The major opposition, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has lauded the judiciary for jailing a Returning Officer, who connived with the All Progressives Congress, APC, to rewrite election during the 2019 general elections. PDP said the “three years jailed term handed to Prof. Peter Ogban, a professor of University of Calabar, for manipulating the result of Akwa-Ibom Northwest senatorial election ...

Ahead of the upcoming governorship election in Anambra State, the state  government has banned political rallies and campaigns in market across the state. The intimation was made by the Commissioner for Trade and Commerce, Uchenna Okafor Acccording to the Commissioner, the position of the government is that it is not ideal for market to be used for political rallies or ...

The spokesman of Atiku Abubakar’s 2019 Presidential Campaign Organisation, Segun Showunmi, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to leave the post of presidency immediately if he feels he is not competent to lead the country. The top aide of the former Vice President told the President: “pack your bags and go.”. According to Shpwumi, the call is necessary considering the present ...

For announcing false results during the 2019 general elections, a High Court in Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State on Thursday has sentenced a professor of the University of Calabar, Peter Ogban, to three years in priso The professor of science who served as the returning officer in the senatorial election in Akwa Ibom North-West Senatorial District in 2019, was said ...

A prominent politician and a chieftain of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, has claimed that some influential leaders of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the All Progressives Congress, APC, are making secret move to ensure that northerners emerge presidential candidates in 2023. He alleged that this us a new political gambit of the cabals to keep a northerne in ...

Rift appears to have erupted between the Government of Anambra State and Senator Ifeanyi Ubah over billboards in the state On Wednesday, the Managing Director of Anambra Signage and Advising Agency, Jude Emecheta stressed that the state governor, Willie Obiano, did not order the destruction of Senator Ubah’s billboards in the state. He was reacting to Ubah’s claim that the ...

Leader of the Pan-Yoruba Socio-Cultural Organisation, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo has spat fire as regards the 2023 general election, saying that said there will be no poll  if President Muhammadu Buhari did not restructure Nigeria. Acccording to him, the President must restructure Nigeria before any election could take place. He stated that the obnoxious constitution would not allow him to ...

A Yoruba Group known as the  South West Agenda (SWAGA) group has revealed there was an agreement between the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) that ACN block from the south will produce candidate after the tenure of President Mohammadu Buhari. The group alleged that the agreement was made while forming the All Progressives ...

The office of the President has dispelled the widespread speculations that there is no rift between President Muhammadu Buhari and former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu. Speaking on the matter, Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, said the two politiical figures have a very strong commitment to the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Nigerian people. “Recent reports of a rift between ...

Aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, a former social media aide to ex-has knocked the All Progressives Congress chieftain, Bola Tinubu, for donating N50m to victims of the Katsina market fire and ignoring affected traders in the South-West. Omokri said this in a tweet on Wednesday shortly after Tinubu announced the donation during a visit to Katsina, the ...