POLITICS

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 […]

A witness on Monday told the Lagos State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal headed by Justice Arum Ashom, that Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and his wife, Ibijoke were allowed to cast their votes, despite their voter cards being invalid. This testimony was given by an agent of the Labour Party, Dayo Isreal who was subpoenaed to testify […]

The Presidential Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja yesterday admitted in evidence a bundle of exhibits containing the total number of Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs, collected in 32 states of the federation before the 2023 general elections. Equally admitted in evidence by the Justice Haruna Tsammani-led five-member panel, was a bundle of documents that contained […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate in the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar, still have 74 more witnesses to call to testify at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal (PEPT) in Abuja, the nation’s capital. Out of the 100 witnesses expected to be called by the opposition party to prove its case, 26 witnesses have […]

The former governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has stated that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) government should be grateful for a second chance to redeem themselves of what he described as their past misdeeds against Nigerians. Wike, who is a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), made this known in a live […]