Politics

    The Governor òf Bayelsa State, the Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson, has announced a donation of N100 million grant to the Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Foundation.   The Governor who made the announcement while speaking as the Chief Host of ...

    Former Ogun State Governor, Chief Segun Osoba said on Tuesday that governors who served under former President Olusegun Obasanjo were able to cage him and stop him from doing a lot of unconstitutional things because of their maturity ...

  Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday in Abuja said that Nigerians must not allow anti-democratic elements whom he refereed to as hooligans to have access to power, saying it would become a dangerous weapon in their hands.   Agreeing ...

    The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, November 19, 2018, opened its case against a former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, who is being prosecuted for an alleged N2.2bn fraud, before Justice Mojisola Olatoregun of ...

    Sen. Ali Ndume (APC-Borno) has accused Senate President Bukola Saraki of personalising the chamber, insisting that plans to impeach him is much alive.   Ndume said at a Forum of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja ...

  A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers state, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has appealed to the Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, and his party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to call off their arms bearing ...

  The prosecution on Monday opened its case before a Federal High Court Lagos in the criminal trial of immediate past Governor of Ekiti, Ayodele Fayose, charged with N6.9 billion fraud.   Fayose was arraigned by the Economic and Financial ...

  The spokesman of the Atiku Abubakar campaign organisation, Segun Sowumni has condemned the presence of service chiefs at an event to showcase President Muhammadu Buhari’s achievements.   The president also launched his campaign to get re-elected at the event tagged ...

  The acting British High Commissioner, Harriet Thompson, says the United Kingdom has no preferred candidate or political party in the forthcoming general elections.   Ms Thompson stated this while briefing reporters after meeting with the Senate President, Dr Bukola ...

  Nigeria’s transportation minister and the director-general of President Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign organisation, Rotimi Amaechi ,has said the ruling All Progressives Congress will have it easy campaigning against the opposition People’s Democratic Party in the forthcoming 2019 general election.   “We are going to ...

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has provided reasons it cannot arrest and prosecute former Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole now.   The anti-graft agency is challenging the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court in Abuja to ...

  According to reports, there is chaos currently at the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly after invasion by suspected thugs alleged to have been sponsored by the All Progressives Congress (APC).   The thugs who are armed with dangerous ...

  Late senator of the second republic and prominent lawyer, Sen. Cyrus Nunyieh, has been laid to rest after his death in August 2018.   The 88-year-old lawmaker who was the first and oldest lawyer of Ogoni extraction, was buried on Saturday, ...

  The National Legal Adviser of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Babatunde Ogala has written the National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, accusing him of usurping the functions of his (Legal Adviser’s) office. The APC LA also accused the party’s National Chairman ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari will today between 5pm and 8pm unveil what his presidential campaign council called ‘The Next Level’ to Nigerians at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.   The INEC Timetable and Schedule of Activities for the 2019 general ...

Former Deputy National Chairman (South) of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Bode George, has expressed shock that businessman Femi Otedola endorsed Sanwo-Olu Babjide, the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate in Lagos State, The Punch reports. Otedola, who is the Chairman of Forte ...

  As candidates for the February 16, 2019 presidential and National Assembly elections officially commence campaigns today, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has warned them against making  inflammatory statements.   According to reports, today marks the start of full electioneering ...

  Blood bath was averted on Friday, November 16, 2018 at Old Bakana as gun men alleged to be sponsored by a PDP serving Commissioner in Nyesom Wike’s government from the area opened heavy gun fire on Pastor Tonye Cole ...

  Senate President Bukola Saraki says he spent between N200 million and N400 million in each of 30 states on the election of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015.   The senate president said this while addressing members of the Peoples ...

  A presidential order to release detained former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) and the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, topped the requests of the leaders of the Christian Association of Nigeria ...

  A man has narrated how he was used as a political thug during one of the elections conducted in Bayelsa state. According to the man named George, he decided to share the story to urge youths from being used ...

  A fight broke out between two Hausa men in the northern part of Nigeria following a tense argument about president Muhammadu Buhari.   In a trending video posted online (watch below), the younger man (in black shirt) was telling ...

Nigerian rapper, Ruggedman has written an open letter to celebrities telling them they have a responsibility to demand better governance for their fans.   Taking to his Instagram page to air his views on Nigerian politics, Ruggedman said it is their duty ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday again gave assurances of his determination to lay a foundation for free, fair and credible elections in the country.   He was responding to a speech by a delegation of Imams and senior Islamic ...

  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has identified the names of 1,224 deceased persons in its 2019 general elections voters register in Adamawa State.   Adamawa State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Kassim Gaidam disclosed this on Friday during ...