By Matthew Atungwu Republican candidate, ex-US President, Donald Trump, has announced a short-notice media event at his Florida resort as rumblings of discontent hit his presidential campaign and poll numbers surged for his election rival Kamala Harris. Trump announced this in a one-sentence post ...

Barely a week after President Joe Biden dropped out from the US presidential race, his deputy Kamala Harris emerged as the top contender to get the Democratic nomination following a string of endorsements from senior party leaders, including former President Barack Obama. Other prominent ...

Former local government chairmen in Rivers State, on Wednesday, accused Governor Siminalayi Fubara of sponsoring the Tuesday attack by hunger protesters on the Port Harcourt house of his predecessor, Nyesom Wike. While warning that Fubara did not have the monopoly of violence, the ex-LG chairmen ...

Washington, DC – In the United States political circles, conventional wisdom dictates that voters only care about the candidate atop the presidential ticket, not the running mate. While vice presidential picks can play a role in public opinion, voters cast ballots mostly for the headliners ...

By Francis Ugwu Tesla and SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk, has attacked United States Vice President Kamala Harris. Musk said Harris is ‘literally a communist’. In a post on his X handle on Wednesday, Musk said Harris wants not only merely equal opportunity but equal outcomes. He said: “Kamala is quite ...

By Matthew Atungwu United States Vice President, Kamala Harris has chosen Minnesota Governor, Tim Walz, as her running mate in the November Presidential election. Harris will face-off against Republican, ex-President Donald Trump. The 60-year-old Walz emerged as a dark horse contender and has ...

By Matthew Atungwu The Labour Party, LP, has described Kenneth Okonkwo as a mole, saying his exit from the party was not a surprise. The Party said that Okonkwo’s attack on its 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, was unfortunate and attention-seeking. DAILY POST reports that Okonkwo, a ...

Jacob Zuma, who once led the African National Congress (ANC), has been accused of campaigning to dislodge it from power. Former South African President Jacob Zuma has been expelled from the ruling African National Congress (ANC) after he backed a rival party in May’s parliamentary ...

Kenneth Okonkwo, former spokesman for the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, has ended his political association with the party and its 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi. In a statement released on his social media account on July 27, 2024, Okonkwo, a lawyer and seasoned Nollywood ...

By Seun Opejobi The United States Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump vowed on Saturday to end World War Three if elected president. The former US president spoke at a Bitcoin event in Nashville, Tennessee. He also warned that America would be crushed if its citizens failed to elect ...

United States presidential candidate Donald Trump falsely accused election rival Kamala Harris of being an anti-Semite who plans to allow the murder of newborn babies, in a speech meant to rally religious supporters Friday that quickly went off the rails. The vice president, who is married to a ...

By Matthew Atungwu The crisis in the Labour Party, LP, has taken a new twist as a Former Deputy National Chairman, Callistus Okafor, has laid claim to the National Chairmanship position. Okafor, in a news conference in Abuja, on Friday, said his decision to “take over” the party was supported by ...

On Sunday, voters in the South American nation of Venezuela will take part in what may be one of the most consequential elections in the country’s modern history. After 11 years in power, President Nicolas Maduro is facing steep odds as he seeks a third term against opposition candidate ...

By Matthew Atungwu Former US president, Barack Obama, on Friday said he would endorse Kamala Harris’ bid for the White House. In a post on his X handle, Obama said he, alongside his wife, Michelle, threw their support behind Kamala Harris, adding that she would make good President for the United ...

Today the name James Dobson is familiar to many Americans of all stripes because of his influence over the Christian Right and his role in building the evangelical political infrastructure that helped elect Donald Trump to the Presidency and engineer the overturning of Roe v. Wade. But what is ...

By Matthew Atungwu President Bola Tinubu has officially welcomed former Senate President, Anyim Pius Anyim into the All Progressives Congress, APC, family. DAILY POST recalls that Anyim, a Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, under President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, ...

Republican claims Harris is a ‘radical left lunatic’, as Biden praises VP as ‘tough’ and ‘experienced.’ Donald Trump has launched a volley of attacks casting Kamala Harris as a radical extremist, claiming his de facto opponent for the White House has been the “ultraliberal driving ...

United States Vice President, Kamala Harris, on Tuesday, vowed to put a stop to the abortion ban and help restore reproductive freedoms. “And we who believe in reproductive freedom will stop Donald Trump’s extreme abortion bans because we trust women to make decisions about their own body and not ...

Just over 24 hours after President Biden dropped his flagging bid for a second term, his vice president strode into what was now her campaign headquarters to wild applause and hoots of excitement. Campaign staff had already replaced many of the “Biden-Harris” signs plastered on the walls with new ...

By Nsikak Nseyen President Joe Biden has endorsed Kamala Harris as his preferred presidential nominee for his party. Biden announced on his official X page on Sunday, shortly after he withdrew from the United States November presidential election. He had said it was in the best interest of his ...

By Ifreke Inyang The reinstated Deputy Governor of Edo State, Philip Shaibu, has formally rejoined the All Progressives Congress, APC, from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The deputy governor was accompanied by prominent members of the Dan Orbih-led Legacy Group of the PDP as he made his ...

US President Joe Biden pledged to stay in the White House race Friday, defying a growing Democratic party revolt that raised speculation he could bow out as soon as this weekend. “The stakes are high, and the choice is clear. Together, we will win,” the 81-year-old said in a statement from the ...

Rwanda’s Paul Kagame has won a landslide victory in the presidential elections held on July 15. His Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) party also emerged victorious in the legislative vote, retaining its parliamentary majority. With more than 99 percent of the vote in Kagame’s favour, this ...

US President Joe Biden’s campaign on Monday dismissed Donald Trump’s newly-unveiled running mate J.D. Vance as a “far-right MAGA extremist.” “Vance is a 2020 election denier, supports a national abortion ban, and voted against IVF access,” Biden’s team said. The president said Vance “talks a ...

By Francis Ugwu Former President Donald Trump named his running mate on Monday, a highly anticipated and high-stakes announcement as the Republican National Convention kicked off in Wisconsin. His name is Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio State, United States of America. Here are some important ...

President Joe Biden has issued a statement following the shooting incident at former President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Pennsylvania. The disturbance, which occurred as Trump began his final rally before the Republican party convention, led to the former president being rushed off stage by ...

President Joe Biden said something interesting at his rare news conference Thursday when he was asked if delegates pledged to support him at the Democratic National Convention have his blessing to support another candidate. “They’re free to do whatever they want,” Biden said. The president noted ...

By John Owen Nwachukwu The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has approved a new logo for the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP. The party also said it has expelled those claiming to have different factions within its fold. The party, which won the Kano State governorship election ...

By Sunny Green Itodo Former US President and Republican Party candidate, Donald Trump, has lambasted actor, George Clooney, for urging President Joe Biden to resign as the Democratic Party’s candidate in the upcoming election. Clooney had written an essay saying Biden should drop out of the race ...

The Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, on Wednesday, said his administration has started the process of preparing the 2025 budget. The governor also dismissed the threat by the Martin Amaewhule-led faction of the state House of Assembly that he should present the 2024 budget again, saying ...

By Ochogwu Sunday Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State took a swipe at his immediate predecessor and current Minister of Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike on Wednesday. The governor, who spoke on Wednesday when the people of Ogbakor Etche paid him a solidarity visit in Port ...

Democratic Party lawmakers have met privately to discuss United States President Joe Biden’s crisis-stricken re-election bid as questions continue to swirl around the president’s physical and mental fitness. The closed-door talks on Tuesday highlighted ongoing divisions within the party ...

The Chamber of Progress, a tech industry coalition, has called on President Joe Biden to support comprehensive crypto regulation, framing it as a crucial step in his administration's bid to engage young voters ahead of the upcoming U.S. presidential election. In a letter on Tuesday, the ...

The All Progressives Congress has expressed conviction that President Bola Tinubu will be re-elected in 2027 despite the economic hardship and planned alliance between mega opposition parties. The lingering economic hardship resulting from ongoing reforms such as fuel subsidy removal and ...

Oppositions don’t win elections, received Westminster wisdom tells us. Governments lose them. And in Britain’s July 4 election, the ruling Conservatives lost big. After a 14-year governing streak defined by Brexit, a pandemic, and an astonishing period of political and financial turbulence that ...

By Seun Opejobi The White House has dismissed reports that President Joe Biden is considering quitting the presidential race. White House Senior Deputy Press Secretary and Deputy Assistant to the president, Andrew Bates, described the New York Times report as false. Posting on X, Bates wrote: ...

Punters on the decentralized blockchain betting site Polymarket have upped the odds President Joe Biden will drop out of the race before the U.S. presidential election in November. Traders now estimate a 46% chance Biden will withdraw his nomination, up from 19% on Thursday, following last ...

President Biden and former President Donald Trump squared off in the first presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle on Thursday night. The 90-minute event featured rambling answers from the current president and misstatements from his predecessor. The candidates answered ...

Six candidates - five conservatives and one reformist - are competing in Iran's presidential election on Friday to succeed the late Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash last month. Here is a look at the candidate list: Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf Ghalibaf, 62, is a prominent ...

Clacton-on-Sea, United Kingdom – As the midday sun spreads over Clacton, seagulls cawing above the quiet seafront, Lee* meanders around searching for shade. He stops at an ice cream stand but decides against a purchase. “I don’t give my name out because you could be Old Bill , couldn’t ...

The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, was, on Monday, elected the Chairman of the Southern Governors’ Forum. His Anambra State counterpart, Prof Charles Soludo, emerged as the Vice Chairman of the forum. The Southern Governors’ Forum serves as the umbrella body for the 17 governors from the ...

Former President and current Republican nominee Donald Trump has stated that he has already decided upon his pick for Vice President in the 2024 election, but there’s still one more thing that he needs to do: tell them. During Trump’s stop in Philadelphia on his campaign tour on Saturday, NBC ...

By Ochogwu Sunday Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara has nominated caretaker chairmen for the 23 local government areas in the state. The governor transmitted the list to the three-member Rivers State House of Assembly led by the Speaker, Victor Jumbo. This is coming amid the renewed ...

By  Ochogwu Sunday Supporters of Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara on Tuesday destroyed the statue of the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, in the Obi Akpor Local Government Area of the state. The youths were protesting attempts by local government chairmen in the ...

By Enahoro Iyemefokhai Benjamin Obaseki, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Oredo Local Government of Edo State, has resigned his membership in the party. Obaseki tendered his letter of resignation dated June 12, 2024, to the local government chairman of the party. Until his ...

By John Owen Nwachukwu Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, has insisted that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has kept his campaign promises to Nigerians. Obi stated this during a Democratic Day chat on Arise TV. In those days of electioneering, ...

The ruling All Progressives Congress, on Tuesday, faulted former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and his Peoples Democratic Party for blaming President Bola Tinubu for the current economic hardship in the country. In two separate statements issued in Abuja on Tuesday to commemorate Nigeria’s ...

The 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, on Sunday, said contrary to the claims in circulation, President Bola Tinubu immensely benefited from his goodwill. Atiku said but for him, Tinubu’s political career might have been terminated while he was governor ...

Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier has the latest on reports the Trump campaign has begun 'serious vetting' on Doug ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffp8R0D0xfM source

By John Owen Nwachukwu Former spokesman for the Atiku Abubakar/Ifeanyi Okowa presidential campaign in the 2023 presidential election, Daniel Bwala has said that his support for President Bola Tinubu is not for better for worse. Bwala said he would easily work away if the President goes against ...