POLITICS

Police operatives and their counterparts in the Directorate of State Security (DSS) have stormed Ondo Secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The armed security operatives stationed their vehicles outside the secretariat. Spokesman for the Ondo PDP, Kennedy Peretei, said the presence of the security operatives was to prevent a planned peaceful protest by youths […]

Senator Ifeanyi Ubah representing Anambra South Senatorial District has dumped the Young Progressives Party (YPP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC). According to a letter read by Senate President Godswill Akpabio during a brief plenary session on Thursday,  Ubah’s defection was due to irreconcilable differences in the YPP. Ubah, however, did not explain the irreconcilable […]

President Bola Tinubu has asked the Supreme Court to dismiss the appeal filed by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) challenging his victory in the 2023 presidential election. The President described the appeal as abusive in nature and prayed for its dismissal. The President insisted that the PDP presidential candidate […]

The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, has called on President Bola Tinubu to save Nigeria and himself from what he described as “protracted embarrassment and undue anxiety” over the controversy surrounding his certificate. He was speaking in light of what has transpired recently where a US court […]

The 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has said only the outcome of the Supreme Court case against President Bola Tinubu will end his political feud with the President. The former Vice President stated this just as the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, lashed out at him for faulting […]

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 elections, Mr Peter Obi, has urged the federal government to be committed to the regular payment of salaries of teachers in the country. He also called on Nigerians to imbibe the culture of celebrating teachers who are contributing to the human capital development of Nigeria, […]

Amid mixed reactions following the release of President Bola Tinubu’s academic records, the Presidency has broken its silence saying the president’s certificate submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was genuine and not forged. The Chicago State University (CSU) had released the records on the orders of the court following a petition by the […]

The United States District Court in Northern District of Illinois has ruled in favour of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, and ordered the Chicago State University to release President Bola Tinubu’s academic record on Monday. But Tinubu’s lawyers insisted that the documents would not be relevant in Atiku’s appeal against […]

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has described fuel subsidy as an organised crime. Obi, on Monday, said this on a ‘Morning Show’ on what approach he would have taken differently in resolving the looming strike by the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress. “Fuel subsidy is […]

The Supreme Court has fixed October 3 for judgment in a suit filed by a former federal lawmaker, Mr Smart Adeyemi, challenging the conduct of the Kogi State governorship primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Adeyemi is challenging the validity of the election which produced Mr Usman Ododo as the party’s flag bearer in […]