Politics

While the ruling party, All Progressives Congress, APC, handed an indefinite suspension on Chief  Rochas Okorocha of Imo State for supporting the governorship candidate of another party, it has not applied the same sanction on…

Tonye Cole says the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) should conduct fresh governorship and house of assembly elections in Rivers state. Cole was the gubernatorial candidate of a faction of the All…

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari for his victory at the presidential election, in February. Samson Olasupo Ayokunle, CAN president, led the…

Jibrilla Bindow, Governor of Adamawa State, has conceded defeat and congratulated Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, winner of the 2019 governorship election in the state. In a state broadcast, a text of which was…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has advised any politician who feels aggrieved over the just concluded general elections to seek redress in law court.  National Commissioner supervising Plateau,…

Godswill Akpabio, senator representing Akwa Ibom north-west, says some clergymen in Akwa Ibom state have been casting aspersions on him since he defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). In…

The Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, has asked the Court of Appeal in Abuja to reverse the March 22 majority judgment of Osun Election Tribunal which declared Sen. Ademola Adeleke winner of…

The Kano State governorship supplementary election held last week, with incumbent governor, Abduallhi Ganduje emerging victorious. ABDULLAHI YAKUBU, in this report, writes on the intrigues and horsetrading that trailed the…

Director of Awareness and Sensitisation of the National Movement for Re-election of Buhari (NMFRB), Prince Samuel Ojo, has applauded efforts of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government in…

President Muhammadu Buhari and the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), have been cautioned against subjecting the control of the National Assembly to certain individuals.       A cross…

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has upheld the victory of Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the last governorship election. A three-man panel of the court, in a…

The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr. Yekini Nabena, has said that the Igbos have themselves to blame for losing out in the slot to either become the Senate…

Elder statesman and former presidential adviser, Tanko Yakasai, has said that there is an unwritten understanding that when President Muhammadu Buhari finishes, the Vice President will likely be the next presidential candidate…

Rt Hon Umaru Fintiri of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been declared winner of the Adamawa State governorship election. This followed the conclusion of collation of results of the supplementary…

As it presented certificates of return to Kaduna state Governor Nasir El-Rufai and 34 elected house of assembly members in Kaduna on Thursday, The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has…

VICE President Yemi Osinbanjo went down the memory lane yesterday to relive the role played by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in reclaiming states lost by the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria to the Peoples…

Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has alleged that some influential people working closely with the Federal Government are mounting serious pressure on its leadership to pay a congratulatory visit to President Muhammadu…

Former Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola has described the judgment of the Election Petition Tribunal last Friday, which nullified the election of Governor Gboyega Oyetola as very strange and unknown to…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced the schedule of activities for the resumption of elections in Rivers State. The governorship and state house of…

The All Progressives Congress on Wednesday says it cannot help the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, who has been denied a certificate of return as a senator-elect because he is still on suspension.…

About 50 political parties have lent their support to the reelection of Abdullahi Ganduje, Governor of Kano State, in the just-concluded governorship election. This was contained in a media statement signed…

Fatimah Ganduje-Ajimobi, daughter of Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano state, has taken to Twitter to reply those she accused of slandering her family. Ganduje-Ajimobi accused some supporters of Rabiu…

The computation of presidential election results filed before the elections petition tribunal by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, shows that all accredited…

It has been jubilation galore for the lovers of the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke, coming on the heel of the Osun State Election…