Politics

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps will need N310m to feed and administer drugs to dogs that will be deployed in states for the 2019 elections. The Nigeria Police Force will also require N7m to feed 50 horses that would be used…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has threatened to boycott the 2019 general election if the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security agencies do not show neutrality during the exercise. Uche Secondus, chairman…

The Senator representing Bayelsa East in the Senate, Ben Murray-Bruce, has recommended a new pattern of voting ahead of the 2019 general elections. The lawmaker wondered why Nigerians cannot vote by text since there are over 100…

Mr Wale Ogunade, a constitutional lawyer and President, Voters Awareness Initiative, on says that Politicians took the act of vote-buying in Ekiti gubernatorial election to a higher dimension. Ogunade told newsmen on Thursday in…

Benue state Governor Samuel Ortom may have shelved his decision to leave his ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, following a trouble-shooting meeting he had with the National Chairman of the party, Comrades Adams Oshiomhole, Thursday…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday announced the inclusion of weekends and public holidays as word days of its personnel in ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR). It, however, stated that the…

Senate President Bukola Saraki and Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal are in their final days in the All Progressives Congress (APC), as SaharaReporters understands their defection to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will be sealed…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has announced the postponement of its Osun State governorship primary election initially scheduled to take place on Thursday due to “unforeseen development.” According to a statement signed by the…

Senate President Bukola Saraki; Aminu Tambuwal, governor of Sokoto; Samuel Ortom, governor of Benue; and Abdulfatah Ahmed, governor of Kwara; met with some leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ilorin on Wednesday. Nigeria’s…

The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) met with Aminu Tambuwal, governor of Sokoto state, and Abdufatah Ahmed, governor of Kwara, in Ilorin on Wednesday. The governors who were elected on the platform of the All…

Suspected political thugs, Tuesday, launched an attack on the convoy of former Deputy Governor (Operations) of Central Bank of Nigeria, Chief Adebayo Adelabu in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. Adelabu, who recently resigned from the…

As political parties gear up for their presidential primaries slated for between August and October 2018, the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, said, yesterday, that the incumbent, President Muhammadu Buhari, has the right of first…

Twelve of the aspirants of the All Progressives Congress, APC party,  all from Osun West, yesterday, rejected direct primary option to elect the party’s candidate. Among the nine aspirants present at the conference where the…

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has promised to end the Boko Harman insurgency if elected president. Speaking in Maiduguri, Borno state capital on Tuesday, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant said he has…

All Progressives Congress stalwart Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has hailed the direct primary option to pick the party’s governorship candidate in Osun state. He described the decision of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) to…

Rommy Ezeonwuka, a member of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Board of Trustees, BoT, has said any political alignment that does not give people of the South East the Presidential slot in 2023 will not stand. Ezeonwuka said…

Nigeria will need N254 billion (N254,445,322,600) to prosecute the 2019 general election, a letter sent by President Muhammadu Buhari to the Senate has indicated. The letter sought the approval of the sum which will be drawn from the…

The leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has reportedly summoned  Samuel Ortom, governor of Benue state, and George Akume, a former governor of the state, to Abuja for an “urgent meeting”. Ortom and Akume are the two…

The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), an umbrella body for governors of the 36 states, has wished Ayodele Fayose, outgoing governor in Ekiti, luck in his new endeavour. The forum said this in a congratulatory message to Kayode Fayemi,…

Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio, has said the party platform on which he will contest for his second term ticket for Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District in 2019 will not matter much. Speaking at an endorsement rally in his…

Youths Initiative for Advocacy, Growth and Advancement (YIAGA) Africa, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), on Monday insisted that announced result of Saturday’s governorship election in Ekiti was correct. Executive Director of…

The Chairman, Presidential Advisory Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), has hailed the ouster of the PDP in Ekiti, adding that it would mark the end of stomach infrastructure. Sagay said this during an interview on Monday.…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) National Working Committee (NWC) yesterday approved the recommendation of the Osun State Working Committee, led by Gboyega Famodun, for the adoption of direct primary for its governorship shadow…

Ekiti State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in last Saturday’s election got yesterday a reply to his threat to challenge the result in court. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the supervisor of the poll,…