By  Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State and his Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike, paid a courtesy visit to the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, at the Defence House on Friday. The development came two months after the former Lagos State governor, ...

By Wale Odunsi Daniel Bwala, an aide to ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has predicted the composition of the cabinet of President-elect Bola Tinubu. Formerly of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the politician defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) last year. In a Twitter post which ...

By Seun Opejobi Ahead of the Presidential inauguration of May 29, the Prelate of the Methodist Church Nigeria, His Eminence, Oliver Ali Aba says there is no cause for alarm as nothing untoward would happen on the set date. The Prelate has asked Nigerians to remain positive, saying May 29 ...

By Ishola Oludare The pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, has insisted that it would continue to support what it called “the victory of Peter Obi” of the Labour Party in the February 25 presidential election and all his endeavours in its realisation. Afenifere reiterated that the ...

By Williams Anuku State governors under the auspices of Nigerian Governors Forum on Thursday held a valedictory session at the Presidential Villa Abuja, where they eulogized the outgoing Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo. Osinbajo chaired the National Economic Council NEC meetings for eight years ...

By John Owen Nwachukwu President-elect, Bola Tibubu’s assemblage of transition committee members has become a subject of controversy. The incumbent President, Muhammadu Buhari was roundly criticised for favouring his kinsmen in appointments against other segments of the country, especially ...

By Samson Atekojo Usman The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu and the president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday held a meeting behind closed-doors at the Defence House, Abuja. Others who were in the meeting are the President of the ...

By Francis Ugwu The President-elect, Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday arrived at the Defence House Maitama, Abuja. This was disclosed by the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo via his verified Twitter handle. He wrote: “The President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu ...

By Wale Odunsi President Muhammadu Buhari is set to unveil the national and regimental colours for the new and operationalised units’ colours of the Nigerian Army ahead of Bola Tinubu’s inauguration. Director of Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu made the announcement at a ...

By Fadehan Oyeyemi A fresh motion on notice seeking to stop Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu from being inaugurated as Nigeria’s new President on May 29, 2023, has been instituted at the Court of Appeal in Abuja. The fresh suit marked CA/CV/259/2023 is instituted by a Presidential candidate in the 2019 ...

By Ogaga Ariemu President Muhammadu Buhari would pass on the N46.25 trillion debt burden to the incoming government. According to the Debt Management Office, DMO, Nigeria’s total debt stock has hit 46 trillion. DAILY POST reports that despite the dust already caused by the heavy existing ...

By Ogaga Ariemu Peter Obi of the Labour Party said no serious leader would go on a rest (vacation) in Nigeria. Obi, the presidential candidate of LP during the February 25 election, disclosed this on Monday when he paid the Muslim community in Akwa Central Mosque an Eid-el-fitr visit. He ...

By Ochogwu Sunday President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has debunked rumours that his health was failing. Over a month ago when the former Lagos governor jetted out of the country to France at night, there have been rumours that he was rushed abroad for medical attention. Although his ...

By Seun Opejobi President-elect, Bola Tinubu has returned to Nigeria. Tinubu’s return was confirmed by his Director of Media and Publicity, Bayo Onanuga. He was received at the Abuja international airport by the Vice President-elect, Kashim Shettima and some state governors. ...

By Seun Opejobi The All Progressives Congress, APC, has dissolved its Presidential Campaign Council. The campaign council was constituted to ensure the victory of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu in the last election. The dissolution was disclosed in a statement signed by the council’s ...

By Seun Opejobi The camp of the 2023 Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has challenged the Presidency to provide proof of the Sallah phone conversation between President Muhammadu Buhari and his successor, Bola Tinubu. Tinubu’s whereabouts has been a ...

‘I am not contesting president-elect’s election at the tribunal but he will soon know I am not his friend’ Says Atiku won the battle but lost the war ‘Politicians taught me lesson academics cannot give’ By Olalekan Bilesanmi Adewole Ebenezer Adebayo was the presidential candidate of ...

By Nsikak Nseyen Since the February 25 presidential election, Nigerians have been waking up to one news or another concerning some of the most popular candidates. One of such candidates is Mr. Peter Obi, the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP. It is no longer news ...

President-elect, Bola Tinubu has appointed 13 Nigerians into the Presidential Inauguration Committee ahead of the May 29 ceremony. Tinubu listed the names in a letter to the Secretary to the Government of Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, Chairman of the Presidential Transition Council (PTC). ...

Ahead of the May 29 inauguration, questions on the whereabouts of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu have taken the centre stage. It has become a norm in Nigeria for people of the upper echelon of government to keep the status of their health status secret even when this becomes a major concern ...

A former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has raised concerns about the trustworthiness of Mr Peter Obi, the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate. Fani-Kayode, in a series of tweets via his Twitter handle on Wednesday, claimed that Obi cannot be trusted until he tells Nigerians ...

Adamawa State Governor, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri has accused some politicians with federal power of trying to truncate his victory at the just concluded gubernatorial election in the state. DAILY POST recalls that after several controversies that trailed the conduct of the election, the Independent ...

It was an unprecedented moment on Sunday when Senator Aisha Dahiru, popularly known as Binani, was declared the winner of the Adamawa State gubernatorial election. The Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Barrister Hudu Yunusa, shocked the nation with what many had described as a coup when he ...

The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Kogi State, Dino Melaye has said his counterpart from the All Progressives Congress, APC, Usman Ododo lacks the quality to rule the state. Melaye said Ododo has never contested an election in his life, not even a class monitor. ...

By  Gbenga Oloniniran The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared Ahmadu Fintiri as the winner of the Adamawa State governorship election. The Returning Officer, Muhammed Melee, declared incumbent Fintiri of the Peoples Democratic Party winner on Tuesday after polling 430,861 ...

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday refused to entertain the ex-parte application brought before it by Senator Aisha Dahiru Ahmed, also known as Binani, the Adamawa governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the 2023 election result declaration tussle. The ex-parte ...

Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja has stopped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP from suspending the outgoing governor of Rivers State, Nyesome Wike as a member of the party over alleged anti-party activities. The Judge also restrained the National Leadership of the ...

David Hundeyin, a popular Nigerian investigative journalist, has been restricted on Twitter for posting the personal information of President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Saturday. Hundeyin’s account was locked days after alleging that Tinubu had dual citizenship in Nigeria and Guinea. ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has suspended its Resident Electoral Commissioner REC in Adamawa, Hudu Yunusa Ari. The action followed the REC’s controversial pronouncement on Sunday after the supplementary election. Although only Returning Officers have the ...

Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, has said it was impossible for Aisha Binani of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to become the governor of Adamawa State. Lawal claimed that Binani was not qualified to be governor of Adamawa, adding that she does not ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to resume the collation of Adamawa governorship election results and declare the party’s candidate, Ahmadu Fintiri, winner of the election. The party made the call at a news conference by its ...

By Racheal Ayodele Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola has stated that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi’s victory in Lagos in the just concluded general election was a surprise to the All Progressives Congress, APC. Fashola, who was the ...

Former Kogi West Senator, Dino Melaye has won the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship primaries in Kogi State. Dino was declared winner by the returning officer on Sunday. He scored 313 votes to defeat Idoko Ilonah who had 124 votes. Others, Awoniyi Sunday had 77 votes while Musa ...

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate in the February 25 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, has alleged that there is a “game plan of upturning the democratic wishes of the people of Adamawa State”. Atiku stated this on Sunday through a press release signed by his Media ...

Adamawa Governor Ahmadu Fintiri has condemned the action of the Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, in Adamawa, Hudu Yunusa. The official, Sunday morning, controversially declared the All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate, Aishatu Binani, winner of the governorship election. The ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has denounced the purported declaration of Senator Aisha Dahiru, popularly known as Binani, as the winner of the Adamawa Governorship election by the Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Barrister Hudu Yunusa. INEC also suspended the ...

By Umar Yusuf, Yola The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Sunday morning declared Senator Aishatu Dahiru Binani the winner of the Adamawa governorship election. The Resident Electoral Commissioner for the state, Barrister Hudu Yunusa just made the declaration following the ...

The Adamawa State Governor and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the ongoing supplementary governorship election, Governor Ahmadu Fintiri is currently maintaining the lead. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has so far collated 10 out of the 20 local government ...

A former presidential aide, Reno Omokri has alleged that forensic analysis of the presidential election results held on February 25, 2023, showed that there were over voting in more than 10,000 polling units. Omokri in a statement issued on Saturday titled, ‘An Action Call To Save Democracy in ...

By Emeka Obasi Change was promised, expectations were high. It appeared many were shortchanged in an unending experiment that led to nowhere. The All Progressives Congress ( APC) enjoyed a free run until Peter Obi mounted the Soap Box through Labour Party. To be fair to APC, there was no ...

With the 2023 general elections over, attention has now shifted to Kogi, Imo and Bayelsa States for the off-season governorship elections. In Kogi State, over ten members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, had lined up to succeed incumbent Governor Yayaha Bello who is completing his second ...

Peter Obi, Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the election of February 25, 2023, insisted that nobody can force him to leave Nigeria. Earlier Mr Obi claimed that he was under pressure to leave the country but stated that he was committed to creating a new Nigeria. Speaking in Onitsha, ...

Mike Igini, the former Akwa Ibom State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has claimed that the United Kingdom, UK, introduced Nigeria to election rigging. Igini stated this while fielding questions about the conduct of the just ...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday said that President-elect, Bola Tinubu, is resting in Europe ahead of his inauguration on May 29. Mr Felix Morka, APC National Publicity Secretary, stated this on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme. According to Morka, Tinubu will ...

The camp of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has said Nigerians should pray for the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, over his whereabouts. One of Atiku’s spokespersons, Daniel Bwala, said Tinubu’s old photographs were posted as new ones. Bwala said the ...

The incoming Bola Tinubu administration faces an uphill task of reuniting a divided Nigeria. There is a general belief among the populace that Nigeria has never been so divided than it is under the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. In 2015 when President Buhari took over from then ...

By Clifford Ndujihe REPRESENTATIVES of the President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, yesterday, told the international media that the All Progressives Congress, APC, a candidate won the February 25 polls contrary to the claims of opposition parties such as the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP; and ...

President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Assistant on Digital Communication, Bashir Ahmad has mocked the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, over his detention in the United Kingdom. Ahmad said Obi was treated like a common criminal in the UK. Reports had emerged that UK ...

Senator Samuel Anyanwu, National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has emerged the party’s governorship candidate for the November 11 Imo State gubernatorial poll. His emergence followed the PDP primary election held on Wednesday at the party’s secretariat along the Okigwe Road in ...

The leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, on Wednesday, said the next Senate President should be Igbo. Primate Ayodele revealed that if the next Senate President doesn’t come from the Igbo tribe, the position will likely fall into the hands of a Muslim. In a ...