Politics

A major Islamic group, the Jama’atul Izalatul Bidi’a Waikamatus Sunnah (JIBWIS), one of the largest Islamic societies in Nigeria, Chad, Niger, and Cameroon, has endorsed President Muhammadu Buhari for a second term…

Nigeria’s Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo on Friday turned a striker as he scored a goal during a football match in Ipaja area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria. The event was the house-to-house campaign of the All…

Osita Okechukwu is the Director-General of the Voice of Nigeria (VON) and a staunch supporter of President Muhammadu Buhari. In this interview with reporters in Enugu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain…

Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar have lost another staunch member. Latest on the list of defectors is Atiku’s North-East Campaign Director General, Senator…

National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Leader of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu said yesterday that all those crying of electoral violence ahead of the 2019 are…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), for the umpteenth time, has reported the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), its National Commissioner, Amina Zakari and the security agencies to the European Union…

The secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha says he believes the All Progressives Congress (APC) has won the 2019 elections. According to PUNCH, Mustapha said this on Thursday during the…

It was a carnival of a sort,as the ancient city of Ilorin,Kwara state capital, was shut down for the better part of Thursday when the gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC)Alh Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq went on…

Mahmood Yakubu, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says the commission will not disappoint Nigeria in the conduct of the forthcoming general election. Yakubu made the pledge when he…

The Independent National Electoral Commission said it would devolve Permanent Voter Cards’ collection to registration areas and wards across the country, as from January 16. The Commission said in a statement by…

The Director General of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation for the North East, Senator Saidu Umar Kumo, has dumped the PDP for the All Progressives Congress. Kumo is from Gombe State. This…

At least 61 political parties have kicked against the draft released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on election guidelines. Ikenga Ugochinyere, publicity secretary of the inter-party…

The Buhari Media Organisation has advised the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, to give up his presidential ambition in order to avoid what it calls “a humiliating defeat” at the polls on…

A former deputy governor of Osun State and candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the state’s last gubernatorial elections, Iyiola Omisore, has said he is fully in support of the All Progressives Congress…

Wife of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Hajiya Titi Atiku Abubakar, has appealed to Nigerians to “kick out” President Muhammadu Buhari in the February 16 election, saying his…

President Muhammadu Buhari and his party the All Progressives Congress (APC) are using state apparatus and resources for the elections in violation of the Constitution and the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended), the…

Ahead of the 2019 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission has said that nobody can hack into its database. Speaking in Ado Ekiti yesterday while addressing stakeholders at the Independent…

A support group of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Broom Revolution, has called on the security agencies to beef up security around President Muhammadu Buhari, the APC National Leader, Bola Ahmed Tinubu…

With barely 35 days to the commencement of the 2019 elections, political analysts are worried that the  intensity  of electioneering by political parties and candidates have been low as compared to the 2015 general elections.In…

Senator Ayo Arise, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and governorship aspirant in Ekiti State in 2018, speaks exclusively with Senior Deputy Editor, TAIWO AMODU, on the chances of his party in the…

Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun, yesterday, ruled out Senate president’s ambition if elected as senator representing Ogun Central in the ninth legislature. Amosun submitted that with the position of Vice…

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday expressed optimism that he would win the forthcoming presidential election, saying “victory is with us”. The president spoke at the inaugural meeting of the 2019 APC…

Uche Secondus, national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party  (PDP), says some politicians in Lagos are talking about fighting corruption when the source of their wealth is questionable. The PDP chairman…

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, is to speak on a phone-in radio programme from Israel at about 6pm on Saturday.The programme is to enable him address issues relating to the threat to boycott…