The President-elect, Bola Tinubu, and the Vice President-elect, Kashim Shettima, have urged the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) to dismiss the application by Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for a live broadcast of proceedings. Tinubu and Shettma described the application as frivolous and a bid to waste the court’s time. Besides, they said the court is not ...

A civil group, the Incorporated Trustees of Advocacy for Societal Rights Advancement and Development Initiative (ASRADI), has called for the investigation and subsequent prosecution of the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu before the May 29 swearing-in over alleged perjury regarding his possession of a Guinean Passport. The position of the group was contained in an ‘Affidavit of Urgency’ in support of ...

President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has met with the presidential candidate of the New Nigerian People’s Party, NNPP, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso on a peace talk. It was gathered that the duo met for hours in Paris, capital of France, on Monday. Recall that Kwankwaso came fourth in the 2023 presidentil election. The NNPP presidential candidate won only Kano tate, a stronghold ...

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Femi Fani-Kayode has reacted to a move by the United States to impose visa ban on Nigerians who undermined the recently-concluded general elections in the country. Some Nigerians had challenged the US government to uncover the affected politicians. Reacting, Fani-Kayode, in a statement on Tuesday, said the development was nothing to worry ...

The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has voided the suspension of a former Governor of Kaduna State, Ahmed Makarfi. Makarfi, a one-time Acting National Chairman, was suspended by the Executive Committee of his Tudun Wada Ward in Makarfi local government area of the state. PDP National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, said in a statement that the purported ...

Daniel Bwala, spokesperson, PDP Presidential Campaign Council, has claimed that President Muhammadu Buhari must redeem his electoral legacy by sacking the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Yakubu Mahmood. Bwala, who spoke on Arise TV on Tuesday, insisted that Nigerians have totally lost confidence in Yakubu. He said, “President Muhammadu Buhari has marred his electoral legacy, he has ...

Governor of Katsina State Aminu Masari and elder statesman, Tanko Yakasai have hailed President-elect Bola Tinubu for the zoning of the two topmost National Assembly positions by the All Progressives Congress( APC) to the Southsouth and Northwest. They described the endorsements of Godswill Akpabio as President of the 10th Senate and Tajudeen Abbas as House of Representatives Speaker as rewards ...

The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abeokuta, Ogun state, on Monday, dismissed two petitions file by two political parties, Action People’s Party (APP) and New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) against the re-election of Dapo Abiodun, during the March 18 governorship election. The APP had filed its petition challenging the return of Abiodun as the Governor-elect in the Ogun state ...

A former president of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Olisa Agbakoba, has said the swearing-in of Bola Tinubu as the next president of the country is bound to happen on May 29. Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, was declared as the winner of the February 25 presidential poll with 8,794,726 votes. However, his victory has ...

The United States has said that the move to impose visa restrictions on individuals who undermined the democratic process during the 2023 general election was not targeted at Nigerians or the government. This was revealed by the Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, in a statement, “The United States is committed to supporting and advancing democracy in Nigeria and around ...