POLITICS

Court of Appeal sitting in Benin City, Edo State, has affirmed Julius Abure as national chairman of Labour Party (LP). In the case of Mr. Lucky Shaibu v. Julius Abure, Justice Theresa Ngolika Abadua, Fatima Akinbami and Justice Sybil Nwaka-Gbagi in a unanimous decision dismissed the appeal of the Appellant. LP’s National Publicity Secretary, Obiora […]

The Labour Party (LP) and its candidate, Peter Obi, has told the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) how the Independent National Electoral  Commission (INEC), deliberately subverted the will of Nigerians by dishonestly manipulating the February 25 presidential election in favour of President Bola Tinubu and his All Progressives Congress (APC). The petitioners in their final […]

Former vice president and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, at the weekend cheated death as Police confirmed arrest of two suspected Boko Haram terrorists on a mission to attack his residence in Yola, Adamawa State. Spokesperson for the Adamawa State Police Command, Suleiman Nguroje, confirmed that operatives of the command […]

The Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed the suit filed by Senator Smart Adeyemi challenging the primary election that produced Ahmed Ododo as the candidate of the All Progressive Congress for the Kogi State Governorship Election scheduled for November 2023. Senator Adeyemi, a former lawmaker representing Kogi West Senatorial District had approached the Federal […]

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has cautioned party chieftains against nursing high expectations of being appointed as ministers by President Bola Tinubu, saying everybody can’t be a cabinet member. Adamu also used the opportunity to explain the delay in the unveiling of the President’s ministers and heads of ministries, […]

In their joint efforts to prove their claim that the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi is not a registered member of the party, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his Vice, Senator Kashim Shettima on Wednesday tendered a copy of the Labour Party (LP) membership register for Anambra State. Tinubu and Shettima, […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has closed its defence in the petition filed by the Labour Party after calling one witness at the Presidential Election Petitions Court. At the resumed hearing of the petition filed by the Labour Party and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi on Tuesday, the electoral umpire called one Lawrence Bayode, […]

Few days to the resumption of the 10th Senate, northern senators elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have intensified protests and lobbying for the position of majority leader. Some senators who spoke to newsmen in confidence, said the push by some South West lawmakers to fill the position would cause further […]

The Peoples Democratic Party and its standard bearer in the last election, Atiku Abubakar are on a collision course with the G-5  over the minority leadership in the National Assembly, particularly the Senate. It was learnt that the PDP and Atiku had declared support for the ex-governor of Sokoto, Aminu Tambuwal (PDP, Sokoto South) for […]

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has appealed to various governments across the country to show compassion while carrying out demolition on some properties marked as illegal. He said this in a Twitter post on Tuesday while reacting to the recent widespread government demolition of “illegal” structures erected […]