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A former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, says no amount of threats and intimidation will make him abandon his clamour for a better Nigeria. He said this on Sunday while receiving a former governor of Sokoto State, Attahiru Bafarawa, who came to consult the former president on his (Bafarawa’s) presidential ambition. …

  The Kaduna State Executive of the All Progressives Congress has said it is not backing down on the indefinite suspension it imposed on the senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani. The state APC rejected the directive of the party’s National Working Committee that Sani’s suspension should be called off. …

The Deputy Governor of Kano State, Professor Hafiz Abubakar on Sunday, resigned his position as deputy Governor under the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The immediate Deputy Governor, resigned from his position as he got hint that 31 members of the state House of Assembly signed his impeachment which will …

The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, will formally receive the Minority Leader of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, into the All Progressives Congress on August 8, 2018. The information on the schedule to receive Akpabio into the ruling party came on a day the former Governor of Akwa Ibom State visited …

  These are not the best of times for the embattled Senator representing Kogi East Senatorial District, Atai Aidoko as his constituents are currently bitter with him. The people of the district are at loggerheads with the politician for hoarding Keke Napep, motocycles, sewing machines and grinding machines which were …

  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Caucus in the House of Representatives wednesday raised the alarm over alleged secret plot by some “dissident senators” led by Senator Ali Ndume, Senator Adamu Abdullahi and Senator Ovie Omo-Agege to illegally impeach the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki. This allegation is coming as …

  The Court of Appeal in Abuja Wednesday restored the powers of the National Assembly to reorder the 2019 general election to be conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Justice Ramat Mohammed of the Federal High Court in Abuja had in a judgment on April 25 this year, …

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, on Wednesday said the honourable thing for Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki was for him to vacate his seat as the President of the Senate since he has relinquished the membership of the party that threw him up. Oshiomhole said this …

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the arrest of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, for failing to appear in court. Justice Stephen Pam issued the warrant of arrest on Thursday after Mahmood’s absent in court for the third time. The judge …

President Muhammadu Buhari has spoken on the impeachment notice served on Benue Governor Samuel Ortom by eight members of the State House of Assembly. Buhari’s reaction was contained in a statement Tuesday morning by his spokesman, Femi Adesina. It read: “Even while attending the ECOWAS/ECCAS Summit in Togo, strident attempts …