By Daily Post Staff Famous Nigerian singer, David Adeleke, better known as Davido says the 2023 general elections were not credible. The Dami Duro crooner stated this in a recent interview with Beat 99.9FM, Lagos. Davido, who went on a 6-month social media break following the death of his ...

The 2023 general elections witnessed the revival of political activism by celebrities in the Nigerian entertainment industry. Before this time, only a few of these celebrities or entertainers see reasons to speak up against bad governance or political ills in their country as they would rather ...

By  Sharon Osaji The 2023 general election kicks off in a matter of hours with the presidential and National Assembly elections. Eligible Nigerians from across the country will troop out en masse with their Permanent Voter Cards as their weapon to a new set of elect leaders who will preside over ...

With less than 11 days to the presidential election, the leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele has warned of a possible crisis. Primate Ayodele said there would be a crisis if the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi and Bola Tinubu of the All ...

By  Sharon Osaji CLEEN Foundation has said only two states and the Federal Capital Territory are presently safe for the conduct of the forthcoming general elections in the country. The Executive Director, CLEEN Foundation, Gad Peter, on Wednesday in Abuja while presenting the ‘2023 Election ...

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 ...

Edidiong Ikpoto Friday Olokor, Abiodun Sanusi, Gift Habib and El-ameen Ibrahim The United Kingdom and Australia have asked their citizens to avoid travel to Nigeria in the latest security advisories issued on Thursday. Also, the European Union warned that insecurity might prevent elections ...

By Egufe Yafugborhi GOVERNOR Nyesom Wike has forecasted that the 2023 general elections in Rivers State would feature a fight-to-finish contest in which the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would win it all at the end of the day. Wike spoke at the flag-off of the statewide Rivers PDP Campaign ...

By Wale Odunsi More insights have emerged regarding ex-President Olusegin Obasanjo’s endorsement of Peter Obi to win Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election. Obasanjo dominated the headlines last week after denying authoring a letter to the United Kingdom authorities warning against interference in ...

…Insists no going back on BVAS, IReVl …Real-time polling unit results’ll  be uploaded on IReVl …INEC must manage security threats — IFES By Omeiza Ajayi, Abuja The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has lamented the growing wave of election-related insecurity across the ...

The governorship race in Oyo may again go down to the wire as each of the three main candidates reasonably believes he has a path to victory By Olasunkanmi Akinlotan Governorship elections in Oyo State always go down to the wire. In 2011, the late Abiola Ajimobi defeated ...

As the world welcomed the new year, 2023, Africa did so differently as there have been key notable dates in the year earmarked to usher in new governments in 24 countries of the continent. According to Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa, countries like Nigeria, Gabon, Liberia, ...

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 ...

By Seun Opejobi With less than 90 days to the 2023 elections, popular Islamic Scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has told Nigerians to vote for those who will not fight bandits if elected into office. In a sermon, the controversial Islamic cleric urged Nigerians to vote for leaders who would ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...