Politics

The Court of Appeal in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has dismissed the case of a former Minister of State for Agriculture, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri challenging the candidacy of the Bayelsa State Governor-elect, Chief David Lyon. More to come…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ebonyi said it viewed with great concern, the reported claim by Gov. Dave Umahi of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that he also belonged to APC. The governor was quoted to have told his audience at the Government House, Abakaliki, on Monday, January 6, that he was “100 per cent APC.” Addressing newsmen at ...

Prof. Jonah Onuoha, the Head of Political Science Department, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, has described the current campaign by political office holders ahead of 2023 as premature and bad omen for the nation’s democracy. Speaking in an interview with newsmen in Nsukka on Friday, Onuoha also described the trend as an unhealthy development. He, therefore, urged politicians, “who are preoccupied ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has urged Nigerian youths to be prepared for huge responsibilities as they will eventually to take over the leadership of the country in future. Buhari stated this when he received All Progressives Congress (APC) youth leaders from the six geo-political zones of the country at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Friday. He advised the younger generation to ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Nigerian Police Force, on Friday blamed each other for security lapses that marred last year’s governorship elections in Bayelsa and Kogi States. INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, insisted that security deployment in recent elections left much to be desired. He vowed that the Commission must adopt a different approach to election security, going ...

A stalwart of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Enugu State, Comrade Adolphus Ude has urged the Ben-Nwoye-led leadership of the party in the State to stop distracting the President Muhammdu Buhari administration with the 2023 presidency contest. Ude belongs to the Enugu APC leadership under Deacon Okey Ogbodo. In a statement he released in Abuja, Ude said it was ...

The Presidency has frowned at the activities of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), saying the party represents the single biggest obstacle to good governance and change in the country. Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, in a statement in Abuja on Thursday, said the country’s main opposition party had no business in the internal ...

Another dramatic scenario played out in Edo on Thurday  as the Chairman of Edo State Local Government Service Commission, Mr. Tom Uloko, was harassed and chased out of the country home of National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress(APC) Comrade Adams Oshiomhole. Uloko, who served as Commissioner under Oshiomhole as Governor, claimed he was invited for lunch.  harrass In a ...

Adebayo Shittu, ex-Minister of during President Buhari’s first term says the All Progressives Congress (APC) may find it difficult to secure votes in 2023 if the party fails to find solution to its internal wranglings. He made this known in Osogbo, Osun State capital, when he featured on “The Frontliners”, a programme organised by the association of veteran journalists. According ...

The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has ordered the State Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, to start criminal prosecution of council chairmen who were relieved of their offices over allegations corrupt practices. The governor said this at the swearing-in of a new chairman for Esan West Local Government Area (LGA), Mrs. Ruth ...