Kanu: IPOB declares Tuesday sit-at-home in South-EastThe Indigenous People of Biafra has declared Tuesday, September 13, as sit-at-home in the South-East.The pro-Biafran group stated that the directive was in solidarity with its detained leader, Nnamdi Kanu, who will be appearing in court on that ...

 Nigeria's President, Muhammadu Buhari says despite the disruptions in global economy and internal troubles, the Nigerian economy has continued to be resilient and maintain an upward trajectory.The president stated this at the inauguration of the Presidential Committee on the National Economy, on ...

By Emmanuel Ugwu-Nwogo; Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has said he is not aware of his reported appointment as the chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party Governors Forum.The appointment of Makinde to head the PDP came about after the Wednesday meeting of the main opposition party’s Executive ...

Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi state Friday predicted victory for the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in the 2023 election.He also picked the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, as his second favourite.Umahi spoke to ...

PRESS STATEMENT10/09/2022APC Plans to Attack INEC Office to Destroy BVAS Machines-Osun PDPSays Fear of BVAS Machines Reason APC Wants Tribunal Moved to AbujaAmidst the insurgency plot by the Osun All Progressive Congress (APC), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the APC of plotting to ...

 Following the suggestion made by former Presidential candidate- Garba Adamu, saying that Federal Government should rename University Of Nigeria, located in Nsukka (UNN) after Queen Elizabeth II, to immortalize her in Nigeria; the Igbo cultural group has reacted, telling FG to discard such ...

Oyo State Governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde, has said that he would not accept the chairmanship of the PDP Governors Forum because he is fighting for issues that are fundamental to the peace and unity of Nigeria.Makinde, who stated this in Aba, Abia State while commissioning the Nwaobasi ring and the ...

There are no signs of respite yet in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) despite the vote of confidence passed on the party’s National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, on Thursday by the National Executive Committee (NEC).Governors elected on the platform of the ...

PHOTOS: Sultan of Sokoto Visits WikeThe Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar, on Friday, visited the Rivers State governor, Wike Nyesom, in Port Harcourt.Abubakar was in Port Harcourt to declare open the Federation of Muslim Women’s Association in Nigeria's 37th Annual National Conference.

 Interior Minister, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has lamented the devastating impacts bandits and other criminal elements terrorising Nigeria have had on the country’s economy and social life under President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime.He said “The ministry under my watch remains unwavering, resolute and ...

Omoyele Sowore, a presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) has noted that the death of Queen Elizabeth II should bring about the end of the Commonwealth.The Commonwealth, formerly known as British Commonwealth, is a voluntary association of countries around the world that were ...

 The Chairman of the New Nigeria People's Party (NNPP) in Nasarawa State, Hon. Sidi Bako has described the party’s Presidential candidate, Musa Rabiu Kwankwaso as the best candidate that will transform Nigeria if elected the President in comes 2023 general election.He stated this in an interview ...

Peter Obi: I Will Stop Campaigning, If Anyone Can Prove I Misappropriated Half A Trillion Naira I Received As Governor (Video)Labour Party's presidential candidate, Peter Obi said he received about half a trillion naira as governor of Anambra state for a period of eight years without ...

By Don Silas Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose, has commented on the crisis within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), insisting that the presidential flagbearer of the party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, is not against Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike.PDP has been witnessing a crisis since ...

By Emma AmaizeNiger-Delta militant leader, Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo -Asari has strangely falling – out with the leader of defunct Movement for Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, saying he (Tompolo) had never been involved in Ijaw nor Niger- Delta ...

Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola has called on politicians vying for office in the 2023 general elections as well as citizens of the country not to “disrobe” the challenges of Nigeria in the global market square.Fashola who was the keynote speaker at The Niche Annual Lecture in ...

  When I was growing up, there was a nursery rhythm that I always heard and enjoyed. "If you do good kingdom oooo kingdom ooo kingdom waiting for you, if you do bad no more kingdom ooo no more kingdom ooo no more kingdom waiting for you..."This appears to be the song Wike has been listening to ...

THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Friday, revealed how hackers from Asia several times launched cyber attacks on its portal during the Ekiti/Osun governorship election but were conquered.This was disclosed by the Chairman, INEC, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, while presenting a keynote ...

FACT CHECK!! Eko Atlantic is a private project fully initiated and funded by the Chagoury family through their companies. The project was neither initiated nor built by Bola Tinubu. While Tinubu was Governor of Lagos State from 1999 to 2007, Eko Atlantic project was commenced in 2009 ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has denied speculations that Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal has resigned his position as the Chairman of the PDP Governors Forum.Speculations have been rife since the resignation of the Chairman Board of Trustee (BoT), Senator Walid Jibrin.But reacting to ...

Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike has alleged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar are arrogant because someone in the presidency is backing them.Wike said the National Chairman of the party, Iyorchia Ayu, had refused to honour his promise to resign and yield ...

Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, has resigned as the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governors Forum chairman.He resigned his position on Wednesday, during the National Executive Council meeting of the party.Minutes after his resignation, the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, emerged the new ...

Former Secretary General of Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku has played host to a delegation of youth leaders led by co-convener of Nigeria Youth Decide, Dr utchay Odims in Lagos.Amb.Odims during their conversation informed the elder statesman that this project has become very important in the ...

 Pictures from President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to Lagos today, where he formally commissioned a new Nigerian Naval Sports Complex and officially declared open the 12th Nigerian Navy Games. #PMBInLagos

Anthony Obekpa, an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain in Benue, says the party is losing members to Labour Party (LP) in Ogbadibo LGA of the state.In a statement, Obekpa said Austin Agada, Benue APC chairman, is not bothered about the situation in his LGA despite efforts to meet him to find ...

The lead counsel to the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, on Wednesday said that the case between the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, and the Federal government has been brought forward to 13th September 2022 from the earlier date of 11th October 2022 at the Court of Appeal in ...

PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI RECEIVES BRIEFING FROM ECOWAS SPECIAL ENVOY AND FORMER PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN. SEPT 7TH 2022

By  Dennis Naku  Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has said that the time of reckoning is coming for those who continue to insist that they can take the national leadership in the Peoples Democratic Party.The governor maintained that nobody can silence him from speaking against such injustice and ...

By  Punch Editorial Board  AHEAD of the 2023 polls, public attention is riveted on politics. But the electorate’s dream of a better Nigeria appears bleak with the recent embarrassing penchant of state governors and leading politicians to embark on jamborees to London for political meetings. ...

by Sunday IsuwaIn order to avoid manipulation of their results at the polling units, the Labour Party (LP) has declared that doctors, nurses and other medical professionals will serve as their agents in the 2023 presidential election.National chairman of the Labour Party, Barr Julius Abure, said ...

About 17 governorship candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party met with the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, behind closed doors on Tuesday.The candidates were said to have arrived Port Harcourt at about 8pm and immediately went into the meeting with their host.A source from Government House, ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission on Tuesday said the estimated three million Internally Displaced Persons would participate in the 2023 general elections.The commission added that it will display voter register across the country once it completes the ongoing Automated Biometric ...

Loyalists of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), are making subtle moves to kick out the national chairman of the party, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, before the campaign for the 2023 general election commences, Daily Independent has gathered.The ...

By Seun OpejobiA former Minister of Sports, Bolaji Abdullahi, has cautioned Nigerians against voting for the All Progressives Congress, APC, in 2023.Abdullahi said only Nigerians who love suffering would vote for APC to remain in power in 2023.Addressing journalists in Ilorin, Kwara State on ...

On the CNN InterviewThe Nigerian public and Nigeria-watchers should please note that the much talked-about CNN Interview with Mr. Peter Obi is not holding today. If and when such a forum will hold, Nigerians and all men & women of goodwill will be appropriately informed.Thank you.Valentine ...

 The Spokesperson for the Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation, Daniel Bwala, has presented ‘receipts’ to prove that Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, dragged then Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, to court over alleged certificate forgery.Bwala, who spoke on Channels ...

 The All Progressives Congress, APC, has warned the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Iyorchia Ayu, against dragging its name into the crisis rocking the opposition party.Mr Ayu had accused the ruling party of planting negative stories on social media in order to fuel the ...

By Clement Chinedu Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has challenged anyone to show him one federal government project in Rivers State since 1999He hinted that the state did not benefit anything from the federal government even when the Peoples Democratic Party held sway in the country from ...

The Adamawa State chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ibrahim Bilal, has resigned from the party and joined the Peoples Democratic Party, after he was accused of financial misconduct and gross violation of the constitution, SaharaReporters has learnt.Adamawa is the home state of Aisha, ...

Barely four days after the demise of the governorship candidate of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) in Ogun State, Professor David Bamgbose, politicians in the State have refused to mourn the departed soul.DAILY POST correspondent learnt that Bamgbose, who was a diabetes patient, might have died ...

By  Gbenga Oloniniran  The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore, has ‘revealed’ how he helped the standard bearer of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, to emerge as the presidential candidate of LP.Sowore, while speaking on Monday at the memorial lecture held in honour of ...

By  Gbenga Oloniniran  The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, on Monday, said he would not leave his political opponents for God, but he would deal with them himself.Wike said he would flog “the small boys.”Governor Wike spoke on Monday when he inaugurated the Okezuo Abia Flyover along the Aba ...

 The peter Obi Campaign on Sunday mocked the rival Bola Tinubu Campaign saying that the Labour Party presidential candidate has no bullion van problem as it chastised supporters of the All Progressives Congress, APC presidential candidate for demanding the disqualification of Obi on the premise of ...

By John Ofikhenua,Without subsidy, petrol will sell for N462 per litre, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited said yesterday.It said the average international market-determined landing cost in the second quarter of this year was $1,283 per metric tonne.Marketing and distribution ...

There is anxiety in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) over the composition of its presidential campaign council for the 2023 general elections.The APC is yet to constitute and unveil its presidential campaign council 23 days to the official commencement of campaigns.The Independent ...

By Seun Opejobi The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu is intimidated by the achievements of its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.Debo Ologunagba, the PDP spokesperson, made the remark while stressing that Tinubu was ...

By Seun Opejobi Former Kogi West Senator, Dino Melaye, has berated ex-Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, over his latest comment against him.Melaye had claimed that all governors under the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, spent money on ensuring that Iyorchia Ayu emerged as the party’s National ...

The Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi has opined that he cannot embezzle public funds because God has blessed him more than enough.Naija News reports that the former Governor of Anambra State made this known in a recent event while speaking to some Nigerians in the diaspora.In a ...

The Governor of Abia State, Okezie Ikpezu, has insisted he has no intention of leaving the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).He, however, said that it was important for the PDP and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, to figure out how they are going to involve the South-East in the scheme of ...

Members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Enugu State, on Sunday, rejected any form of campaign fund from the presidential candidate of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.DAILY POST reports that this formed part of the resolutions reached during a stakeholders’ meeting at the South-East ...