Politics

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday commenced the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) for the second quarter of 2018 in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The exercise commenced at the Karu centre at…

Omoyele Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters and presidential candidate for the 2019 election, says even while sleeping, he can do better than President Muhammadu Buhari. On Tuesday, hundreds of his supporters and members of the…

President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress Governors Forum are presently meeting behind closed doors at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. The agenda of the meeting is however uncertain yet, but it can not be…

Nigeria’s Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Monday denied reports that he will contest the 2019 presidential election. Mr. Saraki, a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, said report making the rounds that he will…

Ima Niboro, a former spokesman of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, says the All Progressives Congress (APC) will win 2019 elections by a “sizeable margin” despite its challenges. Speaking with journalists at the weekend, Niboro said…

The Social Democratic Party, SDP, has split into two factions in the South-East geopolitical zone. In separate meetings the two factions held in Enugu, weekend, the two factions accused each other of promoting political mischief.…

A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olabode George, has told a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, that everything that has a beginning has an end. Bode George was reacting…

A former Governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke, has declared that he is still a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The ex-Governor maintained that the Coalition for Nigeria Movement, CNM, being championed by former…

Members of the Senate and House of Representatives on Sunday endorsed President Muhammadu Buhari’s withdrawal of support for the extension of the tenure of the National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress.  The lawmakers…

Adams Oshiomhole, former governor of Edo state; Ogbonnaya Onu, minister of science and technology; and Ken Nnamani, ex-senate president, are seeking to succeed John Oyegun, outgoing chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC).…

INDICATIONS emerged yesterday that the National Working Committee (NWC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) may currently be divided over earlier resolution at the last NEC meeting of the party that a technical committee be…

There are strong indications that northern governors in the All Progressives Congress have withdrawn their support for the elongation of the tenure of the party’s National Working Committee. on Saturday that the party’s stakeholders…

Governor Rochas Okorocha has said that Chief Uche Nwosu who he has preferred to succeed him would do better than him as governor because he has known all the secrets behind the success story of his governorship in the state. Okorocha…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has advised the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to follow the example of Ibrahim Mantu and “confess its sins”. Mantu, a former deputy senate president, confessed helping the PDP rig elections by…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to reveal source of his campaign funds. In a statement on Saturday, Kola Ologbondiyan, spokesman of the PDP, said Buhari has no moral to fight corruption…

Unknown to many, the failed attempt to foist a Caretaker Committee on the All Progressives Congress (APC) was actually aimed at creating legal crisis for President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 and edge him out of the presidential election.…

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, has threatened to take the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, to court for including his name in the alleged list of looters…

The Peoples Democratic Party has dismissed the list of alleged ‘looters’ released by the Federal Government as hollow and laughable. The party said the list was an extension of the Federal Government’s media trial and challenged it…

Tunde Bakare, serving overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, LRA, has warned the President Muhammadu Buhari administration about what Nigerians can do. He warned that Nigerians can shut down the government as a result of herdsmen…

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed on Thursday described former Lagos Governor, Bola Tinubu as “an exceptionally visionary politician who has invested in many people’’. The minister spoke at the 10th Bola Tinubu…

Former Aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has criticized the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for apologizing to Nigerians. Fani-Kayode, writing on his Twitter page on Friday morning, held that the PDP had nothing to be sorry about.…

• Shouting match at APC NEC meeting A scheduled meeting between the National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress and the party’s caucus at the House of Representatives was unceremoniously called off on Wednesday. The…

The National caucus of Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has approved the constitution of an Elders’ Council instead of the traditional Board of Trustees (BoT). The Elders’ Council is to consist of 50 members top party…

Professor Mahmud Yakub, the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission said up to 80 political parties may be on the ballot in Nigeria’s 2019 election. According to him, INEC had received over 100 additional applications for…