Politics

Ahead of 2019 governorship election, the plot to unseat Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, thickens. At the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship campaign at Dange/Shuni last Sunday, the party standard…

The Bus Conductors Association of Nigeria (BCAN) has expressed its readiness to re-elect President Muhammadu Buhari in the February general election. Israel Adeshola, the BCAN National President, disclosed this in…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has suspended Gamawa Babayo, its deputy national chairman (north). Kola Ologbondiyan, the party spokesman, announced this in a statement on Monday night. He said the party’s…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday announced the total number of voters in the country as over 84 million. Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman, said the national voter register hit 84,004,084…

Arewa community in Lagos State has endorsed President Muhammadu Buhari and the Lagos State All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, as their candidates for general elections.…

The Zakari family of Kazaure in Jigawa State has denied any relationship between President Muhammadu Buhari and their daughter, Hajia Amina Zakari, a national commissioner with the Independent National Commission, INEC and asked…

A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, yesterday, ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to remove all candidates of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State from the 2019 general…

The presiding pastor of Light Of The Living church, Prophet Joseph Oluwarotimi Ilesanmi has said the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) will lose either Lagos state governorship election or the presidency during…

Following President Muhammadu Buhari’s handover of the All Progressives Congress’ campaign to the party’s national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has asked the…

A former Governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose, on Sunday queried President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife, Aisha, over what had happened to the cabal that she alleged had hijacked her husband and prevented him from performing in…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says at least 84 million Nigerians will participate in this year’s general elections. Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman, dislcosed this on Monday in Abuja while…

A  Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has nullified the primaries conducted by the two factions of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State. In the judgment given on Monday, the…

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, will now lead the party’s campaigns for the February general elections as against President Muhammadu Buhari, who is the Chairman of the APC Campaign…

Opposition political parties on Sunday have resolved to begin nationwide protests from January 15 to force President Muhammadu Buhari to name a new Inspector-General of Police. The parties, on the platform of the…

Garba Shehu, senior special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on media, says his principal will not support Adekunle Akinlade, preferred governorship candidate of Ibikunle Amosun, governor of Ogun state. Shehu said…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has given assurance that if elected back to power in 2019, it will ensure an uninterrupted education calendar in the sector. Mrs Jennifer Atiku, wife of the PDP presidential…

Cherubim and Seraphim Unification Church of Nigeria ( the white garment church) met with President Buhari recently and has endorsed him for the second term. The leader of the delegation, His Most Eminence, Prophet…

Barely five weeks to the start of this year’s general election, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said about eight million would-be voters are yet to pick up their permanent voter card (PVC). One…

Kola Shittu did not match the picture the reporter expected to see. It was the second day of the new year and the Kwara State chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was calm and all smiles as he ushered party…

The Lagos State government has described as “nonsensical” the claims that it forcefully retired, at least, 21 permanent secretaries to make way for the emergence of the state’s new Head of Service, Hakeem…

Second republic politician, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai, has raised the alarm over the fate of the Igbo in the present political arrangement, expressing fears that the Southeast might be shut out of the presidency for the next 20 to…

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has said that a vote for its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in the February 19, 2019 presidential election would mark an end to Fulani supremacist agenda and the…

Wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari, has tasked women and youths of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to ensure victory for the party in the forthcoming presidential election. She made the call on Saturday…

Chairman of the INEC Committee on Collation Centre for the general elections, Amina Zakari, has debunked reports that she is a relation of President Muhammadu Buhari. Zakari in an interview with BBC, said the allegation that President…