POLITICS

Senator Monday Okpebholo has been declared winner of the All Progressives Congress (APC) primary election for the September 2024 governorship election in Edo State. Okpebholo scored 12, 433 votes to defeat other eleven aspirants. Declaring the results on Friday, the Governor of Cross River…

Renowned businessman Asue Ighodalo has won the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primary for Edo State, beating other aspirants including Deputy Governor Philip Shaibu in the election held in Benin City on Thursday. In the exercise at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in the…

Nigerian politician and professor of political economy, Pat Utomi, has said that the loans that are being taken by the Nigerian government are ‘meaningless’ and are not a solution to the current economic problem in Nigeria. Utomi said this while discussing Nigeria’s economic…

Vice chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), ‘Seyi Makinde, has debunked claims that the 36 state governors were given N30billion each by the federal government to address the problem of food crisis in the country. The governor, who stated this on Thursday…

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has stated that the state government is working to provide effective measures to help ameliorate the economic hardship on residents of the state. Sanwo-Olu stated that this administration would provide a flexible working hours schedule for civil servants,…

The Deputy Governor of Edo State Philip Shaibu has been declared winner in an Edo Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) parallel election. Thursday’s declaration happened at a location different from the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium venue of the main PDP primary election. Earlier in the day…

The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has condemned the “humiliating” arrest of the National Chairman of the party, Julius Abure. Obi, in a string of posts on X (formerly Twitter), described as “pinnacle of rascality”, the manner at…

The Labour Party (LP) has decried the arrest of its national chairman, Barrister Julius Abure, by a combined team of police officers and operatives of the Department of State Security (DSS) on Wednesday in Benin, Edo State. The national publicity secretary of the…

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has berated the State Security Service, SSS, for calling on the union to shelve its planned strike. The NLC insisted that the planned nationwide protests against the prevailing economic situation in the country, slated for February 27 and…