Politics

A high court sitting in Imo state has directed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) not to issue certificate of return to Rochas Okorocha as senator-elect for Imo west senatorial district.…

A former National Deputy chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has criticized calls urging President Muhammadu Buhari to name late M.K.O Abiola as president on June 12. According to Bode George, the move may result in a…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday prayed the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to strike out the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar…

Yakubu Danladi, a 34-year-old graduate of Kaduna Polytechnic, has been elected speaker of the Kwara state house of assembly. Danladi, who represents Ilesha-Gwanara constituency, was elected unanimously…

Members-elect of the House of Representatives are turning up in the chamber, with Mr James Faleke, one of those leading the campaign of the speakership candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Mr Femi…

Governors of the All Progressives Congress on Tuesday stormed the National Assembly complex to witness the election of presiding officers. They were led by the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum,  Kayode Fayemi.…

The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has explained why it is backing Senator Ali Ndume and Umar Bago as its candidates for the positions of the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of…

Indications emerged, last night, that the 9th National Assembly may be in for a stormy session, today, as an Abuja High Court sitting at Bwari reportedly issued an interim order for the use of open ballot system in the…

"I did not vote for myself. Nigerians voted for me. I have already won the presidential election. You cannot re-sit for an exam you have already passed." Dare Babarinsa, veteran journalist and…

A meeting of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Governors of the party on the platform of Progressive Governors Forum and all its elected representatives…

Just a day to the election of federal lawmakers into leadership positions in the national assembly, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has adopted Senator Ovie Omo-Agege as its deputy senate…

In a last minute push to enforce party supremacy and obtain absolute compliance from its newly elected members at the House of Representatives, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and its anointed speakership…

Ahead of the inauguration of the 9th National Assembly tomorrow, intense lobbying by the two major contenders, Senator Ahmad Lawan and Ali Ndume, has taken centre stage as both candidates seek to curry the…

AHMED Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila look good to carry the day in tomorrow’s election for Senate President and House Speaker – thanks to President Muhammadu Buhari’s backing. All Progressives…

A former member of the House of Representatives, Hon Razaq Bello-Osagie, has asked Governor Godwin Obaseki to shame those Edo politicians asking him for money by publishing their names.…

One hundred and eighty-three newly elected members of the House of Representatives yesterday endorsed Mr. Femi  Gbajabiamila as Speaker of the 9th House and Alhaji Idris  Wase as his deputy. The Forum of…

All good things, they say, must end. The Eighth Senate was adjourned Sine Die on Thursday to mark the end of the legislative business of the upper chamber. It was a sobering day for the high and mighty in…

Femi Gbajabiamila, the Majority Leader of the outgoing 8th House of Representatives and major contender for the incoming 9th House, a lawyer of many years before venturing into politics and occupying the seat for Surulere…

A total of 61 senators have so far endorsed Sen Ahmad Lawan as the Senate President for the incoming 9th Assembly.Out of the 61 senators, 60 are of the ruling APC, while one is of the Young Progressives Party (YPP),…

A group of lawyers has challenged Mr Femi Gbajabiamila, immediate past Majority Leader, House of Representatives, to go to court over criminal allegation levelled against him by some group ahead of the…

As partisans begin to make permutations with regards to zoning the Presidency in 2023 to the South, immediate-past Minister of Communications, Barr. Adebayo Shittu has said the north is free to contest the Presidency in so…

Rochas Okorocha, former governor of Imo state, says he has forgiven Innocent Ibeabuchi, returning officer for the Imo west senatorial election.  Ibeabuchi had said he announced the former governor…

As partisans begin to make permutations with regards to zoning the Presidency in 2023 to the South, immediate-past Minister of Communications, Barr. Adebayo Shittu has said the north is free to contest the Presidency in so far…

State Chairmen of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the 36 states and the FCT on Thursday passed a vote of confidence on National Chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and the…