National Organising Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Hon. Emma Ibediro has said getting an Igbo President in 2023 is not a right. According to him, aspiration must involve
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Embattled Sen. Ishiaku Abbo (PDP-Adamawa) on Tuesday challenged members of the Senate investigative panel hearing his alleged case of assault on a nursing mother not to threaten him with suspension.
Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, on Tuesday, approved the appointment of seven senior aides. The new appointees are Chief Economic Adviser – Dapo Okubadejo; Senior Special Adviser on Political
Immediate past governor of Zamfara, AbdulAziz Yari, has said he regrets not handing over to his choice successor who, according to him, understands how best to continue his administration’s programmes
Ahead of the 2020 governorship election in Edo State, a former Commissioner for Education and co-convener of a pressure group, Edo Peoples’ Movement, Mr. Gideon Obhakhan has advised Governor Godwin
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Osun State, Mr Habeeb Adewale has flayed the leadership of the party for “presenting a candidate of unimaginable deficits for the
The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has rubbished the perception in some quarters that President Muhammadu Buhari was protecting killer herdsmen and Boko Haram members. Osinbajo said the narrative that
The immediate past minority leader of the sixth Abia State House of Assembly and the All Progressives Congress candidate for Bende South constituency seat in the last 2019 general election,
A Muslim community leader in Abia state and legal expert, Alhaji Suleiman Ukandu, has faulted the action of the Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila,
Witnesses for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, Tuesday, in evidence, alleged that the result sheets presented by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in
Worried by the incessant cases of child rape across the country, Nigeria’s Senate on Tuesday moved to frame laws that would make perpetrators face capital punishment. Moving the motion on
Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Adamu Kafarati has directed that all political cases still pending before the court should be concluded by October 2019. Kafarati made the
Immediate past governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha, has demanded that his successor, Emeka Ihedioha, the Commissioner for Justice, Ndukwe Nnawuchi (SAN), and the chairman, Recovery of Moveable Assets,
The lawmaker representing Ekiti South under the platform of APC, Senator Dayo Adeyeye, has defended the pay packages of members of the Senate. He stressed that they deserve running costs
Governor Muhammad Badaru of Jigawa State has directed all the local government councils to start paying to the contributory pension scheme when ever they received their federal allocation before any
Femi Fani-Kayode, former Aviation minister, has asserted that Northerners have looted Nigeria more than any other region. He said this in response to the claim by Nasir El-Rufai, Governor of
The Governor of Enugu State, Rt Hon Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has tasked corps members to champion the protection of the sovereignty of Nigeria and ensure the continued unity and existence of
A witness for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ijeoma Peter Obi, Monday at the presidential election petition tribunal affirmed that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, conducted the February 23,
The Abuja division of the Court of Appeal, Monday reserved judgment in the appeal filed against President Muhammadu Buhari’s academic qualification for the 2019 presidential election. The three-member panel of
The leader of the All Progressive Congress, (APC), and former Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief, Timipre Sylva, has challenged the current governor of the state, Hon. Seriake Dickson, to stop
