Politics

THE All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday explained the crises that rocked some of its state chapters as a result of the primaries to pick candidates for next year’s elections. Party spokesman Lanre Issa-Onilu spoke on…

Osinachukwu Ideozu, senator representing Rivers west, has defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Ideozu was elected as senator on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2015. Ahmed Lawan, senate…

The Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has denied reports he is considering leaving the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Ekweremadu, currently out of the country, took to his Facebook page to make clarification on his…

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has mastered the art of the “double-edged compliment” as exemplified by his praise for Juventus after Tuesday’s 1-0 defeat by the Italians. But it would have made uncomfortable…

Further details have emerged as to the source of anger that rocked the camps of some leaders of the South East geopolitical zone following the announcement of the former Governor of Anambra state, Mr Peter Obi as the running…

SENATORS have re-jigged and passed the Electoral Amendment Bill rejected thrice by President Muhammadu Buhari. The bill was passed yesterday after a brief debate on the report of the Senate Committee on the Independent…

•Ex-governor: I’m eminently qualified to be running mate Atiku Abubakar got yesterday a complex challenge on his presidential bid —he should drop running mate Peter Obi or lose. Some youths in the North visited former…

IMO State Governor, Rochas Okorocha  yesterday  said that  only his son-in-law, Uche Nwosu, can win Imo 2019 governorship election in the state.Okorocha spoke in Owerri, through his Chief Press Secretary, Sam Onwuemeodo, while…

Senator Shehu Sani, representing Kaduna Central senatorial district, on Tuesday,  joined People’s Redemption Party, three days after he left the All Progressives Congress.Sani made this known in a statement by his Special Adviser,…

Donald Duke, presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), has picked Junaid Mohammed as his running mate for the 2019 poll. Duke, a former governor of Cross-Rivers state, announced this via his Twitter handle.…

Akinwunmi Ambode, governor of Lagos state, has promised to lead a strong campaign for the victory for President Muhammadu Buhari and Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governorship candidate of the the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the…

Legal Icon and chairman of the Igbo Leaders of Thought, ILT, Professor Ben Nwabueze, SAN, has cautioned against the boycott of the 2019 elections to avert a costly mistake. Some groups in the South-East including the…

Leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the South West, are expected to meet soon to deliberate on the offer of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, slot offered the zone by the party’s Presidential…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that its presidential candidate for the 2019 general elections, Atiku Abubakar, if elected in 2019, would jail “all looters” of public treasury under the President Muhammadu…

Omoyele Sowore, presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (ACC), has picked Rabiu  Rufai as his running mate. Malcom Fabiyi, director-general of the Sowore Campaign, announced this in a statement on Monday..…

Ibikunle Amosun, governor of Ogun state, has accused the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) of hijacking the party’s governorship primary election in the state. Speaking while swearing in Mosunmola Dipeolu,…

Ibrahim Magu, acting-chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has asked Nigerians to be vigilant in 2019. Speaking in Gombe state on Monday, the anti-graft czar said vigilance is important whether…

Hundreds of protesters  yesterday marched on the business district of Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, in a protest against Governor Ibikunle Amosun’s alleged plan to corral traditional rulers into the politics of next year’s…

A chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party, Chief Adeseye Ogunlewe, on Monday, commended the party’s presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, for promising to give the South West, the Secretary to Government of the Federation…

Over 200,000 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members and supporters of former Vice President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar have defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The defecting Atiku’s loyalists who are members…

A former governor of Old Kaduna State, Balarabe Musa, on Monday urged Nigerians not to “gamble” with the idea of returning the People’s Democratic Party to power in 2019.Musa told the News Agency of Nigeria on telephone from Kaduna that…

The Supreme Court on Monday set aside the ruling of the Court of Appeal, Port Harcourt Division, which vacated a stay order made by a Rivers High Court against the conduct of All Progressives Congress congresses in the state.Delivering…

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s choice of former Anambra State governor Peter Obi as a running mate for the 2019 election is causing bad blood between him and the Southeast political leaders.…

Spokesman of the President Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organisation,Festus Keyamo, has blasted the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar and challenged the former Vice President to campaign on his…