Politics

Senate President Bukola Saraki yesterday explained the reasons why he was absent at key meetings of the All Progressives Congress (APC) held last week. Saraki’s absence at both the National Caucus and National Executive Council (NEC) meetings of his party heightened   speculations of his plan to dump the APC. Saraki …

The senate, yesterday, resolved to probe Senator Ovie Omo-Agege (APC, Delta) over his statement that the reordering of elections sequence was targeted at President Muhammadu Buhari. Oma-Agege had shortly after the passage of the amendment to the 2010 Electoral Act, told newsmen that the change in the sequence was targeted …

The Cross River state chapter of the APC is likely to have a state congress on February 24, 2018, a chieftain of the party and Chairman of the Special Investigation Panel on Recovery of Public Property, Okoi Obono-Obla, said this yesterday in Abuja. Obono-Obla said this while fielding questions from …

Says president has no clue to solution The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to save Nigerians the trauma of sleeping at fuel stations by quitting as Minister of Petroleum Resources and allowing competent hands to manage its affairs. The party which described as unpardonable, the failure of …

BENIN CITY—THE All Progressives Congress, APC, in Edo State, has said that the decision of the Peoples Democratic Party , PDP, in the state not to participate in the forthcoming March 3, 2018 local government elections was  an indication that the party no longer exists in the state. APC state …

Buhari The federal government has described talks about 2019 election as a distraction. The government said this in response to the scorching criticism of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo. In a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, Obasanjo asked the president not to overstretch the tolerance of Nigerians by seeking reelection. He also …

The senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, has reacted to his reported rejection by the All Progressives Congress, APC, chairmen in his district. The chieftains, who represent Chikun, Birnin Gwari, Kajuru, Kaduna North, Kaduna South and Giwa LGs, had declared that Uba Sani, a political adviser to Governor Nasir El-Rufai is …

• Joke taken too far, says Fayemi Indicted by the judicial panel of inquiry set up by the Ekiti State Government, a former governor and Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, and his Finance Commissioner, Mr. Dapo Kolawole, have been barred from holding any public office in …

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said President Muhammadu Buhari will not save the All Progressives Congress (APC) governors from “a crushing defeat” in 2019. The major opposition party said APC governors had been rushing to Abuja to meet Buhari in order to have soft landing in 2019 because of …

Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to order the immediate probe of Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, Abubakar Malami. Sagay said Malami’s role in the return of former Chairman of the Presidential Task Team on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, …