose how much it has spent on houses, vehicles and allowances of its former governors and ex-deputy governors. The Punch had in December 2018 written a letter to the Secretary to the ...

  Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha, Monday gave hint why he wants to go to National Assembly as Senator representing Imo West Senatorial zone. He said he wants to build a strong political bridge between the Southeast and other geopolitical ...

  Organising Secretary of APC in Adamawa, Alhaji Ahmed Lawal, has insisted that power must shift to the southern part of Nigeria in 2023. Lawal made the call in an interview in Yola, yesterday. He stressed the need to demonstrate ...

  The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has fingered the Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami in an alleged plot to void the March 9 Rivers State governorship election. The Independent National ...

  President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, on Saturday morning arrived Doha, Qatar, as leader of the National Assembly’s delegation to the 140th Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) meeting that commenced on 5th April, and to end on 8th April, ...

  Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has declared that he will never take the support of Rivers people for granted, saying that he will continue to work to improve their lives. The interaction between Governor Wike and Rivers people ...

  Godswill Akpabio, a senator from Akwa Ibom, has dismissed as “fake”, a news report alleging that he claimed to have the connection to influence the outcome of his petition before the election tribunal in the state. Mr Akpabio, who ...

  Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and a former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair on Friday had a private meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that there was, however, no interview after the duo ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has joined all members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in felicitating with the party’s National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole on his 67th birthday. A statement by his Special Adviser on Media, Femi Adesina, on Friday, added ...

A Federal High Court in Abuja heard yesterday that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in last year’s Osun State governorship election, Senator Ademola Adeleke, did not sit for the National Examination Council (NECO) examinations in 2017. It was at ...

  Governor Nyesom Wike has been declared winner of the Rivers Governorship Election by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Wike who contested under the umbrella of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), polled 886,264 votes to win the polls 2019 governorship ...

Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has resigned after weeks of massive street protests, leading to celebrations across the country. Mr Bouteflika, who has been ill since he suffered a stroke six years ago, has avoided public events ever since. The ailing, 82-year-old ...

  The Independent National Electoral Commission in Rivers State has begun the collation of results of the suspended Governorship and House of Assembly elections results in the state. Electoral and Returning Officers for the seventeen Local Government Areas where elections ...

  Senate President Bukola Saraki yesterday explained the controversial refusal of the Senate to confirm Mr. Ibrahim Magu as the substantive chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Saraki said that Magu’s appointment may have been confirmed but ...

  The Imo state governor, Rochas Okorocha, has said that his administration has completed over 1000 projects ready for commissioning by President Muhammadu Buhari. Mr Okorocha stated this in an interview with State House correspondents on Monday shortly after he ...

  Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, on Monday met President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Okorocha speaking with State House correspondents after the meeting said he discussed with Buhari on the issue of the ninth National ...

  The Senator representing Zamfara Central District in the National Assembly, Kabiru Marafa, has advised the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, to stand by the truth as regards the party’s 2018 October’s botched ...

  Ahead of May 29, 2019, handover date to newly-elected states helmsmen, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has set up teams to probe some governors accused of perpetrating acts of corruption, according to Sunday Punch. At least 12 states ...

  The national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has revealed what his mother told him when he wanted to join politics. He made this known while speaking with journalists in Lagos on Friday after a prayer ...