The major opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said President Muhammadu Buhari should withdraw his unnecessary remark in his new year message about “standing down” in 2023, because he and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), would have no other option than to exit office at the end of his tenure. According to Daily Post, PDP made ...

There was intensive apprehension in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital in the early hours of Thursday as the state government made good its intention to take over an expanse of land said to have been illegally acquired by the late Dr Olusola Saraki. The disputed plots of land had been a source disagreement between the state government and former Senate ...

Abdulmumini Jibril, who will be participating in the January 25, 2020 re-run election in the House of Representatives from Kano has spoken on the alleged rift with Governor Ganduje Jibril, who spoke at the State House, Abuja, after meeting President Muhammadu Buhari said he did not visit the President because of the perceived rift with Ganduje. He debunked the reports ...

A former Edo State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Charles Idahosa, has said National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, is responsible the crisis rocking the party. He urged Oshiomhole to stop playing the victim when he was the cause of the crisis. Idahosa was reacting to Oshiomhole’s call on Nigerians to remember him in their ...

Kwara state government has explained why it revoked the Ilofa road, GRA, Ilorin plots of land allegedly illegally acquired by the late strong man of Kwara politics, Dr Olusola Saraki. The state government also revealed further details surrounding the Civil Service Clinic land and its adjourning plots in Ilorin, the state capital, amid public enquiry. “The entire land was acquired ...

The Minister of Youth and Sports Development Mr Sunday Dare, has called on All Progressives Congress (APC) stakeholders in Oyo state to work as a team to reposition the state as a pace setter state in the country. Dare made the call in his new year address to party stakeholders in the state as part of efforts to reconcile and ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated his intention not to contest the 2023 presidential elections but determined to help strengthen the electoral process both in Nigeria and across Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Several ECOWAS members will be going to the polls in 2020. Buhari made his feelings known in a letter to Nigerians issued by his Special Adviser ...

Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde has disclosed that he may step on some toes in his zest to serve the masses. The governor, who made the declaration while speaking at the thanksgiving service to mark his 52nd birthday said that he would continue to fight on the side of the ordinary people. A statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, ...

The Edo Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has urged leaders and people of the state to put state interest above individual interest in 2020. The state Chairman of the party, Chief Dan Orbih, said this on Tuesday, in Benin in his New Year message to the people of the state. Orbih said that as the world approaches 2020, ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has enjoined Nigerians to be tolerant, law abiding and peace loving as the nation enters a decade of “prosperity and promise for Nigeria and for Africa’’. “This is a new year and the beginning of a new decade – the Nigerian Decade of prosperity and promise for Nigeria and for Africa,’’ the president said in a letter ...