Dr. Ajuji Ahmed has emerged as the new acting national chairman of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP).
The party announced the appointment in a statement on Tuesday by its national publicity secretary of the party, Yakubu Shendam.
According to the NNPP spokesman, Ahmed…
One of the frontline governorship aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State, Paul Akintelure, is dead.
Before his untimely demise, Akintelure had raised concerns about both direct and indirect threats to his life.
He had expressed hope that the situation would improve over time…
The leadership of the Labour Party said it won’t rescind the decision to hold its contentious national convention on Wednesday as planned.
The development comes two days after the party formally petitioned relevant government institutions requesting an urgent intervention to protect the party…
Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has regretted the deaths of two students of the Nasarawa State University during a palliative distribution stampede in the school.
The governor, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, said the sad incident was not as a…
Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State says Kaduna-based Muslim cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, was not involved in the safe return of abducted Kuriga pupils, though the cleric had offered to negotiate with bandits for the release of the pupils.
The governor, who stated…
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has again moved against the proposed convention of the Labour party as advanced by the Julius Abure-led exco of the LP.
The party, which accused Abure of taking a unilateral decision in respect of the proposed national convention…
Osun State Government has set up a Cyber Crime Action Committee against cyber crimes, cyber bullying and deliberate online false news.
The setting up of the committee, according to a statement by Kolapo Alimi, the Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, is to…
The Edo State Chief Judge, Justice Daniel Okungbowa, has set up a seven-man panel headed by Justice S.O. Omonua (rtd), to investigate the allegations contained in the impeachment notice against the state deputy governor, Mr Philip Shaibu.
Shaibu, it would be recalled, has…
Scores of schoolchildren abducted from Kuriga, Kaduna State have been released, two weeks after they were taken away in what was one of Nigeria’s largest mass kidnappings in years.
The students, about 287, were kidnapped when the gunmen on motorcycles rode through their…
The Chief of Staff to Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State, Edison Ehie, has challenged the State House of Assembly on the passage into law of the repealed House of Assembly Service Commission Bill, overriding the power of the governor at a…