An Anglican Bishop, Rt. Rev. Onyeka Onyia of the Nike Diocese in Enugu State has come under verbal attack after kneeling before Barr. Peter Mbah, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial candidate in the State, during a church service. The video of the incident has surfaced on the internet. ...

The former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has opined that the same faith ticket of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, will break Nigeria along religious and tribal lines. He expressed fear that the Muslim Muslim ticket was strongly against the unity and peaceful ...

There was palpable tension in Ile-Ife on Monday evening when suspected supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, attacked some loyalists of the All Progressives Congress, APC, at the Akogun area of Okerewe Ward II, in Ife-East Local Government Area. According to an eyewitness, Olawale ...

As Nigerians countdown to the presidential polls, which will hold in the next 25 days, the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) and Chair of the UN Sustainable Group, Ms Amina J. Mohammed, has warned that Nigeria cannot afford to fail with the 2023 general elections. She also urged ...

Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja Former Vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February election, Atiku Abubakar, yesterday stated that he plans to grant detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB),  Nnamdi Kanu, unconditional release if he ...

Ismail Omipidan analyses the recent judgement delivered by Osun State Election Petition Tribunal which upturned the election of the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate, Senator Ademola Adeleke, as the governor of the state during the July 22, 2022 gubernatorial poll When in August 2022, I ...

Angry youths in Kano yesterday staged protests following President Muhammadu Buhari’s official visit to the state. The youths who were carrying sticks, THISDAY gathered were throwing stones at Buhari’s helicopter, were however dispersed by security agents who fired shots in the air to scare them ...

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has claimed he “rescued” the flagbearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar from former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Abubakar, who served as vice-president under Obasanjo, had a running battle ...

A northern-based support group,  Arewa4Asiwaju, has commended the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu for speaking up against the January 31st deadline initially set for the swap of old naira notes by the Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN). A ...

Yinka Kolawole in Osogbo. The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday told Senator Ademola Adeleke to leave up to the reality of his last Friday’s sack as the governor of the state by the virtue of the explicit judgement of the state governorship Election Petition ...

By  Dirisu Yakubu Naja’atu Mohammed, a politician and renowned activist recently resigned as a Director in the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council. She speaks with DIRISU YAKUBU on dumping the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and why the Tinubu/Shettima ticket ...

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has said he doesn’t get angry when he faces betrayal. Tinubu made this remark at a town hall meeting in Edo State, according to a statement released by his media aide, Tunde Rahman, on Sunday. The former ...

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has given its account of what led to the death of three persons in the Surulere area of Lagos State. PDP governorship candidate, Olajide Adeniran better known as Jandor was in the area for Jumat prayer on Friday. A statement by the Publicity Secretary, ...

All is now set for a Federal High Court in Abuja to deliver a landmark judgment on January 30 in a suit seeking the removal of President Muhammadu Buhari from office on account of alleged illegalities in the 2019 presidential election. The judgment billed to be delivered by Justice Inyang Edem ...

Gabriel Emanah in Abuja The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, has urged the people of Borno State to give him a chance to create a new Nigeria where people will have equal opportunities. Speaking yesterday at the presidential campaign rally of the LP in ...

Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja and Francis Saudauna in Katsina The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has dismissed any insinuation of a strained relationship with President Muhammadu Buhari, saying his support for the president is unalloyed and ...

By Shina Abubakar, Osogbo Osun Election Petition Tribunal has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate in the July 16 governorship election, Adegboyega Oyetola, were able to prove a case of forgery against Governor Ademola Adeleke. The tribunal, however, held that the ...

By  Sonala Olumhense With less than one month to Nigeria’s general election, one political party ought not to be on the ballot at all.  That is the ruling All Progressives Congress. If dignity was of any concern to APC or if it had any sense of character or shame whatsoever, it would have ...

Shina Abubakar, Osogbo The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Osun state on Saturday, alleged that the tribunal judgement that sacked Governor Ademola Adeleke was waybilled by the All Progressive Congress (APC). Addressing journalists in Osogbo Saturday, the party leadership led by the State ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has extended the deadline for the collection of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) by one week from January 29 to February 5.This is the second time the commission is extending the collection of PVCs due to the progress recorded so far.Before the ...

The Kano State government has written a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, asking him to postpone his visit to the state due to security reasons caused by the currency swap crisis. The president was scheduled to visit the state between January 30 and 31, to commission some projects ...

By  Gbenga Oloniniran Following the Friday judgement of the Osun State Election Tribunal which sacked Governor Ademola Adeleke and declared former Governor Gboyega Oyetola as the winner of the July 16, 2022 governorship election, some student bodies have kicked against the development. The ...

A group known as Pan Nigerian President of Igbo Extraction Coalition, PANPIEC, has warned the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and its factions that multiple sit-at-home would deprive Ndigbo 2023 presidency. This is contained in a statement jointly signed on Friday by the group’s Chairman, Rev ...

Popular Nigerian musician, Abolore Adegbola Akande, professionally called by his stage name, 9ice has opened up on why he will be voting for the All Progressive Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in the February 25 general election. 9ice, in a recent interview trending on ...

Yinka Kolawole in Osogbo and Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja A few minutes after Governor Ademola Adeleke’s victory at the July 16, 2022 Osun State gubernatorial poll was annulled by the Osun State Governorship Election Tribunal yesterday, his supporters trooped to the streets of Osogbo, the state’s ...

Barely a month to the presidential election, the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party is facing an uphill task to convince five of its elected governors to campaign for its flag bearer, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Governors Nyesom Wike, Okezie Ikpeazu, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Seyi Makinde and Samuel ...

By Prisca Sam-Duru With her appearances at the ObiDatti movement campaigns marked by trendy dance moves and crowd-moving eloquence, no one needs to be told that Aisha Yesufu means business in her quest for good governance. As a civil rights activist, Yesufu’s support for any government, ...

By John Alechenu, Abuja Opposition political parties have enjoined the Governor of the Central Bank, Godwin Emeifele not to bow to pressure from desperate politicians who were pushing for a shift in the date for the swap of old Naira notes with the newly redesigned currency. The Peoples ...

By Don Silas Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has said the validation of Adegboyega Oyetola as the winner of the July 2022 Osun governorship election by the tribunal is a victory of light over darkness. DAILY POST had reported on Friday that ...

Three governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Thursday night, accompanied Bola Tinubu, the party’s presidential candidate, to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari in Daura, Katsina state. The president is in the state for a two-day working trip. Tinubu’s visit comes in the wake ...

Thousands of people in Adamawa State have defected from the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Some of the former NNPP members who matched through some streets of the state capital, Yola, on Friday were seen wearing Kwakwassiya caps, made popular by the NNPP ...

By  Sharon Osaji A former Director of the Presidential Campaign Council of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Hajia Naja’atu Mohammed, has fired her former party alleging that its vice presidential candidate, Kashim Shettima is a sponsor of terrorism. The former APC chieftain said this ...

Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has reacted to his defeat at the Osun State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Osogbo. The tribunal on Friday, upturned Adeleke’s win at the July 16th 2022 governorship polls. However, in a statement signed by his spokesman, Mallam Olawale ...

The Osun State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Osogbo has upturned the victory of Governor Ademola Adeleke at the July 16th 2022 governorship polls. Details soon… Dailypost

Sunday Aborisade in Abuja Some eminent Nigerians and stakeholders in Nigeria’s electioneering process have unanimously declared that the presidential candidates in next month’s elections have only promised to solve the nation’s challenges without convincing Nigerians about how they would go ...

Dirisu Yakubu, El-ameen Ibrahim, Edward Nnachi and John Charles The presidential standard bearer of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu,  and the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Council again clashed on Thursday over the allegation by Tinubu that the PDP was ...

Stephen Angbuluand Olaide Oyelude The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Thursday, commenced a two-day official visit to his home state of Katsina where he inaugurated some projects executed by the state government. However, his first day in the state was marked by a ...

By  Bola Bamigbola The Osun State Police Command said it would not tolerate any act capable of causing a crisis in the state as the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal delivers its judgment on Friday (today). The command also said necessary security measures have been put in place to deal ...

The Lagos state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday said it will mete out appropriate sanction on its Lagos State Organising Secretary, over his statement on the two bullion vans driving into the residence of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu hours before the 2019 presidential ...

The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) on Thursday, endorsed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and his running mate, Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta. The CUPP from the 11 States of the South-South and South-East Geopolitical zones stated this ...

Nigeria's former president, Olusegun Obasanjo described how politics in Nigeria affects Nigeria's development, IGBERETV reports. Obasanjo in a keynote address tagged ‘Respecting the principles of democracy’ at the international conference on ‘Deepening democratic culture and institutions’, which ...

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele has shunned the invitation by the House of Representatives over the bank’s decision to stick to its January 31 deadline for the phasing out of the old naira notes. Emefiele was expected to appear before the Adhoc Committee set up ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has denied scarcity of the new naira notes as alleged by some Nigerians. The CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, represented by Musa Jimoh, Director, Payment System Management Department of the bank, denied the allegation in a news conference on in Jos. ”The CBN ...

The presidential candidate of the ruling All progressives congress (APC) has faulted the notions held in certain quarters that he blamed President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration over the fuel scarcity and the naira redesign policy. Bayo Onanuga Director, Media & Publicity APC ...

•Let fuel be scarce, change ink of naira, I will win, declares former Lagos governor •Atiku to Tinubu: currency redesign has destroyed your bullion van plan •Insists attacking president won’t save his failing campaign James Sowole in Abeokuta A new twist was yesterday added to the ...

By  James Abraham The youth wing of the apex socio-political organisation for the Yoruba people, Afenifere and the Coalition for a Better and Brighter Nigeria group, on Wednesday intensified grassroots mobilisation to rally support for the victory of the presidential candidate of the Labour ...

By Levinus Nwabughiogu The House of Representatives yesterday directed the Clerk to the National Assembly to transmit the 35 bills on Electoral Act Amendment to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent. The bills were said to have fulfilled the provisions of Section 9(2) of the Constitution and ...

By John Owen Nwachukwu With the 2023 general election around the corner, the leading political parties continue to lay claim to dominance across the country. The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the Labour Party, LP, are all claiming to be in firm ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission has stated that the Peoples Democratic Party, Abia State chapter can conduct a fresh primary within 14 days following the death of its governorship candidate, Prof Uchenna Ikonne. A statement issued on behalf of the family by his son, Dr Uche-Ikonne ...

President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo were on Wednesday absent at the presidential campaign rally of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Abeokuta, Ogun State. Presidential candidate of the party, Bola Tinubu, had led other leaders of the APC to the MKO Abiola Stadium in ...