Politics

Deji Adeyanju, convener of the Concerned Nigerian movement has revealed the plan of the All Progressives Congress for former President Goodluck Jonathan ahead of the 2023 general elections.   He alleged that APC is planning to deceive Goodluck with its presidential ticket and thereafter embarrass him. There had been speculations that …

  The Allied Political Parties for Good Governance has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to call the leadership of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to order. Mr Raph Nwosu, National Chairman of African Democratic Congress (ADC), made the call on behalf of the parties, at a news conference …

Dr. Fatima Waziri – Azi President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed a female professor, Fatima Waziri-Azi, as the new Director-General of the National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons. (NAPTIP). Waziri-Azi’s appointment was announced in a statement by Buhari’s senior media assistant, Garba Shehu, on Wednesday. The Minister of Humanitarian …

The governor of Ondo state, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has distanced himself from promotional activities linking him with the 2023 presidential election. A statement by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Richard Olatunde said his principal had nothing to do with the pseudo campaigners. In the last two weeks, campaign posters and fliers …

Ubah, Soludo Ahead of the November 6, 2021 Anambra State Governorship Election, the candidate of the Young Progressives Party, Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, has challenged Prof. Charles Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance to a public debate. Ubah, who represents Anambra South in the upper legislative chamber, disclosed this is …

THE Kwara State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party and officials of the state government have disagreed over the propriety of collecting N35bn bond from the Central Bank of Nigeria. While the state government insisted that that it needed the funds for infrastructural development, the main opposition party argued that …

A High of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has warned the All Progressives Congress (APC) not to go ahead with Saturday’s congresses in Imo State pending hearing of a suit brought before the Court by the Applicant, Okey Anyikwa. Anyikwa is APC chairman of Ideato South Local Government Area. The …

File: Yobe State Governor and Chairman Caretaker/Extra-Ordinary Ordinary National Convention Planning Committee of the APC, Mai Mala Buni The judgment of the Supreme Court on the Ondo State governorship election is threatening the All Progressives Congress local and state congresses starting on Saturday. Our correspondent gathered on Wednesday that although …

Muhammadu Buhari and Matthew Kukah The Catholic Bishops of Ibadan Ecclesiastical Province have thrown their weight behind Bishop Mathew Kukah of the Sokoto Catholic Diocese on his recent statement to the United States Congress about the situation of things in the country. The bishops described as “patriotic” and “verifiable”, Kukah’s …

President Muhammadu Buhari; CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele; and Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed Everest Amaefule, Temitayo Jaiyeola, Amarachi Orjiude and Sami Tunji 15 July 2021 • Debt servicing to revenue ratio jumped from 54.66% in 2019 to 72% in 2020 The Federal Government made a total of N3.25tn in 2020, …