The presidential flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (middle), Governor Abubakar Badaru of Jigawa State (left) and former presidential candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, Malam Nuhu Ribadu performing Umrah (Lesser Hajj) in Mecca, Saudi ...

By Ishola Oludare Former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has lamented that Nigerians, under the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), have moved from frying pan to fire. Obasanjo said the past seven and a half years of the APC government had been stressful years for many ...

Postscript by Waziri Adio   From all indications, the two warring camps within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are not about to kiss and make up. All the overtures designed to reconcile the Governor Nyesom Wike-led Group—or Gang—of Five (G5) with PDP’s presidential candidate, Alhaji ...

By James Ogunnaike, Abeokuta Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has endorsed the Presidential candidate of Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi for the nation’s exalted seat during the February 25 Presidential election. Obasanjo, in a letter he personally signed, which he addressed to Nigerian ...

Assistant Editor, 'Dare Odufowokan, Gbade Ogunwale, Abuja and Mike Odiegwu, Port Harcourt God won’t give power to treacherous people, those who want to sell nation’s assets – Rivers gov Atiku’s campaign chief Udom confers with Wike, Ortom Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National ...

Former Anambra State Governor and presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) insists that the story of Nigeria will change the moment we begin to run the country based on the productive capacity of the people. Why do you want to be president? It’s a very simple thing. If you look at ...

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), said he had done his best to serve Nigeria. He also prayed that his successor would continue the journey of making Nigeria one of the world’s leading countries by 2100. “I welcome and accept both the accolades and criticisms in equal measure, ...

By  Bola Bamigbola The All Progressives Congress in Osun State and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party on Saturday traded words over the suspension of the Executive Secretary of the Osun Health Insurance Agency, Dr Niyi Oginni, and the Head of the Primary Health Care Development Board, Dr ...

With unemployment at about 33%, inflation at 22%, over a 130million Nigerians living below the poverty line, over 20 million Nigeria kids out of school; over 600 pre-election matters before the courts and a Federal High Court Practice Direction that is being flouted; and a total public debt stock ...

The Ohanaeze N’digbo Youth Council Worldwide has advised Governors Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State and Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State to end their romance with Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, saying he was leading them to doom. A statement issued yesterday by the national president of the ...

By Seye Olumide (Southwest Bureau Chief), Saxone Akhaine (Kaduna), Ann Godwin (Port Harcourt), Charles Ogugbuaja (Owerri), Uzoma Nzeagwu (Awka), Odun Edward (Ilorin) and Isa Abdulsalami Ahovi (Jos)   • Seek Clear Roadmap To Improve Economy, Food Sufficiency • Buhari Must Tackle ...

Deji Elumoye in Abuja President of the Senate, Dr. Ahmad Lawan, yesterday disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari will sign the 2023 appropriation bill next Tuesday. Dropping the hint after meeting with the President at the State House, Abuja, Lawan said the issue of the President’s recent ...

Tunde Ajaja, Oluwafemi Morgan and Dennis Naku More facts have emerged on why the five aggrieved governors on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party have yet to agree on the presidential candidate they will support having fallen out with the candidate of their party, Atiku Abubakar. ...

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has dared the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to expel him and face the consequences. Wike threw down the gauntlet while he was flagging off a new road in Rivers State. He said: “In 2003 when President Olusegun Obasanjo wanted to run for a second tenure―a whole ...

…I’m an elephant, I can’t be taken by surprise The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has said that anyone that plans to stop him from achieving his political ambition, should first make himself the president of Nigeria. The former vice ...

There is anxiety in the camp of Rotimi Amaechi, former Minister of Transportation, over the deal between Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State. Amaechi, who also vied for the APC presidential ticket, came second ...

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Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis, Dirisu Yakubu andEl-ameen Ibrahim   The five aggrieved Peoples Democratic Party governors have demanded the support of the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, for the PDP governorship and senatorial candidates in their ...

Severance allowances of the 469 members of the National Assembly and their legislative aides will cost the nation N30.17 billion next year. The sum is a part of the N238.78 billion National Assembly appropriated for itself as contained in the N21.8 trillion 2023 national budget. The assembly okayed ...

Our Reporters - DAILY TRUST The National Assembly has passed an aggregate expenditure of N21.82 trillion as the budget for the 2023 fiscal year. This figure represents an increase of N1.3 trillion from the N20.51 trillion estimates presented by President Muhammadu Buhari to the ...

Yusuf Alli Aggrieved Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors yesterday foreclosed any support for the party’s presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, in next year’s election. The governor – Nyesom Wike (Rivers), Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia), Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu), and ...

By Saxone Akhaine, Kaduna President of the Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria (CRCN), Sen. Shehu Sani, has urged the G5 governors to sheathe their swords and support the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, to win the 2023 election. The G5, led by Governor ...

The newly appointed Director General (DG) of the Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of Labour Party (LP), Akin Osuntokun on Wednesday revealed that former President Olusegun Obasanjo is “fully” backing the 2023 campaign of the LP presidential candidate, Peter Obi. Osuntokun during an interview ...

The House of Representatives has responded to the allegation by the President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, that the Speaker of the House, Femi Gbajabiamila deceived the union to call off the strike. The spokesperson of the House, Ben Kalu, in a ...

Rabiu Kwankwaso, the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), has mocked his closest rivals ahead of the 2023 general elections. The former Kano Governor stated this in a video released on Twitter where he explained why he was the most qualified person to be elected as the ...

Governor Nyesom Wike and his allies, described as the G-5, on Monday jetted out of the country to the United Kingdom in order to ratify their endorsement of the presidential candidate of the La­bour Party (LP), Peter Obi, for the 2023 general elections, sources close to the Peoples Democratic ...

BRUSHING aside all calls for caution, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), is seeking the approval of the National Assembly for yet another N819.54 billion domestic loan. Ostensibly, the supplementary budget he presented to justify the request is anchored on fixing the ...

By  Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, on Tuesday announced Akin Osuntokun, a former aide to President Olusegun Obasanjo, as the new Director General of his campaign council. Osuntokun replaced former DG of the Obi-Datti Campaign ...

By Adeola Badru There was a palpable fear about what might be the outcome of yet another round of meetings by the five aggrieved governors within the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP fold, named: ‘G-5, as they are currently in the United Kingdom, UK to decide on who they will support as the 2023 ...

By Charly Agwam – Bauchi A coalition of supporters of the presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP) Peter Obi and his running mate, Yusuf Ahmed Datti has dissociated itself from a campaign poster in circulation with the pictures of the presidential candidate of the main opposition Peoples ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,has said one-year imprisonment or a fine of N500,000 awaits anyone found guilty of buying votes during the 2023 elections. The INEC Commissioner in Jigawa State, Professor Muhammad Lawal Bashar said this in an interview with newsmen. The ...

By Omeiza Ajayi, Abuja The presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has felicitated Christians, including his political opponents, on the occasion of this year’s Christmas celebration. He said no matter their political differences, they are all ...

A national commissioner in the Police Service Commission, PSC, Najatu Mohammed, has said that money looted by appointees of government in the last eight years is enough to pay every citizen N732,000. She stated this during a special interview with Freedom FM, Kano, as part of an award ...

A former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Prince Uche Secondus, has described the sealing of the Atiku/Okowa campaign office in Port Harcourt by the Rivers State Government as a childish behaviour and abuse of power. Secondus said people in positions of authority must bear in ...

By Dickson Omobola Abia State governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, has said the agitation for inclusiveness, fairness and equity by the group of five governors (G-5) led by Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, is not just about 2023 elections but efforts to strengthen mutual trust and fairness in ...

By  Gbenga Odogun The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has said he will spend Christmas with the less privileged people at the Internally Displaced Persons’ camps in Ibaji and Idah, the ancestral headquarters of Igalaland. He is expected to join other Catholic faithful from ...

By  Tope Omogbolagun There was a power play at the National Assembly on Friday between members of the Senate and House of Representatives Joint Committee on ICT and Cybersecurity over a bill to repeal and re-enact the National Information Technology Development Agency. The bill seeks, among ...

By  Babatunde Tugbobo The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission has appealed to the National Assembly to amend the sections of the constitution and Electoral Act (2010 as amended), so that Nigerians living abroad can participate in the forthcoming election and not be disenfranchised. NIDCOM Head ...

By John Alechenu, Abuja The Special Assistant on Public Communications to the Atiku-Okowa Campaign Organisation, Mr Phrank Shaibu, has reacted to the sealing of the Port Harcourt Office of the campaign. He told Vanguard in a telephone chat on Friday that the matter was brought to the ...

The year 2022 has been dominated by political activities as politicians and political parties are gearing up for the 2023 general elections. All the major political parties conducted primaries for elections to fill different positions amid the challenges posed by the electoral act. In this ...

As testimonies continue in the ongoing Osun Tribunal sitting in Osogbo, the state capital, a forensic expert, Mr Samuel Oduntan, yesterday told the Tribunal that Senator Ademola Adeleke duly won the July 16 election with 402,349 votes to beat Mr Gboyega Oyetola who polled 374,256. The report which ...

by Sunday Isuwa In their quest for good governance in Nigeria, a group of like-minded individuals have come together to float a group known as Celebrities Forum of Nigeria. The group is a forum of celebrities from different walks of life, for the purpose of influencing common causes for ...

By Musliudeen Adebayo Members of the Oyo State House of Assembly have passed a total of three hundred and ten billion, four hundred and thirty-two million, five hundred thousand naira (N310,432,500,000.00) as budget for the year 2023. DAILY POST reports that the budget was passed by the ...

By Henry Umoru, ABUJA THE Senate dashed the expectations of those, who expected it to pass the 2023 Appropriations Bill into law, yesterday. The Senate failed to pass the 2023 Appropriations bill as earlier scheduled, blaming the Executive Arm of government for not only submitting the budget ...

By John Alechenu & Olayinka Ajayi THE camps of the three leading presidential candidates, yesterday, disagreed over the ANAP poll, which showed Labour Party, LP, Presidential Candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, as the favourite to win the 2023 election. For the second time in four months, the ...

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, says he will make his preferred presidential candidate known in January 2023. The governor, who stated this on Thursday, said he will also campaign for his adopted candidate nationwide. “From January next year, I will campaign to my people whom they will vote ...

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar has said the presidency is a life-long ambition. To this end, Atiku vowed to keep pushing until he succeeds in becoming Nigeria’s president. Speaking with Financial Times, the PDP presidential candidate said he would ...

By  Angela Onwuzoo The Lagos State Government has unveiled a new health initiative, EKO Social Health Alliance, to improve access to health for vulnerable and indigent residents of the state. The General Manager, Lagos State Health Management Agency, Dr Emmanuella Zamba, said during the media ...

In the spirit of the yuletide, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has begun the nationwide distribution of bags of rice to its women supporters. It is in appreciation of their commitment to the cause of the party in the outgoing year. National Women Leader, Betta Edu, flagged off the ...

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has transmitted a supplementary 2023 Appropriation Bill to the National Assembly. Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, read out the content of the cover letter on the bill to members on Wednesday. Buhari, in the cover ...