Politics

The Akwa Ibom State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has disputed claims that Etekamba Umoren, the state’s resident electoral commissioner, REC, is a registered member of the party just by donning the party’s regalia. Speaking on Sunday in Abuja at a press conference, Eseme Eyiboh, a chieftain of …

Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Akwa Ibom State, Aniekan Akpan, and the Secretary, Harrison Ekpo, have sued President Bola Tinubu and the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio at the Federal High Court, Abuja, over the appointment of Etekamba Umoren the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of the state. In …

Senator Ali Ndume The Chief Whip of the Senate, Ali Ndume, has confirmed that Presidential yacht, said to be worth about N5 billion, had been delivered to Nigeria before public outcry. Nigerians had criticized the budget for the yacht after a copy of the expenditures proposed in the 2023 supplementary …

R-L Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, L-R Nigeria Labour Congress protesters The Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, has accused the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Joe Ajaero, of blackmailing his government. Uzodimma disclosed this while addressing journalists at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja. This is as Uzodimma’s refuted …

President Bola Tinubu   President Bola Tinubu has told his ministers to work assiduously to deliver on their various mandates or be ready to quit his cabinet. The President spoke on Wednesday in Abuja in the opening remarks he delivered at the Cabinet Retreat for Ministers, Presidential Aides, Permanent Secretaries …

President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday declared that he must succeed by all means to deliver on the expectations of Nigerians who brought him into office and has therefore charged his ministers and other government officials to help him in this direction. He spoke at the opening of a three-day retreat …

Kogi State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Dr Gabriel Longpet, speaks to GBENGA ODOGUN about the preparedness of the Independent National Electoral Commission for the November 11 governorship election in the state, among other related issues you expressed concern over the low collection of Permanent Voter Cards. Did the situation change before the …

FCT Minister, Wike Nyesom Wike, Minister of the FCT, said Nigerians must unite behind President Bola Tinubu because if the president fails, everyone has failed. Wike gave the advice on Wednesday when members of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and the Committee of FCT Imams Initiative (CFII) paid him a …

Kogi SDP Governorship candidate, Murtala Ajaka   The Kogi governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) Alhaji Muritala Yakubu Ajaka has urged the presidential Candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar and his Labour Party’s counterpart, Peter Obi, to join President Bola Tinubu in moving the country …

Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman (left) The Supreme Court’s validation of President Bola Tinubu as the winner of the 25th Feb. 2023 presidential election is in line with the ‘go-to-court’ mantra of the Prof Mahmoud Yakub-led Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Recall that the apex court dismissed the petitions of Labour …