Politics

The leadership crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) escalated on Tuesday as the party’s Zonal Working Committee (ZWC) announced the sacking of the State Working Committee Committee (SWC) in Bayelsa and Edo states. The ZWC took the decision during its meeting in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. The …

Jigawa State Governor, Umar Namadi, has figuratively torn the membership cards of defectors from the People’s Democratic Party while welcoming them to the ruling All Progressives Congress. The gesture, accompanied by strong remarks from Namadi, was seen as a blow to the PDP’s relevance in the state. Speaking while receiving …

Ahead of the 2027 general elections, a prominent member of the Peoples Democratic Party, Segun Sowunmi, has called on former Anambra State governor and Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to return to the PDP to boost his chances in the next presidential race. Sowunmi, a former spokesperson for Atiku …

The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake has revealed that Federal Government collected N6,957,826,200 mining fees and registered 118 new private mineral buying centres in the first quarter of this year. Alake who revealed this at the second Annual Mining Conference organised by Businessday newspaper in Abuja at the …

In addition to the N5 million form fee, an administrative fee of N500,000 is expected to be paid. The All Progressives Congress (APC) has fixed the cost of nomination forms at N5million for those contesting for the position of local government chairman in the upcoming local government elections in Lagos …

The All Progressives Congress has raised the alarm about a fraudulent scheme circulating among the public, falsely claiming to be a “Bola Tinubu empowerment” programme. In a press statement released on Tuesday, signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, the APC alerted Nigerians to the scam message. The message …

A chieftain of the Labour Party in Rivers State, Mr Fafaa Dan-Princewill spoke with WALE AKINSELURE on the divisions in the LP, the Rivers emergency rule and its intractable political situation. Excerpts: There are divisions in your party. Presently, there are three factions claiming leadership of the Labour Party; what …

El-Rufai added that Nigeria is worse off in terms of insecurity, economy and governance than it was under previous administrations. Aformer governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has claimed that Nigeria is not progressing under the current government of President Bola Tinubu. El-Rufai, who recently dumped the All Progressives Congress …

Plateau governor, Caleb Mutfwang on Tuesday urged communities under attacks in the state to rise up to the challenge of defending themselves against their attackers. “We have come to a point in Nigeria, where every community must defend itself. I will not, however, support lawlessness, but we can’t afford to …

The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Abubakar Kyari, on Saturday, dismissed the claim by the North-East Caucus of the National Assembly that the region was excluded from the $530m Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zone programme of the Federal Government. Last Thursday, the North-East lawmakers raised concerns over the exclusion …