Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has said that he was nearly assassinated while working as the Chief of Staff to ex-Governor Chibuike Amaechi, in 2007. It will be recalled that Wike was the former Chief of Staff to Rotimi Amaechi during the first tenure of the latter. It should be noted that the Governo is aspiring for the office of ...

Ahead of preparations towards 2023 general elections, President Muhammadu Buhari has again spoken about who is going to succeed him. It will be recalled that the President said he had a preferred candidate, he did not want to unveil the person because he may be eliminated if he exposes him. The President, in an interview with newsmen  on Monday after ...

Ex-Governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido has warned former-President Goodluck Jonathan against decamping to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the All Progressives Congress, APC. He warned Jonathan that doing so would incure the wrath of God. According to him, Jonathan should not succumb to the calls that he should dump PDP for APC.. He called on the former President ...

In preparation towards the 2023 Presidential election, the Igbo apex socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has maintained that the Presidency must return to the Southern part of the country. According to the group, the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, are against zoning of the Presidency because it was the turn of the Southeast to produce Nigeria’s President. The statement is coming in ...

Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Aviation Minister has advised the ruling All Progressive Congress on where to zone the 2023 presidency to. Fani-Kayode suggested that ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar may pick the PDP Presidential ticket. Against this background, he urged the All Progressives Congress, APC, to field a Northern Presidential candidate to retain power in 2023. In a tweet, the APC ...

The political ambition of the Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu is getting brighter as workers have endorsed him for second term. It was learnt that during the May Day celebration in Sunday, the Governor announced an increase in the monthly running cost of public primary schools. He, however, did not give a figure to the increment. He made this intimation ...

Renowned legal practitioner , Femi Falana has berated the All Progressives Congress, APC, over its N100 million for Presidential nomination form, stressing that politics is now for money bags. According to the social critic, it’s immoral and illegal for the APC to peg its Presidential nomination form at N100 million at the same period workers are collecting N30, 000 monthly ...

South East socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze says it is not happy with the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, over its handling of the zoning of the party’s presidential ticket. It will be recalled that the opposition party has gone ahead to screen all the presidential aspirants on its platform. Speaking in  a statement issued on Sunday by the Ohanaeze Secretary-General, Mazi Okechukwu ...