Politics

The main opposition candidate in the just concluded presidential election, Atiku Abubakar of the PDP, will launch a strong legal challenge against President Muhammadu Buhari and the ruling APC over allegations of…

There was palpable panic among residents in some key states of the country on Friday as the Nigerian Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance jets began air patrols over perceived flashpoints in the North-East,…

The conclusion of last  presidential and National Assembly polls has inevitably recast the political permutations in Kwara State.Elections: New commissioner of police deployed to BenueThe long political domination of…

How Governors may emergeIn politics, anything can happen. Or who would have imagined that the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, regarded as political warlord and kingmaker in his state, Kwara would lose an election to return…

Security agencies in the country are believed to be in possession of intelligence purporting that political parties vying for seats in the nationwide governorship and state assembly elections today have drawn up demographic maps…

A former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), will lead the legal team assembled by President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress to defend the President’s mandate in court, The…

Chief Olusegun Osoba, a veteran journalist and a national leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), first governed Ogun State under the botched Third Republic between January 1992 and November 1993. Again, in 1999, he was…

The gubernatorial candidate of Labour party, LP, in Kwara State, Comrade Issa Aremu, has directed his supporters to vote for the candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq in Saturday’s election.He…

As Nigerians await inauguration of the 9th Senate, following the near expiration of the 8th Senate, a pressure group,  Movement for Justice and Equity/Solidarity for Election of President of Igbo Extraction has tipped the former…

Sir Kesington Adebutu, Chairman of Premier Lotto Limited and owner of the popular ‘Baba Ijebu’ lottery, has disowned the endorsement of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) for the governorship election in Ogun…

Former Senate minority leader, Godswill Akpabio, has withdrawn a case he filed in court challenging his Senate reelection loss. Mr Akpabio’s lawyer, Sunday Ameh, announced the withdrawal in court in Abuja on…

The Wife of the President, Aisha Muhammadu Buhari, has advised the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) to consider only its card-carrying members for political appointments. She made the call at a…

•Saraki’s ‘Good Boys’ On The Run Following Failure At The Polls •Details Of Saraki’s Fall In Kwara The last may not have been heard of the downfall of the erstwhile strongman of Kwara politics, who doubles as…

Suspected hoodlums have burnt down an office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Ibesikpo Asuntan local government area of Akwa Ibom state. Electoral materials were destroyed in the incident…

The Nigerian Army will deploy a jet to Kwara State for the governorship and state house of assembly elections. According to the Kayode Egbetokun, the Kwara Police Commissioner, the decision was taken to ensure better…

Police Force Headquarters have deployed seven Commissioners of Police (CP) to Benue State for the governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections scheduled to hold tomorrow (Saturday) Omololu Bishi, the state…

Rivers State Chief Magistrate Court in Port Harcourt has issued an arrest warrant against Nsima Ekere, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Akwa Ibom State. S.D. Andrew-Jaja,…

Ahead of the March 9, 2019 gubernatorial and states houses of assembly elections in the country, the federal government has ordered the closure of all land borders.Minister of Interior, Lt. General AB Dambazau gave the…

A Nollywood actress, Rachel Oniga, on Thursday said Lagos State should remain an All Progressives Congress state for continuity of infrastructure development. Oniga made the remarks at the APC…

The National Leader of Pan Yoruba group, Afenifere, Senator Ayo Fasanmi, and an elder statesman and historian, Prof. Banji Akintoye, have urged Yoruba people to brace up for the presidency in 2023. Speaking in Ado…

Some eligible voters in Lagos State say they may shun the March 9, governorship and state House of Assembly elections due to fear of attack by thugs, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. A cross section of…

The founding Bishop of the Royal Church of God, His Eminence, Archbishop Dr. Polycarp Sunday, has released his prophecies ahead of Saturday’s governorship and State Assembly elections. In the list of prophecies he…

President Muhammadu Buhari arrived his home town of Daura on Thursday ahead of the Governorship and State Assembly elections scheduled for Saturday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mr Buhari landed…

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate for Lagos State, Mr Jimi Agbaje, on Thursday, concluded his campaigns, urging Lagosians to come out to vote on Saturday and liberate themselves from the shackles of those he…