Politics

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr Iyorchia Ayu, on Thursday, told former presidential candidate of the National Conscience Party, NCP, Mr Dele Momodu, that the party leaders have no preferred candidate for the 2023. Momodu had earlier declared his interest to run for president on the ticket …

Muhammadu Buhari (right) and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala The Director-General of the World Trade Organization, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has disowned a statement in circulation on social media purporting her as scoring President Muhammadu Buhari high on performance. Okonjo-Iweala described as “fake news,” the report which quoted her as saying President Buhari was doing …

Interviews with President Muhammadu Buhari will be aired on Channels TV and the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) on Wednesday, January 5 and Thursday, January 6 respectively, the Presidency announced on Wednesday. The president’s spokesman Femi Adesina in a statement said that of Channels TV will be aired at 7 pm, …

By Dr. Mikail Barau One Aminu Atiku Gusau penned an article that is obviously a political tantrum from the discomfort that the strategic actions of Senator Kabiru Marafa throw on the transactional machinations characterizing the activities of APC in Zamfara State. In the article, Mr. Gusau called the Senator’s patriotic …

Chukwuemeka Ezeife, former Anambra governor The Coalition of Northern Groups, Monday, reacted to a recent comment by a former governor of Anambra State, Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife, that the Southeast is ‘prepared to kneel or bow before every ethnic group to clinch the 2023 presidency’. The group, in a statement by …

The crisis rocking the Bauchi State All Progressives Congress, APC is yet to be over as a Bauchi State High Court has ordered the party’s chairman in the state, Babayo Aliyu Misau and all his executives to stop parading themselves as the Bauchi State executive officers, pending the hearing of …

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved February 2022 for the conduct of the national convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Chairman of the Progressives Governors’ Forum and Kebbi State Governor, Atiku Bagudu, announced this on Monday in Abuja. He briefed State House correspondents after a meeting with the President at …

Buhari An unconditional release of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), currently standing trial, runs contrary to the doctrine of separation of powers between the Executive and Judiciary, President Muhammadu Buhari has said. Special Adviser to the President (Media and Publicity) Femi Adesina said in …

The row over the payment of $419 milion to Paris Club Loan Refund consultants is yet to abate, following the insistence of governors to resolve the crisis by litigation. It was gathered that the governors have foreclosed political solution to the matter because the dispute was already at the Court …

  The crisis rocking the Plateau State House of Assembly is not abating. In this report, Kolade Adeyemi explains how and why forces within and outside the hallowed chamber are battling for the control of the legislative arm of government in the state. The current cold war between the executive …