Politics

INEC Reveals Date for 2023 General Elections: The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday announced the date for the forthcoming 2023 general elections. Chairman of the commission, Prof Mahmood Yakubu made the announcement at a one-day public hearing on the National Electoral Offences Commission (Establishment) Bill 2021, organized by...

No Apologies For Defending Herdsmen - Gov Mohammed Fires Back: Bauchi State governor, Bala Mohammed, has stated that he won’t apologize for defending Fulani herders against alleged ethnic profiling of herdsmen. Governor Mohammed made the assertion on Wednesday during the official launching of the 2020/2021 annual livestock vaccination campaign, held...

Buhari Appoints New Heads for Civil Defence & Correctional Service: President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Ahmed Abubakar Audi as the new Commandant-General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola announced on Thursday. He said the appointment followed the retirement...

New Political Force Coming - Rochas Okorocha: A formidable political party will soon be launched, former Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, said on Monday. He said the new party will provide a credible alternative to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The Senator, a founding...

Atiku: PDP Must Be United To Secure Electoral Victories In 2023: Former Vice President and 2019 Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has said the party must be united to secure electoral victories in the 2023 general elections. The Wazirin Adamawa also said it is...

APC Gears Up For National Convention, Set To Release Timetable: The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, said it is currently working on modalities for the conduct of Wards, Local Governments and States Congresses, a process that would culminate into its National Convention. This was disclosed in a New Year Message...

APC Must Collapse for Nigeria to Have Peace - Fayose: Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, says Thursday that the crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress is a show of God’s anger against the governing party. Fayose said the crisis was a price for the role the APC played...

Obaseki Quits APC After Meeting President Buhari: Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has resigned his membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC), after meeting President Muhammadu Buhari at the Villa. Obaseki disclosed this to State House reporters on Tuesday on his way out of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He also...

Reps Fault FG N187bn Spending on School Feeding Programme: The House of Representatives has faulted Federal Government’s claim of spending N186 billion on its School Feeding Programme by the National Conditional Cash Transfer Office. The House Committee on Public Accounts picked holes in the spending while grilling the National Coordinator...

APC Recommends Gov Obaseki and Two Others for Expulsion: The factional camp of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo has recommended Governor Godwin Obaseki and two other party chieftains for expulsion over alleged anti-party activities. It asked the Comrade Adams Oshiomhole-led National Working Committee (NWC) to expel Obaseki, who was...

Izuogu: Kingibe Offered Me Secretary to Govt to Work Against Abiola: As reported by Chris Njoku of The Nation Online during an interview, Dr. Ezekiel Izuogu, a renowned politician, elder statesman and BoT member of the APC spoke on the journey so far and said that the unity of...

Okorocha Dares EFCC to Publish Accounts on Recovery of N7.9bn: Former governor of Imo state, Senator Rochas Okorocha has challenged the Economic Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to publish details of the bank accounts where it recovered from him (Okorocha) N7.9 billion. Okorocha who is representing Imo West senatorial district, in...

IPOB Discloses What they Submitted to US Dept that Rattled Presidency: The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has released the document it submitted to the United States Department that triggered panic in the Presidency; which accused the IPOB of engaging in international propaganda, accusing the Federal Government of prosecuting...

2019 Polls: 18 Electoral Offenders Facing Trial in Seven States - INEC: The Independent National Electoral Commission on Tuesday announced the prosecution of 16 electoral offenders in seven states for their conducts during the 2019 general election. The commission said it was also prosecuting two cases emanating from the governorship...

Tinubu Denies Fighting Aregbesola as Lagos APC Bans Groups: The All Progressives Congress, Lagos chapter, has dissolved all sub-groups within the party. The Mandate Group and Justice Forum, regarded as the powerful sub-groups in the party, were outlawed by the APC. Mediangr reports that the decision is coming two weeks after...

National Assembly PASAN Writes Lawan & Gbajabiamila on Condition of Service: Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria, (PASAN), National Assembly chapter has written to the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, appealing to them to wade into a brewing crisis occasioned by an...

President Buhari Reconstitutes NNPC Board Members: President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the reconstitution of the Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), after the expiration of the term of the board members appointed in 2016. A statement Saturday by the Special Adviser to the President (Media and Publicity) Femi Adesina...

Buhari Will Sign Peace Corps Bill - Ali Ndume: The Chairman, Senate Committee on Army, Senator Ali Ndume, has indicated that President Muhammadu Buhari is now favourably disposed to give assent to the Peace Corps Establishment Bill currently before the National Assembly. Senator Ndume said that the refusal of the...

PDP Reacts as Abuja Court Acquits Adeleke of Exam Malpractice: The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State has described the acquittal of its Governorship candidate in the 2018 election in the state, Senator Ademola Adeleke as a victory over ‘pedestrian gangsterism’. A Federal High Court in Abuja had on...

Edo 2020: PDP Aspirant Promises Affordable Housing & Security: The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant in Edo state, Engr Gideon Ikhine has promised to provide affordable housing for the residents if elected. Ikhine made the promise while interacting with his supporters and journalists on Friday in Benin. He said successive...