About four days to the expiration of the 60-day provision for the President to submit names of ministerial nominees to the Senate for screening and confirmation, President Bola Tinubu is yet to fulfil this constitutional provision. Recall that President Tinubu took the oath of office on May 29, ...

By Seun Opejobi The Lamidi Apapa’s faction of the Labour Party, LP, has lamented over the choice of Peter Obi as its presidential candidate in the 2023 election. The faction said the party made a mistake by fielding Obi as its presidential candidate. The faction noted that Obi lied ...

Reports that President Bola Tinubu and Governors of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC may have settled for the immediate-past Governor of Kano state, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje as successor to the erstwhile National Chairman of APC, Senator Abdullahi Adamu have caused ripples within the party. ...

A viral video of President Bola Tinubu campaigning to reduce the price of fuel upon his assumption as president has surfaced online. Tinubu at his campaign rally in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, on January 25, 2023, could be heard in the video promising the crowd an easier life under his ...

By Ifreke Inyang The candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the 2023 presidential election and now President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Bola Ahmedu Tinubu, stirred the hornet’s nest recently when he cautioned the Presidential ...

By Ifreke Inyang The Labour Party (LP) has said that there won’t be anarchy in Nigeria if President Bola Tinubu is removed from office by the court. Tinubu had asked the presidential election tribunal to throw out the petition filed by LP seeking to nullify his victory in the 2023 general ...

By Seun Opejobi President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima, have urged the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal not to nullify the February 25 presidential poll. Tinubu and Shettima said the tribunal should not cancel the presidential election over the controversy surrounding the ...

By Francis Ugwu Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP, says he will not accede to requests by his friends, party members and supporters to join him in celebrating his birthday and even present some gifts. Obi, however, appealed to those who may desire to celebrate him with gifts to look around them ...

Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has advised that age should not be seen as a barrier to pursuing educational dreams, saying one of the conditions he was given before his 2022 governorship ambition was for him to complete his education. Adeleke spoke at the combined 9th undergraduate and ...

By Joseph Erunke, ABUJA 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi, has said he was looking forward to a Nigeria where only those who know their classmates and have good and undoubted academic certificates can be leaders. This was because he regretted that the country ...

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has dismissed media reports that he said he is looking forward to running for office in the 2027 presidential elections. This is as he criticised the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led administration for the ...

By Ochogwu Sunday Former minister of state for labour and productivity, Mr. Festus Keyamo, has again taken a swipe at supporters of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the last election, Peter Obi, over social media trolls targeted at President Bola Tinubu. DAILY POST reports that a ...

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri The Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja, on Friday, reserved its judgement on the petition the Allied Peoples Movement, APM, filed to nullify the election of President Bola Tinubu. The five-member panel of the court led by Justice Haruna Tsammani, ...

During the peak of the election campaign period, a total of N28,784,369 was spent on paid political content on Facebook and Instagram by political parties, a report has shown. The European Union Election Observation Mission quoted the Meta Ad Library in its final report on the 2023 general ...

The immediate-past Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission to link its voters’ register with the database of the National Identity Management Commission to forestall the challenges of credibility and transparency in the country’s electoral ...

Coalition of Civil Society Organisations, under the aegis of The Osun Masterminds, TOM, yesterday, accused Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State of allegedly shutting out women and youths from his cabinet list. Similarly, the Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, faulted the list of ...

The National Chairman of the Labour Party, Mr. Julius Abure, has urged members of the party to be alert, following information available to him that the All Progressives Congress, APC, was already preparing for a possible re-run of the 2023 presidential election. This, he explained, was because ...

By Ishola Oludare Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State and other indigenes of Ikenne Local Government on Sunday welcomed former Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo after completing eight years as the second-in-command to his principal, Muhammadu Buhari. At a reception, Abiodun commended Osinbajo for ...

By Francis Ugwu The Adamawa State governorship candidate during the March 18 gubernatorial election, Aisha Dahiru, popularly known as “Binani,” has, again, sued the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, over the Commission’s nullification of her declaration as governor of the state. ...

By Abdul Babajide Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, who has been on medical leave due to an undisclosed ailment, has extended his medical leave, as confirmed in a letter sent to the state House of Assembly. The governor’s decision to extend his medical leave was disclosed in the ...

By Chijindu Emeruwa Ferdinand Ekeoma, spokesman of the Governor of Abia State, has slammed a former Nigerian Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani Kayode, over his recent outbursts against Governor Alex Otti. On Wednesday, Kayode took a swipe at the state governor and accused him of ...

Rt. Rev. Nneoyi Onen Egbe, a professor of radiography, is the Bishop of the Diocese of Calabar (Anglican Communion). In this interview, Egbe, who last taught at University of Calabar, speaks, among other issues of public importance, on the reported call for ‘Islamic Republic of Nigeria’, in a viral ...

The Osun State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress on Saturday berated Governor Ademola Adeleke over the people he nominated for appointment as commissioners. The party in a statement by its chairman, Tajudeen Lawal, said it was offensive to the sensibilities of Osun people that Adeleke would ...

The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Enugu State has commenced sitting on the petition filed by Labour Party and its candidate, Chijioke Edeoga, against the election of Dr Peter Mbah as the governor of the state. At the resumed hearing on Friday, the petitioners presented the ...

The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has called on President Bola Tinubu not to succumb to antics by some people to force former governor Nyisom Wike to hijack the party in the state. The party said recognising Wike would undermine the loyalty of party members, who had ...

Nigeria’s 2023 general elections comprising the presidential, National Assembly, governorship and state houses of assembly elections might have come and gone, but the echoes have continued to reverberate; they are not in a hurry to fizzle away. Following the outcome of the elections, particularly ...

By Seun Opejobi Phrank Shaibu, the Special Assistant on Public Communication to the 2023 Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has accused President Bola Tinubu of planning to reward the immediate past Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike with a ministerial ...

By Seun Opejobi The leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, has suggested why President Bola Tinubu can’t probe his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari. Primate Ayodele said Tinubu can’t probe Buhari’s administration because it would “run down” his government. His remark ...

•‘It is wicked to say President is out to Islamize Nigeria’ Bishop Charles Ighele is a former Chairman of the Financial Accountability Commission of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN). Ighele, who is also the General Superintendent of Holy Spirit Mission (also known as the Happy Family ...

It is no longer news that the relationship between Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State and one of his predecessors and senator representing Ogun East, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, is not rosy. They are fighting viciously and dirty. Sunday Vanguard understood that the frosty relationship owes its ...

The Senator representing Edo North Senatorial District and former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole said he was ready to sacrifice his senatorial ambition for President Bola Tinubu to win his presidential election. He also said even though he knew ...

By Racheal Ayodele Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general election, has deleted a tweet addressing Bola Tinubu as Mr President. Obi, who is challenging the declaration of Tinubu, the candidate of the All Progressive Congress, as the winner of the February ...

President Bola Tinubu said he invoked the spirit of Emi Lokan – It’s my turn – from the Paramount Ruler of Ijebuland, the Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona. President Tinubu stated this while speaking at the palace of the Awujale in Ijebu-Ode on Thursday. He said, “I invoked the spirit ...

As Nigerians celebrate Eid-el-Kabir, the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Labour Party, LP, yesterday, accused the President Bola Tinubu-led All Progressives Congress, APC, administration of implementing anti-people policies they said had made it difficult for many people to ...

By Francis Ezediuno Chaos was averted during the traditional Eid prayers at the Osogbo Eid praying ground on Wednesday. According to information made available to DAILY POST, the stage was set for the prayers which was a traditional part which marks the beginning of the festival. It was gathered ...

Former President Muhammadu Buhari has said that leading a country like Nigeria is one of the hardest challenges in life. Buhari, who stated this in his Sallah message via a statement issued by his spokesman, Mallam Garba Shehu, saluted Muslims as he wished them a happy Eid and to those on ...

Former President Muhammadu Buhari, Monday broke his silence on the petrol subsidy removal ‘challenge’ that he left for his successor, Bola Tinubu, saying that had the policy been implemented, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Tinubu would have lost the last general polls. Speaking through ...

The move by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to produce the Senate Minority Leader may hit a brick wall as formidable forces loyal to the All Progressives Congress (APC) have mobilised to ensure that one of the smaller parties produces the Senate Minority Leader, THISDAY has learnt. This is ...

By Don Silas Peter Obi and his Labour Party, LP, on Friday closed their petition before the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) challenging the election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Obi and LP are complainants in the petition marked CA/PEPC/03/2023, challenging the 2023 general ...

The National President of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF), Alhaji Yerima Shettima has said that despite the laudable moves Tinubu has made in less than one month in office as President, he was prepared to engage the administration if the government goes the wrong way. In an interview ...

By Ogaga Ariemu The Presidential Election Petitions Court has admitted certified copies of the academic and work records of President Bola Tinubu tendered by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar. The documents include a B.Sc certificate from Chicago State ...

By Emmanuel Uzodinma Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State, on Friday, failed to appear before the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal. DAILY POST recalls that the Tribunal had on Thursday, ordered a substituted service of a subpoena on Mbah through his lawyer. This was following an application ...

Following the recent report on different platforms that the federal government is set to increase the salaries of the President, the vice president, the judicial workers and others by 114%, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the just concluded presidential election, Mr Peter ...

THE frosty relationship between Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, and his Deputy, Mr. Lucky Aiyedatiwa, yesterday, took a new twist, as there are alleged plans to supplant the governor. Akeredolu transmitted power to the deputy governor, after embarking on medical treatment, and is expected ...

By Fadehan Oyeyemi A witness of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the February 25 presidential election, Mpeh Clarita Ogar admitted on Tuesday at the Presidential Election Petition Court that she has no mandate of the Amazon Web Services Incorporation to testify in the ...

By Fadehan Oyeyemi The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar and his party will on Thursday, June 22 close their case in their joint petition challenging the declaration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the winner of the February 25 presidential election. The ...

The Labour Party and its presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi on Monday alleged that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) refused to provide the documents they asked for. Obi and the LP are petitioners in the petition marked CA/PEPC/03/2023 challenging the election of President ...

By Seun Opejobi Former Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has disclosed why he supported Senator Godswill Akapbio to emerge as the Senate President of the 10th National Assembly. Wike said Akpabio donated N200 million to his campaign in 2014 and 2015, stressing that one good turn deserves ...

The agitation for ministerial slots has led to in-fighting in some state chapters of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as governors, former governors and party leaders are battling to ensure they present slots to President Bola Tinubu. Vanguard gathered that apart from APC stakeholders who argue ...

The immediate past governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike on Sunday recounted how he survived after being poisoned in 2018 while in office as governor. Speaking at a thanksgiving service in the church, Wike revealed that doctors told him that his intestines were all black, a situation he believed ...