By John Owen Nwachukwu President-elect, Bola Tibubu’s assemblage of transition committee members has become a subject of controversy. The incumbent President, Muhammadu Buhari was roundly criticised for favouring his kinsmen in appointments against other segments of the country, especially ...

By Samson Atekojo Usman The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu and the president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday held a meeting behind closed-doors at the Defence House, Abuja. Others who were in the meeting are the President of the ...

Sunny Green Itodo Veteran Nigerian singer, Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy, has raised an alarm that the President-elect, Bola Tinubu returned to Nigeria with a “charging port” to prevent his health from failing. DAILY POST reported that Tinubu arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe ...

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri, ABUJA The All Progressives Congress, APC, has opened up on circumstances that led its candidate and President-elect, Bola Tinubu, to forfeit the sum of $460,000 to the government of the United States of America, USA, in 1993. The ruling party, in processes it filed to ...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has prayed the Presidential Election Petitions Court (PEPC) in Abuja to dismiss petitions filed by three opposition parties challenging the victory of its presidential candidate, Sen. Bola Tinubu, in the Feb. 25 election. The APC urged the tribunal to ...

By  Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis The president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has directed that special prayers and thanksgiving service be held on Wednesday to mark his 71st birthday instead of the annual birthday colloquium. A statement from his office on Monday issued by his media officer, ...

By  Leke Baiyewu The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja on Friday ordered that the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, and his Labour Party counterpart, Peter Obi, should serve the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, with copies of petitions seeking to ...

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri, ABUJA Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of installing a third-party device he said was used to intercept and switch results of the presidential election that was held on February ...

By  Azuka Onwuka When the People’s Democratic Party was in power for 16 years, from 1999 to 2015, many Nigerians, especially members of the opposition, complained of the party’s haughtiness, highhandedness and fixation with victory. PDP was accused of seeing election as a “do-or-die affair.” ...

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi, said he has no grudges with the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, regarding his declaration by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as the winner of the 2023 presidential election. Obi stated this while speaking ...

The pan-Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere on Wednesday disclosed that the candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi was the winner of the just-concluded presidential election. According to the foremost Yoruba group, the declaration of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All ...

By John Alechenu and Omeiza Ajayi, ABUJA The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, were at loggerheads, over the conduct of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and the protest embarked upon ...

Erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP), Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has replied former Chief of Staff to former Governor Rotimi Amaechi, Tony Okocha, for claiming that his principal voted for the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential candidate, ...

Nigeria’s President-elect, Bola Tinubu, has said the Certificate of Return presented to him by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is like a “World Cup” trophy. He made this remark while on a a visit to the palace of the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akinolu, on Sunday. Tinubu, who ...

*Says Supreme Court had determined the issue  *Ozekhome faults INEC for declaring APC candidate winner Alex Enumah in Abuja A former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Chief Michael Aondoakaa (SAN), has maintained that before a candidate can be declared ...

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Bode George, shares with AYOOLA OLASUPO his thoughts on the declaration of Bola Tinubu as the President-elect among other national issues What is your general assessment of the presidential and National Assembly elections held on Saturday? ...

The president-elect, Bola Tinubu emerged through a highly contested presidential election and he is expected to be sworn in as the 16th president of Nigeria. The former Lagos State governor emerged despite several polls by different organizations that wrote him off. Also, the naira redesigning ...

By Omeiza Ajayi, Abuja Presidential Candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has constituted his legal team to take on his opponents, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party PDP and Mr Peter Obi of the Labour Party, both of who had vowed to ...

The leader of the INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele has said Bola Tinubu would be the last president the All Progressives Congress, APC, will produce. Primate Ayodele said Nigerians wouldn’t vote for APC again because the party deprived people of their rights and made ...

Following the emergence of the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu as president-elect, Nigerians, especially celebrities, have reacted differently. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had, in the early hours on Wednesday, declared Tinubu the ...

By Dayo Johnson, Regional Editor, South-West, Henry Umoru, Johnbosco Agbakwuru, Omeiza Ajayi, Ozioruva Aliu & Favour Ulebor, Abuja. AKURE   President-elect, Asíwájú Bola Tinubu, yesterday extended the olive branch to his co-contestants in the February 25 presidential elections. He ...

According to the news monitored on Arise tv, the president-elect, Ahmed Bola Tinubu has received his Certificate of Return. The Certificate was given to him by the Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu on Wednesday in the presence of vice-president Yomi ...

By Nwafor Sunday President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has advised his fellow contenders not to resort to violence, noting that they should seek redress in court. Tinubu disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday, minutes after he was declared winner of the 2023 presidential election. He ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the 2023 presidential election. The Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu declared Tinubu the winner at exactly 4:10 a.m on Wednesday in Abuja. ...

By Clifford Ndujihe, Omeiza Ajayi & Favour Ulebor, LAGOS The Presidential candidates of the ruling All Progressives Congress; main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP; and Labour Party, were locked in a tight race, last night as results of the February 25 elections trickled in ...

Mr Peter Obi of the Labour Party is leading by votes in the results of the Presidential election held in Lagos on Saturday. INEC had declared 17 local governments as of 3:30 am before the results’ collation was adjourned to 10: 00 am. But, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is leading in the ...

Director of Strategic Communications, Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Council, Chief Dele Momodu, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to call the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to order over a “recklessly dangerous publication unilaterally ...

Six days before the presidential election, we publish excerpts from a review of Civic Hive, a Foundation established by BudgIT Foundation with the goal of creating an innovative virtual and physical space for partnerships and raising civic tech leaders/solutions in Nigeria, of the policy documents ...

By  Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis A member of the Integrity Group and Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has declared that the people of the state will vote for a presidential candidate whose election will promote equity, justice and unity in Nigeria. The governor spoke on Thursday when he received ...

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 ...

Leader of the Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo has said Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress, APC and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) should not have been contesting the 2023 elections with Peter Obi of ...

By John Owen Nwachukwu Head of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Digital Media, Tony Ehilebo, has lambasted the Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, over his recent comment that a cabal at the presidency was working against the All Progressives Congress, APC’s victory in the coming ...

By Racheal Ayodele Nigerians have continued to react to the back and forth between the famous Nigerian singer and internet personality, Peter Okoye and his colleague in the industry, Seun Kuti, over support for presidential candidates in the 2023 elections. Recall that Seun Kuti who ...

By  Dennis Naku Dr Dakuku Peterside, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress and former Director General, of Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, speaks with DENNIS NAKU on the political violence in Rivers State, the G-5 governors and the chances of his party in the state in ...

The Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council, yesterday, said it had uncovered the planned launch of a multi-million naira media campaign, dubbed “Killer Punch” by campaign team of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, aimed at spreading lies about the Labour ...

More reactions have continued to trail the comment made by the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on the Akwa Ibom State Governor, Mr. Udom Emmanuel, during his political campaign in the state. Tinubu, during his rally in Uyo, the state capital, ...

David-Chyddy Eleke in Awka and Bassey Inyang in Calabar The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, at the party’s presidential campaign rally in Calabar, Cross River State, slammed the President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government over the depreciation ...

Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja and Francis Saudauna in Katsina The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has dismissed any insinuation of a strained relationship with President Muhammadu Buhari, saying his support for the president is unalloyed and ...

Dirisu Yakubu, El-ameen Ibrahim, Edward Nnachi and John Charles The presidential standard bearer of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu,  and the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Council again clashed on Thursday over the allegation by Tinubu that the PDP was ...

By Clifford Ndujihe & John Alechenu, ABUJA The Atiku-Okowa Presidential Campaign of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has commenced court proceedings to disqualify the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, over criminal conviction and sentencing ...

By John Alechenu & Omeiza Ajayi, ABUJA THE Presidential Campaign Council, PCC, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has asked the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to arrest and prosecute the Presidential Candidate of the ...

By  Friday Olokor Contrary to political permutations, the forthcoming presidential election in Nigeria would not be predictable, a United States-based election monitoring organisation, National Endowment for Democracy has said. While the 2023 election in Nigeria as “a consequential ...

Segun James The Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has hit back at critics of his position on the state of politics in the country and politics of entitlement, saying it had nothing to do with primordial sentiment. Bakare had responded to those who ...

By Wale Odunsi Governor Simon Lalong, on Tuesday, appealed to Nigerians to allow Bola Tinubu to become the next President. He stated that it’s the turn of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate to “chop” (slang for eat). The Plateau helmsman made the remark at the ...

Alleged graft, treason: Tinubu, Atiku seek each other’s arrest, disqualification By Omeiza Ajayi & John Alechenu, ABUJA The intrigues trailing the race for the presidency assumed a dangerous twist, yesterday, as the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, ...

By Ogaga Ariemu Economic experts have said Nigeria cannot continue on the path of indebtedness amid incompetence and inefficiency. The economic analysts were reacting to the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s recent comment on Nigeria’s 2023 ...

2023 CAMPAIGN WATCH     In his New Year message to Nigerians, former President Olusegun Obasanjo officially threw his weight behind the presidential ambition of former governor of Anambra State and the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi. In a special letter ...

•Says whoever is against Nigeria’s unity will be roundly defeated  •Charges former Lagos governor, other APC candidates not to disappoint electorate if elected  •Tinubu pledges to end recurring ASUU strike Deji Elumoye and Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja The ruling All Progressives Congress ...

•Insists proxy not allowed  •APC chairman signed for Tinubu, says aide Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja With about 46 days to the presidential poll, the leadership of the National Peace Committee (NPC) yesterday said it was still awaiting the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), ...

By PUNCH The All Progressives Congress campaign train was in Ondo State on Saturday with a message by the its presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, that he remained confident of winning the forthcoming presidential election. Tinubu said he was a better manager than the duo of Alhaji ...