Social activist and former presidential aide, Reno Omokri, has pleaded with Nigerians to sign the petition to send President Muhammadu Buhari to prison after his tenure expires in 2023 over the recent revelations concerning the Lekki Toll Gate massacre of unarmed protesters. Findings by the Lagos State Panel of Investigation set up by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu indicted the police and ...

A Kano Senator, Ibrahim Shekarau has accused the state Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje of sidelining him. According to him, Ganduje who begged him to join the All Progressives Congress, APC, has sidelined him in the running of the party’s affairs in the state. He lamented that the governor id failing to listen to advice when he makes mistakes. The Senator said ...

Ex-Director-General of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Chief George Eneh, has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC). Speaking, said that he decided to join APC to wrest power from the PDP and connect the state to national politics. He made this remark at his Enugu residence on Wednesday, expressing confidence in the ...

Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State on Wednesday attacked opposition parties, saying they are just noisemakers. Fintiiri, who is of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),became governor in 2019 after defeating Senator Jibrilla Bindow whose All Progressives Congress (APC) has remained a vocal opposition with critical eye on the his administration. Voices in the APC have frequently questioned projects being executed ...

Dino Melaye a former senator in the 8th assembly has countered some governors who are agitating for indirect primaries in the 2023 general elections. Recall that the Senate, after thorough deliberation by both chambers, recently passed the harmonized version of the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, 2021 which allowed for direct primaries as a means of returning democracy to the people. ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has used a virtual summit with US counterpart Joe Biden to warn that encouraging Taiwanese independence would be “playing with fire”. The talks are the most substantial since Mr Biden took office in January. Both sides emphasised the two men’s personal relationship and the summit was an attempt to ease tensions. But they could not escape ...

Due to the appointment of Babajide Akeredolu as the Director-General of Performance and Project Implementation Monitoring Unit, PPMIU, by his father, Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has blasted  the Ondo State Governor over the development. The state chapter of PDP  emphasised that the move signalled flagrant abuse of office on the part of the governor. It will ...

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC), has issued a 30-day ultimatum to every presidential aspirant of southeast extraction in the 2023 general election to open their campaign offices in the region. It expressed regrets over the glaring absence of any presidential campaign office in the region, even as the political party’s primary election is barely 10 months away. ...

Popular activist, Aisha Yesufu has slammed members of the Lagos State House of Assembly over their alleged indifferent attitude to the End SARS issues. According to Yesufu, a social activist, the Lagos assembly members have done enough to show that they are with the Nigerian youths on the issues that emanated from the nationwide protest but are instead pledging allegiance ...

The Governor of Benue, Samuel Ortom  has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to reject the direct primaries adopted by the National Assembly in Electoral Act amendment bill. He made the call when he interacted with newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja, He said that  direct primaries was not in the best interest of the country. According to him,  the Independent National ...