Politics

  Just days after denying plans to dump the Young Peoples Party, YPP, Ifeanyi Ubah, senator who won the election Anambra south election on the platform, has dumped the party for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Adams Oshiomhole, national ...

  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to stop their “unnecessary fabrications, smear campaign” and prepare to face the opposition’s legal team at the Presidential Election Tribunal. Responding to a ...

  All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders yesterday moved to prevent the “hijack” of the new National Assembly leadership. They met with would-be lawmakers. President Muhammadu Buhari dined with serving APC senators and senators-elect at the New Banquet Hall of the  State ...

Timipre Sylva and Mrs. Koromiaware Kenneth   A 22-year-old Koromiaware Kenneth has lamented her ordeals following the killing of her husband, Kenneth Adebor, at Nembe-Bassambiri, Nembe Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, a day before the Presidential and National Assembly elections ...

  A First Republic Aviation Minister, Chief Mbazulike Amaechi has said that the present administration committed treasonable offence by deploying the military during the general election. Amaechi maintained that the military should have no part to play in elections and ...

  The Personal Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on New Media, Bashir Ahmad, has stated the reasons the President refused to visit some states to campaign for governorship candidates of his party, All Progressives Congress, after he had won the ...

        Unknown gunmen have shot Comfort Dooshima, the collation officer for Gboko local government area of Benue state. Dooshima a lecturer at the University of Agriculture, Benue, was attacked on her way to the Independent National Electoral ...

  Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai on Friday evening returned to the state after his rumoured accident involvement, saying that, he is not cloned from abroad. This was as the Governor tackled the former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku ...

  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has hailed the verdict of the Osun State Governorship Election Tribunal, which upheld the victory of its candidate, Senator Ademola Adeleke. It described the judgment as a victory for democracy and triumph of the ...

  The former governor of Ekiti state, Ayodele Fayose says by the grace of God, presidency and Ekiti will also slip off the hands of the All Progressives Party (APC). Fayose said this in reaction to the victory of Ademola ...

  Former Senate President, Ameh Ebute, has written the United States President, Donald Trump, over a recent report by US Department of State titled: 2018 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. The report indicted the Federal Government and state agents, ...

  The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has demanded that Muslims must have a fair share of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s list of ministers, who will be appointed from the South West. This position was made known in a statement made ...

  The Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha on Thursday accused the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state of being “in a hurry to resume their alleged looting of the treasury and properties of the state.” He made the allegation ...

  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has outlined activities and timeline to resolve the electoral logjam in Rivers State. An INEC spokesperson, Festus Okoye, disclosed this at a press briefing at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja. According to him, ...

The N2.2bn fraud trial of former Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose progressed on Wednesday with the prosecution fielding four additional witnesses. Among the four witnesses were three Lebanese – Goshen Joseph; Joseph Mechleb and Maroun Mechleb – who are working ...

Buba Galadima, a former ally of President Muhammadu Buhari, has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of using the military to rig the 2019 presidential election. Galadima spoke when he featured on Sunrise Daily, a programme on Channels Television. According to ...

  The All Progressives Congress (APC) says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is suffering from post-election depression over the opposition party’s claim that it won the last presidential election. The ruling party said this in a statement by its publicity ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the court order stopping the collation of pending results of the Bauchi governorship election. The party described the order as unconstitutional, and threatened to obtain similar ones stopping the swearing in of all ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has rejected five bills transmitted to him by the national assembly. The bills are Nigerian Film Commission bill, Immigration Amendment bill 2018, Climate change bill 2018, Chartered Institute of Pension Practitioners bill 2018 and Digital Rights and ...

  Buba Galadima has said that former President Goodluck Jonathan shot himself in the foot by not taking Muhammadu Buhari to court following the outcome of the 2015 presidential election.   Galadima who was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily opined ...

  Three young men pictured below reportedly rode their bicycles all the way from Biu local government area of Borno state to Abuja just to celebrate President Muhammadu Buhari and senate leader, Ali Ndume of the All Progressives Congress (APC), ...

  All Progressives Congress (APC) stalwart Asiwaju Bola Tinubu yesterday denied meddling in the proposed Kano State supplementary elections. He also refuted the unfounded reports that he relocated to Kano, the state capital, for the polls. The former Lagos State ...

  Rivers State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the Minister of Transportation and factional leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Chibuike Amaechi, to stop daydreaming about governing the state for a third ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission has said that it would not remove its Resident Electoral Commissioner in Rivers State, Obo Effanga, saying that it does not take directive from anybody. INEC’s Director of Voter Education and Publicity, Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, stated ...

  The Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate in the February 23, 2019 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, said on Monday that they had assembled over 400 witnesses to testify at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal, where they would ...