POLITICS

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, met behind closed doors with former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta. Both leaders had frank discussion. Scores of supporters of the APC in state stormed Obasanjo’s residence, dancing and singing praises…

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, on Wednesday promised that the results of the 2023 general elections would be transmitted electronically. There have been calls by stakeholders that the deployment of technology in the country’s electoral processes…

The spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, says President Muhammadu Buhari was elected into government unprepared. Baba-Ahmed stated this during an interview on Trust Tv’s Daily Politics on Tuesday. He said, “I think the problem was that nobody really understood that…

The Chairman Osun State Independent Electoral Commission (OSSIEC) Otunba Segun Oladitan yesterday confirmed that the local government elections in  the state would be conducted on the 15th day of October, 2022. Speaking at a press conference  the chairman recalled that when the commission conducted…

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Senator Iyiochia Ayu has stated he has no plans to resign. He said he will not resign now or in the foreseeable future having been given a four-year mandate to lead the opposition party. There has…

Efforts of past leaders, especially those of the First Republic to unite Nigeria failed because they were regional but not nationalistic in their programmes and policies, former President Goodluck Jonathan lamented on Saturday. Jonathan however explained that the leaders did their best to…

Anambra State government has banned the use of campaign posters on bridges, roundabouts, and others in the state. The state government also stated that for any presidential candidate to paste a campaign poster in the state they must pay N10 million while senatorial…

The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) says consultants involved in the controversial $418 million Paris Club refund are using Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the federation (AGF), to hustle the states’ funds. On Thursday, Malami said that the NGF has no basis to reject the proposed deduction of $418 million…