Wale Igbintade Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court yesterday removed the Chief Ralph Nwosu-led executives of the African Democratic Congress (ADC). Specifically, Justice Nyako barred ADC and Chief Ralph Okey Nwosu from extending his tenure of office after it had expired going by the ...

INEC says the security aagencies will escort all vehicles and boats to locations and also ensure the safety and protection of all election personnel and materials. byAgency Report INEC on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the road transportation and marine workers’ ...

By Ayoyinka Jegede, Uyo Presidential candidate of Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, has advised weak and feeble candidates to retire. According to him, the task to rescue and restore Nigeria needs physical energy and a presidential candidate vibrant enough to go round and understand the problems of ...

Friday Olokor and Segun Adewole The Chief Spokesman for the Obi-Datti Campaign Council, Yunusa Tanko, has said a meeting will soon be held to decide who will replace Doyin Okupe as the council’s Director-General. This was after Okupe announced on Tuesday that he was stepping down from the ...

The All Progressive Congress (APC) presidential candidate for next year’s presidential election, Bola Tinubu says his opponents in other parties have no integrity. Tinubu disclosed this on Tuesday in Calabar, Cross River State, during a town hall meeting with stakeholders of the APC. He said ...

The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Usman Baba says the police has devised strategies to arrest and prosecute politicians moving on election days with tonnes of cash for vote buying. Baba stated this on Monday in Abuja at a one-day Stakeholders Summit on Addressing the Influence of Money on the ...

The Atiku Abubakar presidential campaign organisation has challenged Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), to disclose his real identity to Nigerians. This was contained in a statement by Phrank Shaibu, Special Assistant on Public Communication to ...

On Sunday, November 27, 2022, the newly sworn-in Governor of Osun State, Ademola Adeleke in his inaugural speech sought the consent of the people to issue six Executive Orders. Adeleke, who had just taken his oath of allegiance as governor, stated that the orders were means that will help him ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has previewed the forthcoming general elections scheduled for the first quarter of 2023 in Nigeria with a declaration that his administration will conduct a credible poll that will be the envy of all candidates participating in the exercise. Speaking Friday in ...

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has promised businesses and trade will pick up again if he wins next February’s presidential election. The former Nigerian vice president made this known at the PDP’s presidential campaign rally at ...

Traditionalists in Oyo State on Saturday threw their weights behind the aspiration of Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential candidate, to emerge the next Nigeria President in 2023. They made their position known at a ceremony held at the Ilaji Hotel and Sports Resort in ...

The former Osun State governor, Rauf Aregbesola, on Saturday, said his administration was free of debt when he left office in 2018. Aregbesola who is now the Minister of Interior reacted to the statement credited to Bola Oyebamiji, the former Commissioner for Finance under the administration of ...

Arson capable of frustrating polls, says Yakubu The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, has accused politicians and other prominent personalities of being behind the recent attacks on the officers of the Independent National Electoral Commission in different parts of the country. The IG, who ...

The Whistleblower Policy, which encourages Nigerians to disclose information on fraud, looted government funds, and financial misconduct has lost momentum, according to Hajiya Zainab Ahmad, Minister of Finance. Under the policy launched in 2016, whistleblowers earn from 2.5% to 5% from the funds ...

Mr Wike has been having a running battle with Atiku and Okowa as well as the national leadership of the PDP since the Rivers governor lost the PDP presidential primary in May   Despite their political differences, the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic party (PDP), Atiku ...

AFTER its end-of-year deliberations on the state of the nation in Lagos yesterday, a pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, the Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG), endorsed the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as a man with the requisite ...

Ahead of the forthcoming 2023 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has lamented that politicians now purchase Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, to rig and mar the credibility of the exercise. This disclosure is coming as voters across the 774 local government areas ...

By Dapo Akinrefon, Omeiza Ajayi, John Alechenu, Adeola Badru, Olayinka Ajayi & Richard Thomas ABUJA — Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and his All Progressives Congress, APC, counterpart, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, yesterday, were at ...

Amid his grievance with the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, flag bearer, Atiku Abubakar, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has faulted the move for another Northerner to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari. Wike said it was an insult for another Northerner to emerge as the country’s leader after ...

A member of the Governor Nyesom Wike-led Integrity Group, a group of five governors (G5 Governors), Chief Olabode George said he would go down in his grave, knowing that he told the truth and he didn’t waiver. George, a former Deputy National Chairman of the PDP, stated this in an exclusive ...

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu alongside some notable members of the APC is currently in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, DAILY POST reports. The former governor of Lagos State is in Ibadan to meet Muslim leaders from the South West ...

Festus Okoye, national commissioner for information of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says the electoral body will soon release a report on permanent voter cards (PVCs) found in questionable places.Okoye spoke on Thursday during a workshop on election reporting organised by ...

The Senate has threatened that it will not allocate funds to over 100 Federal Government’s Ministries, Department and Agencies (MDAs) in the 2023 budget for not honouring the invitations of its Committee on Public Accounts investigating the funds released to them from the Service Wide Vote (SWV) ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3wfMqJlpngThe 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi has said that he will work assiduously with his running mate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed to tackle the insecurity bedevilling Nigeria.The cable reports that Obi while speaking at a meeting with ...

President Muhammadu Buhari for the umpteenth time has vowed that no manipulations of any form will be allowed in the 2023 general elections. The President also reiterated once again that the next year’s elections would be free, fair and credible. President Buhari spoke at State House, Abuja, ...

 The Senate Committee on Appropriations yesterday queried the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, over alleged padding of the 2023 budget proposals of some Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs).The minister, who appeared before the panel in Abuja, blamed ...

By Rosemary Iwunze There are indications that the moves by the National Assembly to create a separate pension regime for its staff may slide into controversy. A bill to exempt the National Assembly staff from the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, by establishing a National Assembly Pension ...

Dele Alake, a member of the Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, has alleged that the Labour Party’s (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, is noted for giving false statistics. Alake disclosed this on Monday while featuring on the Channels Television’s Politics Today programme. ...

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has addressed the controversies concerning his age, school and work history. Tinubu provided these answers while speaking at Chatham House in London, UK on Monday. The former governor of Lagos State noted ...

   Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State has stated that his administration will not abandon any of the projects embarked on by the previous administration of Adegboyega Oyetola in the state.Governor Adeleke who promised to sustain the harmonious relationship between the Executive and the ...

Vice president Yemi Osinbajo, has urged the Nigerians youths to be hopeful, and not be pressured to leave the country out fear of the unknown.  Osinbajo made this appeal during the 2022 Service of Nine Lessons and Carols held on Sunday evening at the National Christian Centre in Abuja. He said, ...

The Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has commenced the payment of salaries to workers in the state. This was contained in a statement shared on Adeleke’s verified Twitter account on Monday,  Dec. 5, signed by his spokesperson, Mallam Olawale Rasheed. Adeleke also noted that “Any ...

A few days after endorsing the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has returned to the main opposition party. The former lawmaker was received into the party on Monday during the presidential ...

The Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Monday, Dec. 5, warned the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, that he and his party have no moral justification to attack the All Progressives Congress, APC, administration headed by Muhammadu Buhari. ...

36 Governors of the Federation under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) have come down hard on the Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Clement Agba, over claims that State governments were responsible for the rising poverty rate in the country.LEADERSHIP recalls that the ...

Rivers State governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has dissociated himself from state governors who dip their hands into local government funds received from the Federation Account.Governor Wike was reacting to the accusation by President Muhammadu Buhari that governors have continued to deliberately ...

Nigerian lawmaker, Senator Biodun Olujimi, sponsor of the Gender and Equal Opportunities Bill in the Senate, has alleged that wives of male lawmakers opposed the proposition of 18 years as the minimum age for marriage.She said the wives of her male colleagues also rejected the gender bill before ...

STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASEOIL DERIVATION, SUBSIDY AND SURE-P REFUNDS: NINE OIL PRODUCING STATES RECEIVE N625.43 BILLION IN TWO YEARS; N1.1 TRN STILL OUTSTANDINGNine oil-producing states received a total of N625.43 billion 13 percent oil derivation, subsidy and SURE-P refunds from the Federation ...

Usman Baba, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), has vowed that governors will no longer be allowed to prevent opposition political parties from holding rallies in their states.The IGP spoke on Wednesday at the 2022 political parties summit in Abuja.Represented by Dandaura Mustapha, deputy ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has slammed state governors over what he described as their unfair treatment of the administration at the local government level across the country.The President spoke after delivering his speech at an event hosted for members of the Senior Executive Course 44 (2022) of ...

Senate President, Ahmed Lawan has cautioned Nigerian youths against vote trading in the 2023 elections. Lawan spoke on Thursday when he received members of Polling Unit Ambassadors of Nigerian (PUAN), an election observation group, at the national assembly complex in Abuja. The senate ...

A member of the House of Representatives, Olanrewaju Ibrahim from Ekiti State, on Wednesday claimed it will take N170,000 to reproduce one PVC amidst the attacks on offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Mr Ibrahim, while moving a motion to investigate the attacks on ...

The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, has accused the Budget Office of the Federation (BOF) of smuggling  N206 billion into the 2023 budget of Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management.A statement by the ministry said Mrs. Ahmed pointed fingers ...

Udom Emmanuel, governor of Akwa Ibom, said “small men” in the PDP will go and prostrate before the big men who are unhappy in the party in order for PDP to win the 2023 elections. Emmanuel, the chairman of the PDP presidential campaign council, spoke in a recent interview with ThisDay newspaper. ...

Adeleke said yesterday his administration has not sacked any worker and dethroned three monarchs.Adeleke spoke against the earlier announced Executive Order 3, 4 and 5, which stated nullification of employment, appointment made by former Governor Adegboyega Oyetola from July 17, 2022 till his ...

VICE Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Senator Yusuf Datti Ahmed, has said that from the first month in office, Nigerians would start seeing clear changes if the LP Presidential Candidate, Mr. Peter Obi is elected, next year.Speaking on a one-on-one programme on Channels ...

  Osun Governor Senator Ademola Adeleke has sacked 12,000 workers and ordered the dethronement of three monarchs barely 24 hours after his inauguration. The Governor also nullified the appointment of 30 Permanent Secretaries and suspended the chairman and members of Osun State Independent ...

The presidency has stated that the recent increase in migration is not peculiar to Nigeria alone, IGBERETV reports.Speaking on a Channels Television program on Sunday, November 27, presidential aide, Femi Adesina stated that the average Nigerian have always wanted to leave and people should not ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxJqF3Zt_U8 The media aides of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, have explained why Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) dreads facts and figures used by opponents in place of mere rhetoric.In a statement Sunday, the ...

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Femi Fani-Kayode, has declared that no opposition can kill the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu. Fani-Kayode said Tinubu can’t be killed before, during, and after the presidential election. He was reacting to Tinubu’s recent remark ...