Deputy Governor of Ondo State and the vice chairman of the State Executive Council, Hon. Lucky Aiyedatiwa has presided over the state exco meeting in Akure, the state capital. The exco meeting is coming after months of political wrangling between the deputy governor and loyalists of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu. Recall that President Bola Tinubu summoned the warring factions to a ...

The All Progressive Congress, APC, in Kano, has accused the New Nigeria People’s Party NNPP of trying hard to create tension and set peaceful Kano ablaze through a series of sponsored failed protests. The APC also accused the NNPP of violating the Peace Accord signed at the Police Headquarters by sponsoring protests in the city. Dr Musa Kwankwaso, a staunch ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Lagos State has delivered a Certificate of Return to Rauf Age-Suleiman, APC candidate, who was pronounced the genuine winner of the March 18 Amuwo-Odofin Constituency II House of Assembly election by the Court of Appeal. Prof. Ayobami Salami, INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), while presenting the certificate on Wednesday, asked Age-Suleiman to give ...

Henry Kissinger, the former US secretary of state and national security adviser who helped open up relations with China, usher in a detente with the Soviet Union and end America’s war in Vietnam, has died aged 100. Kissinger’s death at his home in Connecticut was confirmed by Kissinger Associates, his consultancy, which described him as a “respected American scholar and ...

A coalition of 100 pro-democracy groups has welcomed the ruling of the Appeal Court affirming the election of Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State. The court, in a unanimous decision on Tuesday, upheld the judgment of the Rivers State Governorship Election Tribunal, which had earlier dismissed four separate appeals filed against the governor. Tonye Cole of the All Progressives Congress ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the National Assembly to reject the N27.5 trillion budget proposed by President Bola Tinubu for the 2024 fiscal year. The National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Debo Ologunagba, said this in a statement on Wednesday. Politico.ng had reported that  President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday presented a budget of N27.5 trillion for the 2024 ...

Musiliu Obanikoro, the former minister of state for defence, on Wednesday, disclosed that N1.219 billion cash was airlifted to Ekiti state ex-governor, Ayodele Fayose during the 2014 election. Fayose is facing trial by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, alongside his company, Spotless Investment Limited, over their alleged involvement in N6.9 billion money laundering. Giving evidence as a witness ...

The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the state Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led administration of Governor Ademola Adeleke as deceitful and unproductive in the last one year of its inauguration. A statement by the party chairman, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal, and made available to journalists in Osogbo by the director of Media and Information, Chief Kola ...

The Kogi State All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship Campaign Council has called on the general public to hold the Social Democratic Party (SDP) responsible if anything untoward happens to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Lokoja. The campaign council said the party was convinced that the false alarm raised by the SDP over a purported planned attack on ...

The Pan Yoruba Socio-Political Group, Afenifere, has expressed worries at the dwindling image and increasing loss of confidence in the judiciary by Nigerians. Rising from its monthly meeting at Isanya Ogbo, Ogun state, the group in a communique signed by its national leader Chief Ayo Adebanjo and Secretary General, Chief Sola Ebiseni, lamented that it has great implications for the ...